Yesterday we built gingerbread houses with the Monson’s. I was feeling a bit ambitious so I decided that the best thing to build would be Saint Peter’s Basilica. This was my inspiration:

Here are some pictures documenting the process:

Two preliminary walls. A good start.

The main dome.

The unmounted dome and walls.

The dome now mounted.

Dome and walls all done. Now I need to start on the roof

I finished with the cardboard structure. We are now ready to decorate!

Started covering the facade with grahams.

Finished graham-ing… ready to cover with candy!

Working on the facade.

Me with the finished giant.

A view of the finished thing from the front.

Up close of the finished dome.

Side view of the finished thing.

Elisabeth decided that she wanted to build a piano. It turned out great. A few pics:

The finished piano.

Look how awesome the back of hers is.

Up close of the piano.

This one’s for all you who like to diagnose car problem. See if you can get this one:

Last Saturday Elisabeth and I were heading to the temple and were driving up the hill on the south side of the Provo temple. Right as we were approaching our parking spot our car just, well, turned off. We had just enough momentum to coast to our parking spot. That was quite fortuitous. It wouldn’t start after that. When we turned the key the engine turned over but wouldn’t start.

This happened once before. After waiting an hour or so it started again. We went to the temple an hoped that it would start afterwards. Well, it didn’t. Michael was nice enough to come and take us home.

We stopped by the next day and tried to start it again. It was the same as before: turned over but didn’t start. We got it towed to a mechanic and the problem fixed.

Any guesses? (If you already know then don’t say 🙂