Laudati's in the house.................

We are back from vacation relaxed and tanned well the kids and Anthony that is.. We had a great week in Mass. We spent most of the time at the pool and the kids made some friends so that gave Anthony and I time together. We also drove up to Lake George for the day with my parents. The kids loved going to the beach and playing in the lake. Now we are back to the daily grind. Hard to believe that I need to start thinking about school supplies.

There are some big changes going on at stamping up! This weekend was convention and there are sneak peaks at the new cattie all over the Internet.. Can't wait to get my copy in my hands hopefully this week. Stampin up has partnered with sizzix and you can now purchase the machine through stampin up. There are great new punches in the cattie and lots of new stamp sets. Well it is getting late and I am off to bed. Will share more tomorrow.

Let's be creative

I have been promising to share my layouts that I did with Gigi.. Well here are two of them and I will post the other two tomorrow..I am so glad Gi and I have found time to create together.. I always get more down when I scrap with friends.. We are going on vacation next week and I hope to get some scrappin done while we are away..
I love these beach and pool pictures the colors are so vibrant and I love my glitter stars on the second lo.. have a great night.

What I see out my door.....

This picture makes me happy!! Yes it is alot of laundry but I do not mind because I see bathing suites that were on my coppertone kids all day. I see laughing, smiling kids jumping in the pool. Brothers playing together and one crazy girl learning how to swim. Speaking of this crazy girl she is really into getting her picture taken lately and this picture just cracked me up! She is too funny

This was week 4 of summer and it was a busy one:

*mcflurrys with friends

*bowling and pizza

*got my scrap on with gigi

*I came down with a summer cold. boo

*Sil and her kids came over to go swimming

* my mom and sis came over with her kids to go swimming

*pool time with daddy

*got my scrap on sat night

*mommy and daddy got some alone time, we went out for lunch

Hope all your summer wishes are coming true.

Your an all star get your game on...

As many of you know we are a yankee family here and the all star game this year is in NY.. The boys were so excited to watch the homerun derby tonight on tv. Can't wait to catch the game tomorrow night.. I took this picture of Joe and me on his birthday, when I was editing it I could not believe how much he looks like Anthony's sister Theresa. They have the same smile! We'll we had a mellow week 3 here at the Laudati house.
*Joey turned 7 and his cousin Brandon spent the night at our house. they had a great time playing together
*The boys started camp and love it
*there was a lot of fighting going on at our house
*heard MOM he's bothering me one to many times
*Heard I am bored from Paul more times than I wanted too
*got creative with my pal Gigi (will post lo soon)
*marathon walked with Lisa again
*our wonderful babysitters had a graduation party(jenn from collage and Michelle from highschool)
*had good friends over to swim and eat..
*mourned the loss of a true Yankee
So sad to hear that Bobby Murcer died on sat. Anthony and I were very upset to hear that he lost his fight with brain cancer. I loved to listen to him announce yankee games. He just seemed like a very nice man. Hope you all have a great week and remember to document what you do this week.

Guess who turns 7 today..

Yes you guessed it Joseph is 7 today. Wow how the time flies . I swear it was yesterday that the cutest roundest hairest chunkiest little man was in my arms for the first time.. And now he's not so chunky but he sure is cute and the hairy thing will save that for a later date.. So here are 7 facts about my jojo beans!!
1. he is intense about everything
2. lover of all things pokeman
3. pasta and meatballs is his favorite meal
4.He has a temper but can be really sweet too!!
5. He makes friends easily
6. he is a fish in the pool
7. I think he is the best kid in the world

So happy birthday Joey mommy loves you so very much..
enjoy the day.

Sum up summer week 2

what a busy week we had here at our house.. I must say that this idea of summing up each week of summer has me taking more everday pictures. I am really enjoying this task. So without further ado here is how our week went down.
*pool pool and more pool
*neighbors over to swim in the pool too bad Tyler had to leave to get stitches.(jumped in to close to the side of the pool and hit his chin)
*managed to take a walk with Lisa love to walk with her she pushes me further than I push myself
*farmers market for strawberries, blueberries and rasberries.
*great picture of the kids at farmers market
*ugh took all 4 to walmart on Thursday!
*happy 4th with a party at the Lafasciano's
*Joey celebrated his 7th birthday on sat.
*great time with all of our friends and family
Come on join in and sum up your summer week by week. You will be surprised at how much you do all day!

Found some time to .....

CREATE!!! I did a two page lo the other night. I have not done one of those in a long time.. It was so much fun . I also stumbled upon some really great websites and thought that I would share some of them is http://scrap4life.com/ this site has some great challanges and an awesome gallery can;t wait to start posting my stuff over there.. I also found a site that does sketches for cards it is http://2sketches4you.blogspot.com/. I can't wait to play along I love to make cards . Oh and I need to make a card for a great friend. well the kids are waiting to get in the pool! see below for my lo.

enjoy the day..