After many days of watching the snow fall.. and driving in it for the very first time ( a little slip and sliding were going on, but not a spec of damage, thankfully) we decided it was time to go play out in the utter freezing weather! We had thought about going on the following day because Gabe had the day off, but to our surprise of snowballs getting thrown at our window by our friend Holly & Keith that it was time to go down and play! It was snowing quite nicely as we were out and the boys got this desire to make a ENORMOUS snowman. They started rolling two nicely packed balls about 600 yards give or take until it was each of them were to heavy to roll by themselves:
As we got both of the balls in front of the house and got the bottom two put together (the midsection took 4 guys to lift, it was a heavy one) I decided to make the top ball which was so big that it needed to be put on by standing on a ladder. All the while Kayden found a box right next to our recycling area that was filled will all kinds of goodies that we could use for dressing up the beast! Scarf, boots, gloves, sofa props, etc., she is quite the trash digger.. which isn't that something that you hope for your children to do?? UMMM NO! but it worked in this case!
Instead of using a hat for the snowman ...it was to have a mohawk made from the bottom of a broom!! You see it is huge! It was a lot of fun, and by the time we decided to come in our faces were red from the cold and our beanies were soaking wet!
Gabe & Keith feeling quite accomplished!
.... no I didn't pee my pants, I swear!!
Kodi and Kayden's "reindeer" ... she had fun!!
The snowman was strategically put in front of the street for people to drive by and stare at... and in all of housing I would venture to say that ours is the tallest, and by far the AWESOMEST, ever!!
