After watching the lights flicker on and off throughout the duration of our beer bottling experience, we knew that this ice storm would force us to lose power sometime in the night. Sure enough, 1:45 AM and the baby monitor was beeping at us because the power had gone out. We woke up to find this outside.....
Joel decided to venture out to scope out the situation. There were downed trees and power lines all over the roads. What usually takes 15 minutes to get to work took Joel over 1 hour. When he finally got home safe and sound we decided that we were going to make a run for it up to my sister's house. They too had lost power, but have a wood-burning stove to heat the entire house. At least we'd have heat. Thanks goodness they were willing to take in a needy family. We had a yummy soup that Mars whipped up and cooked atop the wood stove. Jude and I had planned to make the trip north before the storm to exchange gifts. So we were prepared for....
The gift exchange..... Jack got some beef flavored tennis balls.....
Eleanor and Gemma got some new Barbie's.... (so sorry Mars, I had no idea they'd be so loud.)
And Jude got a new fire truck.... Thanks so much Caswell's!
Eleanor and Gemma got all "dolled up" to go for a ride on the Candy Cane Train. It was so much fun for them to let loose behind the caboose.
Jude had so much fun with his cousins...he loved the rocking chair.
Joel had to return to work....so Sunday we camped out at our friends Dave, Ellie, and Eliza's house. They live right by the University, so they only lost power for about 12 hours.
We returned home after having lost power for almost 4 days. We were lucky....there were many people without power for much longer than us. We spent 1 night in our own beds before we packed up and were outa there. Back home to MI....
Joel decided to venture out to scope out the situation. There were downed trees and power lines all over the roads. What usually takes 15 minutes to get to work took Joel over 1 hour. When he finally got home safe and sound we decided that we were going to make a run for it up to my sister's house. They too had lost power, but have a wood-burning stove to heat the entire house. At least we'd have heat. Thanks goodness they were willing to take in a needy family. We had a yummy soup that Mars whipped up and cooked atop the wood stove. Jude and I had planned to make the trip north before the storm to exchange gifts. So we were prepared for....
The gift exchange..... Jack got some beef flavored tennis balls.....
Eleanor and Gemma got some new Barbie's.... (so sorry Mars, I had no idea they'd be so loud.)
And Jude got a new fire truck.... Thanks so much Caswell's!
Eleanor and Gemma got all "dolled up" to go for a ride on the Candy Cane Train. It was so much fun for them to let loose behind the caboose. 
Jude had so much fun with his cousins...he loved the rocking chair.
Joel had to return to work....so Sunday we camped out at our friends Dave, Ellie, and Eliza's house. They live right by the University, so they only lost power for about 12 hours.
We returned home after having lost power for almost 4 days. We were lucky....there were many people without power for much longer than us. We spent 1 night in our own beds before we packed up and were outa there. Back home to MI....
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