Gingerbread Houses/Christmas Eve Dinner ... Dec. 24, 2008

We decided to spend Christmas Eve relatively low key this year. Normally Heather does a big Christmas Eve dinner of Beef Wellington plus a number of other dishes. This year we invited our friends, the Clarke's, for a simpler afternoon/early evening. We decorated gingerbread houses (which Heather made from scratch ... complicated and we wouldn't recommend it!), well Katie, Ashley, and Liam did.
While they were decorating we were eating appetizers of Artichoke dip, Spinach Dip, and vegetable dip. Dinner was clam chowder and tortilla soup and pecan cheese cake. But by the time we were ready for dinner, I was too full from the appetizers to really want anything. But it was fun to have the Clarke's over and it was a good late afternoon event.