Sorry Peoples!

My good neighbor informed me a long time ago that she couldn't get my recipe for countertop cleaner to work. I haven't made my own batch because I was still using up the supply of store bought that I had. I finally checked to see if I had messed when posting it. Sure enough, what do you know! Here is a better recipe. I hope everyone is enjoying saving money and putting these ingredients into their food storage so that they can have their cleaning supplies built up.

Kitchen Countertop cleaner

2 tsp. borax
1 tsp. liquid dish soap
1 quart of warm water

Mix and put in spray bottle


Here is another one to try also- this is one of Sarah Snow's recipe, you may have seen her on John and Kate plus eight

1 cup vinegar and 1 cup water. This works on almost anything especially ward water build up.

Sadie and Halen

I can't believe they turned 8 years old yesterday! It seems impossible. We celebrated with about 25 friends on Friday afternoon, barbequeing hotdogs and making ice cream sundays. They had fun playing freeze tag, doing relay races and anything else they could think of. I think that even the neighbors were happy when the party ended, they were so loud! It was fun choas and Sadie and Halen loved it, they are used to chaos I am pretty sure. Sadie and Halen are best of friends and they are pretty special in our family. It seems like yesterday they were 2 and talking to each other a language only they understood and for Halen it was silent language. They kept me running like crazy. Some of the fun memories that we have of them when they were small was when Halen let Sadie climb on his back so she could reach the door knob. Sadie and Halen purposely hiding from Grandma Taylor while she was babysitting, made her panic when she couldn't find the pair of 2 year olds. They happened to be spotted by the neighbor just hanging out on the side of the house. Another fun memory was watching Halen drive the Barbie jeep with Sadie right beside him telling him how he should be doing it at age of 3. They were arguing as if they were a mini married couple. Life would not be the same without them, they were a suprise in the beginning and they continue to suprise us still.

Happy Birthday Sadie & Halen

Zip Line

We rode in this buggy up to the ziplines.
There were 9 different zip lines to go across the canyons.

There was a waterfall and lunch waiting at the end where we could swim. Tubes were there for us to float and they provided a lunch. There was even a pavillion to get out of the sun.It was a fun last day on the island.

Luau

We spent another day snorkeling and going back to our favorite beaches.Poipu Beach (Poy-poo)After a full day of playing we went to the Smith Plantation, where we saw the beautiful gardens.
The Luau dancers were great.

Dinner was good and I liked eating all the fresh fruits. I tried the poy but there is not much taste and the purple color threw me off. I guess I expected it to be white. The pineapple was the best.

The natives do a ceremony before eating the pig to honor it.

The underground oven where they cook the piggy.

Taking the layer of sand off that keeps the pig hot.

Catamaran Trip

What a great way to spend our anniversary.This is not my photography and I did not get a great shot at the dolphins but they followed our boat on many occasions. We also seen some spinner dolphins they are smaller and jump high out of the water and do a spin in the air. They were fun to watch and they seemed to be following the whales.

We saw lots of humpback whales along the Na Pali Coast, this also is not my photography but they were very tricky to catch because the boat is moving with the waves and they only come out of the water for a second. This is what we seen them doing. The whales can be seen in Hawaii from Dec.- April so we were at the very end of the season but we seen them everywhere. The whales come to Hawaii for the winter to give birth, mate, and nurse their young before heading back to Alaska where they eat all summer long.

Beautiful! Na Pali coast

Hey I actually did catch a fin coming out of the water.

Ty was able to go scuba diving, he had a blast, I think the neatest thing was that he was able to hear the whales under the water.

I stuck to snorkeling while Ty was scuba diving at one point I was surrounded by fish and I came up to take a break from the mask that I couldn't seem to stop breathing through my nose with. When I did so I realized that the captain of our boat had thrown some pretzels out. I had heard that they will sometimes go into a feeding frenzie and I didn't want any part of that so I started splashing them away as quick as I could. Right after that I heard someone in the water yell Shark! I looked at them and they seemed to be fine so I thought that they were joking. I looked at the boat and the captain was watching us and he didn't say anything either. I continued to snorkel and when I came back up I was the only one left in the water. I went back to the boat and was later told that there was a baby shark spotted in the water. I am glad that I did not learn that while I was out there, because I would have panicked.
What a fun trip!