Christmas was here...

I guess we can't not blog about our Christmas.

I had intentions of putting the gingerbread experience on here and then didn't, then I saw Kara's blog, and so here we go....

I am the Candy Nazi. I confiscate promptly after any and all birthday party pinatas, easter egg hunts, trick-or-treating, etc. Unwrapping all those Smarties made me want to vomit.

I had made two little graham cracker houses, and when Jared woke up the next morning he said it was too small. So I quickly tried to make a big one, because bigger is better anyways right? Only I didn't glue it, I just used frosting and we didn't wait for the frosting to set and...

Avery is crying out of fear. If the roof of your gingerbread house came crashing down, you'd be scared too. (The large gingerbread house is in the mid left of the picture, if you couldn't tell, and the smaller houses bottom left.)

And this is what we ended up with. Notice the candy corn fence around the chicks and the rabbits out on the lawn.

Christmas Eve in Nevada. It was a very mild day. No snow here. I think there might still be a few green trees (that haven't dropped their leaves yet) around town.

And Christmas morning. Can you tell they just woke up?

And Happy New Year, as it is about that time. We don't have a big enough house to throw a party and no one else did, so we chilled at home. We ate pizza with Hillary & Aaron and played a card game until it was bedtime for the kids.