Gingerbread Houses...and a Smooch!

Recently we gathered with my sister's crew to build gingerbread houses.  Despite the frosting not working well and some structures falling apart, the kids loved it.  Who doesn't love an excuse to play with candy (and snitch some candy)?

Kai, ever the builder, was very focused and built a strong gingerbread house.  He covered the roof with snow and built a snowman in the front yard that melted rather quickly :)

Inspired by Kai's snowman, Asa wanted a snowman also.  His also "melted" rather quickly.  I helped Asa put a face on the poor guy, but he wanted to add a piece of candy for himself.  I thought he was adding onto the smile, but then he declared to everyone that his snowman "has a nose, eyeballs, a smile, and a smooch!"  And sure enough, there was a little orange smooch on the snowman's cheek :)

The last couple years we made gingerbread houses at Tenwek with all the other MKs, but we had to make the gingerbread from scratch.  Let me tell ya, making these beauties out of pre-made gingerbread already cut to size is definitely the way to go!