Since traditions are an obsession of mine, Zac and I started one this Sunday; gingerbread house decorating. Growing up, I don't remember ever making gingerbread houses until my brother became a cubscout and one of his activities was to build and decorate a gingerbread house. His den mother went crazy with the candy options and filled the inside of my brother's house with tons of whoopie cookies, chocolate covered marshmallow Santa Clauses, OREOS, gummy bears and plenty other sugary goodies. When he brought it home I was convinced gingerbread house making had to be a future tradition of mine, and thankfully, Zac surrendered and thus began our gingerbread house escapade...on a married-couples budget. The decor only consisted of 10 cent boxes of mike n' ike's, hotamales, gumdrops, and jelly beans. All in all it only cost us 4 bucks to make. I was pretty excited about that. Oh, and since my baking is iffy, we got a pre-baked house from IKEA, which I HIGHLY recommend. Anyways, we had limited supplies but it turned out great, and we love our gingerbread house. Next year will be big.
