Happy 2011!

Wishing you and your loved ones a wonderful New Years!  What are you doing for New Years?  I am going to Philadelphia with my closest friends. I hope you have an amazing time where ever you go and that it is filled with many laughs!

xo-jenna

Christmas Laughs

During this Christmas week I laughed many times while prepping for Christmas dinners, wrapping gifts, unwrapping gifts and enjoying the time spent with family and friends.   I would like to share the moments that really made me laugh this week...

• ugly Christmas sweaters - my mom works at the local high school (where I went) and a bunch of teachers decided to wear ugly sweaters on the half day because its basically a party all day so why not have some fun.  Well my family and I have the ugliest Christmas sweater that we have all worn once to a party.  It is sad though because it was my nana's holiday sweater, but only a nana could get away with wearing a sweater this tacky.  Anyways... my mom emailed me on that day (Thursday) saying so far she had not seen anyone else wearing an ugly sweater.  Reading that email made me burst into laughter at my cube, what I would give to run over to the school to see my mom in her tacky ugly Christmas ornament sweater and everyone else in regular clothes - guess the joke was on her?!
• my sister's reaction when she opened my Christmas gift.  I got my sister the best Christmas gift this year!  Here is some background information... my sister, Ali, collects wine glasses.  Whenever I visit a new place, I always look for a glass for her to buy.  Well while searching my new obsession, Etsy.com, I came across a shop ,Crystal Peace Studio, where the artist makes caricatures on wine glasses.  I literally died laughing when I found this.  I just had to get this for Ali; so I sent a picture of my sister to the artist and she created a personal wine glass for my sister.  My sister has the best laugh, I wish I could share that with you; she opened my gift and her loud laugh filled our Christmas morning and was contagious and my whole family was in laughter from Ali's laugh and my gift. 

my sister's wine glass with her face on it!

I hope you and your family had a wonderful holiday and that you all shared just as much laughter as my family did!  I'd love to hear all about your holiday laughs!!

xo- jenna, the professional laugher

the glued christmas house

This past Tuesday night, Schmate, Lia and I planned to make a gingerbread house. Schmate and Lia bought the package while shopping. But by accident they bought the wrong kit and it was not a sincere gingerbread house; it was actually a kit to make gingerbread house from scratch out of chocolate molds. It was an excellent mistake! We had so much fun and it was really easy to do. Obviously as we made and decorated the house we laughed a lot. Chocolate dries fairly fast in comparison to icing that we are used to making houses with, so you needed to act fast. Lia started calling the white chocolate "glue" and was demanding it quickly to make her white wreaths with sprinkles. It was pretty hysterical. Here are pictures from the night...


the kit :)

the materials

the house by the treeeeeee.....

Finally, after the master piece was complete, Lia decided to make a Christmas scene with the house, a tree and Santa claus. This made Schmate and I laugh pretty hard and quote one of our ALL TIME FAVORITE you tube videos, "The Christmas Tree".  This is the funniest you tube video EVER. 




I hope you enjoyed this video as much as my friends and I do and you enjoy your Christmas Tree as much as we do!
Hope you ALL have a very Merry Christmas, from my glued house to yours.

xo-jenna

weekly laughs

Here is a list of things that REALLY made me laugh this week...

• car rides with my family; this past Sunday, my family & I went to visit my Great Aunt at her convent (she is a nun).  Car rides with my sister and parents are always hysterical.  We started the ride mad at one another; I said something bratty & my sister was late.  But as we started driving in the family mini-van, my sister was in the way back and went flying because the back seat was not in the car properly.  This was probably extremely dangerous, but we all bursted into laughter and totally eased the mood.

mi familia (minus my BEAUTIFUL nephew) at my cousins wedding

• the gingerbread choo-choo train (click here to see funnier story); Schmate and I made and then destroyed not on purpose

• gchat conversations with Brittany (aka snap); Snap is a pledge sister of mine from my sorority and while we are both at work we take breaks and "gchat" together.  Our conversations are quite comical and brighten up my work days.  Our recent conversations have been about if she should leave the blackberry world to join the droid world.  It is pretty funny and sad that this decision is a HUGE decision for many people.  I am ALL about my berry, Jorge, and would never want to leave the blackberry world.  I think she is crazy.  What do YOU think she should do?

Jorge, my first blackberry :)

• my father; I have the funnest father in the world, I definitely get my sense of humor from him.  Not a day goes by that he does not make me laugh. 

me, my dad & sister - see he makes me laugh just by his facial expressions 

I hope my laughs made you laugh!  Hope you had a great week!  What made you laugh this week?

xo-jenna, the professional laugher

the broken down choo-choo train

My best friend, Kate (who I call Schmate) and I like to do arts & crafts together.  We are so childish.  I don't want to brag, but we are pretty good at it.  This past Sunday, Schmate came over to make a gingerbread choo-choo train with me.  It was a lot of fun, whenever we do crafts it ends up in laughter as we talk and do our busy work.  But this train assembly was quite funny in that we could not get the train to stay in position for longer than 5 minutes; it just always fell apart.  But we did an awesome job, or so I think.  Here are pictures before and after. 

the finished train



the broken down train :(

It was hysterical trying to maneuver a way to get the train to stand alone, we tried extra extra icing, Hershey kisses, toothpicks, holding for 5 minutes and letting go.  Nothing worked, so we gave up and decided to eat the train, but even that was funny.  These gingerbread kits do not provide you with good tasting materials or even quality candies, so we could not even enjoy the taste.  But it was a great day spent with a great friend!