Do You Wanna Build a Snowman?

Not really, it's 25 below.  

Let this, the winter of 2014 be known as the cold winter ever.  Seriously, it's like the 5th snowiest, coldest winter on record or something like that.  

I blame Frozen, the Oscar nominated animated film about two sisters, one of which sets off an eternal winter.  My kids are OBSESSED with it.  We've seen it in the theaters three times- twice for the regular version and once for the sing along version.  I will admit, it's pretty cute.  But at this point, the whole art imitating fiction thing is getting a little too real.  

None the less, we had a great day building a snowman, and having hot chocolate afterward.  Marin had to bring out her spray bottle to make the snow stick a little better, because it was so darn cold out.  But we still had fun!

Snowbaby!

Last night, Marin and I decided to make the most of the snow and headed out to make a snowman. Except that, our intentions were greater than Marin's willingness to stay partially immobile in her marshmallow snowsuit, or mine to get my designer jeans soaked and muddy- so we ended up mostly just making a snowbaby. She's a girl, of course. We named her Suzy Snowgirl, and she is just Marin's size.

When I handed Marin the carrot for Suzy's nose, Marin put it in her mouth to eat it. Really it makes sense; how is she supposed to know that it was for the nose? In the song, they use a button.

After we built Suzy, it snowed about 6 more inches, so now poor Suzy Snowgirl is blind because her mud/leaf mixture eyes are covered in heavy snow. We had a good time, and have grown quite fond of our pint size snowbaby, Suzy. Still, as much as we enjoy visiting her in our front yard, I can't say I would be too terribly upset if a warm front came through and melted little Suzy away until next year. Bonus points for Suzy if she left budding daffodils in her place.

Suzy was the perfect end to a great weekend we spent together, with our friends the Minick's who visited us for the weekend. We had a great time with them, and loved when the Kucharski's joined us on Saturday! I love when our house is full and buzzing with laughter. And 6 adults, 4 children, one dog, and a healthy dose of wine (for the adults) and candy (for the kids) was just the way to make that happen!

We are so blessed. Thank you, God, for good friends with great kids, weekends, wine and snowbabies!