First Snow!

(Jensen giving the snowman a "high five." He was napping when we were building it.)

We woke up this morning to a winter wonderland! The boys were so excited, including Austin! But Austin had to study, so I pulled out the snow pants, boots, gloves, hats, coats, etc. for the little boys and me. After half an hour of pulling gloves on as tight as possible and fighting Jensen to get the rest of the clothes on, the boys and I were ready to go! Luke was determined to build a snowman, Jensen was content making "baby snow angels" in the snow. Then we pulled out the sled and I pulled the boys around. Jensen loved it! Then we hooked the sled up to Luke's little 4 wheeler, though it didn't work all that well, it was still fun.

Austin was able to take a little break from studying to come help with the snowman! There wasn't a lot of snow, but it was perfect snowman snow. (Luke and I even had a snow ball fight!) Austin made the base of the snowman, I made his middle, and Luke made the head - that's why it's a little small. We didn't have the normal stuff for eyes and nose, etc. so we used dum-dum suckers for eyes and a nose (worked great!) and then a twizzler for a mouth. A real Flake Family snowman (made of candy!). Then we put on a cap and gloves that dad gave us last Christmas (it's for a girl so we never used it). Anyways, it worked great and Luke was so happy to have a snowman in his front yard! After we were done, we went in for some hot cocoa! What a fun morning!

In other news, Austin tore down the nasty old shed in our yard. It was such a beautiful day yesterday that Austin decided to take a break from studying for a little bit and rip down the shed. It only took him a couple of hours - he's a real man! He found a lot of weird stuff within the walls of the shed. Man was that place disgusting.

These guys were pretty proud of their work and understandably so

Luke gained a love for eating snow today.

Snow Struck Lovers

These mask/hats are so handy when it's so cold!


Look at the snow packed on those tires! We need to get this bad boy some snow tires!

Luke starting the snowball fight. And yes, I did "accidentally" hit him in the face with a snowball.

Luke tried his hand at pulling Jensen in the sled, but Jensen only weighs a few pounds less than Luke so he was struggling.

I love the little snowflake on his long eyelashes.

This swing was broken when we moved in, but Austin fixed it right up.

BFFs

First sled ride ever!

Wow, what a gross place.