Happy Birthday, Dan!

January is the new fall for Ramsay clan birthdays. Happy Birthday, Dan. We have celebrated for almost a week now, and finally the Dan Ramsay birthday season has come to an end. Here are some pictures of the celebration and other memorable moments through the year. And yes, Dan does dress like a pirate more often than you realize, and like an Irish rebel, and a mariachi player. Life for Dan is just one big costume party! Happy birthday!!!!

Happy Birthday, Maia!

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Happy birthday, sweet girl. We sure wish we could be there to celebrate with you. At least you are hopefully back in your own apartment! Mommy said you were going to have donuts for breakfast. Yum! Mommy also said she was giving you a new president for your birthday. Wow!, what a great Mommy! Remember, a lot of the stuff is for Obama, but the 21 gun salute is for you! Here are some pictures from your visit with us in December. Happy Birthday!!

Sisterhood of the Traveling Cousins

Nancy, Marsha, Deana, and I spent last weekend in St. Louis, eating, shopping, drinking, and going the see the Radio City Music Hall Christmas Show at the Fox. What a great time we had! We started at the Galleria, ate a huge lunch at the Cheese Cake Factory, shopped a lot!, and them proceeded to get lost in the mess that is the "Big Dig" on Hwy 64/40. Through the kindness of strangers, we managed to find our hotel at Union Staion. Harold Glenn met us for dinner Saturday night and drove us to dinner at Vito's. What a great name! He then drove us to the theater, where we walked in just as the first number was beginning. We had "golden circle" seats, and it was a wonderful show. I would like to take the grandkids next time. After, we caught a cab back to the hotel. Next morning we met David and Kathy and their daught Kelly and family for breakfast. More shopping at Bordes and Trader Joes (which is my new favorite store) and then home. We had to come home, there was no more room in the car for shopping! One of the next trips on the list for the cousins is a tour of the wine country around St. Genevieve.

Happy Thanksgiving, Pucketts!

Happy Thanksgiving to you in the frozen north! Hope your Thanksgiving dinner with a vegetarian host goes well! We are having a beautiful day in the 50s. Hope yours is as warm with memories and thoughts from us. We will all be together in one month!

Quote of the Week

I have heard these words out loud in my head for two weeks: "It's all a plot to make a $1.49 look good." John Neudecker, two or three years ago, when gas first started climbing from $.99 a gallon, where it had settled for years after the big bump in the 90s. I never thought we would ever see $1.49 again, but that was the going price in Columiba this morning. Thank you, NostraJohnus.

Keepin' The Faith

I took this picture off our local news last week. The story being covered was about demonstrations and rallies in opposition to Prop. 8 in California. I took the picture because the person holding the sign is possibly David Haproff. I had talked to my friend Jane the day before and she had told me that she and David, along with their daughter and future son-in-law, had attended this rally and that David had made such a sign. They are also part of a group from their local church that is working to have Prop 8 reversed. It makes me proud to know people like this, people who will stand up for an injustice, even when there are people telling them to behave themselves. Decisions on issues like this have to be thought through, prayed over, and then acted on, none of which is, or should be, easy. Of course, the Haproff family has a vested interest in all of this. Their son David has also made a decision after thought and prayer: he and his partner Scott leave for Swaziland, South Africa the end of the month. Scott is a registered nurse and the two of them have been accepted by the Catholic Medical Mission board to serve for three years. David will be working in administration in the hospital where Scott will be a nurse. They all make me proud to know them.

Happy Birthday, Guys!

Happy Birthday, Chris and Andy. The Ramsay Fall Birthday Bash marches on. Hope you both had a great day. Here are some good times from this year.