Merry Christmas Eve!

 We had a lovely, traditional Christmas Eve.

Starting with our annual trip to Indialantic

to see Santa.

Jim and Sabrina brought Charlotte (their dog).

So we took separate vehicles.

We took Kyle's big new truck...

It took a little bit to finally find them,

turns out we were following Melbourne Beach

instead of Indialantic.

But once we got it all figured out,

we got to wave and yell Merry Christmas.

Until you do that,

it's just not Christmas.

My pictures were TERRIBLE.

That was the best of the lot.

Kyle took a picture of us out front of the old

Indialantic Post Office.

Rod gave us matching red buffalo plaid shirts.

And Sabrina just happened to be wearing one too!

We were down a Santa hat so I'm wearing antlers.

(Make a note in next year's stuff to buy 

an extra hat or two!)

Then back to the house for a bowl of chili

and some cornbread, followed by the

2nd annual gingerbread house decorating.

As always, Kyle's was a zombie apocalypse theme.

But the rest were a bit more traditional.

We'll use them as the table centerpiece for a couple

of days and then probably take them out

to the chickens.

OH!

The internet showed me how to glue them together!

Instead of using frosting that slips and slides

and you have to hold them together

with soup cans, etc...

We melted some white sugar in a little

frying pan and then dipped them in.

It was better than superglue!

Nearly instant and stuck fast!

How did we not know that trick???

It was loads of fun and less messy

since we put down parchment paper

instead of tin foil.

(I ran out!)

Tomorrow.... Christmas Day.