zoo and Apollo goes to the vet

A word of advice, NEVER go to the Austin Zoo. I have never seen a worse zoo. We saw everything in 20 minutes and the cages the animals were in were so sad. They barely had room to move. We drove over an hour to see this zoo. We just wanted to go to a different one this time. We usually go to Waco and we like that zoo alot. So I think next time we will just go to Waco again. I only got a couple of pictures, but here they are. One funny thing did happen there though. I was feeding a goat some goat food out of a bag and another one came up, put his feet up on the fence and grabbed the whole bag and took off. He did this very fast and I was yelling at David, "Get the bag, hes eating it!!!!" lol It was quite funny!

Apollo gets to go to the Vet today. He gets to have a micro chip put in his shoulder, this will have all his info. When we move again we just take him into the vet there and they will change his address and stuff. That way if he gets lost they can just scan him and he will be found again! lol I hope he does well. David will be taking him in, so I wont be there.

Well thats pretty much all that is going on at our house right now. Its pretty calm here now, which is a good thing :)

Regimental Bash and camping

Yesterday the regiment had a big family day. Really, it wasnt much fun so we left early and went to some friends house. After the girls played with thier friends for awhile I thought we were going home, but David surprised us and took us out to eat at Chillis. After we got our bellies full we headed to Barnes and Noble. A wonderful store! I needed to pick up the second book in the Twilight series. Im already half done with it! and then to Dicks Sporting goods. We are going to go camping in the next couple of months so we needed to start getting things to do that. We bought a tent yesterday. Cant wait to get it set up and try it out. David wants to camp in the backyard one night before we take it out for real. We were going to do it tonight but I think it is going to be a bit too cold. Next weekend looks much more promising though.

Tomorrow I think we are going to head to Austin to check out thier zoo there. So you should see some pics on here of that!

Laundry Soap Recipe

Here is the recipe that I had emailed to me. I am going to get the stuff this weekend to try it! Im kind of excited about it and it will save us so much money! If you guys try it I hope it works out for you too!


1 bar of Fels Naptha grated. I buy this at Woods in the Tide isle.
1 cup of Arm and Hammer super washing soda
5 gallons hot tap water

Put grated soap in to a medium sauce pan filled ¾ up with tap water. Let this simmer, DO NOT BOIL, till the shreds are all dissolved. You will need to stir this every little bit.
Put the 1 cup of super washing soda into the bottom of a 5 gallon bucket, fill up the bucket to about ¾ full with hot tap water. I do this in the bathtub. By the time the bucket is about full, the soap will be dissolved. Pour the dissolved soap water into the bucket and stir really good. Put the bucket in the pantry and let it sit over night. It will congel. The next morning go into the bucket with both hands and just stir the dickens out of it till it is a liquid jel. (It will set up like jello overnight, so you will need to really work it to get it in to liquid form.) Use about 1 cup per load.

It costs about 1.50 to make 5 gallons of this stuff. You can get a lot of good tightwadding ideas off the internet from sites like tightwad.com and budget101.com. Just type in cheapskate, tightwad, stuff like that on google and it will pull up some good ones. I also like the couponing sites, like valupage, coupon surfer, smartsource, ect.

Money Saving Mama!

I have been really big on saving money lately.  I have been looking for every avenue available to save us some mulla so we can just start putting that money away in our savings for a rainy day.  I havent got to do much yet cause we are having to wait til next payday to use our coupons and stuff, but Im excited to see how much we will save.  I am also going to try my hand at making our own laundry soup.  Someone sent me a recipe for it and you only have to spend a few dollars for five gallons.  That will last us quite a while!  I like that price too compared to almost $20 for a two week supply.  We do alot of laundry here, cause I have to wash his Pt's every day after he gets done with his exercising every morning.  Boy do they get stinky! lol  If anyone wants to know the recipe let me know and I will post it.  I cant wait to make it.  I will do that this week sometime.  i will take pics so you all can see how it turned out.  

Amy this is mainly for you.  I don't know if you know about it or not.  There is a website called www.militaryshoppers.com where you can get coupons and stuff for the commissary so you can check that out if you want. They have coupons on there too for like sears photo studio and all kinds of things. 

Alright well that's all I have to say for today!

Not much going on

like the title says there is not much going on here. Just relaxing after a very busy vacation. I think we all needed some down time after that one! lol I think this summer though we are going to try and go camping. I found a really cool camp ground not too far from us. So hopefully we will get to do that.

I added a picture of Apollo that David took yesterday. Its so funny! lol

more pictures

ok bear with me here, I added lots of pics.  mostly cause Grandma asked!

eating mickey ice cream

our girls

in front of the tree of life

sideways pic of constance's face paint

sideways pic of ivy's face paint

resturaunt we ate at at epcot

four of us with goofy!

donald!

us girls and minnie!

pluto!

mickey!

like father like daughter

in front of indiana jones jeep

four of us at minnies house!

saved the best for last! lol

having fun at Disney!!!!

Just wanted to say a quick hello from Disney!!!  Here are a few pics.  My mom requested some! lol  Here are a few of my favorites.  

yesterday we started off our vacation at the magic Kingdom.  The girls got to see lots of Characters and we rode lots of rides.  We plan on going back there tomorrow.  Today we went to Hollywood Studios.  We didnt stay there for long though.  It is more for adults and not young children, so I think in a bit we are going to head to Downtown Disney for some shopping and fun.  Dont know if I will get to update again or not while we are here, but I will definately have lots more pics when we get home!

Goodbye Texas, Hello Florida!!!!!

We head out for Florida tomorrow. Im sooooo excited, but I will be glad when the flight is over and we are in our hotel room. I dont know when I will be able to post pics but I will try! Well I cant write a ton, I still have packing to do! Go figure, I leave it to the last minute! lol

Here are a few pics from the park today!