recipe for laundry detergent

A while back, several people wanted us to share the recipe for homemade laundry detergent. We just got the recipe from this website: http://www.thefamilyhomestead.com/laundrysoap.htm
...Hope you make it too- it cleans our clothes and it might as well clean yours!

Flash Back

Hello family and friends,

We never had the chance to post a blog about Millie's B-Day party so . . . we thought we would do it now.

Here is Millie and Elle munching on some pizza at the Party. Got to love the hats:)

Millie and her friend Haru

Here is Tye missing a picture of Millie blowing out her candles, but getting a lovely profile shot of Kyle.

Millie loved the cupcakes we made for her birthday (well . . . at least she liked the frosting on the cupcakes).

Here is Millie with her good friend Lannie being silly as always.

Here is Millie looking at all the cards she received on her birthday. She was quite pleased.

The next two pictures are of Millie doing crafts and eating lunch with Tye at the U of Michigan Botanical Gardens.

As always, thanks for reading the blog and catching up on our lives. Life's a roller coaster, but it's always so much fun with Millie.

Love,

The Reeders

Funny Millie

Well, the days pass and Millie is a funny 3 year old and I pretty much don't ever record the funny things she says. So here's a few funnies...

So, we are having a baby girl around July 26ish and we are think about naming the baby Savannah (but don't start calling it that yet- we're not quite sure). We've told Millie about the idea of this name and she's seemed excited about it and has started calling my tummy "Bannah." Today she was talking to Bannah and I wanted to see if she could say the full name so I said, "Millie, can you say 'Sa-Vannah'"? So she repeated "Sa-Bannah" and I told her good job. After this, she looked at me and asked, "Mommy, why Sa?" I told her that "Sa" sounds pretty as the beginning of the name Savannah. After this she commented by saying, "Momma, I Sa-Millie." She looked very happy about this so I played along with her and said "Yes, Sa-Millie does sound pretty too!"

Also today, Millie was on the toilet taking care of some business. I was sitting on the stool next to her waiting for her to finish. She was close enough that she could easily touch me. She reached over and very gently put her hand under my chin and oh-so-carefully lifted it up. Then she proceeded to gaze into my eyes and caress my face. After doing this for probably 30 seconds, she said very seriously, "Momma, you very special to me." This was a cute and it's nice to hear that she loves me :)

A week or so ago, Millie was sitting at the table eating lunch. She looked at me very seriously and said, "Momma, do you love me?" She seemed to really need to know this so I talked to her about how much I love her so she would be sure of it.

Well, there's a few Millie moments for you. I hope to post them more often so we don't forget what our sweet girl is doing and saying from day to day.

Disney world

Hi friends and fam-

We went to Florida March 4-6 and made a stop at Disney World. Here's some pics of the trip. We also drove almost 2 hours to Gainesville so Kyle could talk to a professor there and see the law school that he'll be attending in August for an LLM in Tax program. The Florida trip was a lot of fun but it was hard to come home to cold Michigan. But this week is supposed to be a nice one, so
I'm looking forward to that. Here are some pictures from our vacation.

Millie loved eating breakfast out on the balcony.

As we crossed the lake on the ferry to Disney World, Millie was so excited to see the Castle. She said that she wanted to wake-up Sleeping Beauty, which (as you see in the next picture) she did.

Millie's favorite ride was Dumbo! She had a blast!

We thought Millie would be afraid of a big Winnie the Pooh, but she wasn't. She ran right up to him and gave him a hug.

Millie also loved the Swiss Family Robinson Tree House and Tom Sawyer Island.

Millie was so pooped by the end of the day that she fell asleep on Dad's shoulder.

We really liked the resort we were able to stay at. It had a very nice pool area where Millie, Mom, and Dad had a ton of fun (you can see Tye's pregnant belly from this wonderful side shot, yes its a girl).

Millie was really excited to take pictures by Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty at Downtown Disney.

Millie made some really great friends while she was there:)!

These are Good Times

We did not know Millie's mouth could open so wide either. We let Millie listen to "Were'd All the Good People Go" by Jack Johnson and she liked it, but she thought it said "where all the weird people go." She couldn't stop signing about it:)! Anyways . . . for your viewing pleasure we present Millie on the Ukulele.

Hi friends! My friend Nicole did the following on her blog and now I'm doing it too. Want to know what it is? Read on quick so you can be one of the first 5 to comment!

First Five.

The first five people to respond to this post will get something handmade by me! My choice. For you. This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:

1- I make no guarantees that you will like what I make!
2- What I create will be just for you.
3- It'll be done this year.
4- You have no clue what it's going to be. But I promise that I will take time to think of something that seems right for me to send you! :)
5- I reserve the right to do something extremely strange.

The catch? Oh, the catch is that you must repost this on your blog and offer the same to the first 5 people who do the same on your blog. The first 5 people to do so and leave a comment telling me they did will win a FAB-U-LOUS homemade gift by me! Oh, and be sure to post a picture of what you win when you get it!

LATER DUDES!

Here we go!

25 things you might want to know (people have been doing this on facebook, but my blog needs to be updated more than facebook, so the list will be here)

1- I am 17 weeks pregnant
2- I am feeling much better
3- My 2 year old wants to hold her new baby desperately
4- I am due July 26
5- Kyle WILL be in Florida taking the bar exam on July 28-29, good one
6- I am re-introducing beans and vegetables into my diet
7- I am in need of a maid to clean my house
8- My husband is making brownies
9- My husband understands I would rather have a potted plant than cut flowers
10- I feel better about myself when I recycle
11- I just declared my love to my husband after he requested that I do so
12- Fair trade is cool, but what exactly does it mean?
13- Kyle and I make our own homemade laundry detergent
14- Actually, Kyle makes it
15- Millie sleeps in a toddler bed now
16- Drinking water out of aluminum bottles tastes better than plastic
17- I like Millie's funny noises
18- Walt Disney World? What's the big deal?
19- I like root beer flavored with cane juice
20- Should I keep the futons when we move?
21- I think Nikki should post a new blog even though she's married now
22- Shay should post a new blog after the in-laws leave
23- At the end of my yoga classes, I massage heads with essential oils
24- I love the clothes that still fit me, despite my growing size
25- I am married to a bearded man