Gingerbread Houses

Ok so we really made graham cracker houses because I was too lazy to make the gingerbread, but we still had just as much fun! My parents came up for the weekend for some pre-Christmas celebrations. The whole weekend was a Blast filled with lots of yummy food and fun activities. But my favorite was making the gingerbread houses. I think my dad takes the prize for the best house, he was also the first one done, not sure how he accomplished that, but he did. But you can judge for yourself. I think they all turned out great!

Here are our supplies

 our special guests

Landon and Ethan made their house together.

Their's was the only two story!

My Dad and his house

My Mom and her house

Busy bees...

Me and my house

The Finished Products!

I quickly devoured my house after this picture was taken and it tasted delicious!

I just love Holiday festivities! :)

 I can't wait for Christmas to be here!





tis the season to be JOLLY!

Enjoy this video, I know I sure do!

I love the sweet spirit that this time of year brings. I love celebrating the birth of my Savior. And I love  all these videos on the Life of Jesus Christ! What a special gift they are.

I also love being a parent at Christmas time! I'm not sure there is anything more fun then watching your 3-year-old light up at anything that has to do with Christmas. Little Man goes nuts anytime he sees Santa, he loves all the Christmas music and goes around the house saying "Ho, ho, ho, Merry Christmas Daddy, Mommy and Landon!" He loves to play with all the candy canes on the tree and talk about the presents under the tree of course. He also loves playing with his toy Nativity set and knows all the characters, with baby Jesus being his favorite of course. Everytime we step  outside he exclaims "It's frosty out here!" He looks out the window at night and asks "Is Santa out there?" He has even asked for details about whose house Santa will be visiting. I love playing up Santa and love that he is so into it. It's just too much fun!

So besides Santa, right now babies are the hot topic in our house, what with celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ and me being 16 weeks pregnant. I'm not sure how much he understands about my pregnancy, but he is excited at the little bit he does understand about it. Last Friday marked the same time I lost our last baby, so we were very anxious for the doctor appointment. We decided to bring Landon with us to hopefully help him better understand. We had already heard the heart beat, but she asked me if I wanted to take a quick look as well. So of course we did! It was the first Dr. appointment I left feeling good and excited! Up until that point it was more of a holding our breath until we passed our little 15 and half week hump. So far everything looks great with our baby. We have the full sonogram scheduled for January 6th where we will be able to fully tell not only the health of the baby but also the gender. I so can't wait! :) So needless to say we have a LOT to be jolly for in our house. It took us a whole year after the miscarriage to get pregnant, even though I did not like how long it took, I am grateful for all the lessons both big and small and I learned along the way. There is still the chance of course that something could go wrong with this pregnancy but for now I've decided to allow myself to be excited and feel the joy that a baby in our arms in May is a very great possibility! By the way my due date is May 28th for those that don't know already. It won't be long till everyone knows considering I'm starting to grow out of my pants, and have had to put away most of my skirts already.

 Needless to say we have a lot to be jolly about in our house!