Homemaker Ali!

We ran out of laundry soap and our clothes were stacking up, it was time to make more laundry soap. Thats right MAKE laundry soap. My mom found a receipe a few years ago and had to try it. She made the soap then tested it to see how well it really cleaned. She pulled out two old towls and spilled differnt liquids on them to see if it would really clean. She found that the soap she made cleaned better then the store bought she usually uses, plus it is so much cheaper to make your own!!

Greg and I recieved tons of laundry soap when we got married. That was such a great gift and really helped us out in the beginning. Once we ran out and I had to buy some I couldn't believe how much it was, and I was buying the cheapest stuff I could find. The cheap stuff sucked and really didn't clean our clothes like I would like. Then I remembered that my mom makes her own. I called and asked her a for the reciepe. I couldn't believe how cheap and easy it was!! I love this stuff and will never go back to buying laundry soap again!!

I spent about $8 for the ingredients and only used a little of each box. I am going to be able to make a few batches out of what I bought.

All you need is:

Washing soda

Borax

Fels Naphtha

Yes only 3 ingredients!!!

For a poor couple in school this really has helped save some serious bucks!! Here is the website we found the reciepe on and all the info! I highly recommend you try this.

http://www.thefamilyhomestead.com/laundrysoap.htm

Christmas is coming!

I just love this time of year! I love the holiday decorations, yummy food and time spent with family. Greg and I are so busy this month between school, work, family and our calling. We may be super busy but I love it! I love all the Christmas parties we get to go to.

Christmas decorations are so much fun and I love to see how everyone decorates their houses. I think I like it so much because I can steal ideas that they did!! Lucky for me, my mom likes to see how everyone decorates too.  Everyone in my family met up at my sisters house to see her cute decorations. I wish I would have taken more pictures, but oh well I'm a slacker. While we were there we ate some lunch and we made a christmas tree to take to my sister Amy at the hospital. The tree was so fun! She had a white poster board and paint. She painted each of our hands and we pressed them down to make the tree. It was such a fun idea.

I love this kid!!

All on his own he would sit in the fireplace and say "Put your finger by your nose and up the chimney you go!"

Next off we headed to Jill's house. We frosted some delicious sugar cookies to take to Amy. The kids loved it and had so much fun!!

He was frosting The Hulk.

Here is the finished cookie.... I have no words.

Elyse was dressed as Ms. Clause. She is so stinking cute!

Elyse and Meg attempting to frost some cookies.

The next step was our house. Our house was by far the coolest!! Greg found this amazing site where you can have Santa send your kids a message. We made one for each of them! It was so much fun to see their reaction while they watched it! I need to put the videos up. They were so much fun and believable.

I don't know who is more amazed, Elyse or Grandma.

I love how they can't look away from the tv!

Penny was a little excited with so many people there!

Next off we were off to visit Amy in the hospital!

The kids...and Greg and fun with the toys.

Santa giving Amy a present.

Ayden made Amy some great pictures!

Oh doughnuts.

I think Meg only ate the frosting..

It was such a fun day and I loved seeing everyone's houses. They each had their own style and theme for Christmas and loved both of them! My sisters are so good at decorating, I have much to learn from them. It was also so great to go see Amy as a family. Update on Amy: Her and her baby boys are doing so great! They are getting bigger and stronger. Last I heard they were up to 4lbs each!! They have also set a date! The babies will be here on Dec. 30th!! I am so excited and happy for Amy and Jace!!

Also this weekend we had Meg sleep over. It was so much fun!! I was a little nervous on how she would behave, but she was amazing!! She was such a good little girl. She never threw a fit or got upset about anything. It was a great weekend.

Greg's dad took us to Taco Bell for dinner.  She loves her quesadilla's!!

After dinner we headed to Greg's parents house to watch a basketball game his dad had recorded. Meg was so great there and played until she crashed!! Penny was getting a little sleepy too. As we were putting Meg in her carseat to leave she started to cry because she was so tired. She was screaming and not happy!! I could not get her to calm down. Penny had enough and looked back at her and went to lick her feet and Meg stopped crying waved and said "Hi Penny!!" It was so funny! She didn't cry after that. She loves Penny so much!

Meg also went to church with us. I don't think she liked that Greg had to sit on the stand and not with us, but once we started taking pictures she was totally fine with it! I'm a horrible example.

She got a little bored in Relief Society. She colored some great pictures for me!

It was so much fun to have her. She is one funny girl! We need to dothis again, but with my other nieces nephews!! I think Elyse might be next!

A day in the life of Ali.

This morning started just like every other morning. I woke up at 5:30 showered, did my make up (not my hair, the perks of going to hair school!) got my breakfast ready and put on the clothes I had set out the night before so I wouldn't wake up sleeping Greg. I walked into our room and saw the floral inside of the shoes I wanted to wear. I put on my shoes and tip-toed over to kiss Greg goodbye then stopped to say goodbye to Penny who was watching me. As I was walking out of our house I had to tip toe because on of my shoes was being loud. Weird, I know. I make my drive to school drinking my hot chocolate and listening to the Morning Zoo. As I am walking into school I notice that one of my shoes is still being loud. What could be stuck to it. I look down and this is what I see.

How smart am I? I had to go all day at school with two totally different shoes. And to prove how stupid I am, the red one is a wedge and the purple is a flat! So all the time I was wondering why one was loud was because it had a heal. So all day I was one foot loud and a little taller on my left side. Go me!

For Amy

Poor Amy is stuck in the hospital and is allregic to dogs so she won't be able to see my cute new puppy!! She has requested that I post more pictures of her so she can see her. So here you go Amy! Here are the lovely pictures from my phone. Most of them she is alseep because if she is awake we are busy stopping her from chewing on everything!! Look at the funny positions she sleeps in, it kills me! I don't know how some would be comfortable at all.

She is just so cute and fun!! Oh I love her!

Let me fill you in on whats been going on in the Cannon home.

I have lost my camera cord. I have no clue where it is. I am getting really frustrated because without my camera cord I cannot post pictures. Well I can, but I blog and work and my work computer does not have a SD card slot. LAME!! So that is why I have been absent and  I'm just to lazy to blog at my house.

We have been having so much fun this fall. We have been somewhat enjoying the football season. BYU is not that great this year but they are still fun to watch when you don't want to kill certain players. We switched to DirectTV and have NFL ticket now. Greg was so excited to get it so he could finally be able to watch all of the Colts games. Just his luck, the year we get NFL ticket the Colts go 0-8. With Peyton out its been a rough year. Poor Greg is not enjoying football season as much as he normally does. But he still watches every single game!

A few weeks ago we headed out with Greg's family and friends to Cherry Creek to go camping and dirtbiking. We had so much fun and hated coming back. I love getting away from everything and just enjoying the outdoors. We went on some great rides and enjoyed being with everyone. This was trip was perfect timing too. It was right after midterms and something Greg really needed to finally relax and not be so stressed! When I fianlly get around to it I will be putting up lots of pictures from that trip!!

My sister Kylie had her little boy!! Cole is the cutest chubby cheek baby! I am still a little afraid of babies so I have only held him a few times, but when I look at him you just can't help but smile! His brother and sister love him so much along with his cousins. It is so much fun to have a new baby in the family! I can't wait til Amy's two little ones get here! She has had a hard pregnancy and boy has it been scary! She had to fly to San Fran to get a surgery so the little guys could both get nutrients since baby B was no longer getting any. It was a really scary time when we were unsure of what would happen. How blessed those babies have been in their recovery. They are making great progress and things are looking so much better for them! When Amy was leaving San Fran she was told that she would need to stay in the hospital until the babies are born so they can check on them every day. Amy is 25 weeks along. She will most likely have the babies early but that still means she will be in the hospital for about 10 weeks!! I feel so bad for her. I would lose my mind being there for that long! But what a blessing it is that she can get them checked everyday. She is doing great and has such an amazing attitude.

This past week has been pretty exciting for Greg and I. We finally got our new iphones and are loving them!! They are so amazing and so much fun! I have been taking so many pictures on it and will be taking many many more. We have been waiting for these phones for so long and they finally came! Christmas was early at our house since this is what we decided we would do for our presents. Well I thought thats what we were doing until Friday night when Greg came home with a little surprise.

We had been talking forever that we wanted to get a dog but we just couldn't afford one now. I decided to save and maybe next year we could get one. We kept talking about them and I really wanted one!! Last week Greg was being a little more weird then he ususally is. He kept asking what kind of dog I wanted, what I would name it and all sorts of stuff. He told me his friends was going to give him his old kennel and we would just hold it till we got a dog.  He also kept saying that Friday was a big day and that it would be the best weekend ever. I figured he was saying that because Friday his anatomy test would be done, we would get our iphones, and BYU was playing TCU. He almost had me fooled until Friday at lunch. As we were eating he tells me that we need to start using our camcorder more and that he would have it going when he got home that night to just document what its like to come home. I saw right threw him! I had a feeling he was bringing a puppy home with him that night and told my sister so I could have a witness. He came home that night and with Penny! She is a half Golden Retriever/Yellow Lab mix. I love her so much!! She is just the cutest cuddling puppy every!!

Best early Christmas EVER!!!

Not to brag or anything...

....but I have the cutest nieces and nephew ever!!! They are so much fun and so cute. I love them so much and cannot get enough of them. They each have such different personalities but play so well with each other. My family just went on a camping trip that Greg and I were unable to make. My sister sent me the pictures she took and I loved looking at them. It looks like they had so much fun and I wish I could have gone. While I was looking at the pictures, everyone I saw of the kids I thought was the cutest thing I had ever seen. I can picture what they were doing in each one and just loved it. I just had to share the cute pictures!

Yes, I know that was a ton of pictures!! I just love them so much and can't wait to see them agian! I hope my kids are half as cute as these ones. I can't wait for more of them to come into our family!

These two are due in January with their first kids....yes I said kids. She is having twins!!!! I am so excited to get two new little ones to play with.

And this lady is having her third on Wednesday!! I am so excited for her and can't wait to see the little guy. We are finlly getting another boy. Mack is so excited to have a brother to play with.

My sisters better keep popping them out because I won't for awhile and I want cute kids to play with!!