Christmas 2008

Christmas was so fun this year with Brayden understanding SO much more than last year!  We enjoyed having our own Christmas morning together!!  We woke Brayden up at 8am and Brian got the video camera out so we could capture Brayden's reaction to seeing what Santa had left for him!  He was very excited about all the presents but got very distracted by the current present he had opened!  We had to keep convincing him to open the rest!  We were done opening by 9am and then enjoyed playing with all our new presents...oops, Brayden's presents!  He was so excited to set up his GeoTrax Airplane Set and the other GeoTrax stuff that Santa had brought him!  We had breakfast together and then got ready and hurried off to my parent's house in time to call Elder Kellen Leavitt in Brussels, Belgium at 12:20!  The roads were pretty bad (it had been snowing all morning!) and we were worried we wouldn't make it in time but we made it with about 5 minutes to spare!  We enjoyed our 30 minute call (that's all he gets!) to the fullest and then moved on to more presents!  Brayden wasn't expecting the SpiderMan scooter that Grandma and Grandpa Leavitt had under the tree for him!  He was SO excited!  By the end of the day, he had just about mastered riding it around their house!  It was fun to open gifts with everyone and have Brayden tell some people what it is they were opening!  (Note to self...don't let him see me wrap presents for family members next year!)  After opening all the gifts, playing with the new items, and some people having naps, we had a great turkey dinner!  Our night ended with Brayden sleeping, some tv watching, and a rousing game of Scattergories!  It was a great Christmas and we loved being able to spend it with some of our family!

Now on to LOTS of pictures....

Opening his stocking

This is what I got when I asked him to smile!

He's currently into dinosaurs and was SO excited to get a dinosaur movie!

He got a cute dog shirt and pants from the Drolet family that he loves!

Brian got me the new camera lens I've been wanting!

Brian showing off the invishields we got for our iPhones!

Who knew a 2 year old would be so excited about a toothbrush?!?

Just one of the many dinosaur themed presents he opened throughout the day!

I got Brian the SlingBox he's been wanting!

Brayden's big present....the GeoTrax Airplane set!

Dad was nice enough to set it up and until New Years it was a fixture in our family room!

The SpiderMan scooter from Grandma & Grandpa Leavitt!

Parking it so he could open other gifts! (Notice the cute pug shirt from the Drolet family!  He kept telling everyone it was Kiya, one of my parents THREE pugs!)

Great Grandma Leavitt got a shirt to represent Kellen on his mission!

Brayden helping Great Grandma Price open a gift!

Great Papa Leavitt got a collection of John Wayne dvds!

Torey so excited about opening presents!

I was so excited to see Logan's reaction to the Giants belt buckle I found for him back in October in Orlando!

Aunt Torey gave Brayden the Wac-A-Mole game and we enjoyed playing it with Great Aunt Linda!

This is where Brayden crashed finally at 6pm that night!  Poor guy had been up since 8am without a nap!  And poor Mom and Dad were up late that night when he didn't want to go to bed for the night once we got home!  He's been loving any chance he gets to snuggle with me and my preggo belly!