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.
The first masterpiece!
Jen and Peter drew on Jen’s engineering expertise to build something extraordinary.
I built Sawyer’s house kind of hastily right as everyone was arriving, and then got busy with Fielding.
He piled all sorts of madness on top before it was very stable, and the unfortunately result was total, total collapse.
Tara and Josh get the roof on.
Becky and Sophia get ready to decorate.
Little fingers laying roof tiles.
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.
April and Ryan turned out a perfect specimen.
And here’s Peter’s opus.
Natalie and Chelsea also made a fine example of the genre.
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.
Turns out these things are pretty delicious.
