Let's finally build a snow fort

All winter long the boys have been begging to build a snowman.  Frankly we have not had good snow down here to build snowmen at all!  Leave it to the last major spring snow storm to be nice and wet and perfect for fort building.  In fact, it just wasn't any snow storm, it was a bomb cyclone.  That's a real meteorological term for when the pressure drops so far so fast.  It was true blizzard conditions all day.  In fact, all of Colorado completely shut down for the day because we knew it was coming.  We stayed hunkered in from about 10AM on and just watched the storm outside.  We couldn't see across the street the wind was blowing so hard and blowing so much snow.  The storm let up towards evening and it didn't feel so bitter cold.  That's when the kids pulled out their snow clothes and bustled outside. We hauled in all of the snow from our front yard, sidewalk, and even the great chunks pushed up by the snowplow and built an igloo.

The crew worked on it all day until it grew too dark to see.  

The cold night air iced up the slide nicely and the kids could slide all the way to the sidewalk.  I don't know what they liked best about the fort: the slide, the window, the shelf they could decorate, or the fact that it took nearly a week to melt.