Our Annual Gingerbread House

Decorating anything with icing is not my forte, but my children love to decorate the gingerbread houses, so I play along for them. And here it is our lovely, beautiful gingerbread house!

Thanksgiving and Beyond

For Thanksgiving we went down to my parents house in Prescott Valley. My sister and her family joined us there. The kids had a great time playing together and we had a lot of good food!

Out of the three pictures I took of the three of them, of course the best one is the blurry one!

Here's Daniel and Kyler playing a tossing game (I don't remember what it's called!)

The biggest cousin holding the littlest!

On Friday, we took the kids to a big gingerbread house display and normally they have gingerbread cookies there that the kids get to decorate, but we went on the wrong day. My kids were a little upset, so we made and decorated them at home, compliments of Dad making the frosting and Aunt Jena making the cookies!

My sweet munchkin!

Hideouts are always so much better at Grandma's house!

My sister let the girls paint her toes with nail polish that she gave them. It looks like she is having second thoughts!

On Saturday, we went over to the White Mountains to cut down our Christmas trees. This is the first year we have down this as a family. We got there a little late and didn't have as much time as we would have like to hunt for the perfect tree, but it was still fun. Daniel definitely felt like the Griswold family from Chevy Chase's Christmas Vacation. Here is Brett and Kyler cutting down there tree and trimming it up.

Here is Daniel cutting down our monster of a tree! It was so big it was hanging out of the truck on the way home!

Here's Kaylee trying to entertain the girls and keep them warm.

Here's me trying to keep Tobyn warm. It snowed on our way home.

Here's our tree decorated! It barely fit through the door, we had to shove it and trim it up quite a bit! We have 10ft ceilings! As we were decorating it Daniel got the girls believing that we brought a squirrel home with us and it's living in the tree! (Chevy Chase's Christmas Vacation is Daniel's favorite movie, can you tell?)

This is just a proud mommy moment of Rayna writing her name! Yeah Rayna!

Snow Day

Today has not quite been the day I envisioned it would be, but I guess we have made the most of it. This is our one day a week we actually go to school (and it is one of the last one's before the holiday break) and it got cancelled (along with everything else)! Oh well. The girls have had fun playing in the snow, sipping hot chocolate, and playing with the neighbor girl instead! I have got a few household chores done today, but with extra add-ons of shoveling snow and suiting the kids up for the snow, I haven't accomplished as much as I wanted! These pictures were taken this morning and its been snowing nonstop today, so we probably have another foot out there!