Gingerbread and Birthday Fun!!

My brother Monte and his family got into town last night. Since Gramie and Maddi and Lizzy all have birthdays close together we decided to have a birthday party.

We had pizza then the girls opened birthday presents. We all enjoyed the AWESOME cake Mande made! It was Chocolate cake filled with a chocolate pomegranate moose, frosted with pomegranate buttercream and topped with chocolate pomegranate ganache! It was sooooo yummy!!

Then we headed to the garage where we had a gingerbread making station set up. All the kids had there very own and could decorated however they wanted.

Even Gramie had fun with these. Here are all the girls:

Pop pop and Tim got in on the action buy helping the Annalyn and Ava. Here are the boys:

It was so much fun to watch the kids. They each had a different approach and each house was very different. For convenience Mande and I used gram crackers to make the houses ahead of time, also giving them time to dry. Mande had a lot of left over candy from her gingerbread house throw-down so we were well stocked. I doubt she has much left after this bunch of marauders.

The finished product and happy kids.

What a great start to the Holidays!