Ramsdell Family Blog

Merry Christmas to everyone! (OK a day late) So happy New Years!!  Jake was a great Christmas gift.  Santa brought Jenna a new camera. I have to say I am pretty jealous of it.  Now I want one too! I was lucky and did get a new Kindle!! Jenna wanted a real rabbit from Santa. I really glad he gave her a camera instead!  I got the kids this Headbandz game thinking it would lots of fun. I was horrible at it!! Scissors?? Really?? Jake got a Lego Mindstorms Robot from Santa  (he must have been really good this year) The robot is pretty cool and it keeps Jake busy!

Jenna has decided she wants to have a blog of her own. She is just getting the hang of it and having fun. Here is the link to her blog http://12dancingpugs.blogspot.com/

This year our school started a Lego Robotics Club. It was an exciting and stressful adventure. The kids hard work paid off this past Saturday at the First Lego League competition. It was an exhausting fun filled day. Jake's team was named Foodstruction (this years theme of the competition was food related problems). Foodstruction gave a presentation about the listeria outbreak associated with cantaloupe before they got to the robot competition. The kids had to program their robot to accomplish certain tasks on the playing field.  Foodstruction took 13th place out of 28 teams. Here are some pictures and I hope to put the video on here later. Getting their robot ready-competition lasted 2 1/2 minutes. They got 3 rounds to get their best score. Jake and Liam running their program to deliver the groceries onto the table. This was serious business. Lots of rules and regulations. They were also judged on robot design and team work. Jenna missed the whole lego competition to...

For Thanksgiving this year we headed to sunny California to have dinner with George's sister and Mom. It was great seeing all the family we have not seen in so long. We also got to stop and have a short visit my Aunt and Uncle and cousin. Most of Jake and Jenna's cousins on George's side of the family. George and his mom While in CA we went to Legoland, Disneyland and Huntington Beach. We had great weather. We went from 40 degree weather to 80 degrees.