Happy Birthday Noah...

This past week-end on Saturday, February 24th, was Noah's (our nephew) 8th Birthday! Erin had a great party planned for him with all of us. She made her famous cakes (5 of them to be exact, all different flavors.) It was going well until the ice storm really hit, and took out all of Erin and Chad's power. Noah blew out his candles in the dark. (Except for the flash on the camera.)
It still was a lot of fun, and Noah made out pretty well in the "Birthday loot" department...
While sitting in the dark, I guess Dad just couldn't help himself... (how sweet)

Meanwhile this is what was going on outside...

We decided to call home to see if we had power or not. The answering machine didn't pick up, and I really needed to use a working restroom so we decided to head home to pack a bag. We had decided to spend the night at Mom's in Muscatine since the roads were so bad, and Shelby had to sing at Church in the morning. Church was even cancelled on Saturday night, among many other things all around us.

This was what our truck mirror looked like as we drove home on terrible roads, with terrible traffic, because they had shut down Interstate 80 because of down power lines. It was crazy! It took us 1 hour to drive about 15 miles, going about 30mph with all of the rerouted traffic...

Everyone is fine and safe, but the Bierman's are living with us for now until they regain their power. We returned home to find that we were only with out power for about an hour or so. Thank you Lord.

But please pray for the Bierman family as it's not the easiest thing to live out of a suitcase with 3 children, College, Chad's work, kids school, activities, and just not being stressed out because you can't stay at home. They are saying it may take a week to fix the power lines, so lets pray for safety and speed for these workers.