the slow down

Now that baseball is over life has slowed down a lot. Sometimes I think that this is a good thing but other times not so much.
Now that we don't have baseball to fill so many hours of the day, practicing and playing games, I have to find something for all of us to do with all this extra time.
Monday night we had our power go out at about 6:30. We had finished dinner and had just finished popping popcorn to watch a movie when it went out. Now our power doesn't go out very often. I think that it has gone a total of 5 time in the past 2 years and 2 of those times has been this week. When the power went out we all went outside. Since power outages are rare my children were kind of excited and wanted to make sure that everyone in the neighborhood knew our power was out and make sure that theirs was out too. They yelled at the neighbors in their backyards excitedly about our power being out. The little things that make kids happy. We had a small water fight (it was hot). I had the squirt gun and chased the boys around the yard, with Kaitlyn squealing happily following me. While chasing Ethan and Matthew they climbed the 6 ft wood fence trying to get in the front yard away from me. Matthew picked the wrong spot and got stuck at the top of the fence. Now a nice mom would of just squirted their son maybe once but not me lol. With Blake chanting "get him, get him" I drenched the whole right side of Matthew then helped him down from the fence. I love that Matthew is such a great sport and laughed while I hosed him down.
Two hours after the power had gone out we decided that we might as well make the best out of this time and went to the grocery store. We leisurely wondered around the store trying to waste as much time as possible. Driving home we noticed that some houses had their lights on and started to thinking that our power was back on and we would have a cool house to come back too. As we got closer to our house we saw that none of the houses had lights on. I love my garage door opener, it is so convenient, but with the power out you find out how very heavy the garage door really is. 
Once in the house we started the search of flashlights, candles and a lighter. The flashlight was found, but the battery's were dead and we didn't have any new ones (too bad we didn't think about that when we were at the store). I'm upstairs in my dark bedroom and turn around and there's this little thing that scares the crap out of me. Kaitlyn was wondering around the house in the dark like it was nothing.  Its a good thing our cell phones work as flashlights and Nick has that app on his phone. We sent the boys off to bed but Ethan said that he couldn't go to bed with the lights out. That's odd since we always go to bed with the lights out. Funny boy. It is hot in our room so we open the window this helps with the heat but the neighbors are all still outside and talking loud. Nick has no problem going right to sleep but I every time I start to drift off I hear the neighbors make a loud noise and wake up. I'm just about to give up and close the window when I hear them yell yeah and then hear the ac kick on. Woohoo I can close the window.  We have a "smart" blu ray player that is sometimes too smart for its own good. When the power came back on it though "hay we were watching a movie so I should turn back on". When it turns its self on it also turns the tv on. So I had to run down the stairs to turn the tv off before the sound for the movie started and woke everyone up.
Last night the power went out again at the same time. We had scouts pack meeting. We went to the church and roasted inside waiting to go out and do the bike rodeo. Watching the kids all riding around doing different fun activity's on their bikes. Slow race, figure 8, coast race, paper boy and balance beam. Riding Nick's bike with my boys reminded me how much I like riding a bike and that I need to get one of those karts that hook on the back of the bike so we can go on bike rides as a family. While still at the church Blake comes up to me and says "Mom, I pooped fast". Oh no! Poor Blake with the power off he couldn't find the bathroom fast enough and it was pitch black in the bathroom so he had an accident. Time to go home and clean him up. When we got home the power was on and the house was nice and cool. I will forever remember "I pooped fast" that's a much nicer way of saying "I had diarrhea".
I'd like to know the reason for all the power outages. But oh well it does give us some excitement.
Tonight is Nick's work summer party. If it is anything like last years it should be fun and very funny. Imagine 10 people just as goofy as Nick all together and playing funny games like the minute to win it ones. Now you can imagine how funny it is. I'm sure that Nick will take video again and I'll see if I can share them with you.  Today I will be making the dessert for the party and mmmm