R&BKing

Here's some of our happenings up in the North Country. And if you thought we were patriotic before, take a look now. We acquired a giant flag (it goes from our living room to kitchen, covering our entire couch).    

Do you like all these haircuts? I especially like Thatcher's! We've been wanting to buzz off some of that baby fine hair for awhile and tonight had a meaningful reason. One of our previous primary kids was diagnosed with leukemia. The family had pcs'd (permanent change of station) to California but have not been forgotten. The little boy with leukemia is responding to treatment and doing well under the circumstances. These other primary boys (and we threw in Thatcher) decided to shave their heads in support of the primary child. It was a small sacrifice (cold heads in this negative weather) but a wonderful one.

2012 is over and so is vacation. Here's what has been happening in our home since the new year began. Thatcher is great at pulling himself up but sometimes gets stuck in awkward positions. Ryan is back to work. He's been taking a radio communications class this week and next week he starts a mortar class/training for a month. On Sunday he was called to be the teacher's quorum advisor and on Wednesday attended mutual. He may be old enough to be a leader in young men's but sometimes I wonder how grown up he really is when he carries his Captain America lunch box to work! And I decided to start the new year with some new hair color. I've tried many colors before but never red so I ventured out and am loving it so far.

 This is how Ryan and Thatcher relax during vacation, they watch World War II documentaries.  Happy Sunday! Thatcher sporting his new vest. Isn't he so cute?

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 q...