Saturday, December 11, 2010

Gingerbread House Decorating Party

 

On Wednesday our advent activity was to make a gingerbread house. I had convinced a few other ladies to pitch in some money and bring their kids, so we could stretch our decorating dollars. Here’s the spread I laid out on the dining room table for the wee guests.

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The first masterpiece!

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Jen and Peter drew on Jen’s engineering expertise to build something extraordinary.

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I built Sawyer’s house kind of hastily right as everyone was arriving, and then got busy with Fielding.

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He piled all sorts of madness on top before it was very stable, and the unfortunately result was total, total collapse.

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Tara and Josh get the roof on.

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Becky and Sophia get ready to decorate.

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Little fingers laying roof tiles.

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Little kids that were too young to decorate a house spent the morning grubbin’ on the decorating candies. Some ate so many, they had to loosen the belt a little.

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April and Ryan turned out a perfect specimen.

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And here’s Peter’s opus.

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Natalie and Chelsea also made a fine example of the genre.

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Because of the sad collapse of Sawyer’s house, I built him another one—an uncollapsable one—while he was napping, which he was able to decorate to his heart’s content with fearing a cave-in.

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Turns out these things are pretty delicious.

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