The Annual Gingerbread House

The "after" picture!

Last night we opened up 2 Advent pockets (yep, I somehow still forget and have to do catch-up days). The first one told us to build a gingerbread house - which the kids suddenly jumped up and down with excitement when Kaleb read this. Right away they grabbed Daddy and put him to work making the icing and constructing the building properly, because Mommy tried to put the roof for walls and the walls for the roof - how did I know that the small ones where the walls - I like big walls!

Note the concentration!!!

What can I say? The icing bag exploded on the kids noses - what else could have happened!!!

and then it somehow got on Daddy's cheeks . . .

The second Advent pocket was a bit - okay - A LOT - different. It was to have a wrestling match with Daddy. So they each had the count of 10 to try and take Daddy out and then they'd tag their older sibling and s/he'd take a try. There were many, many rounds and Daddy didn't have a break until the end of the 30 second free-for-all. I'm just glad that we still have a Daddy because those kids were VICIOUS!!! After this Kaleb said that this is definitely the best day ever - awww!

Emma taking Daddy out!

The next shot would be of Kaleb being thrown on the bed and body slammed - yep - anything went!

Daddy said that this little fire-ball was the one to watch - you can see that she's already winning the psychological part of it and soon the big man will be taken down!!!