BUT we braved the cold and shoveled the walks and driveway (and not to toot our horn, but to remind the boys in the future when they read this blog as a book, we shoveled the neighbors driveway and walks as our "Christmas service for the day"... they were so proud and kept worrying that she would come home and catch us! ha ha) and THEN we built a snowman. Am I a good mom, or what?! If any of you answered "yes" to that question, you may change your mind when I confess that Aiden and Chase's winter boots are too small for them, so they wore MY boots/ shoes which are way too big for them!! (You can kind of see them in the snowman pics, but here is what they looked like after being removed.) 
Yes, I really did let them go outside wearing those! :)
On top of that "technical difficulty", the snow is waaaaay too powdery to stick together. Not to be deterred, we figured out that although we couldn't make the snow stick together enough to "stack" we could make piles that we could semi-form. So meet our tired/ resting/ lazy snowman.
Wow! Check out those big feet! ha, ha!
All in all, a fun time. Now if only my toes would thaw... and my BONES would warm up. Sooo worth it, though! ;)
