Gingerbread house!

Over Christmas break we made this ridiculously awesome gingerbread house. Well at least I was impressed by our skills. It started out with Daniel, Anna and I assembling one of those gingerbread house kits. The creativeness just went from there....

Daniel decided to make a car, which turned into a snow plow. Meanwhile Ethan and Tiana were making sugar cookies. We used a few of their bear sugar cookies for our house. We have a bear driving the snow plow, we also have a bear as Santa Claus going down the chimney- equipped with a bag of toys, a beard, and a red hat. We put the snow plow in the front yard and even used powdered sugar for snow.

After that Daniel and Anna skillfully put a huge sugar cookie christmas tree in the front yard. Surrounded by chocolate presents. Unfortunately i didn't get a pic of the tree, but i know it took a lot of frosting to hold the thing up.

Anyway, here are the pictures of the amazing house. It definitely beats the graham cracker ones i used to make in elementary school!

Here's Daniel with the beginnings of the snow plow.

Anna= frosting expert! And Ethan in the background making cookies!

Here's everyone at the table (minus me, taking the picture, but i promise i helped!)


Here are the 3 of us... the master minds behind it all!


In the process... that duck looking thing on the front is supposed to be a snowman.


And here is the finished product! cute, huh? i did mostly the lights/candy decorations. If you look close you can see the Santa in the chimney too.


And here is the front. Unfortunately I didn't get a picture after they put the tree up in the yard. I know you're all impressed :)

Birthday pics

I decided I would put up a few pictures from Dan's b-day...


Here is Dan making a wish. He wanted a pie instead of a cake. We put 2 candles and then 6... for 26!



Here we both are. We were actually both sick on his b-day. So we pretty much just stayed at home and played this board game I got him. Finally around 8:00 at night we decided to go out and get some dinner. This is us later back at home.


Here's Dan with the balloons I got him. I put them on the table and tied his favorite candy bar to the bottom. I got these balloons at Smith's the night before and no one knew how to blow them up, so I did it myself! Luckily I had lots of practice from back when I worked at Dick's Market. Unfortunately a couple of the balloons died that day.... I had to hide them in the closet the whole night, that could have been why. They still looked good though!

Oh and did I mention I also got Dan one of the Guitar Hero games for his b-day? It's pretty much all he wanted. Yup, best wife ever :) One day when I am feeling really nice, I may even play it with him!

Happy Birthday, Dan!!!

Today is Dan's Birthday! Yay! And can I just say, he is the BEST husband ever???! Seriously, here is just a small example....

Monday morning i woke up at 4 am and was really sick... Once Dan woke up he took care of me. He went to Smith's and bought me medicine, gatorade, and crackers. Now, i'm sure you are all thinking, "well that is what he is supposed to do!" Which is true, but it gets better. So he had to go to work, but he came home early, just to take care of me.

He first watched Gilmore Girls with me as i was dying on the couch. He then did chores all around the house for me. He washed all of the dishes, he did the laundry, he hung up all the Christmas decorations I wanted to put up, but was too tired to do so myself. And then he did other handy man things around the house that involved a hammer. He then played games with me so I wouldn't get bored and he sang to me and played the guitar. He didn't even expect me to make him dinner or anything. After that he watched HGTV with me the rest of the night. Even though I'm sure he would have rather watched football. What a great husband! He spent the whole afternoon with me making sure I was comfortable and happy.

Then Tuesday I woke up still sick, but I had a presentation I had to do for one of my classes. So i went to school. I then came home and took a long nap because I was exhausted. I had a night class later, so Dan left work early to pick me up just so I wouldn't have to walk to school. Once my class was done he asked me what I wanted for dinner. The only thing that sounded good was Jamba Juice. So that's what we had for dinner! haha...... and nothing else, just Jamba. It was great. I made sure to get an immunity boost too.

That is the end of my "best husband ever" story....... but he does stuff like that for me every day. Anyway, Happy Birthday, Dan!!! I hope you have a great day! I love you!!!

My wife is the cutest and the best!

Have you read this blog? Wow, I have the best wife in the whole world! She is just so cute! But I'm sure all of you already know that :)

Love you honey!

-Dan

twilight review

i liked twilight... i didn't love twilight. i definitely went in with high expectations though. it makes a better book than it does a movie... which is usually the truth about most books made into movies. i've talked to a lot of people and everyone seems to have different opinions about the movie. i actually really liked the characters for edward and bella. most of the other characters were pretty good too. i also appreciated the fact that they followed the story quite well. i think i want to see it again some time. all in all it was a good movie. i think dan even liked it.