The Hurricane

I've been meaning to write this post since we got power back last Tuesday. After the power went out Monday night, it was like we were living in the primitive era...no electricity, no heat and no cell phone service. All we had was a hand-crank radio that thankfully my buddy Rich bought for us off our wedding registry. We roughed it with the babies in the house for 2 nights and it was a little scary because they are only 4 months and every few hours, we would wake up to make sure they were warm and snuggly. And then on Wednesday night at like 7pm, that same friend who bought us the handcrank radio we've been using, came knocking on the door to pick us up and take us to their house in South Plainfield where power was restored earlier that day. We're so blessed to have great friends who would drive an hour in crazy traffic for us. We packed up the car and as I looked down the street as the sun was going down, it really looked like a scene from Walking Dead...without the zombies. Crazy seeing absolutely no one outside and all the houses dark. We spent the entire week there with some of our other friends and had a blast. Peep the pics below...

A huge thank you to Rich and Kat for taking us in. My mom was really grateful we were able to find shelter with you guys and said "that's when you know your friends are family." The boys had a great time playing with Nicolai and Noah. Every night we would stay up after putting the kids to sleep and chit chat and laugh till our stomachs hurt. Great times even under those circumstances. Also thank you to Kat's Mom and Carmela and Ray for helping with the boys.