Storms and Swings!

 We had a huge storm come through our area last week.  We knew there was a potential for bad weather, and during the evening it got extremely windy.  It sounded terrible and was bad enough that we checked outside, checked the weather stations and got out emergency lights in case the power went out. About 2:30 am I was wakened to lights blinking off and on, and a lot of beeping from electronics.  The power was blinking off and on and probably surging as well.  I got up and unplugged several things before it went completely out.
The next moning, there was still no power, so I took hairspray, flat iron, some makeup, toothbrush and toothpaste to work!  I was thankful that I had showered the evening before!

When I got outside, I was shocked by all the branches all over our yard.

There weren't large branches down, but our whole yard looked like this.
I was happy to get a phone call shortly before I came home telling me the power was back on.  My sister who lives around the corner from me had to wait 3 days.

I did have another surprise when I got home though.  It was not very light when I left in the morning and I missed this!

Right across the street from us, 2 large branches in the beech tree were down, blocking the whole driveway to a barn.  Thankfully, that barn is just used for storage so no one had to come or go.  We were glad no houses or people were injured.


Another thing that happened last week was Andrew and Heather coming over with Cassie.  Bob had put up the baby swing on our swing set, so they brought her over for her first swing ride.

She seemed to like it - she was smiling and her feet were going!

We tried another photo session, hoping that since Andrew and Heather were there, she would smile for the camera.

Isn't this sweet?  This wasn't posed, Andrew was just trying to get her sitting and I snapped it.

Unfortunately, she was so busy looking around, that once again we got no smiles.  But I thought this one was pretty cute!