Merry Christmas!

Steve, Nancy, Joanna (15), Carrie (14), Paul (10), Emma (9), John (5), Sam (19 mo.)

Making Ginger Bread Houses

this morning we invited some friends over to make ginger bread houses with us

Emma (middle), her friend Nicole (left) and brother John (right) admiring the ginger-bread houses.

LOTS of candy...

Carrie constructed a sign in the "front yard" of her house. She was originally going to write, WELCOME on the sign, but wisely shortened it to two letters instead of six! "Hi" seems more original anyway... :)

afterward, we put our houses together to make a ginger bread city...

Getting our Christmas Tree...

As we do every year, Dad took us all out to get our Christmas tree.

We have gotten a lot of snow lately; everything was covered in white!

taking it home

...all decorated...