Happy Thanksgiving Parker🦃❤️

Molly, Montreal is a lot of fun, lots to do and see. Time there depends on what you enjoy. There’s great shopping, food, the old city, many very nice small art galleries, the large (Museum/Gallery of Montreal) and great places to stay.

Thanks, Molly and Pool for ideas for the mantle. I think yours may work best Julie and it should be easier and cheaper. I just have to find some Sprigs. I went to Hobby lobby and HomeGoods today and found nothing. I can’t believe how picked over things are. I will try Michael’s tomorrow I think maybe some snow on it might look real pretty. We’ll see.😀

Happy thanksgiving everyone!🦃🍁

Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family, Parker!

Happy Thanksgiving, parker and everyone! 🦃🥧🍷

Happy Thanksgiving! Thanks for the info Lia. My husband ended up having surgery for a ruptured patellar tendon so we won’t be going anywhere anytime soon. 😕

Amazon has a bunch of stems..maybe you will have luck on there.

Thanks Julie! I will look. 🥹

Happy thanksgiving Dsimber and kcooz and Happyleg and all my Houzz friends!!

Happy Thanksgiving Parker!

Happy Thanksgiving to all!

Happy Thanksgiving to Parker & family. And everyone!

Hope you have had a great day Parker! We had a wonderful meal with family! I am now “in recovery”! lol.

Turkey turned out great!

We did our annual gingerbread house party last weekend with the grandkids. So fun.

Can’t forget Marley and the candy!

Parker that looks like the funnest time ever! Lol on the table! Certainly shows a good time was had by all! Gingerbread houses are masterpieces! OH looks adorable like show and tell at school 💗 Marley looks like he was left out but still loved all the company and sported the best decor on his head!

What a fun time and the results are really cool!

Love the houses and that table, oh my! 🤣

Marley has the look of "what are you doing to me" lol.

Parker it looks like you all had so much fun. What a great tradition. I'd love to have one like it if I ever have grandkids.

Those are fabulous houses! You all did a great job.

Parker, you have a fun family!

Wow, looks like a lot of fun! Do you ever end up eating the houses?

Marley 🥰

Thanks you everyone. I am so glad we started that tradition. Its the best! We do have oodles of fun.

Molly- I ate mine that day and the next and all the candy was eaten except the candy canes. Boring. I am a true chocolate lover. And I love gumdrops! Dean hot glued his all on so I can't eat his. :(

Since I am feeling a little bit at a loss this year, I wanted to make a fun little tree. I wanted some sparkle and some boingy things. I was going to do red and green, but I knocked out the green things because it blended with the tree. Easy return! :) These are not arranged in the least on the tree I just brought them home and put them in the tree to see if there was possibilities and I think it will make me happy. Do I need wider ribbon? Do I need pom-pom yarn ball garland? Too much? I wanted polka dot balls and striped ribbon to add some funk!

Fun and festive, Parker! I love it! You are so creative!

Parker you are amazing🤗 I am totally stealing the gingerbread house idea once my grandkids are old enough…such a fun time for all!….and the memories are priceless! Parker I know this past year has been a struggle with lots of changes in your life..know I am always thinking of you❤️ I love the all red tree..it is full of love🎄🥰

Parker such a fun red tree. I love how our decor can help us to feel better when we are a bit down. Holding you in the light.

Thanks ladies- dsimber, Cubby, and Julie!❤️ the tree is not done at all- just buying stuff to see what works. The great thing about a pencil tree I don’t have to buy lots of stuff - but it still adds up. 🤪 I know now that I want stripes and polka dots in red and white and boings!🥰

Wider ribbon? Pom poms?

Those Gingerbread houses are amazing. Well done and the fun just jumps off the table!! I think you can’t overdo a Christmas tree so go for it. Love that striped red and white ribbon. I would add some textured ribbon like red velvet maybe 1-1/2” wide. It will be a favorite!!

Hi Parker:) I enjoy your annual family gingerbread house tradition! All of you are so creative. I will also steal this tradition when I have grandchildren:)

Tree looks like fun…go for it! Playtime…❤️🌹👠🧣🐞

I also love the gingerbread tradition!
I never made one my whole life until I had kids. Late in life at that!
We just do some gross pre boxed ones but the girls don’t care. They still have fun. But I’d love to have a little party for them like Parker’s style!

Who makes the gingerbread Parker?

I made them with my niece and nephew when they were young. They were from a box kit. They fell apart immediately! But we had fun anyway.

My grandkids do them from the box set pre-made . The Word on the street from my daughter-in-law is doing it from scratch is a real pain.

Back in 2022 I made the gingerbread houses out of graham crackers. I dreaded the day that I had to put them together cause they often would collapse or I would just break the crackers trying to cut them into triangles, but I did it and they never fell apart when we did the actual decorating. Whew!. I did the royal icing frosting to hold them together. Last year my daughter bought the kits and I was in heaven. So much easier and she did that again this year too. She buys them on clearance for the next year ahead- so this year they were three dollars apiece so it saves me that stress. And it gives us more room to decorate. Graham cracker houses are quite small.

This year I used hot glue and that was the best thing ever!
Below shows graham cracker houses. Still cute. 🥰

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Good tips, Parker! Fancy houses, even when small. (referring to the photo) Decorating the lot (yard) was a great idea to make room for added creativity. How old were your grandchildren when you started this tradition? When YS was 5 or 6, he made the graham cracker kind glued onto a milk carton at school. It didn't look like much, but he had fun. My granddaughter and I made and decorated gingerbread "men" when she was 7, and she loved every step. I don't know why we didn't do it again, as she loved to bake. I wonder if she would still enjoy it at 20?!

I do cookies with my grand daughter every year. I usually do them the last day of school before her Christmas break. She gets out at noon, and parents work til 5. It’s a nice way to spend the afternoon.

Merry Christmas to all!🎄⛄️🎄

Merry Christmas Parker!

Hoping you all had a wonderful Christmas, Parker! 🎄❤️

Merry Christmas to you Parker… Nice to see you dropping in on my thread occasionally. I’m not always great at mentioning people by name… But I do notice you! We had a white Christmas for the first time in about a decade. And thank you very much Santa, but you can keep snow to yourself for the rest of the winter… Ho ho ho.

Lia yet another Christmas card image you have there! We are just more more and more rain, but will get out today :).

Hi Parker 😊Haven’t heard from you in awhile … hoping all is well.

Hello Parker!

👋 thinking of you!😘

Missed you Parker!

Missing you. I think of you and your DH often. Sending love and prayers. ❤️