Jared's Birthday

Jared had his 29th birthday the day after Thanksgiving while we were in Pima! It was a fun day... :)

Colette was having fun sharing in her Daddy's birthday cake... :)

Our Thanksgiving

A few pictures from our Thanksgiving for this year...

Arizona Trip

Another Trip!! So many more fun memories with our awesome families!! It is nice to be home again, though...

All six of the cousins on the Ray side... The family just keeps on growing! :)

We did family pictures in Pima while we were there for Thanksgiving. Again, just can't believe how much the family just grows and grows every year...

Just had to post this one for fun -- the true feelings regarding family pictures! :)

Some more of my favorites... The cutest little sisters and cutest boys ever!! :)

Our Halloween

(I know this is quite after the fact, but we've been out of town...) So here was our Halloween! :)

We had a very fun Halloween this year! The kids have been so excited, and they had a blast! Brielle was a "Duchess going to a

ball" -- as she was sure to inform and correct anyone who called her a princess by mistake! :) Samuel was a pirate (he finally actually figured out how to say that the right way, instead of calling himself a "pirate ship")! :) And Colette was the cutest little 50's girls there ever was! :) She had so much fun this year -- she really got into all of the fun, and loved being apart of it! We got to do Halloween night at Athena's house this year since we were in Mesa that night, and it was so much fun to get to do Halloween with family for once -- the kids' first time getting to have that experience!

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Samuel & Brielle looked so cool standing next to eachother because it was like

"Pirates of the Caribbean" with Brielle in that dress! And the two girls were cute together too because they were both girls going to dances -- Brielle to a ball, and Colette to a sock-hop! :)

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Here they are Trick-or-treating; and Handing out candy (even if it was sometimes to eachother!) :)

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Here's some cute little shots of each of the kids -- Brielle posed so cute for me on the stairs in her "ballgown"! Samuel's hair was bothering him, so we tied it up on top of his head... :) And Colette was so cute with the trick-or-treating, following the other two around everywhere, and refusing to let anyone else carry her bucket or even her. She caught on quickly to what was going on, and did not want to miss a thing!

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The favorite part at the end -- dumping out all the candy, and seeing what you got!! Even Colette was getting excited about this part... :) Definitely a fun Halloween this year!

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Here's a little video of the kids on Halloween -- in their costumes and trick-or-treating and stuff. You have to check out Samuel's little "side" head-banging dance at the end of the video while they're handing out candy!! Gets us laughing every time...