Happy birthday grammie!!

My grandma turned 90 today, which just seems crazy! We had a lovely dinner at georgies, and ended up closing the restaurant down! Even my uncle came all the way from New York City to enjoy the occasion. Great night!!



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Laundry, laundry

We have been experimenting with serious couponing since January and have enjoyed it very much. We have more food in our house than ever, and we have noticed a drop in our monthly grocery bill (although our gasoline bill continues to climb, but that isn't just us).

Anyway, we have gotten some great deals on stuff, but we haven't found any great deals on laundry detergent. We looked online a little bit, and found hundreds of different make-your-own laundry detergent recipes.

We thought we would try it out; this is the recipe we used.

Hot water
1/2 cup Washing Soda
1/2 cup Borax
1/3 bar Soap (grated) (we used fels naptha)
12 drops of orange essential oil.

It made about 2 gallons of laundry detergent. We spent under $10 for enough ingredients to make over 20 gallons of laundry detergent!! Amazing, and it smells so good!!
It looks kinda chunky, but it has been over a week, and our clothes are clean, so I don't really care what it looks like.



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Meet Shilo!!

My sister Ashley and her boyfriend James left Newport on Sunday, flew down to the California border (Mexico/California that is) to begin their hike on the pacific crest trail. Luckily, (for us:), California doesn't allow/encourage dogs on the trail, so Jered and I get to watch SHILO for the next few (4-6) months!!

She is such a sweet pup! She loves to chase balls, and get up on furniture. So we may have a few things to work on, but it is going to be so fun!! :)


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Clouds in the water

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Happy birthday mom!!!

Happy birthday mom! We had a great birthday party out at grammie's. There were so many iPhones, iPads, iPods an computers, it is amazing that we even spoke to each other! :)


It was great fun though. Once the cake came out, the electronics had to take a break!


Even for the birthday girl.....

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