Happy Christmakah

Four of the greatest Judeo-Christian themed holiday traditions are celebrated each year at Dustin, Cara, and Karen's annual Christmakah party: gingerbread houses, potato latkes, garish displays of Christmas lights, and the game of dreidel.  This year we had a big group and made 5 houses, with only one burn from the scalding molten sugar used to structurally bond the house pieces together (ask Kate to show you her blister).

After building the houses and attaching them to boxes, we spread out about 90,000,000 calories worth of candy on the table and started to decorate.  The 5 boxes took different themes: a gingerbread dog-house, a fashion show runway complete with gingerbread models, a holiday horror-show, a ramp for santa on his sled, and ours, which was a farmhouse theme.  Here's some pictures from the action.

The candy carnage during mid-decoration.  You'll also notice people wearing the festive"yarmuclaus."  And Banjo, who was ever searching for dropped bits.  I think he gained 2 lbs that night.

 

Our house!  Check out Kate's farmer and tractor, and the rooster on the roof!  I also liked Mikey's hay bales.

 Some of Bailey's particularly morbid handiwork, part of the "garden of mutilated gingerbread men."

 The finished products.

The dreidel action, and...

The two winners with their prizes.