The Bishops

We survived the ice storm thanks to our great neighbors Katie and Brian. Tuesday morning around 7:00am our power went out because of the ice storm. And of coarse school was cancelled! We all laid in bed for a lot of the day to keep warm. The power flickered a couple of times to tease us, but by late afternoon it was out for good. That morning soon after it had gone off Katie called to say that if we wanted to come over there we were more than welcome, so that afternoon I called and said we are on our way (we were getting cold and the kids were sick of laying in the bed!) We (the kids and I, Brett stayed home in the cold but quite house to finish a conference call ) went over and sat by the fire and the kids all played together. I came home to get our things to spend the night and the power came back on so I left everything ready sitting by the door, good thing because I walked back to their house and as soon as I walked in everyone said "The power just went off again!" Brett came over, we got all our stuff and camped out at the Dunns for 3 days. The kids loved it, camping out at their best friends house for 3 days! Jessie got a stomach bug on Wednesday night and the party was over, Brian and Katie took their kids to Lexington to brains parents (they never lost power). Brain and Katie came back Thursday afternoon and Brian had caught Jessie's bug at least it only lasted less than 24 hours. About 10:30 pm Thursday night the power came back on we waited until about midnight to go home to make sure it was going to stay on and to let the house heat up. We were out of power for 3 days and we are some of the lucky ones, there are sill thousands of people who don't have power 9 days later. School has not started back though hopefully they go back soon or we won't have a summer!!