Christmas By The Numbers

Number of gifts Santa brought the Little One: 17
Number of gifts that haven't been played with yet: 5
Number of times the Little One checked behind and under the tree to make sure he had opened all the presents that Santa brought: 5

Number of Star Wars foam dart Storm Trooper Blasters brought by Santa: 1
Number of seconds before Mommy realized the Storm Trooper Blaster fired the foam darts much much harder than anticipated: 2
Number of times Daddy shot Mommy in the butt with a foam dart: 3

Number of times the game Star Wars Guess Who has been played since it was received: 65
Number of times the Little One began Star Wars Guess Who with the question "Does he have a light saber?": 65

Number of Hershey Kisses in the candy cane Santa gave the Little One: 25
Number of Hershey Kisses eaten by the Little One: 0
Number of Hershey Kisses eaten by Mommy: 25
Number of seconds Mommy felt guilty for eating all the Hershey Kisses: 1

Number of gifts the Little One bought Mr. Jenners: 4
Number of gifts Mr. Jenners returned: 2

Number of cookies given to the Jenners family by relatives to take home: 40
Number of minutes it took for the cookies to disappear once unwrapped: 10

Number of ibuprofen consumed since Christmas Day by Jenners and Mr. Jenners: 20
Number of days (including Christmas) the Little One has gotten up before 6:00 am: 3
Number of tornadoes that appear to have swept through the house: 2

Happy Holidays ... From Our Poorly Constructed House To Yours

During our first Christmas together, Mr. Jenners and I built a gingerbread house completely from scratch. We didn't use one of those fancy schmancy kits. We designed it ourselves. We made the gingerbread pieces ourselves. We picked out the candy ourselves. And I have to say, it was one of the best gingerbread houses I've ever made. Sure, it took about 40 pretzel rods and three tubs of icing to keep this sucker upright, but this house had personality and charm to spare. Allow me to take you on a brief tour -- a holiday house tour so to speak.

The Side View
Notice the open air ventilation in the roof.
The colorful Chicklet roof tiles.
The little snow man.

The Back Yard
This place was top-of-the-line and
included a swimming pool
complete with a gummy shark
and a gingerbread diving board.
(Too bad, the "water" was only .0001 mm deep.)

An Aerial View
We hired the Gingerbread Man to fly over the house
and photograph it for us.
Notice the Big Red gum roof tiles -- creating a Southwestern feel.

From Our House to Yours...
Wishing you a very relaxing and peaceful holiday!