Your Personal Penguin

The boys made this music video for their cousin Morgan, based on their shared love for penguins.  I thought it was too cute not to share with everyone!  We can't get enough of this song, which is written by Sandra Boynton for one of her books and performed by Davey Jones of the Monkees.  Enjoy!



Your Personal Penguin from Ben and Jenn on Vimeo.

Sam's Birthday Video

For you hard-core Sam-o fans, here is the video you have been waiting for!  It covers the best video footage we have of him from the past year.  It's amazing how much he has grown!

If you have seven minutes to spend adoring one of the sweetest boys in the history of the world, then you are in for a treat.  If you have only a few minutes, skip ahead to 4:35 to see his to-die-for cuteness as he sings songs from Annie, which is the recent craze at our house.

Enjoy watching my baby who is now a "big boy!"



Sam 2 to 3 from Ben and Jenn on Vimeo.

Recipe for the Perfect Christmas Album 2011

• First, go to Amazon and buy "The Hotel Café Presents . . . Winter Songs" for $7.99.  
• Then buy "This Warm December: A Brushfire Holiday Volume 1" for $5.00.  
• Listen to all the songs and delete the annoying ones (each album has a few, I believe, but SO many of them are awesome).
• What's remaining should be the crème de la crème.  We tried to be picky with our playlist.  Now shuffle to taste.
• Voilà!  Enjoy the perfection.  Trust me.  It will be the best $12.99 you spend this December.

Here's our playlist if you want to copy us (see?  An all-star lineup):

1. Santa Claus is Coming to Town (Mason Jennings)*
2. Sleigh Ride (KT Tunstall)
3. No Christmas For Me (Zee Avi)*
4. The Christmas Song (Catherine Feeny)
5. Someday at Christmas (Jack Johnson)*
6. Auld Lang Syne (Buddy)
7. All My Bells are Ringing (Lenka)
8. The Man in the Santa Suit (Neil Halstead)*
9. Frosty the Snowman (Fiona Apple)
10. Silent Night (Priscilla Ahn)
11. Christmas (Rogue Wave)
12. Mistletoe (Colbie Caillat)
13. Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer (Jack Johnson)
14. Silent Night (Zach Gill)
15. The Heartache Can Wait (Brandi Carlile)*
16. Winter Song (Sara Bareilles and Ingrid Michaelson)*

* = listen to samples of these if you need convincing

Need more Christmas music ideas?  Go here to read Ben's Christmas Music Review on his Book List Blog. He reviewed 14 albums in our collection.  There's some good stuff there too!