The Gingerbread House

Mega thanks to our friends Tim and Diana for once again blessing our family with a homemade gingerbread house kit!!!  As always, we had a blast putting it together, and now our house smells like fresh gingerbread....

 Now that the kids are getting older, it's fun to be able to plan-out what our gingerbread house is going to look like.  

So we laid-out all the pieces...

 And Tim - with great intensity - began the construction.  

This year, Tim told his apprentice Christopher that Christopher is only a few years away from being old enough to be handed the responsibility of constructing the house himself.  :)

 And then comes the fun part: decorating!

 And wah-la!

The Barnette Family Gingerbread House 2013

Just for fun, we perused the photo archives of our family gingerbread houses of years' past...

2005:  

2006:  

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 2009:

 2010:

2011:

2012:

 Thank you Tim and Diana for sending us
years of happy Christmas memories!