Happy Halloween!!!

Before heading off to a big night of Trick or Treating we stopped over at Grandma Kathy-bell's so she could meet our... "Scary Monster guy?", "Hannah Montana", and "Mickey Mouse"!!!
...Or should I say a drunken Mickey Mouse! lol...he was very wobbly...

"I'm ready to go Trick or Treating, Mama!"

Here's our group that we went with...a bunch of Ryan and Haley's cousins!

Ok, all ready! Let's go get CANDY!!!

Wait, one more picture...Ryan with Devin, better known as "the Scream guy"...

Here's Hannah Montana with Batman! Whoa, watch out!

Half way thew, Colin found a sucker!

At the end of the night, I think Mickey stayed up to late and had a few too many suckers! lol

Of course one of the best parts of Halloween is to come home dump all your candy and sort it all out... Mommy's favorite...shhh :)

Pumpkin Carving!

We had to squeeze in our pumpkin carving night between Lucas's Rail Road schedule, and the kids sports schedule...we almost didn't get them done before Halloween, but all in all they turned out so cute!Daddy and Ryan figuring out the plan for his pumpkin...
Here's Ryan's drawing for his pumpkin... :)

Haley and I scooping our seeds out!!!...as Haley would say "Ewwww, this is GRooossss!"

Ryan carving away...

Haley carving and being very careful to stay in the lines...

I carved Colin's pumpkin! :)

All ready for bed, but a quick picture with their pumpkins!

Now, we are ready for Halloween!

The Pumpkin Patch!!

I know, I know! It's been such a long time since I last posted anything! We have been so busy with sports, and the holiday's approaching, I'm just getting around to posting all our latest pictures, and really I'm only posting a fraction of them, since I have been taking so many lately, I don't want to "over post" everybody with pictures! Even though I would love to have them ALL on here....I will post some of Ryan and Haley's football and cheer pic's, since that really took over our lives for a short while! :) But for now, here's our "Beginning of Fall" pictures. It's our annual tradition to go down to Aqua Linda Farms in Amado, they put on an awesome Fall Festival with a hay maze, petting zoo, yummy organic food, and a huge pumpkin patch! I will say this year we were a little disappointed that the pumpkin patch was FILLED with stickers, but oh well, it's part of picking your own pumpkin in Arizona, right!?

Haley and I as a scarecrow and a pumpkin stack!

Colin doing a good job following Daddy in the hay maze!

Ryan and Haley were pro's at the maze, they didn't get stumped once! :)

The goats in the petting zoo were so friendly...

...they even let Colin pet them, and pull their tails!!!

My twins! ;)

It was so sunny they wouldn't look at me to take the picture, so Haley had to put sunglasses on, she said! :)

Here's what we picked!

HAPPY Fall to everybody!!! Love you!

Happy 1st Birthday Colin!

Colin's 1st Birthday Party! My baby is one! Wow, where did the days go??

We ended up doing it at the picnic grounds on the Ranch, since we had so many cousins coming, we thought it would be so much more fun for them to run around out in the open. It was such a perfect day and we all had so much fun!

The birthday boy!

Colin, his friend Isaac, and cousin Hannah looking so cute, sitt'n on a cooler together.

I made him his own special "smash cake" to smash into! :)

Singing Happy Birthday to him, Lucas had to hold his hands back so he wouldn't grab the flame...he had no idea what was going on and why everybody was singing... He was very serious taking it all in!

"Ok, now what Mama"? He didn't quite know what to do with that thing, he just kinda looked at it! :)
He had a big audience watching him, all his "big" cousins surrounding his high chair, waiting to see what he would do! He was taking one little taste at a time...

Then, I announced that the big cake was been served, and off all the kids ran! :) And when I looked back at him, he had grabbed the number one candle and starting eating THAT! haa!

After he tasted the frosting, he started getting in there a little more...

then... he face planted himself right into it! So FUNNY!

I LOVE this picture of him! Look at that face, so sweet. He was just enjoying his cake so much and feeling so tired at the same time. I think he was in a cake coma!

Pinata TIME! What a great hit this was. My friend Sylvia made this by hand for her son's first birthday, and ended up not getting to use it so she gave it to us for Colin's party. It was so fun having a home made pinata!!

We were all shocked when the pinata broke, nobody was expecting it to break so soon...it was such a fun surprise!! All the kids went crazy for all the goodies inside and even Colin got down and was seeing what he could find!

"I found a sucker mama!"

After all the kids gathered up the candy a few of the little cousins sat down next to each other with their suckers...it was a precious moment!

From left to right:

Hannah (Wylie's daughter), Brenna (Rachel's daughter), Colin, & Alli (Stephanie's daughter)

All the little cousins together...

Aren't they so cute!?!?! We will cherish these pictures for years to come!

So sweet!

Here's Brenna, putting her arm around Colin, it's like they were having a little conversation. How cute is THAT!

These pictures are priceless! Look at them with their suckers and her little arm around him, so darn cute!...it looks like she's giving him life advice... ha, ha..

Present time! Oh what fun!
Colin got so many nice gifts! :)

What a lucky boy!

He was very patient and even read the cards with Mommy.

Oh Boy, a sit and ride toy! Fun!

All packed up and ready to go home to play with all my new fun toys! What a fun day, thanks to all our great friends and family. Thank you everyone for making Colin's first birthday so special!! Love you all!