We were up at Lake Arrowhead at S.’ family’s house this weekend. It rained all of Saturday, so we spent the afternoon indoors making a big, glorious mess out of powdered sugar, starlight mints, cinnamon bears and all manner, shape and size of candy imaginable to build a wintry gingerbread village. All this while getting sloshed. We spent a good bit of time cleaning up after and STILL kept finding renegade candy hidden in different nooks of the house the rest of our say there. All in all, my first attempt at making a gingerbread house was smashing fun.

More pics from the construction site:

We had so much fun, even Johnny Depp stopped by!

Ahhhh, Christmas. I love you so.