The Sprinkles of Life: Never Too Old for Christmas

If anyone says you are too old to celebrate Christmas, I beg to differ! In fact, it seems that the older I get, the more excited I get about Christmas. The entire month of December has been a continuous preparation for that one special day. And it is not just me, my roomies are the exact same way.

The Roomies at Christmas on 5th Street

Our Christmas season started with Christmas on 5^th Street. A special holiday event that Baylor and KOT put on the first Thursday in December. There was a Christmas concert, Christmas tree lighting, cocoa, live nativity scene, TONS of decorations, sleigh rides, pictures with Santa, a pathway of Christmas rooms to view in the student center and much more.

Baylor is just beautiful at Christmas

The Kappa Pickers singing carols before the concert

We could not believe the size of the camel at the live nativity

After the last day of class before finals, we had our very own Christmas. It started off with us all putting on the Christmas nightgowns Chloe bought us and heading to Cracker Barrel to get breakfast for dinner. We then proceeded to play Christmas music and drive on a "sleigh ride" all over Waco to find the best decorated houses. I am proud to say that my Kappa advisor Tommye Lou had one of the best!

Who said you can't wear pajamas to dinner??

Cracker Barrel

The traditional fireplace shot which we almost burnt ourselves taking

The traditional tree shot

Somewhere along the way we decided that Christmas caroling was a must and started practicing our songs. We decided on “We Wish You a Merry Christmas”, “Rudolf the Red Nose Reindeer” and “Jingle Bell Rock”. The Dollar Store had some fantastic bells, Reindeer ears, and candy canes we picked up and the workers loved that we sang the entire time that we were in the store. The caroling was a success; especially “Rudolf the Red Nose Reindeer”. Emily, Peyton and I were in the front row singing the song and then Chloe and Bekah were hidden behind us and would jump up to add the extra parts like “like a lightbulb”. Usually by the end of Rudolf we were laughing so hard along with our friends that we were caroling to that we couldn’t even get to “Jingle Bell Rock”.

Getting supplies to carol

After caroling we returned home to make chocolate covered pretzels which were quite gourmet. We dipped the pretzel stick in white chocolate and then drizzled them with milk chocolate before sprinkling them with peppermint sprinkles.

Of course a roomie gathering would not be complete without some self-timer pictures. We took about 100 but here are a couple.

Lastly we had our gift exchange. We each had drawn a name before and had to get a present and ornament for our person. Everyone loved their present and Chloe got the award for giving the most creative ornament…make sure to read the note before you look at the picture of Bekah with her ornament.