You know you have the coolest uncle around when he brings over your birthday gift and it is a giant water trampoline! So cool. Best part was he brought it over before your friend party and then he helped blow it up!
If this doesn't look like a blast I don't know what does. You had decided to have your friend party at the lake house because really what is more fun than that. You had some friends from the old neighborhood, friends from your old school and your new school. It looked like you all had a blast. You had wrestling matches on the mat and saw who could do the coolest flip off the trampoline. We had been watching the weather all week because it looked a little sketchy but we were lucky enough to get about 2 hours of water playtime before the storm hit.
Only Emmy would get a personal attendant for her brothers birthday party. It was however the best idea ever! You got to hang out with Alexandrea who you love and I got to concentrate on the party or to be more specific the food to feed 10 boys.
At about 2 hours into the party we spotted lightening and made you get out of the water. It was perfect timing because then you came in to eat and play pool. Little did we know just how bad of a storm we were in for. We have never been at the lakehouse during a storm and the lake gets really rough! The waves were hitting the deck of the neighbors house and crashing like crazy. We had high winds and some hail. The neighbors huge tree lost lots of branches. One fell on this poor chair of ours and almost cut it in half. They had a large limb fall on their shed and the neighborhood in general had trees big and small with limbs down and some were uprooted. Thank goodness we all stayed safe. The lakehouse doesn't have a basement so I was trying to decide how to keep 8 children that weren't ours and 4 that were safe it the sirens went off. Thankfully, it never came to that. All the areas around us lost power but not us. The party went on with pool tournaments, ice cream sundaes and lots of 11 year old boy talk.
This is the picture I texted to the parents. Don't worry about us. We have power, ice cream and a pool table.
The craziest part was that Robb and I had decided that we would leave the water trampoline in the water and just tie it to the dock. About half way into the storm we realized that the water trampoline was never going to survive unless we brought it in. The 2 of us were out in the high wind a pouring rain trying to deflate it enough so that we could wrestle it into the garage. I'm sure we were a sight!
The damage.
Checking out all the trees that were down.
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