Losing Power and starting baseball

The Friday before the opening weekend of Little League baseball we had a significant wind storm that brought 60-70 MPH winds to our house in the morning.  We woke up and it was windy and then all of a sudden around 7:30 AM our lights started to flicker and then we lost power.  Then the winds kept crashing and our whole house was shaking.  We got dressed still and took the kids to school even though we knew Brandon probably wouldn't have power since we did not have it.  He ended up not having power at his school but his school continued on with their back up generator.  Sean got Olivia to school and her school did not have power so he had to take her to work with him until I was done with my pilates class.  I drove out to my 8:15 AM pilates class in my work car as I was going to go to my office afterwards and install my new laptop and the winds were crashing around my work car and making it sway but I got to pilates class and was able to do the Stair Master being leaving and heading home to get my car and check on things around our house.  I was quite worried because I found several roofing shingles on the ground although our neighbor thought they were his.  We still did not have power and it was still very windy at our house.  I got Olivia and then had booked the child watch at the YMCA so we went to McDonalds at Sherwood which had power still and got lunch and powered up all our electronics and then headed to the YMCA where Olivia got to go to Child care for an hour and I worked for an hour.  Then we headed home and right after we got home we got an e-mail from the school stating it is ok to pick up the kids early at 2:00 PM since they still do not have power.  We then headed right to the school and picked Brandon up.  Lucky I had my work MiFi and the kids watched movies saved on their iPads until Sean got home and then we went out to dinner at Pizza Schimiza because we still did not have power.  We came home and still did not have power and it was dark out.  We had several camping lanterns and several flash lights so we were ready.  The kids enjoyed a fun flash light story with Daddy and then Olivia came into Brandon's room and sept with him in his bunk beds.

Flashlight story telling

The power was still out the next morning which made me cranky because I did not have any coffee!  Olivia and I got ready and we headed to gymnastics and was super late due to the tree that caused our power outage still blocking traffic on Bull Mountain road.  We got to gymnastics and I got my caffeine finally at Starbucks which made me happier.  Brandon and Sean went to Brandon's opening day Little League ceremony and got dressed up their uniforms and had a blast.  Then Olivia and I headed to Fred Meyer and we bought Brandon's friend from the YMCA a birthday present as Brandon was last minute invited to his birthday party at Sky High.  We all ended up going and paid for Olivia and Sean and had a blast and power.  I ended up working for a while to make up my time from Friday with Olivia.  We came home and found again no power and then the kids and I decided to go to Beauty and the Beast with Brooke, Logan, and Addie at Bridgeport Village.  The movie was so good and all the kids really enjoyed it.  We came back home and found we had power again at 6:30 PM just in time for dinner and bed time.  We were so happy!

Opening day!

Opening day with his pals 

Listening to the National Anthem