Every year, Jim and the kids build a gingerbread house. Here is this year's creation. You can't tell from this picture, but Jim installed lights inside the house. He used his Dremmel and cut out the windows, then used parchment paper for iridescent window coverings. Then, he wired tiny flickering lights inside the house. With the magic push of a button, the lights turn on and off!
Every year we visit Yankee Candle Company's flagship store in Deerfield Mass. It's a gigantic Christmas paradise! The kids love all of the displays and they love visiting with Santa in his little workshop. He was a very real, a very nice and a very thorough Santa. He literally spent 10 minutes with every family. Thank goodness we visited on a Monday night when there were only four or five families in front of us in line! :) On the way home, we stopped in Springfield Mass. to visit the Bright Nights light display (another fun tradition).
Dressed up in our Christmas attire for church on Sunday!
