Snowday!

Last night on the national evening news, Diane Sawyer told me that the temperature is colder in Texas right now than in Alaska.
Great.

This morning, I got up at 6:30 am to check the school closings and discovered that it was officially a SNOWDAY!

It's a dry, powdery snow though, so I don't think there will be many snowmen on our street.  It's suppose to get up into the 40's-50's tomorrow and all of it should melt away fairly quickly.

It's been nice staying in all day today.  I was very thankful that I didn't have to drive my son to school in this aweful weather.
So far I have finished 2 aprons and some bookmarks and taken lots of pics.  My son parked himself on the sofa early this morning to watch TV and play his DS. 

It's been a pretty good day. :)

This is a pic of my snow covered gazing ball.  It looks kinda funny.

Snow

First, it started to snow.

Then, it started to stick.

Then, Ben built a tiny snowman :)

Now, we have 2-3 inches of snow (just guessing) and we're waiting to see if tomorrow is a snow day.

And this past week, my sweet hubby celebrated his 54th birthday with his loving family.  Only one more year until he can get the senior discount at IHOP.  Woohoo! :)
I got his cake this year at Cakes by Sara, here in Tyler.  I had tasted her cakes twice before and they were wonderful.  This weeks b-day cake was no exception - it was yummy delicious.  And she added lots of extra icing like I asked,  for the b-day boy.  I highly recommend her cake shop if you're in the East Texas area and need a cake - or cookies, which are also yummy good.

It snowed - AGAIN!

It snowed all day yesterday - in TEXAS!

I just couldn't believe it. It has snowed 3 times so far this winter. That is just unreal. It's like we're living in an alternate universe.

It started snowing at about 10 am and continued all day until night fall. Of course, snowing and sticking are two different things. It stuck for the first few hours and I was getting all excited thinking that the kids would really have a lot of snow to play in that afternoon. But then it started melting. Then it would stick for a while. And then it would melt.

We were afraid it would all refreeze last night and the streets would be bad this morning, but nope. It was all melted. There was a little bit still on people's lawns but the streets were all dry on the way to school this morning. No snow day today :(

It's been an exciting winter for us though - especially for the kids. I'm glad my Ben has gotten to play in the snow so much this year.

Here is his little snowman he made late yesterday afternoon on our mailbox. I got a pic this morning before the little guy melted for good. His arms had already fallen off. Poor little guy.

And now for a recipe.

Last week was the book fair at my son's school and they had this great recipe book from allrecipes.com called Easy Everyday Favorites. So, since that's my favorite website to find yummy recipes, I had to buy it.

The first recipe that caught my eye was for Chocolate Peanut Butter Bars (of course, it HAD to be a sweet!). Ben has just recently started liking peanut butter but in the back of my mind, I didn't really think he or my DH would like them very much. Maybe I subconsciously was hoping that they wouldn't so that I could eat them all myself. :)

But I made them on Saturday and they LOVED them. And I did too. They were so quick and easy and yummy, yummy, yummy.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Bars

2 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs

1 cup peanut butter

1 cup butter, melted

2 cups semi sweet chocolate chips

2 3/4 cups confectioners' sugar

In a medium bowl, stir together graham cracker crumbs, confectioners' sugar, peanut butter and melter butter. Press firmly into the bottom of a 9x13 inch pan. Melt chocolate chips in the microwave, stirring occasionally. Spread chocolate over the crumb crust. Chill for about 5 minutes, then cut into bars before the chocolate is completely set. Chill until ready to serve.

If you let them chill completely after you cut them, then you can just break them into the squares. They broke into perfect squares. I was afraid that we would have to recut them, but nope.

Click here for the "official" recipe on the allrecipes.com website.

This was an awesome recipe and I love my new recipe book. Can't wait to try more yummy stuff.

Snow Pics!

Last Thursday, I posted about sitting in the dining room and watching it snow.

Here are some pics of what we woke up to on Friday morning. Snow day!
We got about 6 inches. That was the most we had gotten in our area for 24 years. Wow!It was so exciting. This is my front yard. Snow ball fight with dad!
My son loved it. He played outside all day on Friday and drank alot of hot cocoa.
Of course by Sunday, it was all gone. All except the big piles from where people had made snowmen.
Snowball fight with the neighbor kids. This was declared the best day ever - at least until the next best day ever. LOL