Christmas in NC

We enjoyed our 1st Christmas with Tray in North Carolina, Nana and Pop Pop came up from Florida to spend Christmas with us. After opening presents and reading the Christmas story from Luke 2 we got ready and packed the explorer up and went to Mimi and Granddady Hampton. There we ate a delicious Christmas dinner with all the fixin's, opened presents and enjoyed fellowship the rest of the evening. Here below Tray is laughing at Mimi. He is growing and changing daily.

Christmas Snapshot!

It is hard to believe that another year has gone by.

Here was our Christmas picture two years ago.

Here is our Christmas picture this year!

This is Tray getting his nails clipped at 5:00 AM for the first time.

BUSY, BUSY, BUSY!!

Well, I don’t know about you, but the Bardin’s have been BUSY, BUSY, BUSY!! We have had practice, parties, you name it we have done it in the last few weeks and it does not look like it is going to stop until the New Year. Here are some pictures of Tim putting some honey back into the bee hives for them to eat on during winter.

What A Big Catch!

Tray's New Shirt

Kernersville Parade

We enjoyed a cold Sunday afternoon at our town's Christmas parade. Here are some pictures that I shot.

Tray is sleeping through his first Christmas parade as the firetrucks and bands go by. It's amaizing what babies can sleep through!

Here is Daisy enjoying her sucker, along with another picture of her and Isaac.

Old Salem Candle Tea

We enjoyed an evening at the Candle Tea hosted by the Moravians in Old Salem. We sang Christmas carols accompanied by an old pump organ.


Then we watched the process of making the famous beeswax candles.

Next we went into the kitchen and sampled the moravian sugar cake along with some moravian coffee. We then went to the sub basement which was used as a refridgerated room for meats, vegetables, and preserves. We observed the Old Salem replica and heard the Christmas story and the putz. We believe that we will make this a family tradition and try to attend each year forward.