just kidding!!! sheesh. settle down. we're not those parents.
but he IS good. and it was fun to watch him during his first year of baseball. his team got 4th in the league.
here are some pics.
June 22, 2008
March 26, 2008
Toothless Mug
I'm trying to enjoy the last time one of my kids will look like this.
This thing came out while wrestling. All boy.
March 19, 2008
History Has Been Made!
my beautiful wife has prided herself for 33 long years on not ever playing a single video game.
that's right. she's never played a video game in her life!
but, oh praise be to God, that ended last night. sing with me..."Praise God from whom all blessings flow...Praise Him all people here below...Praise Him above Ye heavenly hosts..."
she could not resist the magical pull of XBox 360's Rock Band. the temptation was too great for her, and thus, she fell from her lofty, high and mighty place from which she once judged other video gamers.
oh happy day.
November 01, 2006
Coming Out
ok, so on a blog of a person who shall remain nameless (since i am choosing not to stoop to the level to which he has stooped...TROY) the two pics above appeared in reference to the nastiest thing this person (who shall continue to remain nameless...TROY) has ever seen on a job site.
so because this trajedy involves a "dead" animal, i thought i would address these pictures head on, just to cut off any rumors of the Ramey family and inappropriate treatment of animals.
ok people.
everyone needs to just settle their pretty litttle selves down.
yes, it was my bathroom. yes, it was my pet. well...i didn't know i had a pet, but it was mine nonetheless. there he sat. for how many years, i don't really know. by the looks of it (you know, the way his eyes sink into the back of his head...literally), it could have been 10 days, 10 months or 10 years. however long, i just feel proud to have owned such a big rat. and to know that every morning while taking a shower, this big guy was calling out for help right under my feet.
i feel sorry for him.
but i'm pretty sure i know why he died.
you see, it was most likely the neighbor's cats which were accidentally on purpose locked under my house that chased our crunchy friend until he somehow got trapped under the bathtub.
so i guess all of this brings up another question. where are the cats?
(i think i have just outlined the script for the next great b-rate holloween movie. cat and rat get trapped. cat hates rat. rat hates cat. cat chases rat. rat dies. the spirit of the rat lives on under the house where cat still resides. rat haunts cat until cat goes crazy. cat gets found and taken to cat crazy house. rat haunts bathroom where he died for the rest of his rat spirit life.) I'll quit.
September 14, 2006
Do We Have To???
Come back, that is.
Mer and I agree that our family vacations just keep on getting better. That's a good trend, and I hope it only continues. Big Sky, Montana is one of the most beautiful places that I have ever been to...and I think that's saying something because I have been to most of the 50 states. We were on the Gallatin River - the same river that was filmed in the movie "A River Runs Through It." It was pretty cool to find ourselves fly fishing on the same river, and even more, to have the boys catch their first fishes with a fly pole!
It was so restful, and that's exactly what we needed. It was good to hang with Mer's brothers, Brian and Tim, her sister in law, Lauren, and Brian and Lauren's kids, Avery and Owen. Lauren's parents, Ian and Esther, so graciously let us stay in their condo, and at 7,000 feet the views were absolutely breathtaking! The dinners were gourmet (Lauren is an amazing cook!), the wine was perfect, the hikes were beautiful, the golf was...well...hilarious and frustrating but still fun, and on and on. We are thankful we had a chance to get away. We needed it...especially right before the fall semester starts in all its craziness. Two goals I had - to reconnect with my God and reconnect with my family. Both happened. And a bonus was reconnecting with my golf. :)
Even though there's no way I could post all 360 pictures of the trip, I thought I'd post a few highlights. So here goes.
MARINERS VS YANKEES @ SAFECO
We took off on Thursday afternoon and surprised the boys by taking them to their first MLB game - Mariners vs Yankees. They loved it! It was a great night - especially when ARod got up to try to bail out the Yankees at the bottom of the 9th. The whole place started booing him (seeing as how he decided to ditch the Mariners a few years back for a spot with the Yankees), and the boys chimed in as well. ARod so wanted to get that hit and knock it out of the park, but instead he struck out. That pic above is his third strike. The place went wild as the Mariners won - not a regular occurence. It was a great moment, and a great start for our vacation!
THE DRIVE, THE PLACE & HIKE #1
Woke up Friday morning and began the drive to Montainya (the "actual" pronunciation). Drove from Seattle to Spokane and stayed with my sister-in-law's parents, the Clarks. They were great! We went on a little hike up their road and were chased by some kind of animal - and we weren't even in Montana yet! We were in the city for crying out loud! It was kind of creepy. Woke up early Saturday morning, drove to Cour'delane where we ate breakfast, and started the long trek to Big Sky. When we finally arrived in Big Sky it took us a little bit to unwind, but we finally did. It was so nice to just chill out and do nothing if we wanted to. Hikes, golf, fly fishing, more hikes, reading, good wine and just hanging with family was the norm.
BABY OWEN, HUNGRY MOOSE, VIEW FROM THE DECK, HIKES, COWS AND FIRST FISH
Mer couldn't get enough of our little nephew, Owen. You can't hold him and NOT smile! He is ridiculously cute. I think it was like the 3rd major hike we went on when we hiked up to a place called Rat Lake and uncle Brian attempted to teach the boys how to fly fish. While we were on the bank of the lake these crazy loud cows (I'm talking the loudest cows I've ever heard) came down the hill and toward us. I began to get the sense that we were right in the way of their daily walk around the lake. They came within about 10 yards from us and just looked at us and moo'd as if to say, "dude, what's up? move already." They even started to get a little crazy with each other - they started butting heads. I've never seen cows do that. We held the fort as long as we could, and then they started threatening a stampede, so we left. they cussed us out as we hiked back up the trail. What kind of cow cusses someone out to their back?! I lost respect for cows. They had no respect. So we drove down the road and got out at a bridge where Brian continued showing the boys how to fly fish. It was there where all three of them caught their first fish.
Such a beautiful place to go. We loved it. It was good to rest.
So I guess we have to come back to the craziness of it all. It was good while it lasted.
Hopefully we bring a little bit of the peace and stillness of Montainya back with us.
August 22, 2006
Big Sky...3 days and counting...
so in three days (thursday morning) we will be taking off as a family for a much needed vacation to Big Sky, Montana with Brian and Lauren Pringle (Mer's brother and sister in law) and Tim (mer's youngest brother).
here's a little glimpse of the big sky...
August 18, 2006
Ramey Time
there are certain times when i take a step back and look in disbelief at the amazing gift God has given me in my family.
this was one of them.
July 20, 2006
Truck For Sale
if you or someone you know might want to buy a truck, let me know. It's a 1998 Ford Ranger XLT 4WD Stepside Splash Supercab 2Dr in excellent condition. It has AC, premium off-road wheels, fog lights, 5 speed automatic transmission, cd player, bed liner and a V-6 3.0 liter engine that has travelled 90,000 miles. I'm the second owner and my uncle, who was the first, was an excellent, detail oriented owner. I have all the papers as well. I'm selling it for around $8750.00.
Here are some pics. Email me or post a comment for more info.
July 06, 2006
Jannekah Begins Her Journey
Janne (Yaw * Knee), my beautiful niece (my sister's daughter) ...
...is getting ready to embark on an incredible journey that will forever change her life. Janne has spent quite a few years in Africa as a missionary and during her time there God rocked her with a relationship with Martin, a Kenyan who is a travelling evangelist. He was trying to get a visa to come to the states so that they could get married, but it just didn't work out. So now Janne and her dad, Tom, are getting on a plane on Monday and will be flying to Kenya, Africa just in time to get married! Congratulations, Jann! We'll miss you!
I made a colage for her according to some of the pics she sent me of her time in Africa ministering to the beautiful people there.
