Home Sweet Home....

So we were on our way home from New Braunfels on Sunday afternoon, when we ran into a thunderstorm in Montgomery. The wind was blowing really hard and there was a lot of lightning. When we finally got home the storm had passed but we came home to no electricity. This was the 2nd time in one week with no electricity. We went in and I fed Ainsley while Patrick drove around camp to see where the lines had gone down. After he drove around he called to inform me of all the damage. There were trees and limbs down all over camp. Two of which took out power lines and one just happens to be the line to our house. No exactly what you want to come home to when you've been out of town and you have a 6 week old baby. Patrick talked to Tom and he said he had already called the power company and that it would be a least 7pm before they could get to it. It was about 5pm at the time, so we decided to go get some dinner. We ran around and did a few things while we waited for the power to come back on. At about 9:30pm Patrick got word that there was still no power. So we came home got our things and headed down to conference center. It was a mess because we needed to get Ainsley's things together for her first day of daycare. Plus I needed to do some laundry before my first day back to work. Of course I didn't sleep well in those hard beds at the cabin, so I was pretty tired for my first day of work. We dropped Ainsley off and I headed on to work. Patrick was off so he went home to empty our freezers and take our food up to the conference center kitchen. By the afternoon we still didn't have any power so Steve and Laura insisted that we stay with them. By that time we didn't have water either because we are on a well system. So no power means no pump to pump the water. Needless to say I wasn't excited about having to spend another night away from my house and bed. We spent the night at Steve's and at about 12:30am Ainsley woke up. I got up to check on her and I heard something outside. When I looked out I saw 3 electric company trucks. I woke Patrick up and told him and he jumped up and went out there. By the time he got out there they had turned around. He chased them down the street, but done of them saw him. I told him that he needed to call him them and get them to come back. He went to his truck to get something and they had come back, so he took them and showed them where the breaks were. At about 3:30am he got a call saying that everything was back up and running. Finally, we were going to get to go home. Tuesday morning Patrick took all of our things back home and I got to come home to my house Tuesday afternoon. It was really good to be home.