Glad that's over!

The kids stock pile of snow balls.  Bella & I were too cold to stick around for the battle.

 So, last week the kids were out of school from Wed. through Friday.  Wed. the roads were so bad.  The kids and I wanted to head to the store, but mid way I turned around because the roads were so icy that I had to drive 10 miles an hour and plus, I kept seeing shards of tail light glass on the road and figured I'd better get back home. We only received snow on Tuesday night, but the temperature never reached about 20 degrees for a few days.  I know that's nothing compared to some, but when the weather has been in the 50's all winter long, it's a bit of a shock.  So, El Paso Electric experienced power failure and we had blackouts all over the place.  Schools and government buildings were closed because of the blackout and so the kids enjoyed some time off. 

On Sat. I came home from jogging and noticed that our snow was melting and decided that we should make a snow man while we still could.  Claire and I thought it would be fun to transform our snowman into different characters from the boys costume box. We had a good laugh.

THE FASTEST MELTING SNOWMAN IN THE WEST!

                                LUUKE!  Use the force! Bella was the only one small enough
                                             to hide behind the snowman to hold the props. :)

 

Here's to all of the Boy Scouts of America!  Claire's trying to make a fire and looks pretty happy about it. :)

                                              

SUPERMAN! Bella's not so sure.

                                        HI-YA!                                                         Beaverly Hills Ninja!

                                                            Our Tribute to Shawn White

                Claire's been watching Annie lately and wanted to see what she would look like as a red head. :)

                                                           These pics just make me smile.

          ON GUARD!

It's a good thing we made our snowmen when we did because it wasn't an hour later that I looked out the window and our snowman was toppled over.  So sad.