Yesterday we had a nice, big storm that lasted almost the entire day.
Noah felt bad that Matt had cleared the driveway early in the morning only to come home and find it completely covered again. He wanted to surprise him by shoveling it. He got about 1/2 of it finished and then delegated the rest of the job for me to finish. He still took all the credit.
Zack wasn't a whole lot of help. (Side note: I am having a crazy problem with my camera transferring pictures weird to my computer. Anyone know why?)
I asked Ben three times if he needed to go to the bathroom before we got him winterized. He never did, until we were putting on his gloves. And so off went the coat, scarf, snow pants, pants, etc.
Because Utah is a dry, desert type climate snow that falls here usually has a very low water density. I learned that yesterday on a restaurant place mat. I had no idea that later in the day I would learn first hand what that meant. The climate that gives Utah the "greatest snow on earth," all that thick powder the skiers and snowboarders love, makes building a snowman virtually impossible. It just won't stick. There was so much snow that it seemed criminal not to build a snowman. The kids and I worked for a good hour and this is what we ended up with:
We are pretty proud of our snowman head. But next time we'll wait for "snowman snow" to fall. (Before you call the child protective services, Zack had gloves on the whole time. He was getting ready to go inside when I grabbed him to take this picture. See the above photos for further proof).
5 comments:
I love your boys and their snowman head. I am now informed and will wait for snowman snow to fall before putting forth such great effort. I too love snow ONLY IN DECEMBER.
I wish we had snow...Idaho is not pulling through for us yet. It can snow all it wants to now that I have my Christmas shopping done. Way to put forth the effort on the snowman.
I was showing the pics to the kids and Abby asked why it doesn't snow at our house. I explained but she said she will ask Santa for some. The pics were really cute and Noah is such a sweet boy for shoveling the driveway, even if you had to pick up the slack.
Oh, my kids are so jealous. Sam saw the pictures and said, "why can't we live in Utah?" I think they are more excited for New Years now than Christmas. We can't wait - I bought a new puzzle for you, me and Di!
Not only are you fed nutritionally when you dine out, you are educated as well. You got your money's worth that time. I have all the props for a snowman, we just need the snow. Did Matt shovel snow at 3 in the morning before he went to work? Tell Noah that was impressive of him to even think about shoveling the walks again. Certain 17 and 18 year olds don't even think about it.
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