thanksgiving break and smiles from jude

i love that even on baby number six, he's still a doting father

 eleanor got a big haircut!!! i couldn't take her long hair anymore

i'm so happy with her little bob

she loves it, too

 hot cocoa for the whole fam...except jude

 a doting little mama with her baby 

  always on the counter

he's cleaning his dinosaurs

 days off of school mean staying in your pajamas

and making lots of messes

they were having a "farmer's market" 

which it turned out was just a ploy for noah to get his siblings' money

he wanted to buy a lego set and needed the money to cover tax :) 

they had lots of fun

and even cleaned it all up with lots of prodding

 at 7 weeks and two days jude FINALLY started smiling

noah got a picture for me

 the cute blondies in the family

 olive taking a selfie

 on thanksgiving we had a nice breakfast at home and went to the moody's for thanksgiving

jude looked pretty cute in his little gobbler onesie for the festivities

 little cutie in his Christmas jammies helping me decorate for Christmas

 michael took olive on a date so hazel was certain it was her turn for a date, too

i took her to the village and the date got cut short by fussy jude

so we went home and ate treats in my bed while watching flubber just her and mom and dad

she loved it

 jude slept for 8 hours straight and gave me lots of smiles!!!

 we were going to get a Christmas tree at our usual lot but it wasn't there

so we went to horseshoe bend and picked out a tree at a little tree farm

 it was so much fun!

 they had marshmallows and chestnuts to roast, too

 we had fun decorating it when we got home

 heading out the door to church

 my pretty view while nursing jude after church

 the whole fam after church

helping me clean

 jude was eight weeks old yesterday!

it feels like the fog has finally lifted a little bit

jude is sleeping better (napping during the day and longer stretches at night)

and smiling! it makes it all worth it