Half a Ginger Bread House

A couple Mondays ago after the snowy blizzard Bryan and I both started home from work. We took a snow day.. and began making our ginger bread house. Bryan didn't want just any ordinary house.. he wanted it to be a mansion... from scratch.. so we found a picture online and had to figure out the sizes etc. It took us around 4 hours to make the dough, roll it all out, cut the pieces and bake them all. It was so much work. We put together the bottom half of the house and a bit of the top half.. but needed to let it dry. We were suppose to finish the rest in the next couple days... but that didn't happen. So our attempt at making a ginger bread mansion was a failure. In our defence it really is allot of work. .. Maybe next year we wont aim so high. But we did have fun doing it.

Busy Month

Well this month and Year is just about over... and my last post was beginning of November oops. I guess I got a little behind. The first weekend in Dec was a pretty busy one. First off on the Thursday I had my relief society Christmas get together, and since I'm on the planning committee I'm obligated to go .. lucky me. No actually it's good, we had a fun time planning it and a fun time there. But I had to make enough treats for 60 people.. So I decided to make Bryan's Grandmas peanut butter balls... and well they are messy and oh so yummy.. so Bryan wanted me to make extra for him so we had even more left over... I'm pretty sure I can't ever eat another one :S

On Friday mother nature decided we needed lots of snow and cold weather here. So it started blizzard early in the morning and lasted just about till Sunday. The snow was crazy.. so many accidents and people getting stuck. Luckily we have great neighbours who decided to shovel the whole alley so no one would be stuck this year. We played in the snow a bit, and even Saphire came out.. however she was not very impressed with the snow.. especially when it was in her face. Saturday it was still snowing but not nearly as much. We decided to head to superstore for a couple things and the parking lot was crazy.. tons of vehicles just abandoned in the ditch, or in a snow drift. And just an FYI even when a snow pile looks pretty soft like you can just push the cart through it... chances are.. Its not.
That night was Bryan's work Christmas party down at the Zoo. It was pretty fun, we had dinner, chatted, danced a bit, won the party lite centre piece, some work shirts, and other random items..

It was a good night.. and even better when we were home safe and off the crazy roads, with horrible drivers.