Rice and Beans!

The "promised" couple, Khloe and Raleigh

We had a great chili night at the house with some friends. You all know Kirsten, Blair, and their daughter Khloe by now. Below are some pictures of their fun night together!

Christmas Weekend 2011!

Our annual family xmas photo in front of the big tree downtown.

This is my friend Emily. She bought Raleigh a Mr. Potato Head and he LOVES it.

Here he is sitting on the package that was just delivered from Nana and Pop.

Scot and Monica made it into town for the weekend and of course we had to do traditional hot pot. Scot makes the broth from scratch and you pick the meats, fish, tofu, vegetables that you want and boil that in the broth. You dip everything in a homemade sauce of vinegar, soy sauce, chinese bbq sauce, garlic and jalapeño peppers.

Raleigh was helping Monica pour her drink (really he wanted some crushed ice!) He has two more teeth coming in and he likes to chew on the ice.

This is Emily's husband, Rob.

Lamb, beef, shrimp, mackerel, clams, chinese mushrooms, oyster mushrooms, tofu, fish balls, neck bone, udon noodles, and other things I can't remember!

The glasses from Mr. Potato head....

Bead head at its finest!

Raleigh likes to help Daddy water the plants.

Christmas Eve....the assembly line has started and Santa's elves are hard at work! Elf number one is putting together Raleigh's bike and Elf number two is putting together Raleigh's tool bench.

Santa came!

Christmas morning!

What are all those things under the tree?!

He had a brief freak-out until he realized he was allowed to touch everything!

This is the luggage Nona bought Raleigh. It's so cool! It's an airplane that he can wear as a backpack or pull behind him.

Raleigh loved his pop-up tent!

This Elf was out for the count