Gingerbread houses (and train)

On Saturday, December 8th, we hosted our 3rd annual Gingerbread Houses and Christmas Carols evening (link to our 2010 and 2011 events here).

Beth and Juanita arrived first, and had pretty much completed the building and decorating of their gingerbread house before anyone else arrived!

Ready for visitors

Juanita and Beth

Juanita and Beth's creation

Munching on a Santa shortbread cookie

Soon Alana and Carla arrived, along with their visitors, Tyler and Bec, who were fresh off their flight from Australia and did well to stay awake all evening! The four of them built and decorated a gingerbread train.

Bec and Tyler

Alana and Carla

Train construction underway

The finished product, complete with Santa cookie driver!

Stuart, Rosanne, Aydin and Gemma also built a gingerbread house... and decorated it with whichever candies Aydin hadn't managed to eat!

Stuart, Rosanne and Aydin

Gemma

Quick, now, while Dad's distracted...

...Oops, sprung!

We were also joined by Gerard, Janelle, Claire and Julia for a potluck dinner after the gingerbread decorating. No photos of that; we were too busy eating delicious food!

Later, we sang a few Christmas carols. It was a fun and cozy evening of getting into the Christmas spirit!

Carla, Janelle and Julia

Claire

Aydin leading Jingle Bells

Merry Christmas!