Snow Day!

This morning (Feb. 8th) Charles woke me up by saying, "You have got to come look at something." I was so excited when I realized that that something was snow!!

Around 5, 5:30 this morning, the snow was really coming down...

Huge flakes were falling, and they were falling fast...Snow had already accumulated an inch or two...At 6:30 a.m., the huge flakes were still falling...They slacked off, then fell fast again, then slacked off some more, but by then, everything was blanketed with a heavy layer of snow...Around 8 this morning, our house looked so pretty with all the snow...our whole street did!I was ready to play, so Charles came outside...and measured the snow...

6 inches!!!We decided to build a snowman, so Charles started rolling its body...
and rolled it to the front yard...The base was huge, so he just tumped it over to the ground...
Whew! Those snow balls were really heavy, so Charles came back and rolled mine the rest of the way to the front...
After a few attempts to heave the middle onto the base - I'm sure we looked pretty funny trying! - and after a few ideas to ramp the middle onto the base with a shovel didn't work, Charles broke the middle into two sections, and we finally got the middle on the base! We added a head, and then it was time to give our snowman some personality!

Our first snowman dress up idea was a SP baseball snowman...

We used badminton birdies for the eyes, covered, of course, with goggles and oreos for the mouth.

I think Coach Willoughby might need to keep a space open for him! Charles then decided we should have a snow on the ground snowman, so he turned the hat sideways and we decided to put masking tape over the oreo teeth for his gold teeth - He turned out too cute!
I decided that I wanted a turn to make the snowman an MSU snowman, so I got our flag and a MSU cap, and Charles brought out oranges for his eyes, a carrot for his nose, and a banana for his mouth - He turned out cute too!
Charles and I with our MSU snowman masterpiece (?)...

We brought out our MSU chair, and Charles decided it needed a little snowman in it, so he built a baby snowman, and I helped with the face...
Aww, our little snow family!!I though the snowbaby was so cute!
MSU fans all around!

After finishing our snowman, we decided to see if this was a sledding snow...
It WASN'T!!!

We then finished up our snowball fight. Charles started it by clocking me in the head with a snowball while I was walking to the street to take a picture of our snowfamily. I chased him into the garage with a snowball, but my aim isn't all that great, so I hit the wall instead of Charles! Well, after my attempts at sledding, I brought a snowball back down the hill with me and hit Charles squarely with it!

We both got in quite a few great shots, and Charles also got in some great dodges! We were covered with snow from head to toe (Charles even had an ear full of snow) by the end of our fight! Charles just couldn't resist extending our snowball fight during my timed picture!
We had such a fun morning playing in the snow!!