The Spring Break Snow Storm

For those of you who have ever lived in Colorado you will understand "The Spring Break Snow Storm". It's an anomaly that occurs almost every year. You think winter has passed and you're wearing flip-flops and shorts one day only to wake up the next morning to a blizzard. Bridget always worries about the birds she hears chirping in the trees that get clobbered by all of the snow. Don't worry, though, they start chirping again once the sun comes out.

Snow storms have a way of making you slow down. I was forced to be lazy for two days straight. We lied around watching movies and taking naps and my system must have gotten used to this new pace because I didn't want to go outside to play when Bridget first asked me. But seeing that it was a beautiful day I reluctantly agreed and I'm glad I did. We had a blast! We ended up playing for about three hours and when the kid's in the neighborhood looked out their windows they all came out of the woodwork to join us in the fun.

We started off with a snow cone shop. We made it out of a pile of snow the snow plow had made.

Soon after, we realized that the snow was perfect for making snowmen so we tried to do that. I accidentally made the second ball too big and couldn't lift it so we made an elephant instead.

Her name was Snow White. The kids loved her because you could actually sit on her back.

Then we slid down the hill about a million times. Some other kids had actually brought out some rails and ramps earlier in the day to snowboard on and we ended up sledding over those too. It made us jump too high and we ended up with sore tail bones. By the end of the day we were worn out, but I'm so glad we decided to play outside because we had an absolute blast!