Snow

As I mentioned before, we went to Santa Fe for Christmas this year to visit my sister Hallie and her husband Mark. Fortunately Hallie warned us to prepare for cold weather and snow (Santa Fe sits at over 7,000' elevation and is nestled against a mountain range) because it was snowing when we landed in Albuquerque and it continued throughout that first night. That meant we were in for a cold week, but it also gave Evan his first opportunity to play in the snow:

Of course, it was only 20° so he had to come back inside after a few minutes to put on a proper winter coat and mittens.  After getting ready he was right back out there driving his dump truck around full of snow:

We've talked to Evan about the concept of the snowman, so he was pretty excited to try and build one. The snow was fairly good for packing but it didn't roll that well, so we ended up with a pretty lumpy snowman.  I think Evan was more interested in the carrot nose and the rocks we used for eyes than he was the actual snow parts anyway:

Here are Hallie and Evan posing with the finished product:

Here's the snowman in all his glory: