April foolsies

A couple of weeks ago, the power went out in the early morning. We found out through the grapevine that it was a transformer that blew at my kids' school, which is across the street from our house. School ended up being canceled.

The best part of this, by the way, is that the principal didn't send out any info about it for awhile because they didn't know when the power would go back online... So rumors (propagated by those of us who live near the school) were flying among the informal network of emailing moms. It happened to be April Fool's Day and one of my friends heard the rumor but put her kids on the bus anyway, thinking it was an elaborate April Fool's joke. I got a kick out of that.

Within a few hours they had officially canceled school and sent home all the remaining kids whose parents were able (and willing ;) to pick them up.

After I sent a few headlamp selfies to Matt (very much to his chagrin... he's not a fan of selfies... I don't understand why not)

Our power came back on. (The school's did not.) I let the kids play video games while Polly napped. AND THEN...

We took advantage of the most beeee-utiful day by spending the afternoon at Burke Lake.

One-half of an actual second after I took this picture, all three kids fell off that log into the water. Glad I didn't let Polly in that shot.

Theo was a handful all day. He gets that way when his routine is messed up. Bleeeeeeeea!!! Sure love him though.

Get a load of this weather report. Way to conform to stereotypes, April!