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Its my first Monday back at work and during my morning break I found these pictures on LOLcats (and the other related websites). ENJOY!

Gingerbread houses

I bought a gingerbread house kit about a week before Christmas, and I totally intended to build it with Chris on Christmas Eve or Christmas day... well that didn't happen as planned... Chris and I got really busy (and lazy) and didn't get around to it... Until today!!

It was so neat - we bought some extra candies and some frosted mini wheats (for the roof). The kit came with some candies, but not nearly enough to satisfy my need to decorate and make it incredible to look at!

The house has a roof made of mini wheats - it really looks cool, like its really thatched straw with snow on top. The front yard has a fence made of goodies (they're candy coated black licorice bits) and a Pez brick walk to the front door which is made of mini licorice allsorts. The wreath I made from a gummi ring and some small red hard candies. We trimmed the roof eaves with small hard candies to make it look like Christmas lights. The yard is supposed to look like wood chips or shale, but since I used cocoa rice crispies, it sort of looks like dirt. I made a topiary bush out of some jube jubes and black licorice. There is also a whole bunch of little gumdrop bushes beside the front walk.

I made windows out of the pink layer of the allsorts and a long gummy piece and scattered some bushes along the sides of the house. I made a second and third fence with some gummies. We made a back door out of the brown and white layers of the allsorts and another walkway, this one was lined with skittles and paved with multi coloured nerds... We made a firepit out of some gummy rings that had been chopped into 4 pieces and added some black Goodie candies to look like charred pieces of wood and used the rest of the Pez candies to make a construction pile of bricks at the end of the back path. Chris commented that our house looked "classy in the front and redneck in the back... Kinda like a mullet..." LOL

I'll post pictures soon so you can see this awesomeness!! I need to recharge the batteries for my camera...

Next year I want to bake the gingerbread myself - I already have grand plans for a two story house with windows and a balcony...

I know, I know... pace myself... LOL

Goodbye Gram...

My Grandma died today... she'd been sick for quite awhile and we all knew it would happen, I guess I just hoped it wouldn't happen until after I had kids... I really wanted my future kids to know all of their wonderful great grandparents. But seeing it in black and white on my computerscreen, it looks so selfish.

I'm not too sad that she died, I know she's in heaven with Grandpa and that its better this way. She's not in pain anymore. But I am going to miss her so much!

I wish I could go to the funeral, but it's in Toronto and I can't afford the plane tickets...

I'll miss you Gram... give a hug to Grandpa for me. Rest in Peace

Happy New Year

I missed the countdown! Seriously!! Chris and I were watching some downloaded tv episodes on the 'fun machine' (I bought him a PS3) and we looked up at the clock and it was already an hour and a half into the new year! wow...

I seriously thought that we would have heard something happening in the neighbourhood... but nothing... we heard fireworks at 10:30 - I thought that was so lame!

Well Happy New Year to all and to all get to Bed it really REALLY late!! LOL