Gingerbread Houses with Lucas E.

 Susie had a tradition when she was little where her mom would invite her friends over to decorate gingerbread houses each year.  We were thrilled to be invited to Lucas E. first annual Gingerbread Decorating Party! 

It was really fun to see how serious Lucas B. and Ellen C. took this project.  I joke that Lucas is such an engineer, like his daddy.  He insisted on having the box nearby so he could decorate his house "like it was supposed to look," or just like the picture on the box.  And see the nice red roof on Lucas's house?  He made me do that because I could make it look more like the picture than he could : )  Ellen, on the other hand, had fun by gobbing icing on one side of the roof, for most of the visit, and then picking out (and eating) candy to decorate it.