Tyler and Derek are hard at work making christmas lists (stay tuned), and Suzie is making a Festival-of-Trees-Quality gingerbread house. First she made a cardboard model of the house she is building.
...first she made a LOT of gingerbread...these are just the walls!
...then she made windows by melting down butterscotch candies. Then she used the wipes to wipe Derek's butt.
Here 8-month-pregnant Suzie demonstrates the warm holiday glow offered by the candy windows.
It's coming together. These are two walls that already have their windows and masonry (big-red cut into quarters).
When it's finished, the gingerbread house should be about 18" tall and 20" wide.
There's been a little bit of a nip in the air, the rumor was that the temperature might even reach freezing over the weekend. It almost never snows here, but the roads still ice over just from moisture in the air condensing on the roads. They don't have sand or salt for the road, and there's no warning (like a blanket of snow), to let you know you need to slow down. One more reason Jared hasn't bought another motorbike yet.
Jared misses the snowy mountains and pine trees, Suzie really does NOT miss snowy anything. It's a different atmosphere down here, that's for sure. It looks like the neighboorhood is gearing up for some serious christmas light displays, which is good. We're going to try to resist buying hot-pepper lights and Texas Longhorns ornaments, if we can.
5 comments:
That's quite the sweet home you're building there...
I haven't been riding the bike super often here. But we've been having some nice days.
I see you have found a less expensive outlet for your home improvement compulsion. It looks like it will be a very nice ginger bread house! (Gas here is $1.84 but it looks like you have some $1.85 gas near by.)
that's pretty sweet. i'm a fan. i told jeff that the walls were made of gum though, and he looked sick. too much big red for him.
Poor Jeff, it must be hard knowing there is a bunch of gum in Texas somewhere.
speaking of that one, can he get access to your blog? he feels left out.
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