whew...I'm back!

What a rough couple of days! My stepson arrived Thurs, then yesterday we did our annual gingerbread building night and today was "christmas day" for my stepson (since he goes back on Thurs to TX)

Here are a few peeks at our party - it was only a few people this year because we had it so close to the holiday a lot of people had other obligations... so I didn't go all out in decorating...

Simple food table - nothing too fancy... all the time was spent on the gingerbread houses ;o)

A few things I did that I think worked out well...  Added branches and cranberries to pan of water, froze then served filled cucumber slices on it - will definitely do again, always love to stamp napkins!, and then hostessblog inspired me to use red ribbon on the lolli sticks for the cake balls...

This year's gingerbread house theme was "beach shacks"

 

I assemble all the houses (I make them from scratch!) and then we set up a decorating station to get all your goodies from...

We had a photo op station but our camera was messed up some how so the pics are grainy :o(  ...but still cute!  my boys...

Me and my babe...

Ann had just come from the Flyers game - they won!