Senchyna Family

need some cleaning suggestions ...

so the other day I decided to cook some bacon.  I found a really simple and easy recipe for cooking perfect bacon on Becky Higgin's Blog.  She suggested using Pampered Chef's cookie sheet to cook the bacon, I did not have the cookie sheet so I thought I would compromise and use my Pampered Chef pizza stone instead.  I thought I would line the bottom of the oven with tin foil to catch any of the bacon grease that would drip over the edge of the pizza stone (as it has no edge around the sides). 

Well little did I now that tin foil in a new oven is not a good mix.  The tin foil literally melted to the bottom of our new oven.  I tried peeling and scraping the tin foil off, but it still didn't come off so I decided to google search how to clean it and here is what I found ...

"With the older models of self-cleaning ovens one could put aluminum foil on the bottom tray of the oven, but with the newer models there is a warning (hidden in the last line) of your booklet for models of stoves where aluminum foil should 'not' be used! Even though print in small and many consumers are complaining regarding their stoves and melted aluminum stuck to the bottom tray of their oven (nothing will get it off) all manufacturer do 'not' cover this problem under warranty."

"Non-stick aluminum foil has a teflon-like coating on it, and like all such chemicals, it melts and decomposes at the high-end of cooking temperatures, which is why the foil carries warnings about not using too high a heat."

"Once the tin foil has melted (fused) to the oven bottom there is no way to remove it. You will need to order & replace the oven bottom. Please review the operating instructions stating not to place tin foil in the oven."

I found lots of posts of suggestions on how to clean it using various chemicals, some say use the self-cleaning feature, some say NOT to use self-clean, but none of them say whether or not their method worked.  I'm scared to try in fear that I will make it worse or waste my time scrubbing and scraping ...

Anyone out there have any suggestions???

* on a good note it did make really good bacon - cooked it perfectly!!!

emilee's 'new' bedroom

emilee has been asking to change her room around for quite awhile now, so yesterday we finally did it.  she wanted something totally different so I bought her a new 'bed in bag' set from Home Sense.  It is amazing how much a new comforter can totally change the look of a room. She absolutely LOVES it!

It sure brought back alot of memories of all the times Rachelle and I would change our room around and how happy we were afterwards with our 'new' room.

So here are the before photos ...

 

 

and here are the after ...

 

she has less floor space around her bed, but now at least you get walk around her bed which makes making the bed and changing the sheets much easier (her bed was up against the wall before).

summer of 2010

once again we spent our summer holidays in Saskatchewan!  we visited Baba in Prince Albert, uncle Dave in Nipawin and the Seimens in Christopher Lake (which was by far the highlight of our entire trip).  We were finally able to see their new cabin is absolutely beautiful and they bought a new seedoo which we spent most of our time on - both the kids, as well as myself had a ast riding around on it (except for my little accident... note to self: never ride on the back of a seadoo backwards while trying to spot - doesn't work so well!

I'm on holidays again this week, but it definitely won't be as fun as our last holidays. this week is all about cleaning the house, painting our front door, looking for new fixtures for our kitchen and bathrooms, hair appointments, dentist and orthodontist appointments and back to school shopping ...

Canada Day Fireworks

Emilee, her best friend and i headed down to festival place tonight to watch the Canada fireworks.  Steffen was to cool to hang with his mom and sister so he was off enjoying the festivities with his friends.  We didn't go into Festival Place and fight the masses of people we just parked the van along the grass and watched from there!

 

Happy 16th Birthday Steffen

So last Tuesday (the 22nd) Steffen turned 16 years old!!! To celebrate his birthday we told Steffen that we would take him out for supper to any restaurant that he wanted to go to. He told us that he really wanted to go out for Lobster. He LOVES seafood but has never had lobster before, so we took him to the Keg. He was so excited and loved the fact that he had to crack the lobster open and dig out all the meat!!!

Malanka 2010

 
 

Journaling from layout:

"As part of the traditional Sviat Vechir (Ukrainian Christmas Eve) celebration, the grade nine students performed a Malanka play. Under the direction of Pani Pohoreski they acted out the story of Malanka, a young beautiful Ukrainian girl, always played by a male student, and her fight to save Spring.  The lead male role of Vasyl is always played by a female student.  Emilee and her friend Melody were Malanka’s pigs, this was emilee’s acting debut and she did a really great job, we were both VERY proud of her!" 

here is a clip of her performance ...

not bad for being the understudy and only one day to learn her lines!

awards night at Jean Vanier

last fall Emilee received "the Most Improved Student" Award for all of her hard work in grade 8.  She worked really hard and really brought her marks up from the previous year.  We were both so very proud of her!!!

gotta love page templates ... I download this free one from Ali Edwards.  I think it took me longer to journal than it did to create the layout itself!  click here to download free template

Olympic layout

I'm on a roll, I've actually had the time to do quite a bit of scrapbooking this past week, I forgot how much I enjoy it!

the olympic torch

so Steffen called Ron on Wednesday just before lunch to ask if it was okay to skip half of one of his classes that afternoon. Normally we would have said absolutely not, but him and his friends wanted to see this ...

the torch went right thru Sherwood Park.  the spectators were given this keepsake mini coke bottle and a flag as souvenirs.  he was quite excited about the whole experience when he got home from school that day!