Leavitt Christmas

When we arrived in Cedar we went to my Grandma Leavitt's house. A lot of my cousin's were there that I haven't seen for awhile so it was fun to catch up. Plus the nativity and singing the songs. I love singing Christmas hymns at my grandma's house, it's always magical and you can feel the spirit so strongly. I can remember doing it as a little girl and I feel the same way every year. We then went to my parents house. All my siblings and their families were there this year. It was so much fun. Christmas eve we have a tradition of the Christmas Mouse. It's a mouse that comes and hides a box of books and then we have to all search for it. (a box with some kind of toy mouse on top). It's always a competition to see who finds it..even among the adults...a bit juvenile I know. Bracken was the victor the past two years but Heather found it this year! Christmas morning was entertaining.

A few highlights:

My mom getting the David Archelta CD from Heather for Christmas (we all know she has a mom crush on him!)

Parker getting a calculator watch from Bracken & me. Just to remind him of his junior high days. (Plus don't all budding accountants own one?)

Dixon receiving carpet skates from Brooke then proceeding to go- fall- down the stairs with them on (see bottom right picture)

Dad singing "Them Poems" and tearing up to the framed feed sack my grandma used to make dresses out of when she was going to college.

Xander's excited face when he got the spiderman toy from Rachel. Seriously it was like the kids on commericals excited. I wish the picture was bigger on the collage.

Kamri got a little doll and she started waving to it after she opened it.

Heather got me a windsor pilates for Christmas. So now I have no excuse to not workout! So anyone that lives close, if you want to come do some pilates with me and make fun of the people on the video as we do soo...i'd love someone to laugh with while I be an old lady doing a workout video.

Later that day we went to Brooke & Mac's house to play guitar hero and eat dinner. I pretty much rock at that game. ok i probably was the worst one. Friday my little sister, Heather, Hayes and I played in the snow all morning (I'll have another post for that) while Bracken worked. That night Bracken and I went on a double date with Heather and her friend Kyler. We went and saw the 7 pounds. Bracken hated it, I didn't think it was that bad but wouldn't watch it a second time. Then we went to applebees and ate. That was the first movie we've gone to since Kamri was born so it was fun to go out. It felt like our time in Cedar flew by. Saturday we drove home and luckily only hit bad weather the last half hour of the drive. Hayes & Kamri were troopers and we didn't have to stop the whole 4 1/2 hour drive!