Thursday, December 20

"Gingerbread" House Decorating

We invited a few school friends to join us for a sugar-filled afternoon of decorating graham cracker houses yesterday. Here's the before:
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During:
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Hard at work on her design:
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Porter ran into some major design challenges; he ate all the building materials. Here you can see him shoveling the cement-frosting directly into his mouth. 
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This is a shot of his final product. There were probably 5 pieces of candy total that made it on the house, most of which were removed again for consumption. 
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After an hour of sugar-fueled hour of racing in the back driveway Porter's classmate heads home with her final product. Everyone had a blast decorating (of course) and there were (surprisingly) no major candy related melt-downs.
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Matilda's classmate shows off her final product and her newly empty front tooth gap. Matilda is so jealous that she gets to really sing, "All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth!"
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