Monday, December 22, 2008

Gingerbread Houses, Santa & Grandma & Grandpa Came to Town

Building Gingerbread houses is one of our family's favorite Christmas traditions. On Saturday afternoon we got together with Summer & Steve and Elliot & Katie to make our houses. We had a real fun time. Aubrey was only interested for a few minutes and then tired out and needed a nap. She sure liked seeing the finished results after she woke up! Hopefully next year she will want to participate more.

Starting the house with daddy!


Helping Mommy decorate the roof.

What a mess we made!

Our finished houses (left to right, Buell family, Elliot & Katie, Summer & Steve)

The backside (Summer & Steve have the S on the back for their initials. Cute huh. Elliot & Katie's is in the middle and ours is on the right)

Playing with Grandpa

Dad drove in late Saturday night. So we got to visit with him for a few hours on Sunday evening. Aubrey had lots of fun playing ball with Grandpa. In fact when I asked her this morning about seeing Grandpa last night she said "Pay ba" (play ball).

Playing dress up with Aunt Katies old clothes.

Fun with Grandpa

Santa's Cutest Lil' Helpers

This morning Cindy & I took Aubrey & JJ to the mall in their Santa outfits to take a picture together with Santa. Grandma and Grandpa met us their and treated the kids to some rides and got pizza for all of us. Both Aubrey & JJ went to Grandma & Grandpa really well. It should be a fun week!

We actually got them both on his lap without them screaming. (Although you can see from Aubrey's expression she was not thrilled about it!)

Santa's Helpers on their way to help Santa get ready for his big day!

4 comments:

Lyndee W. said...

Ohhhh, that little Aubrey in Katie's clothes...so adorable! And I luuuuv the "S" on the back of Summer's gingy house! Very creative! Aubrey and JJ look so cute in their santa outfits...how fun!

John and Ann Tolman said...

Glad to hear they made it to Utah...Aunt Sue said they are snowed in today! We had sunshine and more to come tomorrow...have a very merry Christmas!!!

Anonymous said...

You guys have way too much fun;) All of the houses look to good to eat!!!!

Diana and Derek said...

Merry Christmas, Buells! That looks like a lot of fun. Why do I get the feeling that Elliot posed for the picture (he wasn't actually working, was he)!