Snowman

This winter has been a bad winter for giving us packable snow to make a snowman. Since it has started to melt, we could get some snow together and pat it enough to form a ball. We tried this technique a month ago and the snow would not stay together. You can roll the ball only if you do lots of patting as you roll. It was a big job, but we got the snowman made. Here is Declan by the snowman, it was his idea to try to make one.
Both kids by the snowman. It is hard to see his spiked hair made out of sticks, but that was Isaac's idea. We also used sticks for the eyes, nose, and mouth. It was getting dark and we didn't know what else to use. You can see it isn't very big and the kids are on their knees. It was alot of work and we did the best we could with the light we had outside. The new daylight savings time sure helped us, though.
Of course, the very next day it rained on our snowman. We didn't get much rain, but it was enough to kill our snowman. We made one 2 years ago with my 2 nephews and it rained the next day after making that one. Declan and I decided we just shouldn't make anymore because it brings rain.