New Fridge

We had to buy a new washer and fridge over Memorial day weekend. Nathan was in the middle of a washing marathon, when the motor quit on our old washer. It was old, but it served us well. We had also been checking the temperature in the fridge for a week. When it gets above 75 degrees outside, the fridge quits making ice, runs constantly and doesn't stay very cold. Memorial Day weekend was hot and the fridge didn't get below 45 degrees. We headed to Lowes for new appliances. They were delivered Tuesday evening.

The kids were sooo excited when the truck arrived.

Everest and Leaf, helping take off the plastic wrapping. Everest was serious about getting all the plastic off.

Our new fridge....well, at least for 2 days. This fridge was a nightmare. It is a very long story, so I will give you the short version. The gasket would not seal on the fridge door, the cooling element was broken, and so was the door sensor. While I was putting the kids to bed, Nathan started playing with all the fancy buttons, one of which was the door alarm. It started beeping loudly. The kids freaked because they thought it was a tornado siren. Nathan and I tried everything to get the alarm off, but since the door wouldn't seal, it wouldn't shut off. He even called Lowes and they didn't know what to do. After 2 hours of reading, and pushing buttons, we put a ratchet strap around it to hold the door shut. It worked for about 45 minutes and then the alarm would go off again.We had to get up push on the fridge and reset the alarm. This happened THE ENTIRE NIGHT! We were both exhausted, it didn't occur to us, until morning to unplug it. We ended up getting a new fridge on Saturday and we love it. In the meantime we lost a lot of food, but the beer fridge and the neighbors fridge came in handy. Thanks Brad and Jeaneen!