Christmas with the Walker families

On Sunday the 20th of December we got together with family at Grandpa and Grandma Walker's house in Wichita.

Gabrielle sitting on Grandma's step stool in the kitchen...one of her favorite places to go in their house.

Some of the family before we opened gifts.

Grandma and the kids who were at Christmas this year (minus a grumpy Gabrielle).

Daddy helping Gabrielle open a cheer-leading doll from G & G Walker.

The excitement of Christmas (by most people).

Gabrielle checking out Randi's new HS Musical jewelry box.

One of the gifts that Nick opened during the dirty Santa part of the gift-exchange enjoyed by the adults. Unfortunately, they were stolen from him, so you won't get to see Nick wearing them. Bummer! :)

Nick's dad, Chuck, got the gift of Simpson boxer shorts--nice!

Gabrielle got tired of watching people open gifts and found a canvas bag to play with instead.

I wonder if she really would have been able to get herself into the bag if we hadn't stopped her from playing with it after a while.

Tuesday night we got together with Chuck and Judy again for a meal at Spangles. Gabrielle and Grandma walked in front of us to the car, and I thought it was a cute picture.

Smile! You can see that it was cold outside in Kansas while we were there. I should have gotten Gabi's hat and gloves out, but I guess we weren't outside for very long.

Back at their house G & G Walker gave Gabrielle another little gift--a Santa hat, shoes, and socks.

Our little Christmas Elf

Gabrielle was trying to figure out Grandma's "old" phone.

Nick giving them directions on the new digital camera that we got them for Christmas (in combination with their gift a little early).

Gabrielle entertained herself (and us too) by checking out everything that was in my purse while they were playing around with the settings on their camera.