The Gingerbread House Party

Without much going on for the teens here Dan and I decided to do some activities at the house for them once a month and we started with a Gingerbread House making party for December. The girls invited some friends from school, some friends from work and some friends from church. Most of the kids from school and work were American, the ones from church were Spanish. They had no idea what a gingerbread house was and it took us a while to descrie to them what it was. Then how to make it. They thought it was funny that the icing was cement.

They had fun making them thoguh. We noticed how interesting it was when they were done and the kids went out side to run around on the field that the church kids (Spaniards) played soccer (futbol) and the American kids played basketball! Also we had a judging for the best house and it was a "cheer for your favorite" voting system. We did not account for the loudness of the Spaniards by nature. It ended up having nothing to do with the best house, but more the more popular Spanish kid. The poor Americans were blown away by sheer volume.

All in all it was fun and we are considering not mixing the groups next time. 30+ kids was a bit much and hauling half of them too and from the metro was a packed van! We did have fun and are taking sugestions for other activities!