Snow!

So it's been a very snowy and VERY COLD December and January here. We have still managed to have some fun playing in the snow. Above: Amy is pulling Cooper and Luke on the sled and Tori is in the purple. Tori loves going out to play in the snow and getting pulled on her sleds (I really need to try and find a hill around here for her to sled on - easier said than done.)

Here are some pictures of Tori and Dad making a snowman (Tori loved doing this, since mommy usually doesn't have the patience to try and build one). Making a snowman here is a lot more difficult than it was back east for me. Around here it is so cold and the snow doesn't have much moisture to it so it is very hard to pack.

After we made the snowman we had a hard time thinking of what to use for a face, so we got creative. We did have a carrot for the nose, his eyes and buttons are lollipops, and his mouth is a pickle.

The temperatures around here only got above freezing a very few times during the month of January, so the one day it was around 34 degrees it felt so nice and warm to us that we spent some of the afternoon with Tori riding her tricycle outside around the neighborhood.