SNOW!

Jack blowing bubbles in the snow.... not sure why, but someone got a picture, so I'm posting it :)

We got some awesome snow this weekend and were finally able to play in it!  On Friday Bradley, Erika and I made a choo-choo train out of snow (started out as a square snowman since the snow was not sticking- then evolved into a possible temple, and then with the help of Erika's artistic eye, it became a train!).  It looked awesome :).  So anyway, we got back out there again on Tuesday and made a couple snowmans!  Luke made his own smaller one and then he and I competed to make the largest ball, his won, and we used it as the bottom and mine as the middle for another snowman.  This one was much larger!  We were not even able to pick up the sections.  We ended up using a door from the garage to slide the middle section up.  Thankfully, Nate showed up just as we were putting the middle on and was able to help (we call it helping, but he really just muscled the whole thing up himself) and then helped put on the head once Erika and I had made it.  It was a pretty awesome looking snowman even though it was brown and covered in leaves- I don't know what our front yard is going to look like in the spring with all our leaves still on it!  I'm worried.  But anyway.  Lots of fun in the snow.  We got out the little snowman kit from Liesl and the kids went to town all over the front yard!  I think it would have been cooler if the colors were more snow friendly.  The red made it look like a bloody snowman massacre and the yellow... well, you know what the yellow looks like.  Oh, and it was actually called "neon green"... whatever.  I vote that we mix the colors next time (ha ha) and make purple, green and orange... I wish I'd gotten pictures!!  12-22-15

Apparently I didn't get a picture of the big snowman, or the colorful snow... rats!