Year In Review

Although 2012 was a bit of a trial health-wise for us (mainly poor Jeff), we still had a great year. Here is our year in review:

Happy 2013!!

We spent New Year's Eve this year, the same way we have the last several years; with our kids. :0) Jeff found these cute little bottles of sparkling grape juice for the kids:

They were pretty excited about them.

Here they are, anxiously awaiting midnight:

And then drinking their juice and popping their poppers when the ball dropped:

Happy 2013!!



Jeff's Knee Surgery

Last Thursday, Jeff had his much needed knee surgery. When we first got his appointment, we were excited, because it was for early in the morning. That would have been nice, because then he would have gotten it out of the way & on to recovery. But, the Monday before, they called & said they had moved it to 1:00. :0( And even then, he didn't actually get into surgery until after 2:30! He did GREAT though!! They thought he might have had a tiny tear on his meniscus, but he didn't. He only has minimal arthritis which was also good news. They smoothed out some scar tissue, and took out a big chunk of bone that was causing most of the pain. He is already doing so much better! His knee is sore, obviously, but he can already tell a difference where it used to hurt the most. He has gone to Physical Therapy twice and will be heading back to work 1/2 days tomorrow for the rest of the week. Thank you all who have kept Jeff in your prayers!!  

Christmas Day

Christmas morning, started out with a run for the kids' pile of presents from Santa:

Santa was very good to them this year. ;0)

They all sat and played with those presents for awhile.....

until they couldn't take it any longer, and wanted to open the presents from each other & from Jeff & I.

The aftermath:

After a relaxing morning together, we headed over to my parents' house for our Ramsey Christmas!

Here is 3 generations of girls! My oldest sister, Kathleen, her 3 girls; Rachel, Karen, & Lindsey, and Rachel's twin girls; Brigid & Ceridwen:

Then we let the two boys, Kyle & Ares (Rachel's husband & son) in the picture too. ;0)

My brother, Joe & his little girl Madison:

My mom & dad, right before they opened the letter telling them we paid for a trip to Rome, Italy for them!! =0 

The chaos of the little kids opening presents:

Then it was time for the adults' white elephant gift exchange! Here are just some of the "treasures" that people got:

Then, my mom wanted pictures of just the boys & just the girls:

Then we made mom take a picture with us. :0)

It was a wonderful way to spend the day!