Who turned out the lights?!

So our "winter wonderland" quickly turned from playing in the powdery snow with Bennett to ice, power outages and scary winds.

It has been a rough week. Last Thursday morning the Lil' Olsen family woke up to no power. We took it in stride as Bennett and I played Lego's and read many many books about tractors in front of the fire. But since it is just a propane fire place without a fan and our house is primarily heated with an electric furnace it was getting chilly fast. Later, Daddy got home with some take out and Bennett and I "cooked" some snow so that we could do dishes (yep with a well  we were also out of water).
So we snuggled in for the night. Bennett spent his first night in our bed cuddled up in between us and loved every second. We rocked out to our wind up radio, which strangely played mostly Journey, from an emergency kit and actually ended up sleeping quite well.

These pictures do the ice no justice at all... The trees were breaking under the weight of the snow and ice with loud cracks all night long... actually kinda terrifying. I was too scared to go out and get better pictures so these are through the window at our front bushes.

You can't tell in these pictures but it is pitch dark in the room and the flash on my camera was the only light...

We stopped by our dark house on Saturday and couldnt even get in the driveway...

Upon waking up bright and early Friday morning we quickly realized we had to find another option than our freezing, water free, fridge free home. We called Grandma and Grandpa Jones and Grandpa was quick to come rescue us. So we set up camp in Grandma and Grandpas basement not knowing exactly how long we would be there. Turns out Grandma runs quite the B&B. We woke up every morning to pancake egg and bacon breakfast (which Bennett would eat so much I thought he would pop), spent the days playing with Grandma, making cookies, and the evenings snuggling with Grandpa and Daddy watching Gold Rush. It was all actually quite relaxing.

 Mom was a huge help with Bennett as I am getting bigger and having a harder time chasing him. I am just thakful I am still getting around on my feet and being able to "enjoy" these last few weeks big and pregnant!

We got word that our power was back on late Monday night and we were ecstatic.We packed up and headed home Tuesday night and I couldn't have been happier to take a warm shower, run our laundry and dishwasher and clean out our fridge (it should also be mentioned that a bottle of chardonnay and two bottles of champagne were the only things that survived a week in a warm fridge). We snuggled into bed catching up on TiVO as our power went out once again. I would like to say I handled this latest hit in stride but no such luck, This prego's hormones went through the roof and I spent a tear filled hour on the phone with PSE.

Somehow it is 24 hours later and I am snuggled up after a hot shower, watching cable and enjoying working wifi. Our power came back late last night after many hours of wind and worry. We spent the day getting thinks back to normal, cleaning up and getting ready for our big Dr's appointment tomorrow.

Tomorrow we head up to see Dr. Wall and get the cervical stitch removed. I cant wait to hear what he says and will post as soon as we know anything so stay tuned :)