Parade of Snowmen

The last few days have been filled with lots of the white stuff. It hasn't been that bad, just chilly. I've noticed that people get creative when it comes to dealing with all the snow.

This is the street where we put our trash cans. Will had to carve out a spot in the 3 foot deep piles left by the snow plows to put our cans out. Those aren't the little black cans... those are the full sized cans.

This is some snow I saw on a neighbors outdoor furniture. I'm estimating we got over a foot of snow in the last 2 days.

I've never been a huge fan of playing in the snow. Maybe that comes from the bad experience I had sledding as a child. Or maybe it's because I prefer to feel my extremities. Either way, I'm not big on making snowmen, or having snowball fights, or whatever. But when we get as much snow as we've had lately, the snowmen creators come out in force. I think people realize after they start building their snowmen that it's too cold, or they're too wet, or their kids get tired or bored or whatever, and we end up with the parade of ugly snowmen.

This is the snowman that started it all. He's melted a little, and with the melting his spray painted (yellow) eyes and mouth are gone.

Unfinished snowmen are everywhere. After rolling up this much snow (I'll bet it's 3 feet tall), I'd be asking for some hot chocolate.

This is at the dorms at BYU. Those look like foxholes for the world's greatest snowball fight they're only wishing they could have. Too bad it's illegal to throw a snowball on campus.

This one is just down my street. Kinda sad looking. I can't even figure out where his face/neck/body is supposed to be.

Another shapeless snowman monstrosity.

I can't tell if they were trying to carve the snow or what, but it's unrecognizable.

Any ideas as to what this thing could be?

This snowman was in a horrible accident and didn't make it. I don't know what the accident was, but he's dead now.

I have found a few snowmen that aren't too bad.

Structurally this one is perfect, however, the nose and eyes fell out as soon as it warmed up a tiny bit.

This is a penguin... kinda hard to tell.

There is a vast difference in snowmen here... There are the ones that are horrible (see any of the previous pictures), and then there are the snowmen created by some crazed OCD person who has WAY too much time on their hands. The following is proof positive.

I think he's about 6 or 7 feet tall.

So good I had to take more pictures of him. I think these people thought if they recreated the Easter Island heads in the snow it would bring good weather... They're probably wrong, but a valiant effort nonetheless.

The next picture is not an addition to the parade of ugly snowmen. I realized I hadn't posted a picture recently of the growing belly, so here it is now.

28 weeks, only 3 months left! :)