Day After Christmas

Londyn really wanted to type, so here is her typing:
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We are well.

Christmas Eve

It rained a bit this morning and then it turned to snow rather quickly... a nice heavy wet snow perfect for snow men. We made 3 of them. Here is one:

It lasted about at week

An update on the gingerbread house: Everyone who came over took a piece of the gingerbread house... after a week, it looked pretty bad. It got to the point where the kids had a butter knife and were popping things off and bits of sugar would fly everywhere, so it has been condemned and demolished. The photos are immediately prior to demolition:

My Birthday Project

Sharee gave me a project for my birthday. She decided she would whip up 4 batches of ginger bread and enable me to build a modest gingerbread house. I found a piece of plywood in the garage, foil covered it and decided that since the board was bigger than the average gingerbread plot, I would build a gingerbread manor, or mansion. I baked the bread that Sharee mixed up while Sharee did dinner and helped the kids we had over for babysitting group. They then all decorated graham cracker houses with some of the colored sugar I purchased earlier while I continued to bake. I finally started assembling the house at about 10PM, and got all but the center section roof together. After church today, Parker and Londyn wanted to help, so they were patient enough to place the items I told them and they waited for instructions. It was a lot of fun as we assembled the finishing touches for several hours this afternoon. The pictures below show the size of the mansion. The foil covered plywood plot is about 2' x 2'. Check it out.

-Rob

Notice the chevron car in included for scale. The candy pillars in the front are about 9" tall.

The gumdrop overhang began to sag and fell off this morning...