Since Merilee is now 8 she can go to our church's Activity Days. It is a program for girls from 8-11, before they enter the youth program. This activity was combined with the older girls in Young Womens and they made "gingerbread" houses out of graham crackers. Merilee is very artistic an detail oriented and made a fantastic house with an outbuilding and swimming pool. She also made these little mice. The YW president was amazed at how well Merilee did and said she did better than several of the older girls. She really has an artistic talent!
We were also invited to go to the Fledderjohn home for a cookie decorating night. Sis. Fledderjohn had made the cookies already so the kids just got to make a mess decorating them. I am so glad this did not happen in my kitchen!
Holland chose his cookies and I spread the icing and then he could put the other stuff on. He obviously got bored after awhile and started making trouble elsewhere. His sippy cup in the picture will have to represent his presence there because he didn't hold still to make it into the pictures.
Cara is not as careful as Merilee and slathered on her icing and loaded up the cookies with as much other candy and sprinkles as she could . However, she had fun doing it and that is all that matters.
Merilee took FOREVER for each cookie. She placed the sprinkles on individually and wanted to make the cookies more realistic. I didn't get pictures of the cookies up close but hers were really well planned out. By the time she was ready to use some of the extra toppings, Cara had already used most of them, so Merilee figured out she had to pick up her pace if she was going to get finished.
We kind of had to cram in these extra activities before we left for Oklahoma for Christmas. Between work, school, homework, and everything in between....the holidays were very busy!
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