Where to start..
Last Friday night Mackenzie had a friend over and we played her new Apples to Apples Family Edition game. The girls love this game and it's a lot of fun to play, but while playing I noticed it was cold in our house. This isn't unusual as it always seems cold in our house but this seemed unusually cold so I got up to check out the temp and it was a whopping 60 degrees in our house!
The heater was broken.
Fortunately for us Jeff is pretty handy with these sorts of things and diagnosed the problem fairly quickly. He called the repair company to see if he could get the part that night but no call back. Ainsley was at another friend's house for the night and Ellie had already gone to bed, so Mackenzie, Cary and I spent the night in the living room in front of the fireplace. Much warmer than the frigid rooms upstairs!
The repair company called back early the next morning but of course were unable to get Jeff the part. They had to come out and fix it themselves because yada yada yada. So $230 later, our furnace is fixed. Pretty sure the part probably cost $25 and they hiked up all the prices because it was the weekend. But since we needed the heater fixed for an afternoon open house and we didn't have time to wait, It was worth getting it fixed. So we now have heat...yay!
That afternoon was lunch at one of our favorite Chinese restaurants for Chinese New Year. We gathered with most of our Chinese friends and had a fantastic time together. It was our last big group event before we move and they all chipped in and bought us a cake and signed a framed picture of Cincinnati. The cake was very yummy and the picture of Cincinnati was taken by the same friend who took our family pics. Everyone signed the back of the picture. We are going to miss our Chinese group so much. It has been a lifeline for me in helping connect Ellie with just a small bit of her culture and the moms of Ellie's friends have become my good friends. I am glad they will be just a phone call or e-mail away and that we won't be moving to far away that we can't come back for visits!
Everyone signed it
The framed picture, taken by Jeff Fusaro, that our
group gave to us..
Here are the girls sleeping on the sofa bed
Here are most of the kids in our group...I failed miserably with Chinese attire...
More group photos
Lovely dressed children...and then our kids...lol
A picture of our cupcake cake. I didn't get to snap one before it got cut so this is the best I could get :)
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