He Is Risen! Happy Easter!

What an awesome day! Church this morning was so amazing - 46 people gave their hearts to the Lord on this fabulous Easter Day! A totally amazing service!

After church it was a busy day - I made a leg of lamb for the first time - we wanted something a little different. It turned out Really good!! Justin & Krista & Charlee were there and our friend Marcia and her daughter Bella came (her husband Libby had to work). it was a very, very nice dinner.
I love gettin Lovin from Charlee!! She looked so priceless in her Easter Dress!




After dinner, Charlee and Bella looked for Easter baskets and Easter eggs - it was a lot of fun!

Even Justin & Krista had to look for their Easter basket!! Gotta carry on my Mom's tradition!!!

It was a fun day! After dinner Marcia & Bella hung out and then Justin and I played some Wii bowling and tennis - it was so much fun! Figured after everyone left I needed to post to my blog and share this wonderful day! There are more pictures in my online photo album - so check it out.

So back to the regular grind tomorrow. I can't complain - I love my job. Plus - the countdown continues to the cruise - only 43 days!! WOOOHOOOO!!!

First Picture of the Little PeaPod!!

How exciting! We officially have a picture of our Little PeaPod!!! Our Little PeaPod is 7 weeks 4 days old - due date so far October 19th!! Mama, Daddy, and Charlee got to see the tiny heartbeat today too!! Truly one of God's little miracles and we give Him the glory for this blessing!

What have we been up to?

The answer to that is not much!! Well, we are now in Race Season and we were so excited with the Daytona 500 and Junior with his new 88 car! Can't wait for July when we go to Daytona for the Pepsi 400!

We are so excited about Krista being pregnant!! She's doing good, normal stuff - hungry, but does not feel like eating and stuff like that.

David & I took Charlee to the Italian Feast Carnival here in Venice last night - we had lots of fun - be sure to check out the Online Photo albums on the left for the pictures.


Charlee Loved the Carnival - loves riding rides and saying FASTER, FASTER!!! Of course we had Corn Dogs, Cotton Candy, and who can forget Funnel Cake?

And of course, we are all getting excited about the cruise! It's always good to get away and not have to worry about work or anything else for 7 days!! David is working long hours and I am still working from home doing medical transcription quality assurance - we definitely look forward to getting away! We especially can't wait for Heather and Alan to come down a day or two before!

Well, I need to get off this computer and go do some Scrapbooking today! Looks like the Race today will probably be cancelled due to rain in California and my craft table is calling my name!

Love you all!!

The Letner Family is GROWING!!

Today, Valentine's Day, prayers have been answered - Justin & Krista are pregnant!!! They just found out today!! This is such good news and everyone is so elated!! The credit all goes to God, our Father, for this blessing. Many prayers have been sent up to him for this. All Praise and Glory to Him!



Not too much else going on right now - I'm so busy with my new job as a Medical Transcription Recruiter, that I have had no time to blog or anything else - but today, just had to share the news! I'll try to take some time this weekend and post some pictures - whoops, may not have time - Daytona Weekend!! GO JUNIOR - 88!!

It's a New Year!!

Time is flying in this New Year and we do feel very blessed - great kids, family, and friends - who could ask for more!

I have started the New Year off with a new job - I'm so excited! I am now a Recruiter for a Medical Transcription company! It is totally what I am meant to do as I LOVE talking to people!! Heather is going to start transcribing also so she can work from home!

Dave is still busy with his job - never a dull moment!! You can see the picture below - he is doing his favorite thing - sharing his ice cream with Prissi! She is so spoiled!!

We are all counting down the days to our 2nd Letner Family Cruise. We all got bags personalized for the cruise as you see below - as well as beach towels and luggage tags - we are ready to go Cruisin! We are totally Cruise Junkies!

In May, Dave, myself, Heather & Alan, Justin & Krista, will be boardin the Carnival Victory in Miami (which is about 3 hours from us) and heading to Cozumel, Grand Cayman, and Jamaica!! I don't know about the kids - but I am already getting excited!! The dieting has started so I can look at least halfway ok in a bathing suit!!

I have finally had a chance to work on our scrapbook from last year's cruise - here is the first page - I have 5 pages done so far and they are in my Web Album - you can click on the web album on the left to view all our pictures!!

Nothing much else going on - the weather is great here - we had a little rain today, but still walking around in barefeet and shorts - GOTTA LOVE IT!! To all of you reading this in PA - there is lots of room for you to come down here and enjoy this weather too!! When I feel homesick for PA, I think of this weather and it reminds me of why we LOVE Florida!

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!