Katie and I went to Las Vegas over the weekend to spend some time with her family. We had a great time and really enjoyed seeing all of them again. There were many highlights but doing the Old-Time photos at Circus Circus and doing the gingerbread houses on saturday night were my favorite activities. Here are the pics from this amazing event.Katie always got us in trouble if we took some candy but apparently its okay if she has some.
June & Randy adding some "personal" touches to his Ghetto Village. It's all a part of this joke for Katie's sister Dez who is terrified of all things Ghetto.
Scott's Condo's. Really impressive how he made little rooms and how he got the texture to be just perfect. I don't know how he did it, all I know is he walked outside with his house, powdered sugar, and a can of hairspray. When he came back in the house looked like this and Scott looked like the powdered sugar had fought back.
Katie and her sister Heather made home made caramel apples for the evening. I tell you what, Katie is really enjoying learning how to make treats for everyone and was up all last night trying to perfect a recipe that Dawn gave her. She's getting really good at it to.
June's amazing house. Notice the tree made of marshmallows and how you can even see the little "pizza table" from a pizza box in there.
The finished product of Randy's Ghetto Village. Classic. Notice the brightly colored houses, the Candy Caned collapsed house, the wild animal cookie outside, and Dez's red car in front of the red collapsed house. This one was a fan favorite.
Katie's finished house. This one impressed me, not only because my wife made it, but because of the attention to detail. She took brown M&M's, sucked off the color, let them dry, then applied it to the house to add a stone look. She even made the tail lights from the car glow as its warming up. I felt rather bad though because I'm sure she spent most of the time on my house/university building.
The infrastructure of "Old Main". Notice the inside graham crackers designed to support the walls, the pretzels used to support the lower roof, and the sucker that was thrown in at the last minute to maximize structural integrity. The sucker later failed to provide support and had to be re-applied.
The tower has been applied to Old Main. Notice the reapplied structure has been added. The tower consisted of broken graham crackers from my 18 attempts to make a hollow tower. Finally I just started to stack them on top of each other and then put whole ones around the outside. Genius.
Finished Old Main. Total construction time: 6 hours. Swear words uttered under breath: Too many to count.
This is what I was actually going for... it turned out alright I suppose.
The final product. It was defiantly a fun night and we hope to make this a tradition with the Ranck family.
