Happy Birthday...

November 27, 2006
Spencer, Bryce and Madeline!! Love you all more each day.
The triplets turned 4 yesterday, and what a day!It had been snowing the whole day before-which is not a usual thing around here. We get rain, we do not get snow! So, mommy didn't get out to get any supplies for cakes, meals etc for a special birthday. When we get snow the city is not prepared. We don't have enough plows to clear all the roads, then on top of that we live on a private road-if we want it plowed we have to pay. Stuart and Dean from across the street shoveled two paths wide enough for vehicles-one from his house to the top of the road, and one from our house to the top of the road. We woke up yesterday to about a foot of snow-cold, icy and yucky. The kids woke around 6ish-earlier than usual cause they are all sick! Coughs, runny noses. I am sick as well. We went down for breakfast of waffles with fresh blueberries and cool whip (no fresh whip cream like planned). The kids ate tons of just blueberries and all the cool whip so we had to move to blueberries and ice cream! For breakfast! We gave the kids their presents-bikes and helmets. The bikes are a bit bit, but Madeline mastered it riding around the living room with no furniture. Bryce was starting to get it, but kept pushing on the brakes instead of peddling forward. Spencer was too sick to even bother with his. He sat on it for a bit then got off and went upstairs for a nap.
Anyways, I had to do payroll for work, so I headed upstairs to the computer for a couple of hours. When that was finally all done I headed down to try to throw together some sort of cake for the kids. I had bought the fresh fruit-blueberries, raspberries etc to put on a cake slice for them, but had no cake mix, and on top of that no butter to make a cake from scratch! Ugh! I was going through the recipe books looking for something that I could throw together when....Out went the power! YUCK and UGH!. We played for a bit, cleaned for a bit, read books, did puzzles, Spencer had a second nap, I make crackers and cheese for lunch. Then, they got bored. They were cold cause we had no electricity, so no heat. It was dinner time, they were whining, cold etc. We heated up Bob the Builder pasta on the camping stove for the kids with a side of apple slices, banana slices and raspberries, crackers and cheese ball. They were not impressed with it all. They were cold. It was 4 hours since we had power. So, we packed up the kids and headed out for MIL and FIL's house who had power. Stopped on the way to pick up a cake to have for the kids. Stayed at MIL's house for about an hour, then left the kids there for a sleep over. Stuart and I came home and piled covers on the bed and hoped that the power would come on throughout the night. Some houses have been without power since Sunday. It is cold here minus 3 was the high with minus 10 over night. We read for a bit, then went to sleep. The power came back on at about 3:30 am. The house warmed up and so did we. So, not what we were hoping for a birthday for the kids, but we will make up for it on Saturday for the party!