"Daddy, why don't the lights work?"

The other night we had a power failure. Judging by the number of sirens we heard, we assume that someone had an accident and ran into a junction box, leaving our neighborhood in darkness for about an hour. Thankfully, we had already eaten dinner - we have an electric stove!

But, it made me realize how much fun it can be with the kids! The girls had so much fun playing with their flashlights, and Russ had a ton of lightsticks and glow bracelets, so the girls were able to play with those as well.

Honestly, by the time the lights came back on, we were having so much fun that we turned them back off! I was glad to have heat again, but the darkness was fun.

And of course, it was a photo op ;-). Hailey is on the right, in case you couldn't tell by the purple lightstick!

Kindermusik

So, Tuesday was supposed to be Allie's first day of Kindermusik. She was so cute, all dressed up and singing "E-I-E-O" in the car! We drove the 30 minutes out to where the lessons were to find out it was cancelled!

Apparently, when I registered her, there was a problem with the site, and it registered her for a 2007 class, and there are no classes on Tuesday in 2008! So, next week we start Kindermusik on Wednesday, with Hailey as well - I am excited, Hailey loves to sing and dance and this way they can both participate.

But, to appease Daddy, I signed Allie up for swimming lessons while Hailey is in school so she still gets some undivided attention!

Kindermusik or not, she still looked pretty darn cute in her little dress!

IKEA!

I love IKEA!

We went to IKEA this weekend with some friends. I am not a shopper, but I have to say, I could spend (and have spent) the entire day in IKEA. I am bummed because they no longer carry the curtains I wanted for the dining room, but I was able to pick up some other cool stuff, none of which is packaged bigger than a breadbox!

Amazingly by the end of the day we were all exhausted. I swear, 8 hours in IKEA (including lunch!) it a LOOOONG day!

Whoops!

So, no one knows that this blog is out there, so I only feel partially bad for not having updated it before now!

New Year's was a lot of fun, we had a few friends over, people we have known for a really long time. It was kind of strange to look around and see people with whom we have shared so many major life events! Weddings, babies, birthdays - we are very blessed to have so many old and new friends in our life!

Hailey is back in school and Allie is up to no good! Russ loves his new job, and I am doing the same things I have always done!

I promise to update more later, especially since I will soon spread the word that this exists ;-)