Our Gingerbread House

First of all, how about a whoo-hoo!  Our final inspection on our old house was this morning and everything went perfectly.  We are now officially done with the old house, our change of address is in effect, and besides not being able to fit the jeep in the garage, we are pretty much settled in over here.  Yay!  Now that that's all done, it's time to get in the swing of things with Christmas!

Brennan and I worked on a fun Christmas craft yesterday.

We build a gingerbread house!



Actually, I built the house while he was at school, and then we decorated it together after he got home.  By the way, hot glue works wonderfully on graham crackers.



Brennan was most excited that he got to eat candy!



Not that he hasn't been getting plenty of goodies out of our advent tree.



He had fun helping me decorate.  We used about 4 times as much powdered sugar icing than I first anticipated.  He thought that stuff was pretty tasty. : )



Taking a break to play with his games and puzzles.



I think his favorite part of the decorating (besides eating candy!) was making it snow.











He was done after that.  Time for some Kerplunk.



I tried to stick as much candy to the house as possible, (to keep the sugar-high limited to one day) but we still ended up with leftovers.



I'm glad I don't have to shovel the snow in front of that door!



Notice the yellow doorbell?  That was a priority to Brennan.  You can't have a house without a doorbell!



All done and tucked in with some other Christmas decorations.



Fun. : )