Snow fell unexpectedly last night after a day of cold rain. I actually remembered about the possibility of making snow cream, so I put out a pan gathered up enough snow to give it a try. Not sure it was the breakfast of champions, but it was fun! We learned to not add as much sugar and vanilla as the recipe called for, but it was good for the first few bites anyways. (Mom, we did eat a 'real' breakfast right after!)
After sufficiently chilling our insides with a snowy breakfast, it was time to go outside! Snow angels, snowball fights and a mini-snowman were all the order of business while I tried to shovel off the sidewalk and driveway that never get the sunshine. Shoveling takes on a whole new dimension when you have to dodge snowballs at the same time!
As the sun came out, the ice and snow began to melt and fall off the trees and houses. The neighbor boy came over and he and J had fun throwing snowballs at each other, but mostly at me! We've not had this much snow in a long time and J's finally at the age to actually enjoy it for a decent amount of time.
Frosty's got nothing on our little snowy mini-man.
With the little bit of thawing that occured, we were finally able to create a "real" snowman...something we've never really had much luck doing. Gravity took over unfortunately and he fell over, but after a torso-ectomy, he gained new life, though at the price of a shorter stature. Here are the before and after pix. Knowing that this is the south and snow never lasts more than 24 hours around here, these guys will be best remembered in pictures and we'll try again next time!
