What a long day....

I HATE Monday's they are so long... I think I'm in need of a vacation. You know one of those vacations were you do absolutely nothing but hang out...

The kind you used to get when you were 12...

Yesterday we went out to the boat with Marty's best friend Frank, his wife and kids. The youngest Hailey is Marty's God child...

Hailey and Marty out on the tube...

Our Boat "Seas the dream" Sundancer 300

Chelsea and Hailey on the tube before we headed in for the day

She is just so freaking CUTE!!!!!

Such an easy subject to scrap.....

TTFN

Carla

Happy Friday!!

I'm so glad that it's Friday!!! I know that some weeks are just meant to be long and this was that week.

I tell you I felt like this week just went on and on....

Tonight I went to my Friend Tesha, shes like a sister to me. We have known each other since I was in the third grade. I love her like she is my family. Tonight was her daughter Paige's "friend" party.

I tell you the girls in school are very lucky to get invited to one of Tesh's parties... She goes way over board and the girls always have an absolute blast!!!

For the last couple years she has done a scraping project with the girls... So, I go and help her out.
Paige loves it when I'm there... She calls me aunt Carla, so its cool to me that she wants me there. I will enjoy it for as long as it lasts.

Each girl got to take home a really cool paper bag scrapbook made out of wait paper bags and different shades of pink paper.
Tesh bought tons of stickers and ribbon. She even found diva themed puffy stickers.
The theme of the party was Fashionista - each goodies bag that the girls took home had...
Purse- Tesha's mom made it it was so glamour girl...
Sunglasses of their choice Tesh bought some cool funky one's from Limited 2...
Lip Gloss and other glamour girl neccesities....
Plus the scrapbook that they each made.

I don't know about any of you but back in the day way back when I was young :) I don't even think we got goodies bags...

Anyways it was a great time and I'm glad that I got to spend time with Paige...

I think tomorrow Marty and I are heading to the boat and later that evening my mom and Miki are coming over to scrap... Should be a good day! I will have to post pictures of the party later. Tesha used her camera I forgot mine... OOPS!!!

TTFN
Carla

Happy Fathers Day!!!

Today we honored our Dad. Although we don't limit our gratitude for him to just one day we did give him some extra attention in honor of Fathers Day...

A daddy's girl to the core, I think he's quit the wonderful man... It's funny some of the things that Marty does reminds me of my dad in little ways here and there...

Marty also received some extra special love from our Golden Retrievers. They bought him a really fancy knife for cooking... :) I know that sounds weird but, since his surgery he really enjoys cooking. I think its because he's so limited on the amount of food he can eat that he wants what he does eat to be just right. The only way to control that is to cook yourself...

My sister Tina and her family hosted Fathers Day Dinner - As always Tina had way to much food... But at least now it's much healthier choices.

My sweet little papa was camera shy today but I did get some good pictures of the little ones...

Kamron - This little guy has the best heart of anyone that you will ever meet... :)

Hanni - B and her favorite Aunt... Shhhh don't tell Tina!

Justin, Hannah and Hunter...

The only one that I'm missing a photo of today is Elisha... I will have to ask my mom if she got one of that crazy girl... I also didn't get one of sweet little Lacey Tina's dog.

Marty called his Dad so we could wish him a Happy Fathers Day. He lives up north in Frankfort. I felt bad that Marty didn't get to see him on Fathers Day!! :(

I hope everyone had an enjoyable Day...

TTFN!

Carla

Happy Birthday Jaxon!!

Happy Birthday Jaxon!!!!

Today is my nephew Jaxon's B-day. Marty and I went out to dinner with him to celebrate. Before I go much further I should fill you in on a little family history.

I have 1 Brother and 1 Sister and a 1/2 Brother. ( I don't see him very much he lives in Texas.) Ant has 3 Kids ( Jaxon-3- offical as of today! ) Hannah and Hunter - 1 1/2 year old twins. - and a sil - Heather. Tina has Justin -12 and Kamron -7 a step daughter Elisha and bil John.

Justin and Kamron's Dad passed away 7 years ago. Kamron was only 3 months old

Okay back to my story Tina's family didn't go out to dinner with us. Late notice from Ant and she couldn't get out of work on time.

So it was Ant's family, my parents and Marty and I.... All the kids were wound up...

I guess it's so easy to forget how crazy they are, because they are so darn cute!!

Here are a few pictures from Strawberry picking last Sunday

Hunter


Hannie-B

These two are going to be a handful!!!!

They both found peace sitting on each side of the Berries...

Thank You , Thank You, Thank You JEN!!!!! You are the best... I can finally post pictures...!!!

TTFN

Carla

I know that it has been a while....

Hello there...

WOW! it has been a while since I have blogged! I couldn't make up my mind where I would land...

I'm totally a blog junkie so the problem I have is if I'm going to blog I want to at least attempt to be as interesting as all the blogs I stalk on a regular basis... :)

I know that one main factor for me will be to learn how to download PICTURES. For some reason I don't have that down yet...

Believe it or not I'm not a complete computer idiot.

I will work on the picture thing and get it down hopefully within a week.

There are so many things that have went on at the Lautner house since the last time that I blogged... Don't worry I won't bore you with all the details I will just highlight some of the finer moments in this crazy thing we call life...

Let me see...

Marty got gastric bypass surgery in April - WOW that was much bigger then I could of ever imagined. He is doing very well he has lost almost 70 pounds in 6 weeks.

I started my own healthier way of living and have lost 47.5 since March. I use a spreadsheet to log all my calories and food intake and Marty weighs me in every Tuesday. I think that in itself is enough to make me stick to it...

I also quit smoking again!!! This time it has been a month of pure smoke free goodness!!! I hope that this time I can stick to it. I really like not smoking, it's hard but I do feel better when I don't smoke!!

I joined a Happy Mail group on 2 Peas and that has been a blast... Thank you Staci for the referral.
My Partner Beth ROCKS!! She is DA BOMB!!!!

I had a B-day this month and anyone that knows me, knows how important that day is to me... BLAME my mom people... She always had a B-day week when we were growing up and that made me think that I could too.... I love it...

Marty was very good to me this year he got me a totally cool present and spoiled my for the whole weekend... ( He bought me a laptop..) I'm so in love!!- with the laptop- It is awesome. I'm still in the process of getting all my software and files transferred over. I also need to figure out how to network our printer. Then I should be good to go. I thought I was doing good to get it set up with wireless... Thank you Lori!! She ROCKS... What would all us Scrappin Whores ( inside Joke) hope I didn't offend anyone... Do with out her!!!!!

Okay I guess I should bounce for now... ( that's a new slang word that the little interns at work taught me) Just trying to remain cool and keep up with the lingo.... :)


Oh, one last thing... May I just say that My mom and I took classes with Caroline Lau one of the owners of Maya Roads on Saturday... If you ever get the chance I highly recommend that you take a class with her... She is a wonderful teacher and the classes were so much more then I thought they would be. She is AWESOME!!! We had the best time and we really learned alot from her..

I guess that's about it for now... Until next time!
Carla