xmas date night

i was freakishly excited when i went to trader joes and they had all of their christmas products out.  when i saw that they had gingerbread house kits i knew i had to buy it because dawson and i have never even made a gingerbread house together, and i don't know how this has happened.

we didn't even look at the box or instructions so that we could have our own creative juices flow and build a gingerbread house that was entirely our own.

it turned out so cute that i made dawson take a picture of our family night activity.  i am so embarrassed because i had to download a timer app on my phone so that i could take a picture of us all. 

it took like 20 tries to get the to not fall down, get us all in and all of us looking semi-normal.  i have since deleted the app so that we don't have to go through ordeal that again.  and i don't want to have people thinking we have a personal photographer with us at all times.

after the picture fiasco i went into the kitchen to clean up, and dawson said he was going to decorate a little more.  when i came back a mere 5 minutes later, the gingerbread house looked like it had been through a frosting blizzard.  

bless his heart.

we were feeling so festive still that we decided to go to festival of trees.  all feelings of pride in our gingerbread house went out the window when i saw the houses on display there. 

it really humbled us and helped us to realize that we are still gingerbread amateurs. 

we have decided that when we are rich, we are going to donate a harley davidson tree to the festival of trees.  dawson will pick out an actual harley to donate, and i will be in charge of decorating the tree.

but for now we will just be tree admirers.  here is blurry dawson with our favorite tree of the night, the ute tree of course!