44 Hours without Power....

What a crazy weekend! Friday afternoon Chris and I headed to a friends wedding and noticed some pretty nasty storm clouds rolling in.... didn't think anything of it.... However, it turned into our camping, but not really camping weekend.

We arrive at the church and in true style, I leave everything in the car, because why in the world would I want to carry a purse-- still have not done so, so why change? Probably should have brought my phone seeing we get into the church and power dies before the bride even makes it down the aisle.... which means power is probably out at home.... So, instead of being totally occupied by the wedding, I am looking out the windows making sure things don't look too awful and Chris gets called by work, they have issues since the transformer across the street got struck by lightening (and burned the WINGS shop to the ground) and he's got to help them manually shut down everything and miss part of the wedding... we should have known, this was only the start! My fabulous sitter kept the kids entertained with two flashlights and two candles--- until we got home hours later....

Chris heads to the basement to check on the sump pump, only to learn our 72 hour battery backup pump has reached the end of its life.. hahahha... nice timing. So, instead of sleeping that night we both were up wondering what was going to happen. Luckily, we managed to stay dry even without power. So, after 12 hours of no power, we both think its probably a good idea if he gets to the rental place to pick up a generator since we've got a boatload of cow left in the freezer (graciously named Bart-- thats another story)...

Saturday rolls around, no power but luckily wasn't killer hot out.We managed to play outside with the slip and slide, sprinklers, pool, water table, etc... kids feel asleep drenched in sweat as did Chris and I.... both dreaming the power would come back on seeing ComEd's message said 6:45 AM Sunday morning... liars.... 6:45 came and went and still no power.... Lunch time came and we walked in the house from playing outside and watching them cut the massive tree in half and we had power!!!! I've never seen the kids so excited- they could turn on and off the light switches again and most importantly, we could make Dad his strawberry shortcake dessert he wanted... :)

I've got to say, and I speak from Chris too--- it was kinda nice to not have TV, Computer or a phone (cells were working, but at our house, its hit or miss with service)....... but I guess we are back to reality and the only reason I am on the blog tonight is because Chris is at work getting their servers back up and running..... its a lovely end to a fathers day, right? :)

The ways Anika stays entertained.....


Slip and Slide Dora- huge hit-- good thing I bought it like 3 years ago and found it!

Anika and Shay

The OMG moment-- when we charged the portable DVD player and the kids could watch 30 minutes of TV Sunday morning--- the battery is shot, but 30 minutes was enough for Chris and I to take a break from the constant arguing!

The expensive causality


We're hoping the storm takes out the other half next time...