http://thehomeschoolmagazine.com/Digital-Supplement/Thanksgiving&Christmas.html
Above is a link to get on a list for a holiday supplement, not sure what kind of stuff will be in it but it is from the homeschool magazine that I subscribe to and love. Thought I would share.

cleaning recipes

I don't know about you but I hate buying cleaners. If I can make my own I much prefer it. I do have this dishwasher soap that I have been buying from Costco, when I went last week I could not find it. I was going to try a new one but decided to try my own instead. I tried it and really like it. Give it a try:

2c borax
2c baking soda
4 little pkgs of unsweetened lemon kool-aid.
Mix together

Veggie wash
1T lemon juice
2T baking soda
1C water
Put in a spray bottle

Deodorizer
1/2 to 1C liquid laundry softener
1C vinegar
2 to 3 C water
mix in spray bottle

15yrs

Wow, Jason and I just celebrated 15yr of marriage this year. I can not believe it has been that long. I have to say that was the most wonderful day. I wanted to get married at the beginning of a new day so I decided that 7:00 am was a perfect time. We got married on the beach looking out at the water because I didn't want to be looking at walls. I was in a clearance dress that I found at the Express and Jason was in his shorts, both bare footed. (Sorry I have no pictures to show, that was when I was doing 35m film, you know ancient times). Oh and if I could show you the pictures of my reception. It was potluck. I do have a video of the reception. It was filmed by my brother, who was 14 or so along with his friend and my even younger brother so you can use your imagination on that one. My wedding was a total of $120.00. I had just turned 19, Jason was 21, we had been engaged less than 2 months. Thinking about the whole time still brings a smile to my face and my heart. If I had to do it over again, what would I change; to remember more about that day. How grateful I am that Heavenly Father has blessed me with such a wonderful, loving husband. When it comes to this family he is always thinking about the boys and I first. He is a man above men. I just pray that my boys will grow up to be the man their father is, what a blessed life my future daughter-in-laws will have.

To cool not to shair

Here is a picture of Mt. Rainier. We were not to far from there during our off-roading weekend. The boys sleeping, this was after our first run.

My cuties.

What a cool picture.

My three main men

Jeffrey's creative side

Jeffrey is in charge of craft time, which he has once a week. This week his craft was making masks. His looks so cool. Jonah's is actually a neat looking one, too, it is just hard to see, he is a one eyed tiger. Jeffrey's pirate with a beard and blood on his mustache ( he was fighting) and check out that cool eyebrow.

This is my pretty one, sorry no blood or wild animals. The boys put there special powers on the back of their mask. Little kids are so creative and easy to entertain, most of the time.

This is superman/robin hood/Jedi

Crafts

Here are a few things I have done lately. A little bit of fun.
Here, I hope, is the end to canning for this year, it is great being able to can and having an abundance with to be able to do it but it is sure nice when it is done. These are my flavored applesauces; raspberry and peach.
I love those little craft cards you get for free at JoAnns. This craft cost me less than $5.oo to do.

I keep scrap paper and we have a stack of it. I keep it under our school shelf. It was always getting spread out on the floor but I didn't want to buy a container to keep it in. So I took a box and covered it, am I a genious or what, did I spelle genius right?

Offroading

So what do you get when your spotter, well didn't spot?

You can't call the sport of off-roading to boring, unless of course, you have a huge group of people and you spend a long time in line waiting to get up that so have to do obstacle. Here is a poor kid who was going around to help a friend of ours get out of a mud hole. He didn't see this huge hole on his spotter's side, so down he went. All of those around were just wide eyed wondering what in the world he was doing. HE DIDN'T SEE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (this kid was 18, just got this vehicle from his dad and to top it off, he left a note for his parents telling them he was going off-roading and would be back on Sunday.)

It took them an hour to flip it back over. We started our with 4 in our group and at the end of this there had to be 10 vehicles checking this out. (CAN'T MISS THE SHOW)