Gingerbread House!

On day 9 of our advent calendar Mike and I finally got to do one of my favorite activities! We built a gingerbread house! I haven't gotten to build many of these in my life (in fact this may have been the second or third one) but I really enjoy making them and Mike really enjoys eating them :) So I bought one of the kits and we got to work.

Once we got it to stand and the frosting had hardened we could start the fun part- decorating! I was so worried it was going to fall over, frosting doesn't make the best foundation. Luckily we didn't have any problems. We had a lot of fun decorating the house and I think it turned out to be pretty cute. We are definitely not master gingerbread house decorators but I was very happy with it and Mike said it was very tasty.

I tried to plan things for us to do that were fun but also things that were spiritual to help us remember the true reason we celebrate Christmas. I found a talk given by Elder Jeffrey R. Holland in 1976. You can read the talk here, http://www.lds.org/ensign/1977/12/maybe-christmas-doesnt-come-from-a-store. We're really enjoying our advent calendar this year and the month of December!