Our Family – Page 39 – Andelin Adventures

The New Freezer

We went freezer shopping this past weekend to take advantage of the Labor day sales. We have been feeling like we have just outgrown the freezer space we had available. With our tiny freezer in the top portion of our refrigerator and the small freezer as part of Nana’s fridge in the garage (which actually has even less available space because of the useless ice maker in it), storing enough food in large enough portions for nine people (going on ten) was a challenge! Also as I am preparing for baby’s arrival this winter I am feeling like I just want to stock up on everything so we won’t need to do much shopping after the baby is born, so we decided we needed a big freezer. I’m so excited that it arrived this morning! 🙂

I know it’s not a very good picture. The guys that delivered it took it downstairs and put it in the storage room for me. They plugged it in and put the handle on it and adjusted the feet so it wouldn’t rock! Kyle will have to move all those boxes of food out of the way later so we have more space for opening the door. 😉

Dare Devil Jeremy

We had been planning to go through the garage this Labour Day weekend, hopefully to throw away lots of things we don’t need anymore, but, at least, to reorganise it. Since we had the garage open, the kids took to their bikes and were roaming the neighbourhood.

Every so often, Jeremy would come back and ask me to go with him, then he would take off again when I wasn’t able to. Finally, I was in a position to take a break, and hopped on my bike to follow him.

He was going to the dirt area behind the houses, a block over, and found some of the dirt paths kids were using on their bikes. He had braved one of the longer paths, riding down it and up the other side, and kept trying to encourage me to follow him. I wasn’t in the mood to follow him, but at least I recorded a video of his going down, on my phone.

Minnie Mouse Obsession

We were at the mall to look at freezers, and as we walked through Sears, Lydia spotted a bed all made up with Minnie Mouse bedding. Then she went crazy. She loves Minnie Mouse! I had talked about wanting to get new bedding sets for each of the kids and so we decided to see if we could find out how much the set would cost. There were NONE on the shelf. No Minnie Mouse bedding at all. There was a Minnie Mouse pillow, but I had no interest in buying a cute pillow with no pillow case. Those are harder to wash! Kyle decided he would ask an employee about the bedding, when the one couldn’t find it on the shelf or in the back, he got someone else to help him. They searched the back again and were looking it up on the computer, including online. They couldn’t find it anywhere. So they got someone else to help them…eventually we had everyone in the bedding department trying to find a set of twin size Minnie Mouse bedding. They just never found anything. So one of them called the store manager to ask what they should do, and the manager gave them permission to sell us the set that was currently on the bed for $35. It was an AMAZING deal so we bought it! Lydia couldn’t be happier. I would say she has an obsession with Minnie Mouse, wouldn’t you?

Adam’s Second Birthday

Adam turned two, two days ago! We weren’t able to celebrate on his birthday because Kyle had some obligations at Cub Scout Roundtable so we celebrated today. I made him a chocolate cake and used minty chips and dinosaur candles to decorate it. He just loved it! Actually he probably liked the fire on the candles the most….

Reno Temple

The last place on my list of places I wanted to see on the way home, was the Reno, Nevada temple. We didn’t get out to walk around this time though because we just were not making enough progress on our journey home to be able to get home at a reasonable hour tonight. So we just made a drive by visit.