Better than a Snowman

After 3 days of snow, we now have close to 11 inches piled up in the yard. I went out in the morning yesterday with a ruler to measure how deep it was and it was almost 10 inches, but it's snowed a little more since then.

That's the most snow we've seen since living here. I think 6 inches is probably the norm.

Anyway, it was enough to cancel school on Friday, so Tyler was able to get out there and start working on his snow fort, which apparently is much cooler than building a snowman. Rick bought him some brick molds at the hardware store a few months ago and he's been dying to try them out.

But there must be a slight learning curve with them or else we just have powdery snow because it was hard to get the bricks to stack onto each other without them crumbling apart. We'll just call that our practice day.

Today, however, the boys meant business.

And you'd better look out because you know a snowball fight is right around the corner.