December 9th - First snow day

The boys were excited that they didn't have to go to school today, although, the snow day was really an ICE day - since the snow from yesterday started melting and froze over.

Here are the trees in the backyard - hanging low with heavy, icy branches.

Oh yeah....and our power was out for about 5 hours.
Thankful we have a gas heater!

This is from the upstairs window
You can see a line of some kind laying across the roof
and ice hanging off the other 

heavy pine branches 

teenagers are still teenagers as long as the battery still has life
iPod gamers!

soup anyone?
Yes, it worked great!

The photo challenge today is shopping:
We did NONE of that - I'm blowing this thing!