Sadness

Why? I never got an actual picture of the final majesty of the igloo. And yesterday it collapsed. Owen is here trying to salvage a bit of the snow, hoping to save some for tomorrow, when it will get cold again and maybe snow.





Here is how it all started. Remember
all that snow we got? Well it continued snowing all day Sunday. The kids went out to play, and Owen ended up staying out for FOUR HOURS. Yes, in the falling snow. I finally had to beg him to come in at the last photo, to eat something. Then it got dark, and I didn't get another photo after he went BACK OUT again and finished it up.

Owen closed off the top completely. It was a very cone-shaped igloo, with a crawl-in entrance.
We were pretty busy on Monday, and after school stayed out at the library until dark, so missed another photo opportunity. And then, as I was doing laundry last night, I saw that it had collapsed. The kids were devastated.

Here's my little helper, in her snow garb (with quidditch goggles, no less) - note the bare feet!

And the snow man, he didn't survive either - actually he was sacrificed for the construction of the igloo: