Well it happened. The rain hit on Saturday and all our efforts of moving Eli's party start time up and crossing our fingers for overcast weather were gone. We made the best of it with an indoor party and to be honest it was total chaos, people everywhere, toys everywhere and kids lucky they didn't get stepped on pretty much!
My only saving grace was our established "playroom" we have now! Yay! Most of the toys stayed in there, the room got TRASHED but the kids had a blast so that was good. There were 14 kids including Eli and 3 babies, and like 30+ adults!
Eli had a good time, he was a bit overwhelmed at the start though. I noticed him under the small tent we had our on deck right off the slider sitting there eating his cheetos enjoying some quite time! lol
Here are some pictures from the party.
This picture below does not do any justice to just how bad that playroom looked after the party, I took this before things got out of hand but I was very happy we have a playroom to contain most of the mess!
And here is the birthday boy totally loosing steam right before presents. Poor kid! He was yawning but made it through them all, the party wrapped up right after that. Eli got a bath (thanks Meme'!) and went down for a few hours to sleep.
Once Eli woke up he ate dinner late obviously and then we watched Alvin & the Chipmunks. It was our first real sit down on the couch and watch a movie together type of thing and he did great! Something about those chipmunks! He went to bed late and I was on pins & needles about Hurricane Irene (well tropical storm after all) that was starting to hit us while Adam had no worries off doing his Fantasy Football draft pics in the evening at his friends house! This kid. Seriously?!?
Sunday we woke up to a windy morning and LOTS OF RAIN & we thought we were in the clear and wouldn't you know 11:30am we lost power. That sucked and what sucks even more is indoor camping. I like camping and all but that is when I am away vacationing on a lake or something, inside your house not so much fun!
Adam's parents were out of power before us too so there was no where really to go...parts of our city are so much worse off with terrible flooding and lots of damage so I really can't complain we are at least dry up on our hill. Adam's parents got power back late in the day on Sunday but we decided to tough it out for the night and as of yesterday we moved into their house because we were told it could be up to 7 DAYS! Our house and the few houses around us are low on the totem pole for priority, they are trying to restore power to mass quantities of people first. We'll see what happens. Crossing my fingers our power will be back soon and our freezer in the basement is cold enough to keep our food from going bad. That would just suck.
Hope you are all safe and sound from the storm :)
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