let your heart be light

have yourself a merry little christmas.
love,
jodi, leo, kate, and ian

heaven might smell this good

125 pans of cinnamon rolls baked today. made from scratch. yum.

christmas cookies - 2009 edition

"a day without laughter is a day wasted." - charlie chaplin

my two lovely sisters.  completely rotten, they are.  while i...yes, i...the middle child, am a completely innocent and perfectly behaved little girl. 

those are JILL'S own handprints on her chest.  (lest you think that jim was helping us bake cookies today and became very frisky seeing jill in that auburn t-shirt and simply had to lay rightful claim to the ta-ta's that are already his.)

and this picture.  oh my gosh.  the quality of it is extraordinarily poor because i was absolutely laughing so hard i couldn't breathe.  it still makes me snort out loud.

kate's profession

i've already got it figured out...kate could be a writer (she LOVES to write!), a teacher (she's very philoprogenitive ~ do you know what that means?), or a photographer. she's got a great eye with the camera. no kidding. below is a picture she took today (at petland) of a turtle. i think it's terrific! (perhaps she taking after our wonderfully sweet neighbor erica!)

From gray's blog entry

snakes and snails and puppy dog tails . . .

that's what grayson is made of. 

grayson is my adopted nephew and adorably ornery son of my beautiful friend peggy.  today, the kids and i went to grayson's birthday party at petland.  hilarity ensued.  and yes, kate and ian left wanting a puppy...a $1500 yorkie, to be exact.  (uh, that ain't happenin'.)

oh, and i want to officially wish peg good luck in getting that green icing off grayson's face.  (some icing fell on the floor at petland and actually left a stain!)

now taking requests

i've had a couple of people tell me that they're enjoying my christmas music playlist, but that i need to add more songs.  so, okay.  you request it.  i'll see if i can find it.

(*please note, i REFUSE to add "grandma got run over by a reindeer" to the playlist.  and yes, it's been requested to me at work.  i simply can't desecrate the holiday with it!)

one of the coolest things ever

my compassionate and loving co-worker, danielle, sent me the link to this website.  how can you NOT do this?  go there.  now. 

(click on the orange arrows at the bottom to scroll through messages, photos, and links.)

santa baby

me on the left, juj on the right.  at my school's fundraiser this evening.  (our santa totally rocked!)