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! 

 

Bonfire in Ellensburg

 

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

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. 

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!

Jeremy birthday

 Jeremy had another birthday!

We did not have two 4 candles so the kids made due.  They have 11x4. It works! 

Orchestra Concert

Elizabeth had an orchestra concert. 

She had quite the fan section. You can see Papa Norm and Gram and the next 3 girls are all some of her good friends who came to watch. 

The cheering squad! 2 of them are in orchestra and the rest applauded and clapped for them.