Reader Karen wrote to ask me if I would post the song list for Pottery Barn's Hip Holiday's Vol. 2 Christmas album.
Sure. Here you go, Karen. Happy "hip" holidays.

1. Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer - Billy May And His Orchestra


2. Winter Wonderland - Peggy Lee


3. I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm - Dean Martin


4. Let It Snow! - Ella Fitzgerald


5. Jingle All The Way - Lena Horne


6. Christmas Night In Harlem - Louis Armstrong & His All Stars


7. Dig That Crazy Santa Clause - Ralph Materie & His Orchestra


8. You're A Mean One Mr. Grinch - Deanna Kirk


9. I'll Be Home For Christmas - Flipped Fedoras


10. Warm December - Julie London


11. Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town - Lou Rawls


12. What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? - Nancy Wilson

I turned 41 today. I actually feel more like 28 which is weird because at 28 I felt worse than I do now. I took a screenshot on my iphone at 12:15pm on 12/15/2008. Hee hee. Happy Day! Tonight we are going to Avenue Grill for my annual birthday dinner. I think we have done this for at least 8 years in different groupings.

Good times.

We knew it wasn't going to be easy with Hadley's first "mobile" Christmas - tree, ornaments, decorations galore all over the house, so anytime you turn your back, she is walking under the tree pulling at the red balls on the fake garland i got from starbucks a few years ago. She was not happy about the pine needles poking her in the head - in this picture.

Hadley got to meet Santa over the holiday weekend. We were in Yankton for Thanksgiving and her birthday when, while at the mall, there he was!

I was a little skeptical to introduce Hadley to Santa given my first time meeting him when I was a tike. Apparently I cried and cried. Hadley did WONDERFULLY! She just smiled and laughed. It was amazing. Thank you Santa!

I was so excited to see the fluffy snow on the ground when we rolled into town last night after a 9.5 hour tumultuous drive from Yankton, SD back to Denver....

Then this morning, more new fresh powder was falling. So I excitingly grabbed Hadley, put on her long johns, snow pants, sweater, new puffy pink hoodie vest thingy, and her new snowflake hat compliments of the Padricks. It was snow photo day, yay!!!! errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
Not so fast Mister Christmas. Hadley was not into it AT ALL! I think she had icicles coming down from her eyes she was so upset.

It could have been that I plopped her in the snow too fast, or her long johns were itchy ( I remember those days), or that maybe she just doesn't like snow as much as her dad.

Sorry Hadders, but we will be doing another photo shoot very soon.

See Flickr for a few more highlights.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

We are celebrating high on the hog with my parents and my sister's family. The housesitters are reporting everything is going well at our house, and the dogs are one step closer to never wanting us to come back.

Also, and this should probably be mentioned first, today is Hadley's birthday! She is one! CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? We can't. I hopefully will post photos of a VERY chocalate-faced baby, soon.

I hope your plates are full, glasses never empty and that you have more pumpkin pie than you can possibly eat!

Hadley will turn one on Thanksgiving Day. One of her presents arrived early from Nana. A homemade "made with love" rollneck sweater. How adorable! She looks so good in red. I think she looks good in white, as well, just like her mother, but for some reason this red captures her fun spirit.