Power Outage!

Wednesday morning about 5:15 as Dustin was getting ready for work he commented that the power just went out.  Within about 2 minutes of his comment all of our fire alarms went off.   Because it was so dark in the house and we couldn't locate even 1 of about 10 flashlights in our drawer with working batteries Ella started screaming and yelling for Dustin and I, trying to convince us that she was downstairs.  It was quite hilarious and I wish I had a video of it.  Alissa just quietly walked around with her arms out until she found us and Molly didn't so much as turn over on her pillow. :)

 

Dustin quickly got the fire alarms turned off but within a couple more minutes they were all going off again.  It made us quite nervous that we had some gas detector or something and Dustin and the girls and I all dressed and heading out to my parents house while he called the Fire Department.  Luckily they had other calls with the same situation so they were able to confirm it was due to the power outage.  We quickly found our stash of batteries and changed out the flashlights and convinced Dustin he needed to stay home with us for a while because it was creepy dark outside.  :)  Wimp, I know.

 

We bundled everybody up in our room, lit a candle and fell back asleep for about an hour until we got up to find out that Ella's school had been closed because power had still not been restored.  The temperature was dropping in our house because of the below zero temperatures outside and a lack of electricity.  We bundled up in socks, sweatshirts and pajamas and tried to find nonelectric things to do like write letters to Santa and color.  Ella commented, "This is really hard without the TV."  Makes me realize how pathetically much we rely on electronics to entertain us.  Also makes me want to quickly get my blog books printed so I don't have to access the internet to get all these entries and pictures.

 

We made some good memories and were thankful it was just a "drill". 

Power was restored around 11:45am.  Love these kids and glad they make life such an adventure.