From our gossip house to yours ...

The commercial success of Andrew Brundidge was not accorded nearly the prominence it deserved on the family Christmas card.

Andrew, 16 months, is the baby face on Target's brand of "Super Mega Baby Diapers" and a print ad for the chain's "Merry Portraits!" But were his parents creative enough to include a photo of Andrew, with all his heavenly eyelashes, in the photo montage on the family card? Nooooo. News flash, I reported to Andrew's mom, a KSTP-TV assignment editor, the host of the local show "CrossRoads," and a comedian with an Emmy-winning blog Sheletta.com. -- nobody cares what she and husband Shawn Brundidge look like when they live with a celebrity!

"You're so cold. We've already got cold in Minnesota, you know," Sheletta said. "I thought we were a cute family. I don't know where we got this photogenic baby from, but when he sees a camera he starts to get ready. He's been doing that since he was born. He loves the camera, never met one he didn't want to smile for. One day Andrew was eating pudding when he was 1, saw his daddy with the camera, wiped his mouth off and smiled."

Instead of the family Christmas card, I'm running a photo of Andrew next to a pack of diapers.

The year of A.D.? Vikings community relations guy Brad Madson always figures out who the star of the team is.

"Here's to 2008 A.D.: Adrian (All Day) Peterson," reads Madson's card featuring my current favorite Sooner, who just happened to be a missing Vikings star in Sunday's game.

May the 2008 season bring Peterson more than one game where he tears up the field. I am baffled by why he's become so stoppable lately. Is it the knee brace? Should they have sat Peterson for the season after he got injured in Green Bay? Will A.D. come to mean All Done?

'Holidays at the firm' Attorney Linda Holstein did not return a call to explain the edgy photo the Holstein Kremer firm's holiday card.

Probably didn't think she had to since she didn't send a card to me.

This firm's card has been drawing chatter because of the arty photo of dour faces, many of which are not looking at the camera.

"Holidays at the firm" is the caption. The absence of the word HAPPY is clearly intentional as these people don't seem to be having much fun despite the presence of wine glasses and a piano. Bizarre. Perhaps the photo is a nod to Richard Avedon.

Hanging with Paula I cannot repeat the back story Fox 9 contributor Todd Walker gave me about this photo he took with Paula Abdul.

Boomer is the dog and Austen is the baby girl being held by Howeth's wife, KSTP-TV meteorologist Chikage Windler.

Boomer was obviously named for those Sooners.

At play in L.A. From the looks of Jimmy Jam and Lisa Harris' "Holiday Play" card, the transplanted Minnesotans are raising golf pros, who are fashion plates, in California. Love that Max Harris, who plays his part well in the family photo.

C.J. is at 612.332.TIPS or cj@startribune.com. E-mailers, please state a subject -- "Hello" doesn't count. Attachments are not opened, so don't even try. More of her attitude can be seen on Fox 9 Thursday mornings.