quick little snippet from the cozy, christmas-ey home of jeff & heidi and their gorgeous babies, peyton & beckham.

i ask you, what are holidays for if not for sugary confections?

…enjoying the cute-babies-doing-cute-things things.

after weeks like these, when friday eve finally arrives…
i literally melt like chocolate into a tub of warm milky suds. and candles. and lavender aromatherapy. and quiet. and the new us weekly. and… if i’m lucky, i don’t see the long brass handle of the bathroom door jiggle and turn to reveal a frazzled one-and-a-half year old who wants to join me and rip up my magazine and blow out my candles. okay, relaxation aside, that’s a pretty welcome sight too. but still…a snippet of solitude is pretty nice.
tonight, daddy gave her her own bath in the guest bath while i took mine in our bath. and even though my water pressure was slightly diminished, it was…heaven.

however, my bath was pleasantly interrupted when daddy yells across the house…
“mommy! come look! quick!”

quick towel drapage and wet footprints later, i walk into this…

…which was pretty funny, i have to admit.

we made the best of our busy week. our house is completely holiday bedecked and we are enjoying listening to christmas music and playing “oh twissmas twee”…which, in short, is circling the tree over and over, singing “oh twissmas twee, oh twissmas twee.” followed by her little “mo-mo” plea and another round. and so it goes.

i don’t really have the brain power to make an organized enjoying-the-small-things list, but if i did, it would go something like this:

i’m lovin’ how our tree sparkles through the front door at night and how she looks like quite the little hostess in this picture: “welcome to our humble holiday abode.”

…and i’m lovin’ how i basically have to lie prostrate on the cement in our driveway to maybe…just maybe, for the love of all things holy, get a decent picture of her these days.

…and i’m lovin’ how she gets all excited and breathes heavy and has this major crecendo of energy before she gets ready to throw a ball. and then it putts out of her hand and rolls like, two inches on the ground. all that for nothin.

…and i’m lovin’ her little raspberry noise she makes all the time now and how cute she looks doin’ it.

…and i’m lovin’ the buena vista social club and their rockin’ rendition of this song (and, now that i mention it, she actually looks a little like ibrahim ferrer in that above photo. it’s the hat. and maybe only brent, emma & molly even know who ibrahim ferrer is) and the anticipation of macy’s thanksgiving parade and turkey and gravy and sweet potatoes and family next week. and actually running the heat and our fireplace and sweaters and hats in this florida cold weather. and the fact that my father-in-law’s winning photograph was actually one of AOL’s top news stories on their homepage today.

…enjoying the thanksgiving-is-coming things. ~k

i’ve known niki for several years and am thrilled she’s found “the one.”

the major bonus: he comes with this amazing add-on who had me at “hello.”

in her little tinkerbell voice, she serenaded our photo shoot with sweet little songs.

she is pure love and i can’t wait to photograph her again.

check out little tinkerbell’s face:

congratulations, mark & niki. can’t wait for the big day.

…enjoying the happy-for-my-friends (and the cute three-year-olds-make-me-weak-in-the-knees) things. ~k