Holiday's with the Hewitt's (2013)

The Holiday's always make life crazy and in our household this means out of control crazy, because we are in a constant state of crazy 365 days out of the year. But, the holiday's also means participating in old & new family traditions!  This year was no exception.

We went and picked out our 12.5 foot LIVE Christmas tree at Hewitt Garden Center and brought it home on top of the Vibe (A Christmas Vacation sight indeed!).

Santa sent his elf to come and live with us this year.  Her name is Tinsee and she was quite destructive!

Hanging Wilkes' and Hadley's underwear instead of our stockings!

Toilet Papered Wilkes' room

We also wanted to go visit Santa to tell him what we wished for this year, but only one of us got to get our wish list in.  The other desperately tried to get away from the man behind the white beard.

This year we all really enjoyed decorating the tree together.  Hadley especially enjoyed attempting to climb the ladder to hang ornaments and all the glitter that was on the ornaments.

This was also our 1st year of instituting our family tradition of "Jammie Cocoa Christmas"!  This is where we pick one night before Christmas to open up 1 gift from Mom & Dad (our matching Christmas Jammies), make hot cocoa, and gather in the car to go find houses with the best Christmas lights.  We had a lot of fun this year, except Hadley fell asleep pretty early on.

Another Hewitt Family tradition is that the entire family (on Will's Dad's side) gets together to watch Christmas Vacation.  This year we themed it as an Ugly Christmas Sweater/Christmas Vacation party.
We came dressed to impress!

 And finally, we get to Christmas morning.  Santa sure did deliver this year!

Opening all of gifts sure did make for some tired kiddos. It's hard work being spoiled!

Can't wait for next year, it's sure to be even bigger and better! (At least as far as Christmas lights are concerned)