Wednesday, March 4, 2009

The Seven Year Snow!

WHAT A FUN SNOW WEEK!
So here in Virginia we don't get much snow....it's been seven years since the last big snowfall and last Sunday was our big chance! It was GREAT! There was beautiful white packing snow to the tune of 8 inches. The kids have been out of school for 3 days and are finally going back tomorrow, albeit 2 hours late...what is that all about? All the trees do help to make it more beautiful. But my Azalea bushes that were weighted down to the ground didn't like it much, and we'll see how the dogwood and tulips do...there were due to come out soon.

This is Crackers. He was bigger than Parker, but not quite as tall as Braden. When I told Braden to put a banana on for a mouth I didn't think he'd PEEL it first! Boy did that make it easy for the neighborhood animals to enjoy! **Items of note would be the strawberry Nesquick that we sprinkled on his top to give him the tie-dyed t-shirt effect.
Other items of note could be the "cup of Joe" that he has on the end of his stick. That's what Parker called it. You might also notice the beautiful green hair coming out the top, that too was Parker's portion.



Don't ask me how I got this flipped around, but I guess this is how our house would look if it was backwards. You'll note that we took the banana out and put in peppercorns for the teeth...we tried raisins, but they were gone too fast. I think the peppercorns weren't much of a hit with the neighborhood animals....indigestion city! Maybe we should have done Tums for eyes.




4 comments:

Gayle and Curt Family Blog said...

love it! such a creative snowman! You guys did a great job1

J9 said...

LOVE your snowman! Ours just got knocked over by neighborhood kids.....I think I'd rather have animals snack on it! Wasn't the snow great, though?!!!

Lynnette said...

We loved all the creative touches. Strawberry nesquik? Yowza! Briggs and I built one yesterday. Not nearly as creative but I don't think I will show him yours. We don't have the animals to feed like you do.:) All of ours are inside.:)

Tyler and Allison said...

My favorite part was parker's "cup of joe" Ha ha. This had me laughing out loud, which was slightly embarrassing since I am at work :D ha ha.