Gingerbread Houses

Bryson's Aunt Amy invited us over to make Gingerbread houses one night. We decided to go in for a round 2. :) Akoy had a Thomas the Train gingerbread Train. As a result of the frosting not spreading well, I decided to microwave it. Thomas' face melted. It was a sad moment. Luckily we cut his face off the box and kinda made it work out. Thomas ended up looking like a "Train Wreck" in the end. Poor guy. ;) It was fun to see how much everyone got into their houses. We are used to our kids decorating and looking "special." Everyone did a great job! I love family traditions!  

Everyone decorating 

Lily

Akoy

Bradley and Anna

McKenna and Bronson

All the houses

Jeremy and Kaliee

Graham's Bear

It all started back in 2001. Bryson gave me a bear for Valentine's Day. I kept that bear all those years. When we got engaged, we made Bryson a bear. Each kid has also made a bear.

Our closest Build A Bear is in Omaha, so we made the drive yesterday. We helped the kids picked out the bear. Bryson thought this bear looked like a Graham Cracker :) Akoy was so excited to help. It was so cute to watch the kids kiss the hearts before putting them in the bear. Graham was asleep the whole time and didn't care what happened. Lily kept picking out all the pink shirts for the bear.

We even ran into Santa on the way out! Akoy wants a spiderman and Lily wants a princess :)

Elf on the Shelf

This past year we started a new tradition in our family. Twinkle Bell's the elf joined our crew. Akoy had so much fun looking for all the silly things the elf would do each night. He loved getting on Instagram and seeing the family elf's do silly things as well. I accidentally forgot him when we went to Utah and it was terrible! Luckily after a few days he realized the elf was staying in Nebraska.

 Here are a few of the things Twinkle Bell's did.

 

Akoy didn't listen one day....

We can't wait for him to come back next year! Rumor has it, he may have a girl with him! Amazon had too good of a deal! :)