Each year the girls decorate gingerbread houses with Aunt Nancy. Gingerbread making with Nancy is a one of their favorite Christmas traditions. This year, the only weekend to make houses was Saturday, December 18. We had planned to drive to Tahoe on Friday, but moved it back a day as both girls did NOT want to miss the fun with Aunt Nancy. The new plan was to drive to Tahoe after gingerbread fun with Nancy.

Nancy makes the houses from scratch and puts out all kinds of candy. My favorite candy is the hot-tomales. I eat them all so not many of them show up on the houses!

When the girls finished their gingerbread houses, I like to get the a photo with their completed masterpieces. We use the gingerbread houses as center pieces for Christmas entertainment at our house.

It was a damp, raining day in California. Just as we finished taking the photos of their masterpieces, Emmy’s house began to sink. The roof started to slide along with the walls. The team did their best to save the house. Newspaper went in the middle for reinforcements. Toothpicks to hold the roof up and a final warm in the oven to take the moisture out of the walls.

Emersyn was fine with her “fixer-upper” looking house. It is all about the fun with Aunt Nancy.