Let it Snow!

We've had a couple great snowstorms this month that have brought some fun our way. One morning (Dec 20th) Kevin shoveled the driveway before he left for work. Later that day while Asher napped Rylan and I went out to shovel the driveway again. It had been snowing all morning so we had our work cut out for us. Rylan used to use his rake because he didn't have a snow shovel...yet. He asked for one for Christmas and as much as I wanted to just pull it out early for him to have fun with, we made him wait.

Look at Rylan's creation! He told me he was going to make another rake and I didn't know what that meant until he showed me the print in the snow. He asked me to get the camera, so I did and I took a picture. I showed him the picture and he asked "Why am I not in it?" Good question! Here's a picture with him and his two rakes!

This little boy loves to have snowball fights...what boy doesn't? This snow was such great packing snow that you could just pick it up in a mound (like Rylan) and there's your snowball!

We got out the ruler to measure how deep the snow was on our grass. I tried to measure (the right way) and Rylan insisted he knew a better way. Not sure he got an accurate reading on the depth of the snow!

And of course we had to take advantage of all this fresh white snow to make snow ice cream. (Please ignore the fact that our cool whip bowls get regular use around our house!) Such a fun winter treat!

That was just the beginning of our two day storm that brought us over 16" of snow. We woke up the second day (the 21st) and saw all the snow and it really felt like Christmas. The roads were so bad that Kevin was able to just work from home (which was a good start to his time off work for Christmas!) and school was even canceled--which goes to show how much snow we really had. School doesn't get canceled around here often. And not that that really affected us cause Ry was already out of preschool for winter break. But the snow really was amazing! Here are some pictures from the morning of the 21st.

Our second major storm came on the 29th. Kevin was (again) off work that day so all the boys got dressed in their snow gear and headed out to play. It was still snowing but that only added to their fun. (I was inside our nice warm house putting away Christmas decorations!)

Kevin and Rylan worked hard building a snowman. It's actually more of a huge mound of snow, but stick arms, a scarf, and a top hat on a mound of snow and it turns into a snowman! Sadly I didn't get a picture of the final product. A huge windstorm came in later that night and blew the top hat away (it was Kevin's homemade top hat from our night of bad caroling). I asked Kev to go out and get my scarf off the snowman before it blew away, and in his haste, he yanked off that scarf which decapitated the snowman!

There's Ry and his new snow shovel!

Asher has taken over the rake privileges. Maybe next year he'll get his own snow shovel!

I went outside (yes, in my pajamas--but at least I got on some boots and a coat!) to take pictures of the boys having fun in the snow. I realize that since I'm the creator of this blog I don't have to put such ridiculous pictures of myself on here. But it was a fun day!