This year was our first Christmas Eve in our own house! And we had a busy day! We woke up and decorated our first gingerbread house! What a MESS! But we sure had fun! I didn't read the directions that you were supposed to wait 3 hours after putting the house together before adding the rest of the icing and decorating...so we had a hard time keeping our house together with 4 little hands and 2 pounds of candy on the roof!! I did manage to snap a few pictures before it collapsed, then we had to rebuild it!!




After our first Christmas Eve service at Madison Heights we headed home to bake cookies for Santa and watch Christmas movies! Sara Beth was a big help rolling out the dough and cutting out the star cookie shapes.


Mahlon's favorite part was decorating with sprinkles and eating icing!! And we couldn't forget about Rudolf and friends...we left a little bowl of water and some carrots next to the cookies!