Ramsdell Family Blog

We had a great white Christmas. Jenna and Jake were spoiled by everyone. Santa brought Jenna a keyboard and a Tini Puppini that she wanted so bad. Santa brought Jake marble Mania. He absolutely loved it and watched the marbles for hours. Grandma and Grandpa spoiled them and gave them a Wii. Their first video game system. We felt spoiled just by having family here for Christmas. We had a great time watching our family in Texas open their presents on the web cam. George's mom also spoiled them giving them clothes and toys. We had a great Christmas! Even Grandma and Grandpa managed to have some fun! Though they kept complaining about Washington, and talked about wanting to be back in Texas.

This year Christmas was quite different. A week before Christmas it started snowing and snowing and snowing! We had 3 days of school canceled along with 2 late starts.When we thought we couldn't possibly get more snow we did. We had a little over 2 feet of snow and it's still snowing here-a record for our area. With all of the snow that was forecast we advised my parents that if they planned on spending Christmas with us they better come-so on the Saturday before Christmas they came to stay with us along with George's mom. We had a lot of together time-mom and me did 3 puzzles in just a few days. George had to work from home since the roads here are not safe to drive on because they don't treat all of the roads and most people don't have chains or snow tires. We all felt a little trapped but did manage to get out a couple of times-luckily Dad has a big truck and George a 4 runner. Our street is completely white with no sign of asphalt anywhere. Georg...

Here is our latest Christmas greetings! And another one!

Today we had a snow day and school was cancelled. So we spent the day making chocolate dipped pretzels and toffee with Jake and Jenna's friend Jennifer. Then they decided to make a snowman at the bottom of the hill and roll the snow balls up to the top. It's supposed to snow more today so we may not have school again tomorrow. Snow is fun!!!

We had our first snow last night Saturday December 13th!!!

We did quite a lot this weekend. We got our tree and decorated it. The next day we visited with Santa and then Jenna and I went to a craft party. During the party I get a call from George that he needs to go to the Doctor for stitches-he stepped on a rake and got hit in the face. He ended up with 3 stitches. Then we went to the Great Wolf Lodge and had a great time in the waterpark and playing Magic Quest. Jake saved us by slaying the dragon. Overall it was a pretty busy weekend.