Ray Family Christmas Party

We enjoyed another wonderful celebration together! Darin and SueAnn's family chose our "project" this year. We were able to make donations to a program at Utah State University that helps kids with Autism to socialize. We also made donations to the Logan Food Pantry. Choosing a charity each year has quickly become what we really look forward to!
Our party was, of course, big and rowdy, and full of fun!

Above: Alexis and Kellan

Below:Ty, Rylee, and Emma

Above: Quinci and Presley

Below: Garrett
Our biggest surprise came with jingle bells on the front porch!!!
All of the children felt great excitment and anticipation from Santa's early visit.

Below: Ellen

Santa had some fun activities for the kids. He showed them some of his magic and reminded them of the true reason for Christmas, Jesus Christ.

Below: Logan and Emma helped Santa.

Each child got a turn on Santa's lap.
Above: Jocie

Below: Kelton

Charlie and Adam asked for Transformer Rescue Bots!

Above: Payton

Below: Ellen

Above: Libbie

Below: Alexis

Above: McKenna

Below: Quinci

Above: Hunter

Below: Kellan

Above: Josh, with a timid Garrett

Below: Logan

You're never too old!

Above: Kylie

Below: Ty

Above: Brennan

Below: Emma

Above: Rylee

Below: (Probably more resistant than Garrett) Kaden

First Snow (November 2011)

Another Spooky Halloween

We had another fun filled halloween, complete with parties and plenty of sweets!
We followed our tradition and spent Halloween night with Uncle Matt and Aunt Carolyn's family. We're down to two trick-or-treating partners. Libbie and Charlie were quick to the doors, Kelton took care of his little cousin Adi- they took their time.
Charlie had a new pleasure this Halloween, he go to celebrate at school (above)!
Of course, the annual Ray Family Halloween Party was a hit, as always! It was complete with a pinata, face painting, a cupcake walk, a bean bag toss, and other fun games. We look forward to it each year!





Hunter got talked into a beautiful butterfly, painted by Aunt Kelly. It didn't last long!
Kelton and Charlie (above), Josh and Garrett (below)

Adoreable neices come in all sizes: Libbie (above), Presley (below)

McKenna and Quinci (above), Kelly, Garrett, and Carolyn (below)

Even teenagers are pretty great! Hunter and Kylie (above), Emma- the lunch lady (below)

Ellie Girl was a princess, and Quinci was a bum (is that okay to say?)

What would Halloween be without some animals? Presley was an adoreable kitty, and Kellan made the cutest chicken!

Captain America and Peter Pan loved Paytons "dead look". It doesn't matter what you are when you're an older boy- just add some blood. You could be a zombie, a vampire, just plain dead- it all works!
Logan and McKenna found the neighbors cat, Tiger.
Grandma and Papa made very cute chipmunks!

Thanks to Aunt SueAnn, our party was the best yet! She suggested carnival style, and it turned out to be a lot of fun! Just ask Darcy (below).


Our friends Lucy and Violet came to our church Halloween Party with us. It turned out not to be a Halloween Party at all, rather a Harvest Celebration. Charlie, Adam, Lucy, and Violet were the only ones in costumes. They still had fun, but next time, I'll pay better attention!
Another Halloween tradition we have, is to do a corn maze with Darin, SueAnn, and the kids in Logan. We went, and once again, had a blast. Although, the kids never really seem to understand why we wonder around in a field of corn.