Hunting Season!

We have been blessed this year with hunting. Dylan got his buck opening day! He has had successful duck hunts as well, and it's second season spike elk right now. Tom got his spike yesterday (Friday) and Kyle and Sean got here last night and are out with Dylan right now! They weren't successful on their morning hunt but had a good time, came home for a quick nap, and went back out! Hendrix and I spent some time hunting too, but mostly we just watched from the warm truck :)

Dylan's buck

Tom's buck

Our freezer is full again!

Dad teaching Hendo about duck hunting and shot guns

Tom's Elk

Update: The boys didn't get their elk unfortunately! But they did go out duck hunting Monday morning and had a great time. The temperature is in the negatives but that hasn't stopped them!

The boys left early in the morning to hunt elk, came home for lunch and a quick nap,
and headed out again to hunt at dusk. The mighty hunters crashed hard!

Kyle and Hendrix had so much fun together. They were being so sweet and
I had to get a picture! My bright flash took them off guard.

Hendrix was ready to go hunting too!

The Sleeping House

Hendo absolutely loves his bouncer. He will bounce and bounce
until he passes out. It is so adorable.

Found these little gems from a bit ago.

Reading

Hendrix LOVES to read. We read books almost every night and a lot of times first thing in the morning too. He usually picks a board book over a toy (even his favorite, Cannon!) and it warms my heart.

Falling asleep with his favorite things

Family Pictures

This year Carly and I decided to do a Christmas Card Mini Session photoshoot event. We didn't have a lot of time to pull it together but I was really happy with the outcome for the time we had! We had 3 families sign up. They had a 30 minute photo shoot with Carly in the studio and I created some Christmas Card templates and they got to choose their favorite and we gave them the digital files for the card and 3 pictures. It was so much fun! We are already starting to plan next year's shoot, and it's going to be bigger and better!

We set up the backdrop and lights in the studio and of course we are always the willing guinea pigs, so we got a family photo shoot while Carly played with the lights. We are sure spoiled with her as a sister!

She got so many good pictures, here are (more than) a few of my favorites!

I realized after that our outfits were a little too matchy-matchy. That's what I get for dressing myself. Also, we saw the "man vs food" guy on the travel channel wearing the exact same shirt I'm wearing. To be fair, it totally is a guy's shirt.....

I don't know if it's because of teething or what...but Hendrix
loves to stick his tongue out..... a lot. It's so silly!

Hendrix 6.5 Months

This post somehow got lost....so here it is again!

Hendrix Thomas Isaacson

17.9lbs • 27 inches

Hendrix you are such a happy baby! We know we are totally spoiled with how good you are. You've started to sleep through the night at this time (and when I'm blogging this 3 weeks later you sleep through the night every night!) and have started to eat solids. You roll everywhere and can pivot, but haven't gotten up on your hands and knees yet. That doesn't stop you from following Atticus around the house though! You bring so much joy and happiness into our lives and we are so incredibly grateful that you are happy, healthy, and strong. We love you!