Christmas in Topeka

I finally think we got all of our Christmas celebrating completed. We headed to Topeka over the weekend to join Meemaw, Aunt Tiff and Uncle Chad for the Dudley-side Christmas. We had a great time!!

Colin immediately went down for a nap when we pulled into Topeka, so my mom and I headed to the grocery store to pick up a few last minute items for dinner (we had an awesome roast and lots of yummy sides for dinner). Once Colin woke up, we opened some gifts. Colin, of course, was spoiled by getting a ton of presents, but we all had a lot of fun watching him tear into the wrapping paper.

Colin was having a hard time unwrapping this gift one-handed. He would NOT let go of this balloon he got, with a little pig my mom attached to the end. Eventually, with help from the exciting new gifts, he would let the balloon go, but not for quite a while. Here's a fun farm animal noise toy from Tiff and Chad. He still just loves animals!

Still unwrapping with one hand...

Okay, the balloons gone for this one...a cool T-ball set! I'm pretty sure Brian was more excited for this one than Colin! Can't wait for warmer weather to try it out!

Putting on some fuzzy cute Chiefs slippers. Too bad they didn't bring the Chiefs good luck on their football game Sunday. :(

Colin was so excited for this one particular gift from Great Gramms Rice. Meemaw was trying so hard to open the gift, but those silly toys are so difficult to get open. He was waiting patiently for the present...

Still waiting...

Yeah!! It was a driving simulator steering wheel toy with lots of buttons and knobs to push and make noise. He wouldn't put that toy down until dinner.

But, of course, a big bouncy ball found in Meemaw's sewing room is just as much fun as those cool toys. He rolled that thing all over the house!

Thanks for a fun Christmas everyone!! Glad the snowy weather waited until Monday to show up, after we had all made the trip back to Kansas City safely.