Meet THE Snowman

Finally,
We got an AMAZING snowfall.
THE perfect snow to make a SNOWMAN!
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The kids wanted to BUILD...
So build we did!
On a mission to build...
"the biggest snowman"...

Some worked on the middle...

Some worked on the head.

The biggest worked on the bottom...

At this point...it was a question of physics.
How to get a 100 pound ball of snow, hoisted into the air, and set carefully atop a 200 pound ball of snow....
All while keeping everything intact...
It was so big, that Kevin and I together, could HARDLY lift that middle ball.
I mean if we had had to go any further up, it would have landed on the ground.
But we did it.


Then we sculpted...and molded....

He was so tall....his hat, had to be put on by ladder.
Speaking of the hat...it is a small bucket, not a hat.

Then we decorated...him.

We think he turned out pretty nice!


All 8 FEET of him!

As a side note....our neighbors decided to compete with us...
They did a really good job, but theirs fell down that same day.
Ours....
As it turns out...
Must have been made of concrete....
Because he just kept standing.
However, as the weather warmed little by little....
Our snowman leaned little by little...
Until he looked like this on the 1st.

We couldn't believe how he just kept standing.
We would make bets everyday, that by the time we got home from school or daddy got home from work he would have fallen over....
but it didn't happen until the 4th....

It was pretty cool!

Good memories...

The best kind!