Christmas in Review

My Hunka Hunka Burning Love and I just celebrated our second Christmas as a married couple. Any adult can understand that the holidays can be a very trying, exhausting and stressful time. We, like everyone else, have also found this to be true, but I think we're making large strides in just a short time and learning how to take advantage of time with our families and eliminate as much negativity as possible.

This year we got to celebrate the birth of Jesus and the visit from Santa Clause three times. We started at my parents' house with everyone home... Mom, Dad, Chris, Erica, Hunter, Skyler, Emmie Lu, Kase, ME, Adele, My HHBL, me (that's 12 in case you were counting). We had Christmas early so my oldest brother could be back home so his kiddos could wake up in their own beds Christmas morning.


We visited Christmas Town at Busch Gardens.

...So we embraced it!

We got photo bombed...

Most parents don't really get a vacation either at the beach in the summer, or during the holidays. The kids are fighting, jumping into large puddles in the swamp or babies are crying. However, I'm not too worried for the loss of vacations, as long as my niece Skyler is around. She is the sweetest and kindest little 6 yr old I've ever met. She can handle two 2 yr olds (with very strong personalities) like it's nothing. I'm so excited to see how her caring heart will continue to grow with her.

We also got to celebrate WILZAR Christmas with all of us. 10 Wilsons (one not photoed) and 12 Luzars makes for 22 Wilzars. Now that all "the kids" are parents with their own kids and we scatter the map from Virginia to Florida it's a little more difficult for us all to be together, but this year was a true Christmas Miracle! We tried to figure out when Wilzar Christmas started and while we couldn't completely decide, it's been at least 20 years... and counting.

After Christmas in the Burg we headed to My HHBL's parents' home for our 2nd Christmas, followed by our 3rd and final Christmas in our own town and our own home. (Don't get the wrong idea, we weren't alone - we got to celebrate actual Christmas Eve and Christmas Day with my mom, dad, Kase, ME, Adele and my Aunt Beth).

So now 2 days into 2015, I'm hoping and praying for a great...ok I'll settle for even just a good year. We have one year of marriage under our belts, there's only 1.5 years left of law school, my HHBL is currently in SE Asia and will be for the next two weeks, one of my best buds is getting married in late January, another best bud is having a baby, another one is having twins (yikes!) and who knows what other fun and exciting things await us in 2015... CHEERS!