Some December Happenings

So December brought some most excellent things.  

We of course made some gingerbread houses with some friends.  We got kits this year which we've never done before but they definitely did not mean cutesie-ness was happening.

This is Jake's slaughter house

 Kyra did some sort of artsy house, the roof is supposed to be falling off.

 Dan's western shoot-out

 And my little guy was having a 'shroom nightmare of bears and other such weirdness while up on his roof.

 Also in December, Dan made his first big purchase and bought himself a new car.  Though technically it is under my name as I had previous (very good) car credit.   Which I find to be hilarious and Dan, not so much.  But Dan had been driving his Camry since he was about 16.  He had been looking at cars and talking about it for months so we found an amazing deal on a 2010 Xterra with only 9,000 miles on it and decided to go have a look at it just to see, pretty soon we were buying it.  Dan hadn't thought we'd really be doing any buying that day so actually got a little sentimental when we were suddenly cleaning out his car to trade it in.  I've seen Dan get sentimental about never times, so it was interesting.  As soon as we drove off in his new car though, the Camry was gone from his mind.  

The Xterra is so perfect for him and it makes me want it a little bit, except I would never be able to handle the gas mileage after driving my Honda Fit.  But everything else is great.  Dan bargained in an auxiliary outlet, a key-less entry remote, and a ball for towing.  He's good like that.

When first realizing he had to say goodbye

 He's constantly losing his water bottles.  We bought him three new ones from December of last year until July.  We found three when cleaning out his car.  Which is remarkable as Dan is very neat and well organized.

He decided he was posh because he found his ticket to The Louvre in the trunk.  Who knows how it got there.  This is his posh face.

 His sentiment, saved for cars and computers.

 

It's nice looking huh?

 My barely visible tummy.

We also bought a crib in December.  My top two choices were both over 500 bucks so I settled for choice three which was about a fifth of the cost.  I can deal with that.  Dan was real great and set it up for me.  He even pretended to look confused for pictures.  So manly.

 It actually only took him about 20 minutes to set up.

 Then he decided to pose with his knife because he's a weirdy.  Maybe to fend off any bad people from getting Beaky.  Unfortunately this particular knife broke when we used it to break into the Bronson's house on Christmas Eve.  (That's another story)