Jenni’s Blog

The Night Before Christmas

Chas and I recorded this unique version of “The Night Before Christmas” for our date last Friday. See if you can guess who did the voice for Santa!

Merry Christmas everyone!!

Break Out the Footie Jammies!!

Fall is my very favorite time of year for many reasons. One being this:

I love how incredibly cute they look in footie jammies!

Here He Is!

This pic found it’s way out of the camera, or rather, I found the USB cord!

Happy Halloween!

A bit late, I know, but like they say…

(Chunker’s Halloween pic seems to be stuck in the camera for the moment. We DO have two kids…really.)

Book vs. Movie – Ella Enchanted

The book wins this match-up! This is a definite case of “don’t judge a book by it’s movie!” Ella Enchanted is my favorite fiction book. I loved the book long before the movie came out. The makers of the movie twisted the plot until it hardly bears a resemblance to the plot of the book. They added new characters and took others away.

“Ella Enchanted” is the Cinderella story, but with some clever twists. Ella is under a curse of obedience, which puts her in some pretty sticky (and sometimes downright scary) situations. She has to use her brain all the time, and can’t just drift along in life.

My favorite part of the book is when she has to make a super hard decision; she chooses to do the right thing instead of what she really wants to do. The thing that bugs me most about the movie, is that it takes away that moment of complete selflessness. In the movie, she gets what she wants without having to sacrifice anything.

If you’ve seen the movie but not read the book, let me assure you that the book is much better and nothing like the movie.