3rd Week of December

I worked the whole 3rd week of December (14th-18th).  Thankfully I still had someone covering my book for me, so I mostly followed up on voicemails and only had a few appointments.  It's been nice slowly easing back into work.  I've still been able to nurse and put Hudson down for naps.  I'm taking the last 2 weeks of the year off, like normal, to spend Christmas and New Year's w/ the family.  The boys finished up school this week also, which was great timing.  I'll be back "full time" after the New Year.  Thankfully we're still working 100% from home, so I'll be able to still see the boys more often.  Here are a few highlights from the week.

Cute Carter playing w/ Mad Mattr (using Halloween decorations).  

Hudson watching Carter and holding the playdoh knife.

Buddy the elf told the boys he loves them, and left a note for Nyles.  Nyles wasn't feeling well one night, so Buddy brought a thoughtful note.  We called Nyles' Pediatrician and they said to get him tested for Covid, which we did.  The next morning he was thankfully feeling better, so after taking the test he wanted to go back to school.  We got the results back the next morning and it was negative.

Elf hiding out.

Elf flying w/ a hang glider (Carter asked him to).

Cute Hudson and Carter.

Nyles and Carter both wanted to hold baby Hudson.

Carter at his preschool, having a snack.

Nyles had a party at school the last day before Christmas break.  This is his good friend Owen.

The Red and Blue classes all together.  They are always divided, one class w/ Mrs. Sullivan (taking the picture) and one w/ Senior Dunn for Spanish (the guy up front in Santa outfit).  

It's great they have smaller class sizes, especially this year.

Carter wanted to wear Nyles reindeer antlers.

And Steve had to try them on Hudson too.

We finally got a generator that can power most of our house.  We've been looking for one since we had the earthquake earlier this year and had power outages.  We've been adding to our emergency preparedness supplies this year and this was one thing Steve really wanted to save up for.  We saved up and when we saw it on sale at Costco we got it.

We got the new "Grinch" movie and watched it as a family.  Nyles wanted Hudson so sit with him.

On Saturday, Steve took Nyles and Carter ice fishing at Utah Lake (American Fork Marina).  Our neighbor Jacob Anderson followed Steve there.  They fished off the docks and did really well, even in only a few feet of water.  Not only did they catch a lot of fish, but it's only 25 minutes from our house which is awesome!  Win win!

Carter helped me complete a puzzle we borrowed from my mom.  

We did it!  Carter is sure getting good at puzzles.

The boys wanted to see Piper w/ the reindeer antlers on.  I don't think Piper liked it.  

Cute boys dressed up for church.  We watched our sacrament meeting via Zoom at home since we were headed out of town in a couple days and didn't want to be exposed accidently.

Family picture.  Hudson loves to blow bubbles.

Cute Hudson loves to suck on his hands.

Nyles saved up his money and decided to buy a huge stuffed snake on Amazon.  It's over 9 feet long!

The boys doing "Once there was a Snowman" at the end of our "Come Follow Me" lesson.  

The snowman definitely melted :)

Hudson is sure growing.  He's such a sweetheart and brings our family so much joy!

Hudson had his 4 month Dr appointment.  He weighed16lbs 12oz (85 percentile), and was 17.1 inches long (87 percentile).  He's officially doubled his weight (started out at 8lbs 3oz).  He received another round of shots, so as expected, that night and the next day he had a slight fever.  Thankfully he was feeling better the next night and slept well.

This was our Christmas card we mailed out.  Pauline designed it.

Great reminder.