The Bunch are Christmas Ready!

We are in the Christmas spirit.

Yay! Our favorite time of the year is here! We have the outside lights up, the indoor decorations done, and have started our Christmas baking (we had to bake somethings early this year because the farrier comes in the first week of December this year and I like to give him some goodies. You take care of your farrier!). The younger kids just finished the fall semester on Friday and have started their Christmas holidays. A finishes her last exam on Monday and then we get to enjoy the holidays. Well, we have about 8 basketball games all over the metroplex and beyond so that will keep us pretty busy, but other than that we will be watching Hallmark movies and baking. Yay! Of course, we have the wedding coming up soon too, so we have a few things left to do for that, but all in all we will get to slow down a lot. 

The tree was decorated with only non breakable ornaments this year, thanks to our cat. However, all the ornaments now sit on the top 1/3 of our tree. Again, thanks to the cat! She loves Christmas!

L sings her Christmas concert on the 12th in both services. After singing in the services, her choir is going to sing at a nursing home and then head back to church to have their Christmas party. Basically, we will be at church from 8am to 5 pm. It will be a long day. L made some cute gifts for her friends in choir. She baked some mini banana breads and made hot chocolate mix. We have a hot cocoa recipe that is super yummy. Hands down it beats the instant store versions easily. 

T was baptized this weekend. D was allowed to baptize him. It was a great moment. Afterwards we went to a small rural church that is near our house. They were doing a live nativity and some caroling.  It was a great evening that really made it feel like Christmas time. 

D was excited to be able to perform T's baptism.

T was excited too!

But also a little bit nervous since he put his shirt on inside out.😂

He was just nervous about speaking in front of everyone, but he did great and had no need to be nervous.

Apparently, the water was nice and warm. When I was baptized, it was a little chilly. T said it felt like a hot tub.

D told him to bend his knees.

He did it!

There was a reception afterwards for all the baptism candidates and their guests.

We celebrated.

There was also refreshments at the live nativity.

The sunset was beautiful against the cross.

It was a fun time. The majority was on a projection screen, but they had actors acting it out on the sides.

T put up the Christmas Village this year. We only put up about half of it since I only cleared a couple of shelves.