Inside decorations & Gingerbread houses

We were a little slow on decorating the inside of our house this year. Well, at least compared to the outside. We put up our tree, nativity and other inside decorations on Sunday, December 2nd. Brooklyn loved helping put on our Disney ornaments. She thinks it great to have a tree in the house and is often found swinging the ornaments at the bottom of the tree! No worries though, they aren't breakable.

She also loved helping with the Nativity and wants to look at baby Jesus every day. We are so grateful that our friends, Jess & Scott gave us their Entertainment Center when they moved because now we have a place to put the Nativity that is out of reach of kids! It's great! Here's a picture of our front room. The guy on the TV is from the First Presidency Christmas Devotional, in case you were wondering.

Then on Monday, we got together with some friends in the Ward and made Gingerbread houses. Thanks to Liz and Dallin for the yummy soup and rolls as well as making the gingerbread for the houses. It was pretty easy for us to just show up and decorate them. I can only imagine the work for making the gingerbread for 4 different gingerbread houses!

It was lots of fun to see the different types of houses we all made and to get together with everyone. I only have a picture of our house. Marty surprised me with his decorating ability. His mom taught him well! He actually wrote Merry Christmas on the back of the house, but I didn't have enough room for that picture. Brooklyn didn't help much with the house, but had fun playing with her friends instead. She likes her "candy" house as she calls it.