Making Candy Houses

This week we made candy houses!!  Thank you to all my families for being so generous and donating supplies!  

Here the kids are ready to put their houses together. They aren't at all excited, you can tell. lol

 I put a little bit of everything in several plates and put them all on the table. We used the shoe boxes to hold the houses and for carrying them home.

Here are pics of some of the houses. I should have started snapping before they went back into the boxes, but they really are adorable. The kids had so much fun with these!

 

Yummies I've Been Working On

Last weekend Alex had an early holiday gift-giving with his dad, Paul, since he lives out of state. So, I whipped up some homemade treats to help make their weekend a little more special.

Here is some really, really good fudge syrup, that wasn't supposed to be syrup. I was actually trying my hand (and failing- again) at fudge but it just never quite got there. So I turned my lemons into Hot Fudge Syrup. Fabulous, right? Yay me! 

And this baby here is my favorite pie ever. Besides my mother's no-bake chocolate-oatmeal-peanut butter cookies recipe (which everyone and their mother has) this is the only thing I can bake that turns out well every time. It's Peach Cream pie, y'all. And I know that's not very holiday-y but I figured since it has nutmeg and allspice it's at least a distant cousin to traditional holiday baked goods and is welcome at my house. 

We also made some gingerbread cookies but I wasn't able to photograph them before Alex ate them all. Oh well. They were pretty darling. Luckily I have plans to make another batch next week. :-)