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Winter Vacation

We've had a great winter vacation so far. It started December 19th, our 3rd anniversary. Ryan thought it would be fun to get dressed up in our wedding gear and go out to dinner (we still fit into our outfits).
Since Ryan got to be home for a few days he helped me get creative with Thatcher and his eating. He found that videos of airplanes distract Thatcher enough to get down the carrots and sweet potatoes.
 On a not so fun day Thatcher and I both ended up in urgent care for three hours.
 After pumping ourselves full of medicine we felt better enough to head down to Albany to see the Malczyk's. Aren't the babies so cute?
 Thatcher looked great for church on Sunday, too bad it only lasted through sacrament meeting.
 
 One afternoon Ryan and I got to go on a little outing. Of course we had to stop at the Army/Navy store we saw.
 Christmas day was awesome! We all got spoiled.
And finally we came home to snow. Thatcher wasn't quite sure what to think about it.

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