four days until Christmas!

december is flying by

the kids are on their two week break from school

but i figured i should catch up on december before it's Christmas

henry finally likes TV

for a long time he wasn't interested but now he likes it a little

especially "big" clifford

it's helpful when i'm sitting nursing jude to keep an eye on him

 noah's school class has a goal to read 40 books this year

and he is well on his way

he has read all the harry potter books and now he's reading some shorter ones

 eleanor's pre-school Christmas program was the cutest ever!

 eleanor and her teacher miss mandy

 jude is just the sweetest

 eleanor helped me shovel the whole driveway

 i got summoned for jury duty in a couple weeks

i won't be able to serve because i'm nursing jude and not ready to leave him for that long

but i'll still have to go in and tell them

 michael finally got a raise! so grateful for his hard work and that his company is finally doing better

 noah went with the k-kids to sing at the retirement center

 we always love going to the stake nativity

me and eleanor were mary, michael was joseph, henry and jude were Jesus, hazel and olive were angels and noah was a wise man 

it was worth a try, right?

 jude's favorite spot at church-the mother's room

 dancing on the counter to Christmas music

 homemade baked french fries

delicious! thanks michael

 she was stuck

 olive's tiny adorable snowman

 snowy soccer with henry

 eleanor was helping me clean the playroom and i looked over to see she was cleaning

the duplos like this

 henry was being a stinker pounding on the piano but he looked so sweet resting

 taking "naps" on the stairs

 i'd forgotten to give jude tummy time for a while because he didn't like it last time i tried

but i tried again when he was 10 weeks and he rolled over!

 proud baby

 i don't get to stay and watch hazel dance very often these days so i was happy to get to on video day

 jude fell asleep during dinner

 michael helped the kids build a snowman

 michael is such an engineer

he totally hacked this pillow/shirt (to smell like him) situation to be able to put jude down

 henry is pretty awesome at telling me when he needs to poop

occasionally he uses it as a ploy to avoid naptime

 i take lots of pictures of jude

he's just too cute

michael and i went to an ugly sweater party our friends put on (jude came too)

it was a lot of fun!!

 i dressed him up for our ward Christmas party

he was so cute

 super late for church after 4 of our kids were up in the night for various reasons

poor noah has had the worst cold

we spent sacrament in the primary room listening

 fun dad out playing in the snow with them

 we are very supportive of jude's tummy time :) 

 bedtime wrestling with dad

 so cute and clean after a bath

 eleanor put henry's snowsuit on all by herself

it was way too small but i was proud of her independence 

 cutest little sleeper

 we all took michael out to lunch

it helps break up our days and the kids love it

 quietly playing in the living room

 me and my sweet little cuddle muffin early this morning