Yesterday was our last day in Michigan before heading back home. The temperatures were warming up a bit (and by ‘a bit’ I mean it was about 34* out), which meant the snow was turning into great packing snow. You know what that means... Oh wait, some of you from Southern California don’t! IT MEANS SNOWMAN & SNOWBALL WEATHER! We took the nephews out in the front yard for a snow-filled afternoon.
The snowman turned out to be pretty tall and slender :)
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The boys |
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Aaron and Eric |
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I didn't have much to do with the building - I was the photographer ;) |
The snowman even got a snow ‘friend’ {Eric thought it looked like a cow, I thought it was a bunny, and when Ryan built it he was going for a dog}.
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We added a hat ;) |
And like I mentioned, the packing snow is GREAT for snowball fights!
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Eric threw a BIG ONE at Aaron and I caught it a moment before it hit :) |
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Looks like Ryan hit Matthew IN THE FACE, but I assure you it didn't happen like that ;) |
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Ryan being "LeBron" |
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Eric was showing us how he used to throw shot-put and discus |
Reindeer Ryan and Elk Eric took turns pulling the boys around the yard. {We figured with the warming temps it would probably slow down sleds on the hills though, so we didn’t venture out to the big sledding hills.}
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MUSH! MUSH! FASTER! FASTER! |
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Then we tried to get Matthew to do some work... It didn't last very long! |
Eric tried to make a snow angel, but had a little monkey that ended up jumping on him in the process.
Uncle Ryan helped the boys out by building a hill for them to jump (and push one another) off of.
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Love the hat in this shot! |
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Joey looks like he enjoyed being thrown down the hill... |
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Boys will be boys! |
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Uncle Ryan was playing NON-STOP! |
We even shot off the stomp rockets that we got the boys for Christmas. The rockets were sort of hard to find in the snow {they are white because they glow in the dark, but tend to camouflage in the snow}, so it didn’t last long.
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Ryan thought it looked like we both had red beards... |
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The tiger was in the forest? |
And before going in we needed to cool off from all of the activities.
Snow is fun (EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE)!
2 comments:
Looks like it was a day of fun for kids of all ages!
Looks like a blast...all we got today is rain. :-)
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