Gingerbread houses 2019

I know the week isn't over yet, but I'm sure our fun festivities are . . . :) Ben and I both work tomorrow, Emmy is babysitting at our house all day, and Ben is on-call all weekend long. So, yep, our fun is over! (But next week we are heading out to my parents' place and already have some fun plans lined up. I'm super excited.)

We used to do gingerbread houses on Ben's birthday, but then that became too much. He usually gets home after 5 on his birthday and so trying to squeeze in dinner, gifts, cake, gingerbread houses, maybe a movie, possibly on a school night, etc. - it was too much. So the new plan (maybe this is the 2nd year of the plan) is doing our gingerbread houses the Sunday before Christmas (which, as it turns out, will be Ben's birthday next year - haha).

So Sunday, after delivering toffee to a bunch of friends, (I make about 20 tins of toffee - a few are given out to teachers. For the rest of the toffee, we each pick 3 families to give to. It's fun for the kids to choose and it's pretty cool who they end up choosing . . .), we decorated our houses. As always, it was a lot of fun and I love how they turned out!

Ben's cute school house.

My house.

Miles' cabin, complete with a fire, and cool tree, and . . . 

 an outhouse. :)

Jonas' awesome cabin in the gumdrop forest.

 Emmy's sweet house.

 Lucy's fun house, complete with a snowman.