The Ramsay Family

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Happy 7th Birthday George!

Here is Tiger our new cat (boots got hit by a car). George LOVES him!!!

George as a baby

George 3 and helping make waffles

Here he is with his bunny Snowflake in england (it didn't come with us)

My dear sweet George is 7 today and I can hardly believe it! He's quite the old soul and we love him. He adores cats and likes to be with the big kids. Dislikes ice skating we found out today but he's desperate to go skiing again. Very stubborn and very cuddly. He's a thinker and knows exactly what he wants.

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

girls trip to annecy, france

My goodness I need to buy a camera! I can never seem to find one that works or can figure out how it works! Any way here are a couple of pictures I stole from Tanya's website from our girls trip. It was lovely to get away to France...shop and eat our hearts out!

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

sisters

I have 4 sisters...3 older and 1 younger. (also have a brother who is the oldest but this post isn't about him). I love my sisters! Adore them really! They are beautiful, wise and they love to laugh (at me, with me, whenever).

I was driving home from the grocery store last week and I saw a mini van with a woman inside that looked like one of my sisters! It made my heart hurt because I knew it couldn't be her. But I wanted it to be her! I wanted to pull over, have a chat, and take her kids to play with mine while she shopped. Its hard living far apart from all my sisters. I always get sentimental like this when I know they are all getting together.

So girls here's the deal: when we are old and gray I want us all to try and live within 30 minutes of each other. And if you can't swing that then we have to get together at least 4 times a year!

Sunday, October 18, 2009

Rocks for Sale....

Colin drove down this winding road to the Binnon Valley in Wallis to look for Pyrite (Fool's Gold) with Monica and James. They LOVE rocks and had soooo much fun.

Mineraliengrube Lengenbach

Beautiful clean blue lake

Typical Wallis

Saturday, September 19, 2009

Happy Birthday Little Girl

13 years ago I rushed to the hospital with a groggy husband who didn't believe I was really going into labor (3 weeks early). I proved to be right as usual and we brought a beautiful little girl into the world. 13 years later we are still marvelling at her...

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

miracle

I had the craziest thing happen yesterday on my anniversary. A year and a half ago I lost the diamond from my wedding ring (while we were living in the UK). I looked everywhere! but eventually determined to get a bigger diamond :). We kept doing other things with our extra money so I've just been wearing a russian wedding band that I picked up at a car boot sale in England. Anyway late last night after I got home from parents night (colin is in Poland for work) I was cleaning out the filter from the dryer and I spotted what I thought was one of Monica's earrings. I picked it up and thought that it must have come out of her earring as it was just the stone. But the stone looked very familiar to me...so I scratched it against the glass door of the washer to see if it was real. It scratched back! I was very shocked! So I rushed up to my jewlery box to see if it would fit....it did! How did that diamond travel back to switzerland and let me find it a year and a half later in a different country?! Amazing!

In other happenings school started up 3 weeks ago....making my life CRAZY! We've finally started all of the other things up as well (after taking a 6 month break for the children to readjust to german). George is in swimming, James is taking kumon, piano, drums, trumpet (from his uncle and a friend) and scouts (in zurich there is an american troop), Monica is taking piano, guitar, YW's and kumon. Just makes life busier when you add these elements plus a kitty that insists on being played with!:)