Christmas and Gingerbread Demo Derby, 2013
We had a great holiday. As always we had a full house with both our families here on Christmas day. I know so many people who have to pick but we are lucky to have my bunch here and Jeff’s crew willing to come down for both Thanksgiving and Christmas. It’s just so easy to.. read more →
Christmas and Gingerbread Demo Derby, 2011
We had another great holiday season! We co-hosted a Christmas Eve party with our next door neighbors Wes & Jenn that turned out to be a huge success. We usually hang with them on Christmas Eve and we decided to ask a few more friends to come on over. We figured most people wouldn’t be.. read more →
Christmas 2010 – updated!
What a great Christmas! It started off with going to the Carolina Ballet performance of the Nutcracker with Jenn and Mason. We did lots of crafts and baked, did our Christmas Eve Gingerbread house decorating and then our Christmas day Demolition Derby, the sixth annual! Between them, we opened scads of gifts and then had.. read more →
Photos: 5th annual Gingerbread Demo Derby
We had our 5th Gingerbread Demo Derby after Christmas – we had more friends involved than ever in the creation and destruction. Christmas Eve we had family and friends over for Chinese food and the construction of the Gingerbread House, which was one big deluxe house, one small house and one little leftover kit so.. read more →
Photos: 4th annual Gingerbread Demo Derby
For the fourth year, we charged up the remote cars and carefully carried out the lovely gingerbread creations to the bottom of our steep driveway in the cul de sac. We summoned our friends next door and then the GINGERBREAD DEMOLITION DERBY commenced. Four-time competitor Purple car was joined by three-time participant Silver and a.. read more →
Photos: Gingerbread houses
We continued our family tradition of making gingerbread houses on Christmas Eve. Obviously you can’t destroy them if you don’t make them but of course that’s for Xmas day. We started about 10pm after being next door for the annual Christmas Eve celebration at the Renfroes. Good times was had by all and I love.. read more →
Photo Gallery: Christmas 2007
Another lovely Christmas season with friends and family! Photos include Christmas Eve making gingerbread house and decorating cookies (I forgot the camera at the party next door), Christmas day and 3rd annual gingerbread destruction. See more photos from this set: Regular view (easiest to find one in particular or print) Slideshow view (easiest to see.. read more →
Photo Gallery: Christmas & the Gingerbread Demolition Derby
It starts with a Christmas Eve tradition where we make gingerbread house … and this year it was a triplex … three kits put together … And it ends with our Christmas day tradition where we pick off what we want, haul it to the cul de sac and smash it with remote control cars.. read more →
Photos: Gingerbread House bites the dust
My brother-in-law Jay and I established a new family holiday tradition with gingerbread. Hayley and I got a gingerbread kit and on Christmas Eve, we put it all together. It was fun but mostly because we did it together. We nibbled some on it that night and Christmas day but we realized most of us.. read more →