Snow, Ice and a Fireplace

Major ice/snow storm in Kentucky the last couple of days. Most everything was shut down yesterday, but things are opening back up today. We are surviving and have been able to drive around without any problems. The major roads are fine, the back/side roads still have some ice on them.

Our biggest problem is that we lost power at 5:30am yesterday (I saw the transformer blow) and it is still out. Apparently there are over 180,000 outages from our power supplier. As of now, there is no timeline on the repair or as the automated man on the phone says, "the estimated time of restoration is not known at this time". Pretty frustrating as the only other estimate we heard was up to two weeks before all service is restored. I can't even get a customer service agent on the phone. Anyway, we cranked up the gas fireplace yesterday and last night and let it heat the house. We bundled the girls up in extra layers of clothes and played games in the dark. Looks like we may have a repeat performance tonight.

I previously didn't like our fireplace, but I am starting to like it now that it is keeping us warm! If the outage continues we will most likely head to Shelbyville.

The worse part of all of this - I can look out our living room window and see lights on inside a house 100 yards away. Oh yeah, and that we missed American Idol last night.

Facebook

So I finally decided to join facebook after one of Anna's friends found her after not talking for 10 years. I have actually found some old friends and remembered some friends that I had forgotten about!

So far it is taking way too much of my time trying to find everyone, look at pictures of their kids, see where they live, etc. I'm hoping that it slows down some point soon!

Lazy weekend for us here. I'm playing guitar in the contemporary service for the 2nd week now. Will probably be doing that once or twice per month. Pretty fun so far.

We will have to get some pictures up soon of the girls. Will have some next weekend for sure when we celebrate 5 years of Emma!

Negative 3!

Yesterday was to my knowledge the coldest ever temperature where I have lived or been. I have no recollection of any negative numbers, yet when we got up yesterday we were at -2 only to see that drop another degree around 9am. It got to the low single digits when we lived in the Mid-Atlantic, but never like this.

Sitting at 9 right now and is getting up to 37 today. 40 degree one day difference, I'll take it.

In other news, Anna's semester started up on Wednesday. Should be a little bit busier for her/us this semester compared to last fall. All is well with the pregnancy as she is hitting 22 weeks soon. Emma got her ear's pierced last week - was an early birthday present. Freya personality is starting to shine through. She is a character and is not shy at all.

We will pretty much be stuck in the house for the next few weeks until the temperature gets up to 50!

Half way home

Had our 20 week ultrasound for baby #3 today. We followed through with not finding out the gender and have just one more ultrasound to go on February 9th. Both Anna and I tried to figure out if we had a little boy or girl in there, but we honestly couldn't tell. Guess we are in for a suprise.