The Perfect Storm

Unless you've been living under a rock, you've probably heard about our close brush with death this week!  Ok, maybe I'm exagerrating a little bit, but it was pretty darn scary!  Doug had just flown out of town and the girls and I were getting ready for an afternoon playdate at the pool, when out of nowhere, a terrible storm blew over and caused the ginormous tree in our backyard to fall into pieces on our house!  The girls and I spent an hour hiding in the bathtub!  Then we spent the next 2 days without power.  No power with two young children for two days in the dead of summer sounds like it would be a nightmare right?!  By some act of God, it turned out to be a great two days full of fun memories with me and my girls.  The weather was gorgeous, so we kept the windows and doors open and both girls were on their best behavior.  We spent the whole time playing, without any distractions and it turned out to be lots of fun. 

Bug wanted to be prepared, just in case anymore "broken trees" wanted to fall down on her house again!

Lulu was ready for the after-storm party!

Bug helped me load up the cooler with "weegles" (ice cubes) the next morning.  Fortunately, we had just gone to the store and had plenty of milk!

I wouldn't let her go outside near the "broken tree" so she spent most of her time staring out the window at it. 

Having lunch, while wathcing the workers cut down the broken tree with their big trucks.  It provided the perfect entertainment for her while our power was out!

It took them 9 hours to take it apart!

Saying goodbye to the poor broken tree. 

I was thankful to have such an exciting distraction for her during those two days.  She didn't even miss her tv shows!

Lulu was worried that we would run out of food, so she started eating everything in sight!  Toilet paper...(I can't keep her away from this stuff!  It's light crack to her!)

Goldfish...

Milkshakes...

Chocolate chips...

Fortunately, she didn't starve to death!

And I was thankful that we still had hot water!

The girls were practically angels and played so nicely together! 

And when the "witching hour" approaced, we fired up the DVD player because it was fully charged!!

The power finally came back on 30 minutes before Doug flew into town (so he was able to work from home) and right before the weather started to get super hot (it was nearly 100 degrees the next day!)  It really was "the perfect storm!"