FIRE!!!!

Ok, so Grace and I were trying to make cookies for Dave to bring to work on Sunday and the recipe, like most, called for softened butter. Well me, being the Martha everyone knows I am, decided that it would be a good idea to put the butter inside the oven while it was pre-heating. That way by the time I got everything else together, the butter would be nice and soft. Well I must have forgot about it because next thing I know, the oven in smoking and the fire alarm is going off! I know, right!!! And that's not the whole story...

So I turned off the oven and waited like a half an hour. Then I noticed that my new oven has a self cleaning setting!! What's better than an oven that can clean itself, right??? WRONG!!!! Apparently, the oven temp goes up to like 500 degrees and just burns the crap out of everything. That's how it cleans. So, of course the butter caught on fire and the whole inside of the oven was this one big flame, and Grace is telling me we are suppose to "crawl to safety", and the whole time Ali is sleeping up stairs. So I try to open the oven to put it out with the extinguisher but the door is locked, so I called 911. Holy crap!!! 3 engines, the OOD and a cruiser showed up. All with their lights and sirens wailing.... 

It was so embarrassing... They ended up taking the oven outside and letting it burn off by itself. Needless to say, I will soften my butter the old fashion way from now on...