Monday, January 10, 2011

Snow Bunny!

I had seen pictures of other snowmen and decided around three in the afternoon that we should give our snowman building another go. Charles told me to go check out the snow and let him know, so I bundled up again and headed outside. Sure enough, the snow stuck and rolled really good! So, I threw a few snowballs at the window to get Charles's attention and let him know to come on out. While he was getting layers on, I rolled the base for our snowman from the back to the front. The snow ball got pretty big and pretty heavy, but the last time we built our snowman in the side front yard, it got caught in the melting snow, water path and tumped over before its time. So I was determined to put the snowman in front of the house and out of the melting snow, water path.
Well, the big heavy snowball was really hard to roll across the driveway. I finally got it across, but part of it fell apart. Just then, Charles showed up to help. He said that it could be salvaged, so we started packing and shaping the snow base... and Charles rolled a middle for our snowman to the front, heaved it up on top of the base and added snow to the gaps...
While Charles was working, I rolled the head for the snowman and carried it to the front...
and had the honors of placing it on top...
Well, with all the packing and shaping that we had done to the snowman, it turned into another shape. Charles was standing behind it and said that it looked like it had a bunny tail...So we added 2 snowballs to the top, and Charles carved them into bunny ears!
He did a great job with the ears...
It was then time to add eyes, nose and, of course, whiskers...
Our snow bunny turned out so cute!
We then had to bring out our real snow bunny, Toula...
She wasn't too sure of what was going on, but she was so good and was just so cute with our snow bunny!
I just had to get a family picture...
The Willoughbys with their snow bunnies!

After Toula was taken back to her home and settled in, we decided that the snow bunny was missing paws...
So, we cut some branches for the 4 paws...
I had to have another picture of Charles and me with our snow masterpiece...
I think that Charles was tired of picture taking!!

We had so much fun building our snow bunny!

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