Once There Was A Snowman

We haven't had a lot of snow this year (really only two good storms) but what we've had we have definitely taken advantage of. Since we moved here I have learned that the snow doesn't stick around long so as soon as there is enough snow to play in the snow clothes go on, and we head outside.

This is from our first real snow of the year. Olivia loved walking around in the snow and then stopping to sit down and eat it. Luckily our dog hadn't been out yet, or I might have been a little more worried.

 Ethan of course wanted to build a snowman and he rolled this ball all over the yard until he decided it was big enough for the bottom.

 The final product! Ethan was so excited to have enough snow to make a decent sized snowman and also glad to have grass so that it was mostly a snowman and not a mud man like it has been in past years. The kids even wandered around the edges of the yard trying to find any rocks/pebbles they could use for the face and buttons.

 A week or so later it snowed again so of course we had to play in it while it lasted. As you can see from the pictures, the sun was out and shining bright so we knew the snow wouldn't stick around. Olivia was loving the snow under the warm sunshine!

 We have a small dirt pile on the side of our house that is maybe four feet tall and Ethan used our toboggan to go down it until Jake got home to take him for a real ride behind the 4-wheeler.

Ethan built this little guy all by himself and was so proud of it. We made another one together, about the same size as this one, on the other side of the yard and it fell over long before this one he made alone. He thought that was pretty great.