Katie's Birthday

Can't believe she's three already! She wanted "Dora" cupcakes for her birthday cake. After Wendy spent a couple hours making them and after singing Happy Birthday and blowing out candles - Katie took the chocolate hair off Dora, licked all the frosting off the cupcake and then asked for another... A bowl of frosting would have been a lot easier! Happy Birthday princess!

Halloween at the Ramsay House...

The boys designed and carved their own pumpkins and Regan designed Katie's per her instructions, it was to be a "very nice, happy pumpkin face" and Grandpa helped carve it. We all went out trick or treating, it was a relatively warm October night and everyone came home with full bags!

GO TORNADOS!

Brandon finished his first season of tackle football - and it was no surprise he LOVED it. His team not only made it to the playoffs but to the championship game - for the first time in Tornados history - and they WON! It was a great season. He's already asking to play the spring season and will (of course) tryout for 7th grade football in the fall.

It's official - Jarrett is NINE!

He celebrated his 9th birthday with friends, games, food, family, and of course presents! Check out the yummy "cake" - it was easy to build...

Pikes Peak Colorado

Elevation 14,110 ft.

12.6 miles from trailhead to top...

September 19th: Wendy, Brandon, and Jarrett hiked Pikes Peak! Brandon and Jarrett did great. They were convinced we would NEVER make it - that it was IMPOSSIBLE. But they did it and actually say they'll do it again someday! It was a beautiful day.

Wendy ran the American Discovery Trail half marathon on Labor Day 2009.

Her time was 1 hr 45 min (that's 8 min miles)!

She took first place in her age division - yeah!

More stats:
9th of 257 women
64th of 471 runners.

Wendy's eager for the next race...

Back to school! Yep, they started already. Don't they look excited? (Katie will miss them)

After returning from Utah, we went camping. It rained some, but the weather was perfect afterward. We all agreed two nights would be better, it's alot of work getting there, setting up, eating, playing, fishing, and then cleaning it all up! Kids all had fun and look forward to the next camping trip.

Check out our Utah Vacation slideshow on the left - great pictures, lots of fun!

Baseball season ended in June, here are pictures of our stars with their medals and trophies. It was Jarrett's 4th year and Trey's 1st, they both had amazing seasons!

Brandon earned his Arrow of Light award, the highest award in Cub Scouting and the only award to carry over to Boy Scouts. We're so proud of his hard work. He is now 11 and officially a Boy Scout, the crossover ceremony was June 23rd. He is very excited about Boy Scouts.

We hiked Castle Rock, CO. We have driven by it many times and finally decided we needed to experience the adventure next to the highway! The kids had fun exploring.

Then on Memorial Day, Wendy ran the Bolder Boulder. She ran the 10K race in 49 min 58 sec! Her overall place was 4,768 of 53,000; for women 1,003 of 26,182! Check out pics:

http://www.brightroom.com/estf.asp?EVENTID=48138&PWD=&BIB=D213 (She's wearing yellow, #D213).

Trey's 6th Birthday. We had the usual celebration.
Cake and Icecream...

At a district scouting event: The children practiced their white water rafting skills. We'll have to wait a few years to go as a family!

While at this event the boys all took a BB Gun Shooting class. Also, Brandon was invited to race his pinewood derby car in the district races. There were 31 Webelos cars, his placed 8th!

Easter Eve...
Dyeing Easter eggs - a fun and messy adventure! This was Katie's first year. She quickly learned from her experienced brothers how to do this. Each of her eggs was dipped in every color at least once...





Easter Day...
Katie is wearing her Easter dress and her baby doll has a matching dress, both made by Wendy. Katie had fun hunting for eggs - as did her brothers who easily found more than she did!

We hope you all had a happy Easter.

From: Jarrett, Brandon, Katie, and Trey

March 20, 2009: We had a great visit with Wendy's family during Spring Break. Here we are in the nearby Colorado mountains. There are four generations of women in this picture (Katie, Wendy, Kathy, Jean).

Pinewood Derby

Brandon and Jarrett raced against each other this year. This was Brandon's third and final year and Jarrett's first year. Neither were the top three winners, but had fun just the same. Check out the cool cars they designed - Regan did a lot of helping to achieve the final products! They did a fantastic job and they were very happy with their cars.

Brandon got the award for the "Coolest Name" (Ramster)

Jarrett got the award for the "Coolest Paint Job"

Beautiful Colorado Weather!

It was January 17th and we went hiking at a nearby park. The boys had a great time exploring. Katie collected sticks and called out to them, "Boys!" as we walked along the trail.