Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

On Christmas Eve Tracy, Rodney, and their boys came over for a party. We had a huge dinner and then sat down to watch 24 hours of a Christmas Story. While that was going on me and Kyler got bored so we went and made brownies for Santa. In the process we made a huge mess of the kitchen and the brownies didn't even turn out all that great, but we still had fun! After that we played Are you Smarter Than A 5Th Grader, and of course my team won. By the time that was all over it was 11 and all the little kids were excited to get to bed ( a first!) So the festivities ended and we all went to bed, but not before I turned the volume up all the way on my dad's cell phone and then placed it right next to his bed so I could text him at 5 the next morning to tell them to wake up.
The next morning I woke up at 5 and sent the text. In a few minutes I got one back telling me to go back to bed or else :) ! It took two hours for dad to get up. Then mom and dad went down stairs to take no less that 20000 pictures while the kids suffered! The major present I got was a video camera, Kellie got a digital camera and a mushroom chair for her bedroom, and Hagen got too much stuff to list! Dad got a motorcycle helmet and a tie rack. He wanted a 500$ hunting dog but I don't like dogs so I made him a pet rock that he loves :) ! Mom got a video camera too but of course dad made her open it last so she didn't get to record anything of Christmas morning. Then we just relaxed and let dad play with all the new toys : ) ! At around 2 Rod and Tracy came over again to eat all the left overs and play the longest Uno game EVER! Christmas this year was great! ( except we all missed grandma and grandpa!)
On Friday we headed down to Beaver to visit grandpa Jim. We brought Roscoe (our cat) and Grandpa was disgusted... "cats don't belong in a car ! ". We ate pizza with him then left for Monroe. In Monroe we saw all the cousins and visited the Cornelius family, who got sing star and guitar hero for Christmas. Mom and Melissa sang every 80's song they knew while dad and Vance played guitar hero for hours! It was fun! Then on Sunday we went to church with grandma and grandpa Leavitt. Grandpa got ordained an elder while we were there too and that was great! But on Sunday night we had to load up our cat and leave town :(
On New Years Eve mom and dad stayed up till about 11:45..... they just could stay awake another 15 minutes! I think everybody was in bed by 12:05!

So there you have it... the Leavitt family Christmas!