Decorating Gingerbread

Today after school, Sofia, Olivia and I met up with Michelle, Milani, Carey, Vinny, Gigi, Katie, Thomas and Tristan at the Gaylord Texan for some gingerbread family decorating. The hotel has an area where you can buy a gingerbread family, train set, or house to decorate that includes all the icing and candy, etc. We've done it in past years and its always been fun. I bought a gingerbread family for the girls to decorate, which included a man, woman, girl, boy, dog and cat. The girls started decorating, although Olivia mainly wanted to eat all the candy. I added icing to her cookie and she added some of the candy, which Sofia decorated hers.

After finishing the decorating, Sofia wanted to visit "Gingy" the costumed gingerbread man. Olivia literally took one look at Gingy and bolted. She wasn't going to go anywhere near him, so I left her out at the decorating table while Sofia went into the house to meet Gingy and give him a hug. So funny how different my girls are with costumed characters.

After we were done, the kids ran around in a little corner of the hallway where they were out of the way. Then we walked into the main atrium to take pictures of the kids by the huge Santa boots, and look at the trains. The kids loved it and Olivia really loved the huge rocking horse and wanted to ride it. Sofia loved watching the trains and acting crazy with her friends. The kids were getting a bit out of control so we headed to our cars and I promised to host a gingerbread decorating party at my house next year.

The whole gang

Olivia loving it!

Sofia

Sofia's finished cookie. "Now can I eat it??"

Sofia and Gingy

All the kiddos together (except for Vinny)

Kids acting silly

We tried to get pictures of the kids by the reindeer forever, but never could capture them all looking and smiling...