"Snow" Days

Here in southeastern Texas ice and snow are pretty rare. We are halfway through our third year here (already!) and we had an expected event. Ice. Since it is so rare, the city does not have the means to melt it with salt like they do "up-north." They also have many elevated highways which apparently freeze nicely and help to bring the city to a standstill. 

I must admit we were pretty excited by the possiblity of not having school. Even when the phone rang at 5:18 am, confirming "no school" for the day, I was pretty happy! We stayed in our pajamas and I made a special breakfast. What made it even better was it was a Friday...a three day weekend! Yahoo!

powdered donuts with chocolate chips

Mackenna went outside and took some photos of the ice. We saw icicles for the first time here!

icicles on the lounger

ice covered Matt's truck

Little did we know, we would have another "snow" day the following Tuesday. (Here it is actually called an "inclement weather" day...ha ha ha!) We actually saw a few miniscule snow flakes flying in the air for about 20 minutes. However, in the morning, we had a little bit of proof. There was snow on the roof!! It is certainly not anything like we were used to at all!!

Snow on our roof!

This has been the coldest winter since we have lived here. I am looking forward to some warmer days soon!