The beginning of the Christmas countdown

Okay so guilty confession, we got ahead of ourselves before we actually made the little surprise daily packages and started off before December even began. Naturally we kicked off our Christmas season with the classic movie ELF like the weekend after Thanksgiving. Jason had a night off earlier this week and so we had a little night out and went and did some shopping, drove around looking at lights and ended with some delicious Aggie ice cream. At the store we found a random christmas puzzle and for some reason decided to buy it; probably because it was at the dollar store. Jason and I both hate puzzles... so it's 100 large pieces; piece of cake! We were so proud we even made it through the whole thing that we glued it together and put it on one of our christmas shelves.

A real adventure happened on Thursday night, December 1st. We had such a blast. For our wedding we got packages of gingerbread mix and so we decided to put them to use and made a gingerbread house from the mix.
Problems that occured:
   -We don't have a rolling pin (random i know), so we had to use our hands to flatten it out
   - We didn't have a mold for the house, so we had to use a paper cut out we made to try to trace onto
     the dough
   - We decided since it was homemade to homemake frosting
      .... broken beaters
      .... liquid
   SO we laughed a bit while we did it. We emptied out our pantry trying to find the right size cans and boxes to use to prop up the walls while the frosting dried. BUT it worked!!

Why yes, that is me freeballin a gingerbread man.

Mr. Gingerbread: he grew odd amounts in the oven and hit a few sides of the pan, and the frosting dripped too fast.