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.

Savannah in the Spotlight

Last week Savannah(the oldest of the three girls-going to be 12 on July 12th) graduated from the sixth grade. She is moving onto the junior high next year, woohoo! I guess in California the schools have a graduation ceremony when they go from elementary to middle school, from middle school to junior high, from junior high to high school and then of course from high school. I think it's a little much but whatever. So anyways we all went to her graduation ceremony which Chris tried to get pictures of but for some reason they just didn't turn out. But we did get some pictures after the ceremony. That weekend Savannah and her best friend Domo wanted to have a graduation party. It was a Hawaiian themed pool party at Domo's house. It was really cute. There was pizza, nachos and they even had cups that were halves of coconuts with little umbrellas lol. Good thing it was a pool party because I think it was like 106 degrees that day. It was hot. So after the pool party all the kids wanted to go to this place called Skate Express. It is a skating rink that is like the "hang out" for kids Savannah's age. Sonia, Dad, Karina, Priscilla, Savannah, her friend Domo and her parents plus a few of the kids from the party all went skating. I guess my dad busted his butt a couple of times and Sonia chickened out when she saw the rink lol. So she just watched and supervised lol. I think Savannah had a fun time, so I say it was a success. Here is Savannah and her friend Domo after the graduation ceremony.

Savannah and her friends are cooling off in the pool.

Priscilla(left) and Karina(right) are eating some nachos. The cheese was a little spicy so they kept making that sucking in air noise when you eat something hot lol. But they insisted that they could finish their nachos lol. Got to love those girls!

Check out thse cool guys rockin their super sweet shades lol.

Cali Update!

Well it's definately sunny here, but along with the sunnyness comes the heat. Yea driving around in Chris's car is not very pleasant let me tell you. Dark interior, parking in the sun, no ac and driving around in 90 degree weather... not my style. But we are looking to find a car for me... with ac lol. We found one we really liked so we are trying to figure out all that. But man insurance is expensive out here!! So we are just trying to figure it out. Anyways, Chris got a job he actually found out he got it today so that eased his mind a bit, he was getting a little agitated since the process is such a long one. He got the assistant manager position at a gamestop about 20min away from our house. So that's good. I turned in a ton of applications last week so if I don't start getting any calls soon I am going to start calling them. Right now that's pretty much are biggest concern, we do pick-up my youngest sister Priscilla Mon-Thursat 11:30am and then feed her lunch. She hangs out with us most of the afternoons wherever we go... I think she likes it. I try and keep up on the dishes, trash and the girls around the house to help out. We have been the 24/hr babysitters for Dad and Sonia but I don't think they mind lol. We have been doing little cook-outs at my Dad's friends' house(Mario and Tammy.) That's been pretty cool too they have a pool which is nice. So hopefully I can get a job and a car soon! I will try to keep everyone posted, we love and miss everybody!!

This picture and the one above is Mario and Tammy's house. I like this picture because of all the palm trees!

This is Mario's truck. There are so many people driving around with these huge trucks out here. Personally, I think it's a little ridiculous. But everybody loves them! We even see women driving these things. I dunno how they afford the gas. Anyways, just thought I would give you guys a liitle taste of what we see everyday lol.

Grand Canyon

Here is a pretty killer lookin cactus. I thought that it looked like it had strwberries on top lol.

Here is a picture of Matt who walked right passed this sign trying to get a better picture of one of those birds. And of you can't tell the pucture in the middle of the sign is a person falling off the side of a cliff. I thought this was pretty funny.

The red warning sign was saying that you should not try to walk all the way down and back up the canyon in one day since there was such a chance of dehydration.

On our way to California we went to the Grand Canyon since none of us had ever seen it and it was on the way... well kind of. So we stopped there and man was it hot! Well I guess it wasn't that bad but I wasn't really feeling that great. We were all passing our germs around to each other the whole week from being in that car for such a long time, so Matt passed his stuffy nose and sore throat to me. My body was all confused, Chris kept saying I felt warm but I felt like I needed my hoody on then I got hot then I got cold again... I was just all messed up that day. Anyways, we walked on a path that went around part of the rim of the canyon. It was pretty neat to see it in person and to see how big it was. The rock was really red, it was really sandy and dry but then there were like trees and bushes everywhere? Quite interesting lol. But I guess God Knows where everything belongs so it doesn't matter if I think it's strange lol. I guess Chris was reading a pamphlet and read something about these birds called condors that had up to a 9ft wing span. So of course the guys had to see that. We went to another area of the canyon to where these birds were supposed be and we ended up seeing a few. Matt said that they looked like really big vultures, I thought so too. I enjoyed the experience I just wished I felt better that day.

What in the World?!!

Ok this is really weird. The last post that I did will not show up on the blog that I pull up on my computer and I have know idea why! It's driving me nuts! I think other ppl can see it but I can't, I know it doesn't really matter cuz I can still go into edit posts and see my comments. But it just irritates me lol. So if this has happened to anyone and know how to fix it or has any ideas to fix it let me know please!!