and the winner is....

Staci Compher-cflattop... That was fun... I put all the names ( don't have a big blog following) in a tin and the winner was STACI!!!!!

I will have to do that again next month... I'm sure I won't have any problems coming up with things to give away with all the cool CHA stuff coming in.

I went to Scrappy Chic and bought some of the new Jenni Bowlin stuff today.... I'm trying my best to be good! I can't believe how much stuff I had that I no longer used when I cleaned out my room... It was crazy... I don't even think that I knew everything I had. But I do now...

I'm going to scrap in my new room tonight.

Who knows in the near future I may even post a layout...

Congrats Staci!!!

Here's a picture of my kids at the beach when we were up north in July....

I love them so much!!!

TTFN
Carla

In honor of my new room....

I feel so good tonight that I am finally done with my scrapbook room that I want to do a give -away.


Last week I made this really cute frame to hang in my room... I thought that I had the perfect spot for it but I found something different for that spot... But it's pretty cute...


So in this give away you will have the choice to win a bare frame that you can alter your self or you can take the one that I already made that needs a home...

When leaving a comment make sure you tell me which one you would like, if I pick your name on Wednesday night.
I will post the winner Thursday morning...





If this is your first time here and you blog please leave a link in the comments so I can visit you!!! I love to read BLOGS!!!!

Carla

EDITED: Please check out my previous post to see some pictures of my new room!!! Blogger only let's you post so many pictures at once so I had to do 2 post's!!!!

Finally...

I have been a very bad blogger... Hopefully that will improve now that I have a very neat and organized Scrapbook room!!!

I do need to thank my friend Denise and her very helpful family for helping to make this possible. She got a new Scrap-room so she sold her old stuff and man I am in love... They even delivered it and installed it...

Then Marty and I made a trip to Ikea to get some shelves and a board and we were all set... I can't believe this is actually my scrap room!!!

Can you tell that I'm very excited... Hopefully it will help get my mojo going and help me get some much needed scrapping done...

Are you ready to see some pictures? It's in the shape of a horse shoe. It's all counter top and drawers...

WOW!

Things have been so crazy...

Marty left to go visit his dad up north a little over a week ago and it seems like things have just been so busy since he left!

Let me see... He left last Wednesday...

Thursday - I went shopping with my Sister and her boys. That's always a treat... They remind me of that commercial... " He's touching me" I mean they are so funny... They are non-stop when together...

Friday I went over Tesha's and then I stopped by Scott and Dawn's ( they just got a new patio and a fire pit...) - The Fire pit was very nice... the bugs started to get me a little at the end but very peaceful and relaxing...

Saturday - I took my first digi-class (I will always be a hands on scrapper!) But I wanted to see what all the hype was about! After class I went out to Miki's for a "girls night out" She had an adult toy party... OOOOOOOOOH LaLAAAAAAAAA....I'm really not into all that but it was a fun night out.... After the Party my peeps came over Jeniece and Staci and we laughed and scrapped the night away...I think we scrapped until about 3am... I love it!

Sunday - I sat and home and felt sorry for myself because my dogs and hubby were up north and I wasn't!!! I was missing them all...

Monday- WORK, WORK, WORK!!!

Tuesday - Same as Monday. But My mom and Dad came over to spend the night with me... I'm so spoiled...

I need to get some pictures up with the rest of my updates later!!! I just wanted to check in!!


TTFN
Carla

Sunday - I sat homoe and felt sorry for

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

I have been a very bad blogger!!

I still can't figure how to upload my pictures over here... So I'm moving back to my old home!!!!

Maybe I will come back once I have time to figure out why I can't upload pictures!!!

http://www.myscrapblog.com/carlaandmarty

Lucky I am...

I love this Man... I don't know what is today but I feel so very thankful for my husband today...

Maybe it's becase I came home from work and hanging out with my girlfriend Jeniece tonight to a SPOTLESS house... I mean he cleaned house... What a special treat!

Jeneice and I had fun tonight.. We met at http://www.scrappychiclivonia.com and then we made our way over to http://thescrapbookzone.com for a little shopping.. We also had some Baja Fresh and great conversation!!

Ordered some buttons today that are very yummy!!! WARNING- Enabler WARNING Proceed with caution!! http://www.acolorfulhouse.typepad.com/colorit

Thank goodness tomorrow is the weekend! I'm very excited to spend some quality time with my mom this weekend. I also am looking forward to getting some scrapping done...

I guess that's about all for tonight.. I'm going to sign off for now I want to watch Ugly Betty before I go to bed. I love that show ...

Carla

Okay so I'm a bad Blogger...
Let me see... What's new? Valentines Day has came and gone... Marty decided to buy me chocolate this year. Cell Phone that is.. I love it! He bought me the Strawberry Chocolate from Verizon... :)
I've been working on my scrapbook room all week. It's still not done but it's getting there. I had tons of organizing to do... See my clothes have to share the room too! That is the only down fall. But I'm really starting to get there. Next time my mom comes over she just may be shocked. Hopefully!!
I went Croppin at Scrappy Chic on Friday with my Peeps... ( Got that lingo from Staci) Jeniece, Sandi, Staci, Mom and I. It was really nice to hang out with my mom... I love scrappin with her.

Jeniece had some really cool paper and tags from Jenni Bowlins web site... You know I had to have them... Ordered them can't wait for the Brown truck this week...

Went to Target today they had some cute pastel buckets in the $1 spot. LOVE THEM!! ( You know I couldn't resist for a $1)

My goal for March is to start posting more pictures. That will be much easier to concentrate on once my room is organized!!!

Well I guess that's about all for now. I will post more this week!!

Carla

Thursday it is...

I love Thursday's... It's a great night for TV and tomorrow is FRIDAY!!
Marty is doing some work over at his mom's this weekend.. So I'm planning on getting in some scrap- time..

I want to finish up his Valentines Day book... If I get it finished a will post a picture this weekend.

I have some new sketches that I want to try out...


Can't wait for GREY's and Ungly Betty tonight!

Until later...
Carla

Winter is here....

For those of you that live in Michigan I think you will agree winter has found us... The weather has been pretty mild for this time of year until now... WOW it is cold out!!!!!

I had such a nice weekend... Marty and I hung out with his sister and her boyfriend on Friday. I'm really starting to appreciate my SIL more and more everyday.

Marty and I have been together for 7 years and married for 3 1/2 exactly to the day. But I feel like I have really started having my own relationship with Susan since my MIL was ill and in the hospital.

I think things have really changed for us since then. Even she and Marty seem to be closer. I think sometimes watching someone you love get so sick and worrying about what tomorrow will bring really changes how you view your relationships. WOW! That got a little deep... :)

Saturday- was an AWESOME day. I went to a scrapbook class and boy did I have a blast... It was so much fun!!!!!

" TOp 5 reasons I love you" - Mini book for Valentines Day... It's so cute. I can't wait to get it completely done! Marty will be very happy to receive it this Valentines Day. He loves it when I make his gifts.

I will post pictures once I finish it...

Got to spend some quality girl time with my chulita -Dawn. She and I have grown up together. It's been so long since she has scrapped that I forgot how much I missed scrapping with her. She and Scott were married in Oct. and are expecting their first child together in August... Dawn has 2 children from her first marriage... So needless to say she has a lot of scrapping to get done... I love it when she comes out to play!!!!

Sandy and Denise were also at the Class... I hadn't seen Denise in so long it was so nice to see her... She had some very cute pictures of her new granddaughter to share. She also showed me a family picture with her daughter she is so cute.. But then again look at her mom...

Jeneice was the teacher - as you all know she is so very talented!! The class was at my new favorite store http://www.scrappychiclivonia.com/.

Jeneice, Sandy and I stayed and cropped for a little while... Good times!

While we were at the class Miki came by to visit, shop and spend time with us... She did have to leave though and head over to hang out with her niece for a while.

She did return with her SIL Samantha, who is going to start scrapping they came to get an Album and walked out with 1/2 the store... Well it wasn't that bad... But almost.. :) We all remember those days...

I also did a little shopping... BIG surprise there...

1.Prima - flowers that were corduroy and velvet - LOVE THEM.
2.2 new 7 Gypsies stamps - The flower and a tattered square... AWESOME
3.MM Valentines Day paper love it - from the craft line... I love that paper
4. RIC RAC Ribbon
5. HS Bling

On Sunday I did a little more shopping - I wanted to use my coupons for Joann's and Micheal's.

M-
1. Cool new colored pencils.
2. Velvet Ric-RAC Ribbon - WOW that's all I can say...

J's
1. 3 Piece basket set on Clearance for 2.50 Regular price was 39.99 - Love it when I get a good deal...
2. 6 Stamps @ 1.00 each -from the Autumn leaves RF Line. They are so cute... If you haven't looked for these at your J's you should they are a GREAT Deal...
3. Duck Adhesive with my Coupon
4. Buttons - They had some really cute one's on sale in the sewing aisle.

Took all my goodies home and watched the Super bowl with Marty...

The best thing is I won my office pool for the over and under so now I'm going to buy a new lens for my camera!!!

What a great weekend!!!!!

TTFN

I'm sore... But I feel soooo much better....

Things went well ysterday... I feel alot better. Hopefully I will continue to feel better and better. Look out treadmill...
I'm having problems getting the comments section to show up in the blog entry below... That is so weird...

Oh well... Yesterday was such a fog I really don't have much to tell you other then I feel so much better today!

Thanks to Marty, Mom, Dad and Dawn for putting up with me when I was so loppy I love you all so much!!


Thanks!

Can't Sleep

I know it's been a while since I have blogged life has just been so crazy lately.
Marty has been working very hard on the house and it's finally getting there...
We still have things to do but WOW does it look better!
We used to have this NASTY wall paper every where and he took it all down and painted...
Made some major improvements in the Bathroom, Family room, Kitchen and Dining room.
We also got new carpet and Family room furniture. It's a small room, but I love the furniture... It's from Lazy Boy... We choose the Brown, we already have our sofa the sofa chair and ottoman won't be here for a couple more weeks... Love it... Looks good in the room... Each side reclines on the sofa! Super comfy...

http://www.la-z-boy.com/SiteSearch.aspx?glblSearchWords=carmen

Brandi and Boomer aren't loving it so much... They are really having a few issues... But it's all about change! They will come around... I mean they really miss the old couch. I think they are working on a takeover of my side of the bed... They are way to spoiled...

Well in the morning if all goes well I will be getting a cardio version.. I have A-FIB to make a long story short its an electrical problem and they use the paddles and put you back in rhythm again. So I guess tonight I'm a little anxious and that's why i can't sleep...

So hopefully all goes well tomorrow and I will feel alot better! :)

Still a non= smoker and looking forward to feeling better so I can get on the treadmill!

Well I guess that's about all I have for now...

Random thoughts....

Happy Tuesday!!!!

I can't believe how fast the days go... I have so much to learn about this blog world... I would love to start posting pictures on my blog I just need to figure out where to store them to do that... Does Photo Bucket work?? Hmmm... I need to take the time and find out!!

Day # 18 as a non - smoker!!! I'm so freakin happy that I've made it this long... Hopefully that's a sign that I can stay strong and stay away....

I have a big crop this weekend... I'm so excited I'm heading down to my mom's for the whole entire weekend!!! I can't wait!! I'm teaching my first class to adults on Saturday.

I have taught 3 other childrens classes before. I can't wait to experience this with adults to see if I like it...

Signed up for a photo class for my Digital Rebel... It starts the second week in Feb. I can't wait to learn how to really work my camera that will be exciting...


Still trying to learn how to totally work my IPOD that Marty got me for Christmas.... Hopefully after I learn more about it I will totally love it...


I guess that's about all for now... Have a great day!!

01/10/2007

Today is my Nephew Justin's B-day... Happy Birthday Justin!!! My first born nephew... WOW, I can't believe you are already 12 years old!! Where has the time gone.

He received Pistons tickets for tonight for Christmas from his mom. I sure hope he had a nice time at the game. His sister called and said that his picture was on the big screen TV. I'm sure he enjoyed that.

When I asked him what he would like for his b-day he said money, not from Aunt Carla you get a gift... So think about it and get back to me... He said okay...

Since he is my first, and I act like my sister's other mother... I feel a very special bond with him, although I know soon it won't be cool for him to think I'm so cool... Oh well I'll enjoy it while I can...




Happy B-day Justin! Thanks for giving me so much joy I love you!!

1 week down and a lifetime to go!

So Friday is the 1 week mark for me as a non-smoker.... :) I'm very excited about it... I know that I will be very happy about this as time goes on...

I haven't been feeling very good this last week so once I'm feeling better I hope to really notice a difference as a non smoker.

I can't wait to feel better so I can start using all the goodies I received from Santa Marty...

I got an IPOD- NANO Pink
He bought me a tripod and remote for my rebel - Thank you Jolene for the thought...
He also bought me some scrapping goodies from QVC and a few other little things... Not bad for a non- believer!!!!
I also received some very cool shoes
My mom bless her heart made me a really cool bracelet that I love so much.. Thanks mom!!!

I guess it's a bought time I hit the hay... Until next time... Lautner-OUT!


TTFN

Happy New Year!!

Another New Year is fresh ahead of us and so many things left from the previous year that I didn't manage to see, do or complete.

SO, I decided that I wanted to approach the new year a little different this year. I'm going to make my goals on a quarterly basis. Hopefully I will only make goals that are achievable and I will accomplish them all...


So here it goes...

Q-1 Goals... Jan-Feb and March...

1. Find a church that Marty and I feel comforable at...
2. Loose 35 pounds - Not my final goal this is just for Q-1
3. Organize my Scrapbook Room
4. Blog 5 plus days a week...
5. Be a better wife... I think that I'm a pretty good one, however I would like to be better...
6. Quit Smoking - Smoke free for 4 days so far need to stay on track...
7. Limit caffeine -
8. Drink more water
9. Scrapbook More
10. Walk on treadmill 3 times a week.

There you have it... What are your goals???


TTFN