It's Like Magic!

One thing I really don't like to clean is a greasy stovetop...yuck. You know it's really hard to get clean since the spill-overs have been all cooked onto the stove and stuff. Even if you try to catch it before it gets too hot, it seems like I'm never fast enough. I have tried other products before but none of them have really done the job as good as I would have liked. So I went to the store and decided I would try to find something. I grabbed those "magic erasers" from Mr. Clean (they were like 2 bucks and I figured I could at least try them out. Plus they had a fabreze scent! I don't like when I clean the kitchen and then it smells like strong cleaning products. I dunno I guess I'm weird I just don't like to smell that when I'm cooking or eating. I really like the way fabreze smells since it smells more like an air freshioner rather than a toilet cleaner(if you know what I mean.) Anyways, I cleaned the stove with one of the erasers and it was like MAGIC! I'm tellin you, when I was done I was so excited to see such a clean stovetop lol. And the kitchen smelled like fresh meadows and rain lol. It says it'ssafe to use on furniture tops, so I think I'm going to try it out on the girls desks... they get a little marker happy sometimes. I will let you know how that turns out! Sorry I don't have before and after pictures, I ddin't think about posting about it until I was done. I can try and remember for next time lol.

Showdown!!

Since I am not working very much right now (cuz Charlotte Russe is dumb) I am watching the girls during the day mon-fri. It's summer so the girls want to practicley sleep in their bathing suits lol. Yesterday late afternoon, they came downstairs with their suits on and begged me to let them get wet with water balloons. I said yes as long as I was the water balloon filler. They agreed and we headed out. It was probably around 4:00pm and it was still blazing hot outside, so the girls couldn't wait to get their hands on those balloons. Plus they are two very competitive little girls, so the thought of blasting the other sister with a water balloon was just overwelming! They were getting a little impatient while we were filling up the balloons, but I knew that would happen. When we were done filling, each girl got to pick 10 balloons of their choice as their amo. Karina picked one big one and all the rest were small ones (better grip she said), Priscilla on the other hand wanted the biggest ones she could get (bigger splash I guess, who knows with her). How funny the difference in the two choices... I just thought it was funny. Anyways, I was thinking they were going to try and run from eachother, you know, dodging the balloons as much as possible. Nope not Karina and Priscilla. I came back outside from getting my camera in the house, and the two were standing facing eachother about 10 ft apart balloons in hand ready to go! lol I was like "omg this is like an old western shootout! Except for instead of old cowboys with long pants, cowboy boots and guns, it was little girls in bikinis bare foot with water balloons!! I started cracking up! I love those girls lol. So after the showdown they still felt the erge to be wet... that was a surprise, so I let them get eachother with the water hose for a little bit. They had fun with that too, then their feet started to get pretty muddy so we agreed we should call it a day with the water. All in all it was a lot of fun cooling off with the girls yesterday.

Karina gets her first throw in... and that girl has pretty good aim too.
This would be Priscilla's surprised/excited face. I get to see it quite often. It makes me giggle.
This was probably Priscilla's best throw of the day. I think maybe all but 3 or 4 completely missed Karina and popped on the grass lol. (I remind you they were standing right in front of eachother the whole time)
She does have a good arm on her though lol.

Even Harper wanted some fun with the balloons.




Easy target I guess lol.

Chris the Photogropher!!

Chris has decided that he likes to take random pictures lately. So I was going through the camera the other day and found a bunch of his snapshots. I thought I would share them, even though most of them are of me, and I might add not very flattering lol. Here he is getting creative with his car. I love how you can see him in the picture lol

This picture came out like this on accident, but Chris thought he was just amazing for getting it. It is a pretty cool pic lol.

This is from the Grand Canyon trail. There is supposed to be a lizard in there somewhere but I can't see it, maybe someone else can.

Matt on the road trip...random I know lol.

We were at Chili's for lunch. I wasn't in a very good mood, he must have been trying to get me to smile.

This is a trail at the Grand Canyon and I was feeling pretty crappy(like it's not obviously), but Chris was insistant that he needed a picture me under the rock archway. It was cool but I could have done without me in the picture.

Yes, Chris got me sleeping. This was when I first started feeling cruddy on the road trip, and took a nap.

Here I am reading a book minding my own buisness, and Chris took a picture... again very random.

And of course the bad hair day. He had to do it. This was a get up shower and go morning on the road trip lol.