Celebrating Christmas in LA

Right after Christmas, we headed to LA to visit my parents. The girls had a lot of fun opening their presents and just being at Mamaw and Papaw's house---they were so happy to be there after an 8 hour drive.

Big M and her new scooter!

A happy Little M opening her presents.

NewYear's Eve Fireworks in LA---would be fun if we could do it in OK, but I'm sure it would be much colder!

During our visit to Mom and Dad's, we took a little road trip to Lafayette, LA. While we were there, we ate at some excellent restaurants and visited the Acadian Village. They weren't officially open while we were there, but we enjoyed walking around the grounds. We got some good photos of M&M that day too. You can check out info on Acadian Village at this site http://acadianvillage.org/.


Here's some of my favorite photos taken at Acadian Village:

We also visited St. John's Cathedral and received a very informative tour. Such an interesting place! Definitely worth a visit if you are in the area. http://www.saintjohncathedral.org/Our_Church.html

Christmas 2011 Fun

We started celebrating Christmas with Charley's family the weekend prior to Christmas. We had a good weekend visiting with Charley's Mom and then his Dad before staying over at Aunt Natalie's house.


Of course, Christmas for the Lingerfelts would not be complete without baking and decorating sugar cookies for Santa! M&M had a good time helping cut out and then decorate the cookies...Santa enjoyed eating them!

Charley read M&M a few Christmas/Winter books before bed on Christmas eve...so happy I caught a picture of it!

M&M hurrying down the stairs on Christmas morning to see if Santa had come overnight. Big M told us that she thought she heard Santa's sleigh bells through the night and knew he must have come.


M&M checked the North Pole Mailbox to make sure Santa got their letters and to see if he responded. Sure enough, he left them each a postcard.

Luckily, we had nice weather so the girls played outside and enjoyed the new plasmacar Santa had brought them. Big M also loved dancing with her new Dance with Me Baby and Little M couldn't wait to feed her Baby Alive doll.
It was a fun Christmas this year and full of so many blessings and fun moments with M&M. So thankful for our sweet girls!

All I want for Christmas is My ONE Front Tooth!

Big M lost her first tooth last night (12/23). It had been pretty wiggly for the last few days, and she was finally brave enough to let her dad pull it out. A little scary for her at first, but then she realized the Tooth Fairy would be coming and she cheered up right away! We can't believe she's old enough to be losing her baby teeth...seems like she should still be our baby. She was excited this morning to wake up and find that the Tooth Fairy had left her two gold coins. As my friend Rhonda reminded me, Big M is such a lucky girl to receive a visit from the Tooth Fairy and Santa all in the same week!

Little M's Christmas Program

Little M's Christmas Program at her preschool was last Thursday. What a great looking class! And, they did an awesome job! I posted my two favorites of the evening. She was not afraid of the stage at all...it will be fun to look back at these videos someday. I couldn't help myself and laughed and laughed at how cute she and the class were during their portion of the program. Little M was pretty serious during the singing of "He is the King". Luckily, she repeated the adorable Chubby Little Snowman poem at home for us since it was hard to understand during the program with all of the class saying it at once. Such a fun evening and it made us all smile! :) Hope you enjoy too!

Responsibility

So proud of Big M!! She received the Responsibility award at her monthly Kindergarten Rise and Shine program earlier this week. Our GE Model school has high expectations for students behavior, character, and respect for others. Only one boy and one girl from each class are selected to receive the awards each month. Receiving the Responsibility award meant that Big M takes responsibility for her decisions and actions, and that she chooses "to do the right thing since it's the right thing to do". A couple of her good friends also received the same award this month---great kids! Awesome job Big M!!

Bowling on Bedlam

We took advantage of a cold, rainy morning to take M&M bowling. Coincidentally, it was also Bedlam game day for OSU and OU. We all sported our orange and black and luckily took one of the last two lanes available to play...we didn't realize there was a huge bowling tournament going on in BA that day! M&M both had a good time thanks to the bumpers. It was big help for Charley and I too! We had a fun day...started off with bowling and finished with a big win by OSU!!

Thanksgiving Day

It's so hard to believe we just had Thanksgiving and Christmas is just around the corner...we spent most of the day in Guthrie with Charley's family and then went on to OKC to see my family. Since we had a pretty nice day to be outside, the girls had a good time gathering up Aunt Mary and Uncle Ken's leaves into a big pile. Of course, they didn't stay in a nice, clean pile for long. The best part was jumping in!

M&M were also able to spend time with their cousins that they hadn't seen since last year.

Here's a photo of our family along with Charley's Mom and his brother Danny's family.