My Guys

"My Guys" Matthew and Brandon are 100% Aggie they love to go to games together and Brandon eats,drinks and sleeps football me not so much so when it is football season dont make any plans during football games, I am learning. Matthew loves watching the band at half time and loves watching the game, but he is like me LOVES the concession stand, I am addicted to concession food, but the price not so much. We would love to someday have season passes for us to go to the game but for now we always go to the "Maroon and White" game and then Matty and Brandon go to at least 1 other game maybe 2 during the year. Brandon would be at every single one if he could. He has a fantastic Aunt and Uncle and if they have extra tickets they have invited my guys and that seems to be the most talked about game when the go so sweet. Now Basketball season, I love, and Ash went to her first basketball game and loved it as well this year. I love basketball and baseball. But football concessions and halftime are my favorite,lol. Matthew wants to go to A&M he will be
"Class of 2028" if I did the math correct. My all sports guys they love it!!!! My guys always seem to have an Aggie shirt. Gig Em'

Valentines Day!!!

I love Valentines Day, I love all the fun crafts and making sweet Valentines day gifts for Matty to give his friends and goodies for my daycare kids. It is a fun day, now as for me I dont get a thing we always seem to be broke ever since we had kids they get the treats first,the last Valentines gift I did get from hybby was a rechargable battery charger and a package of batteries, yep you read that correctly and so I kind of band gifts around here after that. I did not want that for Valentines day for sure. This year for Valentines day we made goodies for Matty's teachers, school friends and daycare kids. We had friends over Sunday night and cooked a Steak dinner and it was yummy and then Monday we did a party with daycare kids and then had pancakes,bacon and eggs for dinner and watched Nanny McPhee Returns (cute movie) so it was a fun filled Valentines day!!!!!
Well I know some of you are wandering what did I make? Well for all the kids we bought a pair of socks and tied a ribbon and a tag on it and the tag said "You Knock my socks off" to cute and such a better allternative then candy. I made 17 of these and spent $16 dollars on socks. I bought the boys socks in pkg in the sock section and they had a 3pk on clearance. Then all the girl socks I bought in the dollar spot at Target.
Then for the Teachers and a couple of my friends I did a bottle of hand soap $1 at Target and tied a ribbon and tag with "I was SOAPIN you'd be my Valentine" super cute and I think well liked. I am looking forward to next year and what I can do then. Super fun!!!!!!!

Our New Puppy

We have a new Puppy, I am crazy because I had been trying to find a new home for our dog and possibly our cat a nd be pet free well instead we added to our pet family. But I think our dog "Aggie" was just lonely and now loves having a new buddy to play with. "Aggie" we got about 7 years ago we rescued him from Cavelier King Charles rescue, Brandon always wanted a Cavelier but they go for $1500-$2000 a dog and we just would not pay that much for this dog, well "Aggie" was abused as a puppy so he has some issues but he has gotten better over the years and now having a playmate and her name is "Zoey" it has been better for "Aggie" all though she has only been with us for 2 weeks (seems longer) puppies are hard work I will not lie about that. Zoey is 8 weeks now she came from a litter of 13 puppies and the mommy quit feeding them at 3 weeks. They say Zoey is part lab/bloodhound (mommy side) and Blue heeler (dad) but she really does not favor any of those very much we will just have to see when she is older what she is like, right now she is a cutie and just precious. Matty loves her, Ash on other hand doesn't know what to think. Well we will have to see now how it goes now with 3 animals but so far so good, and we dont plan on being in this house forever we want to move to land and a bigger house so it will be nice to have a bigger dog when we do that. I tried to get a picture of all the pets together but instead got this cute one of Matty and Zoey.

Homemade Laundry Soap

I do make my own laundry soap and I make it 5 gallons at a time and it lasts about 5 months sometimes longer. It costs me about $3 for 5 gallons which is awesome. In the picture I have a Meyers soap bar (I did not have a Fels-Naptha soap bar) I make it exactly like recipe below and I get all 3 ingredients on the laundry isle at Kroger. Enjoy let me know if you make it and use it what you think. If you want to try it I will sale you a gallon for $2. Gallon lasts me about a month. Happy Washing!!!!


Homemade Liquid Laundry Soap- Front or top load machine- best value

4 Cups - hot tap water
1 Fels-Naptha soap bar
1 Cup - Arm & Hammer Super Washing Soda*
½ Cup Borax

- Grate bar of soap and add to saucepan with water. Stir continually over medium-low heat until soap dissolves and is melted.

-Fill a 5 gallon bucket half full of hot tap water. Add melted soap, washing soda and Borax. Stir well until all powder is dissolved. Fill bucket to top with more hot water. Stir, cover and let sit overnight to thicken.

-Stir and fill a used, clean, laundry soap dispenser half full with soap and then fill rest of way with water. Shake before each use. (will gel)

-Optional: You can add 10-15 drops of essential oil per 2 gallons. Add once soap has cooled. Ideas: lavender, rosemary, tea tree oil.

-Yield: Liquid soap recipe makes 10 gallons.

-Top Load Machine- 5/8 Cup per load (Approx. 180 loads)

-Front Load Machines- ¼ Cup per load (Approx. 640 loads)

*Arm & Hammer "Super Washing Soda" - in some stores or may be purchased online here (at Meijer.com). Baking Soda will not work, nor will Arm & Hammer Detergent - It must be sodium carbonate!!