Christmas in Old City Park

So these past couple week here at DBU the entire school has been lit up and decorated for Christmas! The campus was quite a gorgeous sight and night!

The school choir puts on a magnificent christmas concert every year in the chapel.  I was a proud participant! 

I'm fortunate to go to a school that has lots of fun activities going on all the time! During Christmas we have a tree lighting ceremony where they had carriage rides, it was so much fun :)

Every tree on campus is lit up!

In the heart of downtown Dallas there is a collection of all the historic buildings of Dallas.  Every Christmas they put on a candle lighting tour that is filled with fun activities for all ages.  

side note: my camera died so these pictures are from my phone :)

They had quilling; an old paper art.  You take little strips of paper and curl it into shapes like the flower above, and then glue it onto cards and other things.  

 My twin sister and baby brother had a blast doing this activity! We stayed here for quite a while, while they worked on their cards.  Joshua made a christmas tree while the girls made hearts!

Here's a beautiful snowflake made by one of the demonstrators

We visited many of the historic houses

Here's a view from the balcony window

The cool thing about this house is that I had my 9th birthday party in it! They do American Girl Doll themed birthday parties; which I was very into at the time.

As the sun started setting they began to light all of the candles around the village.

Here are the younger ones in front of the original homestead house of Dallas.

Joshua got a candy cane from the victorian Santa Clause they had out.  

Kettle Corn is a huge family favorite! Anna Grace was super excited, especially when we found out...

...that they had a bag big enough for our family! 

Cutest ones of the bunch (also the most rambunctious)

boys, always stuffing food in their faces! 

The sunset was gorgeous! The picture doesn't do it justice.

We went to the old school house

Which was cutely decorated by children for the holidays :)

You can't really make out much in this picture, but there are original iron desks and a cute christmas tree in the front of the class room if you look closely!

We stopped inside the pavilion and bought some goodies.  Joshua got 'snickernoodles' aka 'snickerdoodles' Anna Grace got chocolate chip cookies and I got chocolate fudge :)

When we left the pavilion it was pitch black outside!

The last house we visited was the old farmstead.  You can't really see but the china pictured it blue willow, the same china that I have stored away to be my everyday china when I have my own house.

They had a warm fire lit as it was starting to get chilly!

The girls helped string popcorn for decoration.

Last but not least we visited the blacksmith.  He was making a heart for one of the girls that was watching.  They also had other hand crafted gifts hanging along the roof of the little lean to.  I was super excited to see treble clef hanging up!

All in all it has been a wonderful Christmas season so far!  More to come soon since I'm on Christmas break!

Hayden Lorraine~

Ecc. 3:1