All I Want for Christmas...

All I wanted for Christmas this year was to enjoy time with family, with it being the first Christmas we have celebrated living close to everyone again...

{I was so grateful that we didn't have to travel a grand total of 7 hours in the car this year!!}

Our Christmas lights

We definitely got the full dose of spending time with everyone... I am still completely exhausted!!

Next year, we may not do as much so that we can enjoy our time together a little more.

Unfortunately, I didn't get many photos with all of the chaos of trying to wrangle B while unwrapping presents, eating, etc... 

She was definitely not one to understand the "unwrapping" process this year! It was more like, "Okay, Mom... Just get it done and show me what it is so that I can decide if I want to play with it while doing 1000 laps around the living room."

Here is the only photo that I was able to capture of her and Daddy at Grandma and Grandpa Weinzapfel's house on Christmas Eve!

Thanks to Uncle Andrew, I was able to capture a few more photos at Grammy and Paw-Paw's house of the whole fam singing "Jingle Bells," with Grammy and Miles at the piano :)

Miles had so much fun entertaining us with his own version!
Too cute!

We all had so much fun, we completely forgot to take a photo with our matching pajamas this year!! Oh well, there's always next year :)

 Finally, it was off to our house to get ready for Santa Claus.

B had absolutely no problem going to bed... She was so exhausted after a full day!
{We even had to skip out on church services this year, because there was absolutely no way I could take this cranky toddler to 10pm services!! We read the "Christmas Story" to her, and down she went!}

Santa Claus definitely came to our house! :)
{and he even set up her castle tent from Grandma and Grandpa Weinzapfel!}

As a matter of fact, she was so exhausted that she was NOT into the idea of getting up to see what Santa had left for her that next morning... She literally rolled away from us and snuggled her blankie!

After we finally convinced her out of bed, she was a little confused, but it didn't take long to get the idea that something was a little different in the living room!

Christmas day was much easier without driving all over the place... And B finally got the hang of things, and started to help open her presents! But she was still as busy as ever!!

Here is our busy, busy girl in action!

{riding her favorite horse at Grammy and Paw-Paw's}

"Let's go, Daddy!"

B just loves her Aunt Man-Man and "Yea-Yea" (aka Lacy)

... and yes, Allen and I love for her to use her cute little names for them!

It's so silly to believe that she could develop a speech impediment from using them... LOL! :)

B loves her Little People Zoo from Uncle Andrew and Aunt Amanda :)

We had such a fantastic Christmas this year... Being with family is the reason that we moved, so we definitely enjoyed all of the quality time we were able to spend with them!

I can definitely say that I got exactly what I wanted for Christmas this year...

It is such a gift to celebrate the birth of our Savior with the people you love the most!

I hope you all had a blessed Christmas with your families too :)

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All I Want for Christmas...