Getting Big!

Here's my sweet little Charley riding in the car on the way to the puppy food store. I can't believe how much he's growing!

We love meat!

Saturday night after the wedding, both families went out to celebrate at Brasa Grill downtown.

Here's the description of what Brasa is from their website. It just makes the most sense to copy and paste instead of me trying to explain..

Brasa Grill Steakhouse is Cleveland's first Churrascaria (choo-rah-scah-REE-ah). A Churrascaria is a restaurant that serves meat, mostly grilled, and Rodizio is a method of serving the different cuts of meat that originated in Southern Brazil in the 1800's. The concept is to serve you a wide variety of different cuts of beef, pork, lamb, chicken, etc. in succession to each diner individually right at your table.

And what a delicious concept this is!
The Newlyweds!

Kendra and Kelsey enjoying their meat!

These guys just ran around serving meet off their swords. There was 16 different kinds of meat flying around. Some of my favorites were the leg of lamb, chicken thighs, and top sirloin.They were in a real hurry. They'd start by shaving of a piece, you had to grab it off with these little teeny pincher tongs, and then they'd finish cutting, and ran to the next person!

Rings!

They had the most wonderful salad bar! It had 40 items including shrimp, mussels, olive and cheese bar, and pastas.

Beautiful glass light sculpture that hung over the salad bar.

Long table of full happy people!

Congratulations Ray and Kathy!!

January Wedding Bells!

January 8, 2011- Ray and Kathy's Wedding!

Robb's dad Ray, married Kathy on a lovely snowy winter day! The afternoon wedding and reception were held at Pine Ridge Country Club. It is a very nice club, and the best part is the catering is from Dino's!

Kendra and Kelsey's shoes! They are shoe girls!

Robb was his dad's best man!

Garrick, Kendra, and Kelsey

Mr. and Mrs. Ray Adams!

3 Generations

Delicious food from Dino's!
Wedding cake! Looks like them!
Eating the wedding cake!

What do you think they're dreaming of! How sweet!

Chocolate covered strawberries, wedding cake, and a dessert bar top off the afternoon!

Us. See my necklace? It is Sapphires, Charley's birthstone. Special Christmas present from my Honey.

Dad and all his kids

The new family!

Helicoptor

For Christmas this year, I got Robb a new remote controlled helicopter. It is bigger them his other one, and can fly outside. He was able to bind it to the remote he had, and has spent many days trying to figure out how to fly it! It is more advanced than his small one, but Robb is a good pilot. He's looking forward to flying it outside, as we've come to realize he need more space to fly.

Robb's Family Christmas

Christmas evening we went to Robb's Aunt Katie's for a party! We played a fun guess who game where we all answered a few questions, and based on your answers, you guessed the person! It was pretty funny! The kids opened presents, and there was a lot of food! Robb's dad is one of twelve kids, so there are MANY people in the family. This photo is Robb's grandpa with his grand kids. Not all were able to make it, there were probably about 5-10 missing. The oldest is Kendra, Robb's sister who is 33. The youngest is Brian, who is turning 4 this year. (I think) Quite an age range!
Next is Robb's grandpa with his great grand kids! There are 6 already! What a lucky man!

Cutie

Yep, exactly as cute as I pictured she would be in her new hat!

Kayla Reese

Christmas Eve

The next Christmas celebration we went to was at my (Carisa's) parents for Christmas Eve dinner. First we talked to my sister on the computer and opened presents with her, which was pretty cool. She gave me a Malian necklace that you get for your wedding, and Robb got a handmade bottle opener. I gave my sister ingredients to make pizza with her millet flour, and shampoo that you don't need water for. My mom cooked her traditional butt roast (I think that's what she said :o), cauliflower and onion casserole, mashed potatoes, and red and green jello. To go with our dinner was coffee cake, which even though the bakers mistakenly put raisins in it (I HATE HATE HATE HATE raisins- only food on earth I can't stand (along with overcooked mushy carrots)), half of it didn't have too many, so it was still good. For dessert, we had a mint chocolate chip ice cream roll from Baskin Robins, and then moved in to the living room, by the fireplace and tree to open presents! We gave my dad a Salad Spinner, and my mom perfume. Robb got some tools, and I got clothes, pj's, and my favorite thing ever, a Soda Stream! A Soda Stream makes regular water into carbonated water, by just pushing a button to get the fizz in, and is just amazing. You can add flavors to make pop, or put a lemon in it for a refreshing drink. Having a Soda Stream makes drinking more water very easy! I love it. Fancy dinner!Ice cream cake!Pretty Christmas tree!My dad's train. It's really cool, and blows real steam out of the engine!Robb and some tools
My dad opening his Salad SpinnerMom is about to get her perfume!

Fuzzy Brothers

Rugby, Chester, and Charley are getting along very well! Charley understands that Rugby is the boss of everybody. Chester tolerates Charley biting and jumping on him all the time, and also plays with him and his toys. Charley, is very gentle with both of them. They are one fuzzy bunch of brothers! I'm so happy that Rugby and Chester love Charley as much as we do! We truly have the best boys!

Nap time on the bed!

Crown Roast

Our first Christmas party was having our neighbors over for dinner. We are so lucky to have the best neighbors, who've become such good friends! I don't know what we'd ever do without them! I wanted to cook them a nice Christmas dinner, and it ended up being delicious! I cooked a pork crown roast, for the first time ever, which came out wonderful. To go with it, I made green bean casserole and roasted chestnut stuffing. We even roasted fresh chestnuts, which came out fantastic. I wish I could post the smell of our house while all this was cooking. The whole meal was amazing, and as usual, I cooked enough for about 20 people, so we both had plenty of leftovers! I will remember next year to take pictures of the people instead of just the food! Yummy!

I love my handyman!

Saturday evening, we realized that we had no hot water. Great. Robb went downstairs to check the water tank and found that the pilot light wouldn't stay lit. We had heat in the house, so knew it wasn't a gas problem. He came upstairs, went to Google and found out that we had a bad thermal coupling. This is basically a little wire that is the safety shut off mechanism for the water heater. When the pilot light is lit, the wire feels the heat, and keeps the gas valve open. Should the pilot light go off, the wire is cold, sending a signal to shut off the gas. The coupling was bad, so the heater thought that it was cold, so it would shut off the gas, and that's why the pilot light wouldn't stay lit. Instead of calling a repair company that would've surely charged at least a few hundred to fix this on a Saturday, Robb took off the old wire, went to Ace, and quickly put a new one on! It was fixed in about 30 minutes. How wonderful to have such a handy guy around!