Quite the Week

Well, its been an eventful week to say the least. Blake went on a business trip last week to Atlanta. While he was there he quit his job.. While he was there a tornado nearly missed our town, hitting just east and then again just north of us. While he was there we lost our power for almost 24 hours. Thank goodness my mom arrived 3 days into his trip and was here during the power outage and trips to the basement, taking cover, waiting for the storms to pass. I am not sure I could have emotionally handled all of it with out her! Britton also officially finished Kindergarten and they ended the year with a field day which was very fun. He was a little emotional saying good bye to his teacher and isn't really thrilled that school is over.

The tornado hitting northern colorado is devestating. We have three families at our church that lost their homes. Blake went to Windsor on Sunday and helped clean up "the mess" and said he had never seen anything like it in his life. He was truly amazed that more lives weren't lost. It really could have been worse.

Losing our power for that long opened my eyes to what we needed to add to our emergency prepardness. The first lesson I learned quickly is I need to keep everything in an easy, convienent location. Because we are finishing our basement, our "storage" and garage is not at all organized. So I spent some time digging for flashlights, batteries, candles, and light sources. I have also started thinking about possibly investing in a generator. If the power had been out much longer, we probably would have lost most of our freezer foods. Luckily we didn't. The kids were great about the power going out (for the most part), grandma did a great job of inventing new acitivies for Britton, who needs to be busy. They did science experiments and she built tepee people out of index cards and made a whole town. She was also great to cuddle with the kids on the couch until they went to sleep, while I lit candles.

Oh yes, Blake did really quit his job. He will officially be done with Amgen next week and will start in June with a small industrial network company. He is very excited for his new adventure!

To end our most exciting/eventful week I ran the Bolder Boulder yesterday. What an event. I got to do it with my friend Micah, which was very fun! Having someone to talk to the entire time, makes 6 miles seem easy! I finished in 1 hour and 55 seconds, which I was pretty pleased with for my first race since having Maycee. The spectators in Boulder are always a sight and something new this year was people serving Beer in dixie cups to the runners. Wow! I am not a drinker, but do beer and running really mix??