Slight Alterations.....

Dave has been making a gingerbread house in December for years! It started when we lived in Delaware and he actually baked his own gingerbread and cut it to fit. He did that until the year that he tried to put it together and the gingerbread wasn't quite "done" and the whole house collapsed. I came home to a disaster of a kitchen....and sounds of sawing in the cellar.

He created a "gingerbread" house made out of plywood. Once he finished decorating it you couldn't tell the difference. So we kept it and used it year after year until we moved on the boat. Sort of cheating, I know, but it was a fun decoration each year.

Since we moved back to Wisconsin we've had two nearby grandsons to help with this....and so now, he purchases a ready-made house at the store and he and the grandsons have fun putting on the sweet stuff. As they grow up they still seem to enjoy it and I know Dave does! The house lives with the grandsons until New Year's Day when the boys get to smash it with a hammer and eat whatever they want.

Looking back through the photographs I see how the boys have changed.....and this year's "house" was designed to be a dog house. So a slight alteration in the theme.....but it's still a fun Woodard tradition.