first snow

It has become tradition to celebrate the first snow with a snowman and a wintery treat. Ty had to spend the day at school (how sad he was!), and Matthias was in DC, so it was up to Beckham and I to create a snowman fitting for the first snow. This was in Indiana - December.


This year's snowman is sporting:

• a Chilean wool hat
• meat thermometer for an eye
• play dough container for the other eye
• a carrot nose
• twiggy mouth
• scarf that Zaccy made Matt
• Beckhams mittens
  

We topped the day off with gingersnap cutout cookies.

winter sports

Wow, I can't believe I just found these. No explanation needed really, just some shots of the winter sports the boys participated in. I just realized they are both somewhat "girly" sports. Hopefully Ty won't fall in love with ice skating, I'm kinda glad he wasn't very good at it. And likewise, hopefully Beckham won't be a high school cheerleader all because he took a gymnastics class. Can you imagine? Beckham the high school cheerleader? I would die.  

tracks

What do you know? Another post about . . . snow!

The boys spotted some fresh tracks out in the snow today and wanted to pursue the animal and capture it! Ty thought it was a baby alligator. They were hot on its trail when suddenly. . .

. . . they spotted a different track! I told Ty it was a deer - he was certain that the deer had captured the baby alligator and eaten it all up! I didn't want to crush his excitement by telling him that deer are herbivores and that if there was any eating going on, it would be . . .

. . . Bex eating the falling snow!

a utah favorite

Hi! I won't even start to give all the lame excuses as to why I have been absent from the blog for so long - well, maybe just a few . . . trying to figure out the NEW camera (yay!), messing too much with photo shop (unsuccessfully), and hiding from it because of the stress that accompanies my wanting to make the blog "good" . . so finally I/we are back. I can't wait to catch up on all your blogs as well!

A long name for this post would be: Our Favorite Thing About Christmas Vacation in Utah besides our Oh-so-loved families: Utah SNOW!

From snow angels, snow caves, and sledding to skiing, snowball fights, and a Sundance mountain walk/run in the snow with Em. We loved it all!

Video the First: How they got down the hill
Video the Second: How they got up the hill

frosty

There's nothing like making a snowman with my boys to remedy the Matthiasless blues. I can't even tell you how excited we are for him to take his last final for the semester (Wednesday)!! We used all our front yard snow as well as 3 neighbors' to make this snowman, I hope they didn't mind. Ty rolled the head and 1/2 of the tummy all by himself! Frosty is sporting BYU gloves, an authentic Mexican sombrero, a Utah scarf, a mini-carrot nose, mulch smile, coal eyes and buttons, and pine branch arms. He only stayed with us for about 3 days before he melted away. Spare me a moment of tooting my own horn, but I must say this is quite an impressive snowman for Indiana, don't you think?

I remember when I was little (in Utah) my brothers and I saw on the evening news a highlight about somebody's snowman. The next day we built an 8 foot snowman, oh we measured, and called up one of the local news stations to tell them about our snowman. He was GIANT after all. We had to use wooden planks to roll the middle section on top because it was too heavy to lift. The camera crew never came. The next morning after waking up we found our snowman discombobulated. I think it was the Thompson boys who were either jealous, or just getting us back after our roof-top snowball fight (a funny story I will have to tell someday).

spreading a little holiday cheer . . .

Well, I haven't been on a picture posting computer for a while, but now Mac is fixed ($1200 in repairs covered by the warranty, no I didn't drop it.) so I have a few photos to share! Notice the quality of my camera during this video clip, and the abuse it endures. My camera is on it's last leg. I think Christmas will prove successful for my picture taking and for your viewing pleasure on this blog as I am hoping and wishing for a new camera.

We finally got a snow angel worthy snow storm! The boys loved it as you can tell!

More Holiday Cheer coming your way! Love to you all and here's wishing you a happy and fulfilling season!