This year as a family we decided to focus on traditions and memories for Christmas instead of a lot of presents. So here is our first memory. We have spent two weeks planning and building a gingerbread house to donate to the gateway for humanity. Sorry this picture is not rotated. We took it down to Mystique and Wesley was helping us put on the finishing touches. 
This is a really good picture of Wesley. lol. The front of our house.
This was minutes before 2:00pm, which was the deadline for the entry. We made it with time to spare.
Some opps's along the way. We mis-measured the quantities of Gelatin in the mixture for our shingles. Lots of fun things to laugh about along the way.
Here is the house pattern we used. I think ours turned out pretty good.
