Saturday, December 30, 2023

End of the Year Survey

Nathan: 16

Elizabeth: 13

1. What is your favorite color:
N: Blue
E: Pastel lime
2. What is your favorite toy?
N:  Legos
E:  squishmellows
3. What is your favorite fruit?
N: Apple
E: Pineapple
4. What is your favorite TV show/movie?
N: Asoka
E:  Monty Python
5. What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch?
N: Leftovers
E: Pasta
6. What are you looking forward to next year?
N: Being halfway done with high school
E: High school
7. What is your favorite game?
N: Don't have one
E: Minecraft
8. What is your favorite snack?
N: Apple and bread
E:  Goldfish
9. What is your favorite animal?
N: Crab
E: Brontosaurs
10. What is your favorite book?
N: Jack Ryan
E: Secrets of the Tally
11. What is your favorite subject at school?
N: Likes them all
E: Orchestra and French and science
12. What is your favorite sport?
N: Running
E:  Cross Country
13. What is your favorite thing to have for breakfast?
N: Pancakes and bacon
E: Egg and cheese sandwich
14. What is your favorite thing to do outside?
N: Run
E: Go on a nice walk
15. What is your favorite drink?
N: Water
E:  Sprite
16. What is your favorite holiday?
N: Halloween
E: Christmas
17. What is your favorite thing to have for dinner?
N: Burritos
E: Chicken and Yellow Rice 
18. What do you want to be when you grow up?
N: Electrical Engineer
E: Don't know

Monday, December 25, 2023

Christmas in Yakima

We went to Yakima on Christmas. We had yummy food and opened presents! The little cousins were very cute entertainment. 

Elizabeth doing some nose booping. 






Helping open new presents. 





 

Saturday, December 23, 2023

Christmas in Royal City

We drove up to Royal City a few days before Christmas to visit. 

We took a small slow walk. 


We took a small field trip to see the nearby sheep! 


We also checked out the local hotel. It was quite nice! We were very impressed. 

Laura could see her place of work from the window. 


A pre Christmas dinner. 

Elizabeth got a very shiny jacket from Auntie Laura! 

Nathan got four pairs of running pants. It was funny. Earlier that day, it was quite nice out and he wished he could go take a run. He hadn't brought any sweatpants though. We didn't know there were 4 pairs under the tree! 

 

Thursday, November 23, 2023

Thanksgiving

Jeremy worked Thanksgiving day this year. He was supposed to be home at 6:00 so I planned to have dinner done then. He came home at 6:00! Some other family came down too. 




Jeremy showing off his drone skills. 

Auntie Laura and Elizabeth doing some Black Friday earring shopping! 

 

Saturday, November 18, 2023

Bonfire in Ellensburg

 

Jeremy and the kids went up to Ellensburg to have a bonfire. Here are the pictures he took! 





Wednesday, November 8, 2023

Cross Country Awards

 


The cross country team had their awards night. Nathan got a letter this year! To letter, you needed to run a 3 mile in less than 18 minutes. He did that by running a 17:36. Here is his letter and certificate. 

Individual Photo

Letter close up

Team photo. Nathan is in the back row on the far left. 

Saturday, November 4, 2023

The Great Fridge Death 2023

Our fridge died. 

I noticed that the frozen berries I pulled out of the freezer were soft. We thought maybe someone had left the freezer open or something. 

Nope, the next day, I noticed the ice wasn't frozen in the freezer so I threw everything in our chest freezer in the garage. 

Then, later that day, the fridge did not feel as cold as it should be. We pulled out all our coolers and bought ice and put everything in there. 

Jeremy and I bought a fridge online at Lowes that night. They said it would be here in a week.

For 8 days, we lived out of coolers in the front driveway. Luckily, it was during a very cold week so we didn't have to buy too much ice. It lasted. We kept a cooler for dairy so Nathan's stuff didn't go in there. We kept a cooler for condiments. 

We got a GE fridge this time for $1600. It's 27 cu ft.  They didn't have the kind we wanted with a freezer on the bottom and one door on the top. We had to get French doors. Also, we wanted a white fridge, but they wanted us to pay $800 more for that. Very strange. The standard was stainless so that is what we got. 

Our old fridge was a Kenmore bought in May 2013 for $943 plus tax. It was a Kenmore 22.4 cu ft bottom freezer from Sears. 

Here is the new fridge. Everyone is telling us it will only last 5-6 years as that is how long fridges last nowadays. We bought the old one with the house 10 years ago. 




The new fridge has ice cubes that fall into the freezer and it has a water thing inside where we can get filtered cold water! This is all new to us and very exciting. However, we also know this is what breaks first and that's why we've avoided it before. This time, it was hard to avoid in getting the size of fridge we wanted and the style. Maybe we will get lucky and it won't break! 

The neat part is that it was delivered on Jeremy's birthday! It was the most expensive present he's ever gotten!


End of the Year Survey

Nathan:  16 Elizabeth:  13 1. What is your favorite color: N:  Blue E:  Pastel lime 2. What is your favorite toy? N:  Legos E:   squishmello...