Giant Snowballs and Snowhenge

We had a March snow day this year where even Ross got to stay home! We had gone out earlier in the day to shovel and play and we tried to make a snowman, but it wasn't working very well. It was a heavy, wet, snow, so I thought it would be great, but we were disappointed and went to lunch. When we came back, the snow and temperatures must have been just right, because we tried again and the snow packed together like crazy!! So crazy, in fact, that it picked up all of the snow and dead grass with it leaving trails cleared of snow behind it. AND, the snowballs just stayed together! Ross decided to make it as big as he could...



You can see the clear path it left... I hadn't ever seen that before.


We all took turns helping push the snowball... it got heavy fast!


taking a break, and eating snow, of course...




Ross got quite a work out in actually. We ended up making 7 or so snowballs. After he could no longer push like this...


He had to squat low with his back against it and push up! It was crazy. Some broke along the way, too.

you can see here how heavy the snow was on the trees!




here is Zoey squatting in the middle of one of the rolls (it was more of a roll than a ball at this point).


Here are the kids by the ones we were trying to gather together. You can see a couple broke along the way and didn't make it to where we wanted them to be. We were thinking to get a bunch together for a snow fort or just to climb on and jump around.





Zoey is five feet tall, so you can get an idea of the height.


and Max wanted to clear off the grass and leaves stuck to them!




I think some of them got to be over 6 feet!








I'm king of the world!!




Jumping and sitting on the tops!






So, we just hit the perfect temps and timing for this because as it got colder, the snow didn't work as well again. interesting. Next, we turned it into a fort.













It was such a fun snow day for us all!! The snow lasted in that pile for days, too!