Snow Day...

The snow had covered our birdfeeder, so we put birdseed out on our back patio for the birds. We saw cardinals, doves, and all kinds of little birds and enjoyed watching them eat their breakfast... I cooked us a breakfast of eggs, biscuits and hot chocolate so that we would have a warm breakfast to give us energies to play in the snow.
We first measured, and on flat areas, we got 5 inches of snow. We had drifts around the yard of much more!
We then decided to build a snowman. We had trouble at first because the snow didn't want to stick. We finally got it going though...
We scrounged around the house for eyes, a nose and a mouth and found almonds for his eyes, a carrot, of course, for his nose, and grapes for his mouth...Charles thought a Cubs hat would be perfect to top him off...

The hat was a little too small for his head, so we traded it for a Cubs visor...
Our poor little snowman turned out a little whopsided, but we had lots of fun making him!!

By the time we finished with the snowman, the snow had mostly melted from the sidewalks and road...

Since we had all this snow, we had to take advantage of it and have a snowball fight...

We both got in some good shots, but Charles caught me with one right in the face...
Then we decided to sled. With my ankle still not being 100%, I thought it best for me to stay on the little incline in our backyard, so Charles took our fantasy draft boards from this year and last year (thank goodness, they will finally be going to the garbage now!!) up for us to try sledding on...

As you can see, our first idea did not work out too well...
I had a little better luck, but still did not sled far...
So, Charles decided to use our lawn chair cushion on the hill...this worked out much better...
We had a great time being kids this morning!!