Snowy Day

Unlike my parents up in New England, we have gotten very little snow this winter.  We got one snowy day back in November and have had nothing since.  But finally this weekend we got some snow.  Everyone was a little disappointed that it didn't result in any cancellations because it started snowing Sunday evening before President's Day (no school, no work anyway).  But we did get to enjoy a nice snowy President's Day holiday with lots of snow playing.  Matthew and Anna played with some friends in the front yard and shoveled our driveway and walks and our neighbor's driveway, which was nice of them.  Then they looked around in the complex for some terrain to ride  down on a sled.  They all settled on the slide at the playground since our complex is very flat.

Grant and John went out in the backyard and had fun playing in the snow.

 We haven't had a snowy day in so long they weren't sure what to do

 John thought it was fun to put his head in the snow

Grant wanted to build a snowman, so I went to try and help.  The snow was very powdery and it was hard to work with.  I got some water to help make our snowman.  We worked and worked at it and finally got a small but respectable snow man body.  He had garden stakes for arms, a baby carrot nose and cranberry eyes.  John had fun helping us too.

 Ta Da!!  Grant added some cranberry buttons and we got some gloves and a hat for him.

We had a fun time building him!  I went inside shortly after and caught only glimpses out the window of what happened next.  Grant, as it turns out is no respecter of snowmen.  After all that work to build him I saw Grant, out the window, kicking the poor snowman's head off, then the next minute Grant was laying belly first on what was left of the snow man's body.  A few minutes later I saw Grant hitting the rest of the snowman mound (all that was left at this point) with a small baseball bat.  And a couple minutes later there was absolutely no sign that a snowman had ever been made except for a few scattered cranberries and a tell tale baby carrot.  And Grant had moved on to hitting other clumps of snow with a bat.  I find it is best not to get too emotionally attached to snowmen.  

Maybe we'll have another snowy day soon!!