Christmas in Oklahoma

Beware - this post is very loaded with pictures.  Good for the grandparents, not so good for those of you who don't care to see picture after picture of my kids and niece and nephew.  :)

Gingerbread House Assembly and Decoration

Cookie Making

Relaxing after a morning in the kitchen

Time to decorate the cookies

Christmas Eve - I love this picture!

Getting things ready for Santa and his reindeer

A couple of cousin picture attempts

Christmas Morning!

Lindsey really wanted a Nutcracker for Christmas.

More attempts at cousin pictures

Opening presents

Reagan loves her Daisy the Duck!

Mimi and Papa opening their new calendar - love Mimi's expression

There it is in a nutshell (a very small nutshell).  Be happy I chose only 32 pictures out of 247.  This post could've been way longer.  :)

Westgate's Christmas Program

Each year, the church we attend, Westgate, puts on a small Christmas Program.  This was Lindsey first year to be in it and hopefully Reagan will be a part of it coming up in December.  Here are just a few of the pictures from that night.

Getting all ready with Rachel and Lauren Gumm.

The family watching.

Our beautiful angel.

The angels singing.

Afterwards - still looking angelic.

My first day of catching up...

We will see how much I get accomplished!  The last time I posted (for real) was in January.  But the post was about our snowy day in December.  That means I still have the rest of December and all of January, February, March, and April.  Then to top it all off, I need to post about all the happenings in May.  Wow - this could take a while.

Here goes...
With December comes Christmas.  And with Christmas comes Christmas cards.  And all the attempts to get a good picture for the cards.  Here are a few of ours and the final picture that was chosen.

I had a tough time figuring out if I liked it better in black and white or color.  So you get to see both.  The last picture is what ended up on our Christmas cards this year.  Can't wait to come up with something new for this year.

Wow!

So I fixed up my blog background to not be winter-ish anymore.  Then I was all set to blog but now am totally floored.  I haven't blogged since January!!!!  And what I blogged then was from the beginning of December!!!!  Umm, I think I'm behind!  So, sorry to all two of you who keep up with my family through the blog.  I have failed miserably!

But take heart, my school year is over so I SHOULD have more time to blog.  But not today, as I am about to go to a friends house to watch a movie with her.  And probably not tomorrow because it's Sunday.  Maybe Monday afternoon?  I have MOPS in the morning but if I'm caught up on other things, I'll get to blogging after lunch.  Hold me to it, will ya?

Until Monday....

First Snow this Season

Reagan very much enjoyed the first snow we received this year.  It was sometime in December.  There was enough to cover the grass but not enough to cancel school.  So Reagan and Robert went outside after Lindsey was at school and played for a little bit.  Here's what they did...

Throwing snowballs at mom.  :(

Building a (very tiny) snowman.

The finished product.