Darais Christmas Party and Gingerbread Houses

Lily wasn’t feeling well today, so I took the kids to the Darais party. It was so nice to see my extended family and chat with everyone.

Here are a couple parts of the program I captured on video:

We were gone for about 4 hours (party started at 3), so when we arrived home, there was concern that it might be too late to do gingerbread houses. I instructed the kids to give Lily their very best puppy dog faces and see if Lily would oblige. Lily obliged 🙂

We had lots of fun making gingerbread houses and decorating gingerbread cookies!

Mary’s
Lydia’s
Ammon’s
Clarissa’s

For Christmas, Clarissa got a new night-light bunny that changes colors when you press buttons on a remote control. Lately I’ve been tucking her in with the remote, and I was tickled to catch this picture:

And speaking of beds, here is Lily being cozy in her gnome sheets which she is completely in love with: