This is the calm before the storm. Of course there really is no calm when you have to pack everything you love and Cherish in the back of an SUV and hope everything else is still there when you get back. See if you can get this mental picture (I'm sure that won't be hard!) I'm packing stuff, kids are taking it out to porch, Shawn loading truck. Next I'm informed by the kids that Dad said I was packing too much. What should we leave?? Clothes? Pictures? Insurance papers? Food? One of the kids?? Some how he made it all fit, i think his complaining helped! So we get all loaded and head over to a friends house. Kids had a grand time, and I think the adults did, too.
Here is the party before the storm. Everyone is happy and full of energy. Note the monkey's! 1 monkey you can't even see! that would be Alyssa showing she can do it better than the boys! The boys you may not know is the friends we stayed with Brian and his son Everett. Brian's girlfriend Brittany is taking the picture. We had great host's!
The kids fell asleep before we lost power. Well, not Austin! He's a video game junkie! He played half the night!
Gee, Mom! what were you so worried about??!! This hurricane thing is kinda fun!
This was the worst we had. If you look in the distance you can see neighbors trampoline which blew across the road.
Our Trampoline never moved!
Shawn had to cut trees to get us in the driveway and we had alot of water in the yard. Not surprising that we call it Acker Swamp! See Austin?? Can you hear it?? "Dad if you cut this branch.." "Dad, your doing it wrong!". Austin is the supervisor in training.
All things considered we fared really well! We were without power until the following Wednesday. I enjoyed it! Bed time came EARLY! No fighting over what we are watching on tv. Maybe I should tell Shawn to quit paying the power bill so I can relive it....well, maybe we should wait until winter for that! Everything we own and love is in one piece and where we left it and the family, extended and all are alive and well, and a few are grumpy about the power situation. It's all good!
More to come soon!
2 comments:
I'm so glad you decided to enter into the blogger world. You'll be glad you did! I can't wait to see what you come up with. This blog will make it easier for you to go back and do your scrapbooks when all of the kids are in college!
Welcome to the wonderful world of blogging! What took you so long? Anyway, I have a boring life so I will be visiting your blogging site very often since I don't get to see you guys very much at least I can read about ya'll! I love and miss you guys!
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