Christmas Fun with Friends

This year we went to the Festival of Trees since Ben had never been. I love it and have been quite a few times. If you don't know what it is I'll tell you =) They do the Festival of Trees every year up in Sandy, UT. People donate mostly Christmas Trees that are all decorated and some also come with gifts and then they auction them off for donations to the Primary Childrens Hospital. There's also centerpieces, small trees, wreaths, gingerbread houses, and much more. They have a Santa and tons of things for kids to do, dancers, food, and lots of fun. The way neat thing is that everything is donated. Last year they raised over a million dollars. Its really neat and if you haven't gone I would suggest going =) Here are some pictures from this year.

 I don't know how they got the tree to stay upside down but it was so cool!

 Loved all the wreaths!!

We also got invited to be in the tradition of making Gingerbread houses with some of our friends this year. There was about 6 couples and we all got together and made gingerbread houses, ate food, and played games. It was tons of fun =) and we hope to do it in the years to come too.

It was a huge mess but tons of fun! Each couple made their own house and they all turned out way different. I wish I could have got a picture of them all when we were done but I forgot.

 Ryan chilling on the couch with the two babies =) the little girl is his and the boy is Katie's

Ben and me could only find a kit that had 4 mini gingerbread houses so we ended up ditching the directions and making our own plan. This is what we ended up with haha