holy snowman!

we woke up tuesday morning to about 5 inches of snow and the good news of school being cancelled. quinn loves snow days more than anything. he acts like a little boy every time it happens. tuesday was no exception. quinn, jayden and i put on our snow gear and headed outside to make a snowman, but little did i know of how big a snowman. we started rolling, then quinn just kept on rolling and rolling until he had to ask the neighbor boy to come help because it was getting too heavy. then, of course, he couldn't stop. he had to make the second ball just as big and do everything he could to heft it on top of the first. it ended up being 11 feet tall! taller than our house! making our house look miniature. the mouth, eyes, and buttons are clay pigeons and we only had baby carrots so we used a banana for the nose. sticks looked too small as arms so quinn got the clippers and cut down two branches from one of our trees in the back yard. oh, and i think the sombrero is a great addition, don't you.


the best part is how it attracts so many people. all day long we have people pulling over to take pictures of it, or even getting out of their car and running up to the house to get a picture next to it. we've even had policemen, garbage men, mail men, and delivery men come by and take pictures. i love how it puts a smile on their faces. hey, we've even made it on the local news' website! we're famous! i mean, our snowman is famous! he needs a name don't you think. maybe something mexican like miguel or ignacio.

here is quinn and jayden rolling the first ball. jayden is trying to push so hard. his little grunts are so cute. i will post the videos of quinn trying to heft the second and third balls on later. they're pretty great.