IKE!!!

We did not have school on Friday because of Ike. So, I was prepared to spend the day getting ready for the hurricane. Spencer went shopping on Thursday to get us some necessary things. We decided that we should get a generator too. He looked all over and they were out of them at every store. Home Depot over by my work told him they had a shipment coming in at 3 in the morning and they opened up at 6. So, Spencer got up Friday morning at 4 to go wait in line. He was the 3rd person in line. At 7:00, the shipment still hadn't arrived. He decided to call the other Home Depot that is on Fry Road and they had a shipment of generators. He drove over there and was able to get us one. It is a good thing he did because we lost power on Friday night and did not get it back until Tuesday morning. That was the longest weekend of my life. The days seemed to drag on. It is amazing how much I take electricity for granted. Spencer's 2 aunt's, uncle and mom came over to stay with us. We enjoyed Friday evening with electricity. The weather was nice outside and the sky was beautiful.

At 1:00 the power went off. Spencer got out of bed and went out into the rain to get the generator going. He did an awesome job of keeping us safe and staying on top of things around here. After the storm had passed, we only had a piece of our back fence down. Spencer nailed that up and it was good as new. The neighbor's tree was broke in a couple of places...so Spencer got his chainsaw out and went to work.

It rained on Sunday morning and flooded our streets. The Aunts and MiMi took Tarren out to see.

It was another long day on Monday and finally this morning at 7:00 the power came on. Tarren enjoyed having his grandmother and great aunts in town. They gave him all sorts of attention and took him for walks in his stroller. He LOVES going on walks. However, he suffers later with his allergies. He gets way stuffy at night.

He was the only one that got to take a warm bath while the power was out.