Snow Day #1

We had some icey/sleety stuff come to town Monday night into Tuesday. My school got called off around 10pm Monday night, which it was nice to know the night before. Henry, Ben, Turbo, and I spent the morning playing in the basement. Around 10 I went upstairs to go to the bathroom and realized our heat wasn't going past 62 degrees, even though it was set at 68. The blower was not kicking on, so I called G. He came home at lunch and tired to reset it, but it still didn't work. We called a heating place who sent a service guy out. He determined we either needed to replace the burners which in parts alone would be $550 or get a whole new furnace. Our furnace has a life of 15 years and it's 17....the rest of the furnace is not in very good shape, so we decided to go with a new one. Not to mention the new one could be installed the next day, and the parts to fix our broken furnace would take AT LEAST 7 days to come in. So we were chilly on Tuesday, but thankfully we had electricity and used space heaters to keep warm.

Below are pictures from Henry, G, & Turbo playing outside at lunch time. We didn't really have that much snow, more ice and sleet, but Henry liked it anyway. After dinner, Henry had fun outside with Daddy sledding down our neighbor's driveway and shoveling our driveway. By dinner time we were having big fluffy flakes and about 2 or 3 inches had fallen.

Ready to go!

See...not really that much snow...yet!

Turbo enjoyed getting outside too.

Thinking about making a snow angel on the sidewalk.

Walking down the sidewalk

Henry attempting to make a snow angel. Ben & Mommy as snuggly warm (kind of) inside!

Inside after playing...watching PBS and drinking hot cocoa before naptime!