It's All About Family!!

I have decided to make this blog just for Family!! This is a great opportunity to update everyone what the Letner family is up to!! You can still check out my Crafty Blog (WingAndAPrayer Creations) - the link is on the left. Also, I only post a couple pictures in my post, but you can view the photo albums in the link to the left also!!!

To start off - we had a WONDERFUL Christmas!!! We started the holidays taking a trip to PA to visit with family!

We got to visit with my in-laws. We got to see all but 2 of Dave's sisters, visit with his Mom, and see cousins & nieces! It was a great visit! It has prompted the planning of a Family Reunion, which will be planned by Samantha and me, in August! It will be GREAT!

We stayed at Heather and Alan's new house! They did a GREAT job renovating it!!

The weather was snowy and roads were not good, so Heather and I got a lot of baking done! We made Snowflake cut outs (which Heather just had to sample), butter balls, Heather learned to make Lady Locks, and we made Buckeyes for Alan!!

Yikes - looks like a bad hair day for me there!!

Heather and I also took advantage of the bad weather and made wreaths to put on Mom's (Grandma Karen) and Grandma & Grandpap Phillips' graves. They turned out really nice.

We got the supplies at Pat Catan's - spent less than $14!!! Mom would be proud!!

We took them up to the cemetary and it started to snow!!!
So glad we got to experience some of the white stuff while we were there, but it was definitely good to get on the plane on Monday and watch the snow fall as we took off to head back to the warmth of Florida!!

We had stopped at Uncle Eddie's before going to the cemetary and that's when it started to snow - Hey Fat Man!!! The weather got too bad eventually, so we didn't get to go hang at the Baden Legion and wish all our friends there a Merry Christmas!!

Dave got to relax a bit and hang with T-Bone (Toby) - one of Heather and Alan's "babies" - their Basset Hounds! They are so comical!!

Heather and I got to go to Hozak's tree farm and visit their Christmas "barn" where they have lots of trees decorated. We did this last year and got ornaments for our trees - so, it looks like it is going to become a tradition!!

We had a great time and we really hated to leave - except to get out of the cold weather! Next time we see Heather and Alan it will be when we are leaving for our Cruise in May!! WOOOHOOOO!!

Then, we had Christmas back home in Florida!! Christmas Eve we went to church and then had Justin, Krista, & Charlee, and Krista's Mom, Shannon, and also Libby, Marcia, and Bella come over. We had such a great time!! Here are a few pictures!!

So, after the kids opened up their presents from Mrs. Santa (which she brings pajamas every Christmas Eve) - it was off to bed to wait for Santa!!!

Charlee on Christmas Morning!! What a Cutie Pie!!

This is what is all about!!!!

Merry Christmas Everyone!!! When's Santa coming again?!!!!

Finding Time!

Working from home - everyone thinks it's the cat's meow - well, sorta!! I feel guilty when I do other things besides sit at my computer and do something related to Medical Transcription. I stepped down from a Regional Manager position so that I would have more time to be creative - time to start!!

I am working on the scrapbook for our family cruise this past May - finished the first page about a month (well, maybe longer than that - haha) ago and need to get goin with it. I have ideas for Halloween cards, and so many new stamps to play with!!

So - I have so many ideas swimming around in my head and I need to just sit down in my creation station and do it - so I started today!! I was feeling the inspiration to work on the scrapbook. It is amazing how long it can take to come to a final product with a scrapbook - but I'm happy with the outcome!

Not the best picture - I definitely need a new camera, on my wish list! I love how the page turned out. I really enjoy journaling, so journaling will be a big part of my album - probably all my albums as a matter of fact.

Here is the first page of the album:

Can you tell I am having a great time with my Cricut? hehe

What an awesome time we had on the Cruise! David and I took the kids - Heather & Alan, Justin & Krista on a 5 day Carnival Cruise to Grand Cayman and Calica, Mexico. I am going to enjoy finishing the book - so many great pictures and memories.

So it took just one page to get me inspired to do more! I can't wait til tomorrow!!

I have done a few things over the last couple weeks - here are a couple cards I made also:

Isn't this the cutest darn card? My good friend, Marcia, who has become my scrappin/stampin buddy, and I put our heads together and created this card - which is the invitation for her niece, Carolena's, first birthday party! The stamps used here are from TAC - Hello There collection - which is like my favorite stamp set!

This is a card I made for the Made for Memories Card Swap class. It is kinda like the card I made last year to use as my Christmas Card. The stamps are from Inky Antics. I love tearing paper, using fibers, and also embossing. Got some really creative cards at the September Swap - I actually signed up the day before the class and made 12 cards overnight!! I'll share the other cards another time.

Last, but not least - I have been wanting to do a shaker card and this was my first attempt - not too terribly creative, but just wanted to try the shaker thing!! I know I'll do more of these!

So, I am so inspired at this point - I cannot wait to finish working tomorrow and create again.

I found TIME - we all lose it, never have enough of it - but it can be the EASIEST thing to find - and oh, how rewarding!!

Hugs!

Class Pictures from Today!

A few pictures from today's class, including my finished album! This was very fun and easy to make - I know I'll make a few more before Christmas!

My First Blog!

Here I go - my first Blog!! I am excited to share my love for stamping, scrapping, just having fun creating and sharing. Today was really exciting! I took a class at Made for Memories scrapbooking store in Sarasota which was taught by Debby Schuh from Anna Griffin designs - it's an awesome 6 x 6 book - my first mini-album type project! I am so thrilled with the finished product - I am going to make one for Heather and Justin and put some pictures in from their childhood Christmases!

This is my first post and I don't know what to say right now! It's been a great day!