It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas...(or at least a skating rink)

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...or a least a skating rink here in Stillwater. We had our first ice storm of the season. Down here we get winter weather that makes the world glisten with ice. It also makes the roads quite tretcherous. The conditions were such that church was cancelled today. So, we carefully made the trip to my parents home a few minutes away and had Sunday dinner with my family. Cooper and Greyson decided that they were going to go out and play at Mimi's. They remembered last year's ice storm and decided that they were going to take their bike helmets, knee and elbow pads. Phillip and I got a chuckle out of that. While we were at my parent's Cooper decided that he was going to venture outside. In the pictures above, Cooper is showing us a sheet of ice that he picked up off the ground. He also is showing how the grass is frozen. It really is crazy. Everything just freezes as it is. You can take a leaf and snap it right in half. After Cooper tried to make a "ice angel" by laying on the grass (not much luck with the angel part), raked up ice off some landscaping and did some ice exploration on the trampoline we decided that surely he was cold enough. Cooper then came in and I made him one of his favorites, hot chocolate. He loved it. Cooper is now holding his breath that school will be cancelled tomorrow. It just might, too. The weather is supposed to continue through tomorrow, we may just need those helmets and pads yet. :)