Texas Snow

So when you think of Texas and weather you might endure there, one doesn't really come to the conclusion of the word SNOW. Well on rare occasions it gets cold enough for the wonderful beauty of snow to grace our presence right here in west Texas.

When snow comes, one must stop all things and go out to play in it before it melts away (which it usually does within hours).

It may not look like much, but to us it is. We take what we are given and love it. 

So the kids started out in the backyard and really wanted to make a snowman this year because we really haven't been able to since we moved to Texas.

Since we didn't have enough snow in the backyard we brought our starting forms of a snowman to the front yard to finish the work on good ole Frosty.

Now our Frosty may not be very big for those of you who have ever built a snowman before, but we sure had fun getting every bit of snow we could to make ours.

What snow man is not complete without a hat, scarf, eyes and carrot nose?  Although we didn't have any carrots at the time, I did have a bag of vegi straws (which are chip like, and have a variety of vegetable flavors but are in the shape of a straw). So I gave the kids a carrot flavored straw and they used it for Frosty's nose. We decided to leave our Frosty in the backyard, which we thought would keep it safe.  Well...we were wrong. Within seconds, our lovely dog Shadow smelled the food on its face and ate poor Frosty's nose.

The kids had a blast and really enjoyed having their own backyard to play in.....especially when it snows!!

- Sarah