Gingerbread Houses and more

Last night we got together with the Tougas family to make Gingerbread houses!  See this hat max is wearing. He has been wearing it practically every second of the day since last week.  He even wears it to sleep.  It's cold here now.  Highs in the 50's.  Here are the masterpieces...

Thank you Tougas family, so fun to have you here!

 Since the last few entries have only been kitchen focused, I feel as though I owe you some pictures of our ramblings around town over the last few weeks.

Luke and friend Ryan riding an alligator.

Jack found a pine cone and wanted to turn it into an elf.

 

We attempted a family photo shoot, but must have had the camera set funny, cause none of them turned out well.  Here are our little vampires, they make a nice set of stair steps don't they?

Max was ill with brochitis that gave him a fever for 6 days and kept him out of school for a week. He got a little game playing in though.

We put our tree up, and Doug used his new tripod to snap this beautiful shot.

Jack performed in his preschool Holiday program, which was of course super cute.  You should ask him to sing "What did the Cow in the Manger say?" for you.

 And on thanksgiving weekend we hit the beach and found a florida snowman...

 made sand sculptures....

and practiced water bending.

 

And that's what we did when we weren't choosing granite, getting quotes, driving all over town looking for handles, and ordering appliances. Phew!