We had a good weekend. Saturday we took the kids to Colo and Will and I went out for his birthday. We had originally planned to go downtown to the American BBQ but after seeing the prices of what food would cost we decided against it. We then decided to go out to dinner. We got all dressed up and went to the Waterfront Seafood restaurant that just opened in Ankeny. The short story of that experience was it was AWFUL. The service was lousy and after waiting for 1 hour and 40 minutes they brought Will the wrong dinner. We were pretty worked up when we left there. Unfortunately I don't think we will be going back. We did get some shopping done for our trip and went home and watched a movie. It was nice just to be alone and spend some time together with out distractions aka 4 boys.

Sunday morning we thought we would go out to breakfast together before heading to Colo to get the kids only to find that the power was out in Ankeny. We drove to Ames and couldn't find anything there either so we stopped at Cub foods and got donuts and just drove around Ames. It was just a series of mishaps for us. Oh well, we still had a good time. We ended our weekend at a birthday party for Will at my moms house.

Sunday night we got some huge storms. We woke up at 3am to our shutters rattling against the house and the tornado sirens going off. We lost our electricity about 10 minutes later and we sat in the dark till about 11:30am. Will decided to go to work about 4am since he had no way of making sure he would wake up in time to be there. Jake and I spent the morning outside cleaning up branches while Tony and the younger two boys found all sorts of tiny frogs. Most of branches were small, thankfully no large trees. My brother wasn't so lucky. He had a huge tree blocking his driveway. He had alot more work to do then we did. Will's smoker did get blown over but I think it will recover!