Santa Visit and Snowflakes.

We had Santa visit our house. Italia got him all to her self for about an hour and then some friends and neighbors stopped by all at once to get their turns:) It was fun. Italia had a hard time sharing Santa with all the others since she had him so long to herself. She talked to him and told him all she wanted for Christmas and asked him lots of questions.
Later this evening I decided we needed another activity since someone was a little whiny. So we made snowflakes it was fun:)

Thanksgiving/ Knitting

Make sure to checkout my knitting blog. Melodeesknitknacks.blogspot.com. This is my latest knit. I really like it.

Thanksgiving was good. However I forgot to take pics so these are the only pics I took. It was me, Donny, Italia, Scott. and then Scott's bro Mark, Scott's friend Chris and Chris' son Matt came down from Colorado. I cooked the whole thing and even though it wasn't perfect and I would do things differently I think it turned out well.

And then there was SNOW!

Well my car is out there since I couldn't get it back in. On Monday morning I had to dig out the drive way enough to get out. I am sure glad I did my errands than because today would have been impossible so we can have Thanksgiving! When I got back later in the afternoon I couldn't go any farther up my driveway without getting stuck and I didn't want to try and succeed to go barreling through my garage door. So I park and hiked many loads of groceries through 2 feet of snow. I really wanted to shovel enough today to at least get my car in but it was horribly windy so I opted to stay inside however, at about 5 it cleared up a little so I did what I could but I am not even close to being able to bring my car in. Maybe tomorro.

Halloween at last:)

We had a lot of fun. Italia was Merleigha from the Barbie Mermaid Tale movie. I was a spider. On Friday She got to dress up for her dance class. Then later we went to Trick or Treat Street then that night we went to my mom's ward Halloween party. That night Donny and I got to go to the Straight no Chasers concert. It was great you should search for them on Youtube. Than Saturday we had friends over for a halloween lunch and I made Jack o lanterns stuffed with worms. Right as I took the pic of lunch my camera died and I had to charge the battery. That night Donny took Italia trick or treating and I handed out candy. It was a great couple of days:)

Pumpkins

Okay so I really dislike the fact that blogger doesn't actually show my pics anymore when I upload them until I publish it.

Homemade Lanudry Soap!

I just washed my first batch of laundry with my homemade soap. this recipe is floating around on a lot of different blogs. My clothes smelled and looked clean and a chocolate milk stain even came out.

Homemade Liquid Laundry Soap. For top or front load washing machines.

4 Cups Hot tap water
1 bar Fels-Naptha soap ($1.00 a bar)
1 c Arm and Hammer Super Washing soda ( it was about $3.00 for the whole box)
1/2 C borax (about $3.00 a box)

grate soap and add to sauce pan with water. Melt over medium-low heat stirring often.

Fill a 5 gallon bucket half way with hot tap water. Add soap, borax, and washing soda. Stir until dissolved. Then fill the bucket up the rest of the way with hot water and stir well. Cover and let sit overnight to thicken and gel up.

Stir then using a used cleaned laundry soap bottle fill it up half way with soap and the other half with more water. Shake then use:)

Makes 10 gallons.

Top load washing machines use 5/8 c per load (about 180 loads)

Front load washing machines use 1/4 c per load (about 640 loads)

Make sure to shake before each use.

*must use washing soda. Baking soda will not work.

If you had to buy a bucket and everything you can get everything for under $20. The box of soda and borax will probably make 5 recipes. I bought a couple extra bars of soap so I have everything on hand when I need it. I also used a gamma lid on my bucket to make it more convenient.

okay here is a post.

Okay my only excuse is those darn knitting needles get glued to my hands:) I have given up okay just limited my bloging/computer using. I usually just do a quick check from my phone and hardly ever spend time on the computer. I am addicted to knitting. I am also trying to knit a lot of christmas gifts. I am taking some knitting classes. Plus all the other projects I want to do.

Donny had a bday he turned 31.




We decided against sending Italia to preschool this year but I do some "school" at home with her so I made a big deal about the first day and got her up and and ready and took pics.
Donny's cake
Earwarmer/headband with out the flower that is coming.
Italia modeling a hat I made

Nursery Mishap

Italia had a little accident in Nursery yesterday. I got brought bloody mouth little girl. The nursery leaders hand was also covered in blood. I don't really know what happened, neither does the nursery leader because Italia didn't cry instantly she just turned around and had a bloody mouth. I think that she was playing outside with a couple other kids and was probably running up and down the steps like I constantly tell her not to do and tripped. Her teeth bit into her bottom lip and then her top 3 teeth where bleeding all around and where a little loose. I ended up calling a dentist emergency number because I didn't know how concerned I needed to be since I over react to everthing:) And I had no one else to help me decide. I did what he told me and she has an appointment on Wednesday just so a dentist can look at them and tell me if anything is going to happen to them permantly.



This morning I was trying to get a pic of her upper lip because she woke up with it swollen she looks like a mouse. Or one of the Who people from " The Grinch"




This is after church

Catch up.

So it has been pretty busy around here hopefully I can remember everything.

Amber, Carter, and Addie were here visiting so we hung with them here and there. Than on wednesday night Donny came home from work and he came home early because he had an ear infection and needed to get into the dr. so we headed to the community care in town. He got two antibiotics pills and drops but we decided we would get them in the morning since we had lots to do and we were heading out of town in the morning.

So Thursday morning we headed into town to meet my dad and Sams Club and we did that then headed to Walgreens. After about 20 mins wait we were called back and told that our insurance wasn't working. Great. We weren't about to pay $100+ for something when is should be closer to $15. So we left. We headed off to Utah. As we were traveling Donny called his company and eventually got the right insurance info, apparently we never received the new card when it was issued. So we figured we would stop at the first convient pharmacy. We stopped in Tremonton and had lunch and then were on our way to Ogden to see the Dinosaur park. I was pretty impressed with it for the price we paid and if it wasn't so stinking hot we could have stayed longer since it had a lot of play areas. After that we headed to Angel's House in Hyrum. We hung out there for a while and visited with her and her new baby Evey. When it was time to go meet her hubby at the dairy we left and swung by a pharmacy missing the closing time by 10 mins. Then grabbed dinner and headed to the barn. Italia has been asking to go see Angel's cows for a while now so we did. She got to see how they milk the cows and feed the babies. She also got to pet and feed the horsed, here favorite. We then headed to Angel's grandparents house they were kind enough to let us stay the night.
The next morning we got up and went to breakfast then finally found a pharmacy. Then we headed back to the barn then back to Angel's to hang out for a few more minutes. We then hit Gossners for our milk run and swung by My Aunt Shelly's house. After a stop for gas and one for lunch we finally were on our way.
Right as we went through Preston Italia decided to throw up so we stopped to clean that up. Now we were on our way. We had quite a few slow downs which wouldn't be quite so bad but we were on a time schedule. We had to be back in time to get ready to go to my Step bros wedding and we had to be on time since I was the photographer. We made it in time barely:). The wedding was nice and I got some good photos.
The next day Saturday Lexie, Emma, and Aiden where flying in but Donny, Italia, and I had a funeral to go to. Donny's grandma died. It seemed like a nice service I wouldn't know since I was in the hall with Italia since she was being a pill. After the funeral Donny headed off with his brother to ride dirt bikes. And Italia and I meet up with Lexie and the kids.
Sunday was church and then Mom, Scott, Lexie,and the kids headed to our house for the evening.
Monday we stayed around home to get some much needed chores done, I grocery shopped, did dishes, cleaned up, Shampooed carpets. Plus lots more. Then that evening we meet up for dinner At Destinees.
Tuesday Donny, my dad, Lexie, Emma, Aiden, Italia, Dreadyn, and I went fishing. It was fun. The kids played in the water and they all had a chance to "catch" a fish. Reel one in that my Dad caught. Italia and I actually caught one. It was a funny story we had just started and I had just figured out how to cast Italia's new princess pole and did the first real cast and I felt a little something but it was breezy so I figured it was the wake so I asked Italia if she caught a fish and she said yes so I told her to reel it in and when the hook came out of the water there was a fish on it! All the fish that were caught were just babies that we let go. Also the kids saw "sharks" and would all come screaming and running out of the water.
Wednesday Donny left for work. Emma and my mom got sick.
Thrusday we hung out with Lexie and kids and then went to a play. Italia loved it.
Friday my mom brought the kids out to my house for the afternoon to play.
Saturday was an adventure.
Italia and I woke up early and got ready to go garage selling. I felt a little queasy but that happens when I wake up early. We weren't even driving for 5 mins when Italia threw up in the car. So we turned around and came back home I called my mom to tell her we weren't coming. Right after I got her cleaned up she said she was feeling better and wanted to go garage selling. So off we went again. I should have known better(even though Italia throws up all the time so it wasn't really an indicator) but there were a couple garage sells that I really wanted to go to:)
We weren't even there very long when Italia was saying her tummy hurt so we headed to the bathroom. She threw up and I caught it in the bowl and all the sudden I was going to throw up so I yelled at my mom to come in and she thought I was just gagging because Italia was throwing up so she was quite surprised when I turned around and threw up:).
So Italia and I hurried and left so we could get home hopefully without any more puke.
We were sick the rest of the day and into the next.
It is hard being sick when you are a mom but even more so when you are sick at the same time as your child because they need you to take care of them and you can barely take care of your self.

Summer Fun

Here is an update of some fun we have been having the past couple weeks. Since Donny was up at work for the fourth we didn't do to many of the fourth activities because we were going to celebrate the next week when he was home.


Amber, Carter, and Addison came up to visit on the 4th we went to gameworld and played and had lunch.




Then the following Saturday we had a BBQ at our house
Italia was in her swimsuit all day for about 2 or 3 days
The new grill.
Before our firework show.
Carter dancing in the strobe lights
Italia had to too. It sure made for some interesting pics.