Three Donuts Full

 It's the last work day of the year and I am three donuts full.  This past week or so has been a sugar frenzy.  I went home for Christmas for the first time in a few years and I ate a lot of pie and cookies.  I also got to see my family and remember why I love it there so much.  Even though they didn't have any snow to speak of and I totally forgot I even had a camera for the first several days.

 Dad showed Sis and I his current dreams for the land and we soaked it all in while getting rained on.  Very weird weather.

 You can easily tell where he has mowed down the understory and where he hasn't.  I think this is one of the fairways.....

 These are the first nine holes, I think.....sometimes I get them mixed up.  And I failed to get a picture of the new bridge my nephew helped build because I was trying to get this shot. 

 There was also the (now) traditional assembling of the gingerbread house with my niece.  I got to drive the icing this year.  At least she didn't ask for any giraffes on the roof this time.  But as usual, she was pretty specific about what went where.

 And they will be eating sugar for a while.....

 Wait, who is the kid and who is the adult again?  I always feel like I am 12 when I do this.  It's a ton of fun and every year is different.  This year the kit had a tree that you had to cut into four sections and then glue (icing) back together to decorate.  I tried to break the tree pieces apart, but chickened out and asked Sis to cut them with a knife.  Then it was her fault when they broke into a million pieces.....sorry about that.

I improvised a support stand for the remaining uncut tree and we decorated away.  And had tons of candy leftover when the decorating was proclaimed to be done.  I'm already looking forward to next year....when I will have more time to plot....instead of knitting presents on the plane and after the drive....lookout world, I'm getting my life back!