Yesterday I woke up and couldn't see outside our bedroom window. Snow was whipping around like crazy because of the gusty winds and the heavens opening up. My brother Andrew and his friend Christian were the most excited because they are visiting from Chicago to snowboard. So, of course, they would be "stoked" because of all the fresh powder! Well were were going to start getting ready our neice Abby's baby blessing when her Stephanie (Johnny's sister) called to let us know their church was CANCELLED! I couldn't even believe it. They cancelled church! I wasn't too shocked because Johnny wanted to get out and buy some chains since there was already a foot of snow on the ground and seeing that we don't have an SUV we needed some assistance. (I know, my little sabbath breaker!) Uh, he couldn't even back out of the driveway because the snow drifts were too high!
Regardless of our slow non-successful morning, by afternoon the winds had calmed down cosiderably and it was time to have fun! Johnny, Andrew, Christian, and Gennovah went outside to play around and have a good time with the "2-4 inches" we were suppose to receive. Boy were they off, it was more like 12-18"! What do you do with all that SNOW, but build a SNOWMAN!!!
This was not going to be just any snowman you would find on the street! We are talking GIGANTIC!
So that is what the four of them set out to do. (Boston was down for a nap and I, unfortunately don't have any boots!) Keeping in mind that it couldn't be a normal size snowman. These had to be HUGE! So big that they needed a ladder to get the snowballs ontop of one another! The bottom of each of the were taller than Gennovah. She loved being ontop of the snowman.
Talk about TALL! With the top ball on, this snowman reached a towering 14 ft!
Here is Christian trying to add the touches we need to make this look more round after the struggle of finally getting it on top! Pure PERFECTION!
As you can tell this was no EASY task!
It wasn't all work, there was time to laugh and have fun! Here are Gennovah and Joy who became snow BUDDIES!
Finishing touches included: scrap material for scarves, liguine pasta (hair), Oreo cookies (less the filling, yum!), two large carrots (Thanks Geoff & Joy!), baby carrots, hats, and a couple oatmeal creme pies!
You can really tell how big these are from the SIDE view!
And here is the FINISHED family...
WHAT DO YOU THINK!!!
A special thank you to Geoff Osmond for capturing this priceless moment for us!
7 comments:
love the GIANT snowmen! I can't believe the snow. Fun to have your brother there. Love all the pictures! have a great day.
How cute is that! I love the snowmen! Fun pictures!
I am quite impressed! We will have to drive by and see if we can see them, by the size of them, I doubt they have melted.
I am quite jealous. Andrew and I have been waiting for years to get a good enough snowfall in order to make a towering snowman. I don't like Illinois winters anymore. They are not like what they used to be when we were little.
cute people out there building snowmen, especially that girl with gennovah!! too bad her mom wasn't out there with them!!
oh yeah, and the for sale sign out there, I am taking it down, you can't move away just yet!!
Wow! those are huge! that must have taken forever!
Hey, I'm Jenni and I just found your blog from our relief society board thing. We live on Grandville in the townhomes and LOVED seeing your huge snowman family everytime we were going out! My kids kept asking when we were going to make snowmen like that. :)
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