The cheek of it!! Entering my house over my back fence and through my back door.

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I was not impressed at all earlier today. My son's 'friends' turned up to see if he was going out. He said he wasn't as he was on his xbox at the time. At this point I was in the front room, keeping out of it, as a parent of teens does. About 10 minutes later I nipped up to my room with some washing and was keeping an ear open as the french doors were open in the living room, bearing in mind it was mid afternoon. I was putting away the clothes, when I was alerted by the sound of someone downstairs, so I froze and braced myself to go and confront whoever it was. I then heard them coming up the stairs and could hear whispering from my son's 2 friends that had called earlier. As I am usually at work, they obviously presumed I was out. I stood my ground in my room and heard them go into my son's room, and he was not impressed. After a minute they were trying to wind him up and bragging saying 'Bet you don't know how we got in?' Because I was shocked and angry I didn't confront them immediately, so I heard them say this and then I shouted out, 'Yes I would like to know that too'. I then waited a little bit longer while I calmed enough to go and face them as I didn't want to lose my temper completely. It was probably a good thing, as they thought they had got away with it, so when I did go in the room they got a shock. It was hard to keep my temper, and I gave them a lecture on trespassing, how dare they, entering 'my' house, without permission, how I could have gone and flied at them thinking their were intruders, which technically they were, etc. I was pleased to see that one out of the two had the decency to look ashamed and he couldn't apologise enough. The other kept his head down and didn't respond. I told them firmly that if I ever caught them doing this again, or heard of it, then they would be barred from the house. They were lucky I didn't just stand in my room and call the police thinking they were intruders. They boys are all nearly 15, so I thought they would have had more sense. But then again they are all teens and how much sense do they have? Does anyone here think I overeacted or underreacted? What would you have done in the same position? I am a pretty laid back person and I pointed this out to them both, one of which knows this anyway (the one that kept his head down) but that they had overstepped the mark this time. Not sure whether I still feel angry about it, or whether to see the funny side, which was creeping up on them when they didn't realise I was in. I spoke to my son afterwards, but spared him the lecture, as it wasn't his fault. He had already sent them away. He was happy with what I did, and says I didn't embaress him, but also said it wasn't the first time they had done this. I obviously have warned him about leaving the back door open while he is upstairs as when he is onhis xbox with music on and door shut he won't hear anyone getting in. So it was a lesson to him too.