69 Gingerbread Lane

This past Saturday, the four Bergie/Flem cousins (plus significant others) got together for our annual holiday dinner.  I have always treasured the opportunity to spend time with Ryan, Kyle, and Molly, and the addition of Eric and now Christine has only made the group more fun.  Kyle had the great idea to bring a gingerbread house kit, so here are a few photos of the assembly and decoration of that house:

You will note that Eric and Christine are patiently and carefully assembling the house while the four Donovan descendants are nowhere to be seen.  (Okay, there is a twenty-year-old photo of the four of us looking down at them from the wall.)  We were mostly scarfing down the candies that were meant for decorating the house and giggling.

Molly murdered a gingerbread person.  In cold blood.

The cousins.  We weren't very helpful when it came to constructing the house, but we know a photo opportunity when we see one.

The back of the house.  The activities on the front lawn got too weird to post.

These reindeer cupcakes have nothing to do with the gingerbread house, but they are a personal baking triumph.