Life with the Family O

Tag: Snow

  • Vanilla Snow Shakes

    Vanilla, Snow, Milk, Sugar

    Samuel eating snow

    This past Wednesday we had our first snowfall, this called for celebration! My boys love the snow and they were so excited to be getting a storm. They woke early Wednesday to peak outside…

    snow angel

    I have never seen them get dressed and ready so fast, they bundled up and headed out.

    snowstorm

    Talk of the coming storm was mentioned on many Facebook pages’. My friend Tom had a comment on his wall talking about Vanilla Creams made with snow. My boys love eating snow (against everything my husband stands for, lol) and I knew they would love to use it in a recipe. We strayed a little from the recipe and ended up with delicious Vanilla Snow Shakes.

    After coming in and putting warm jammies, we made these delicious concoctions.

     

     

    Vanilla, Snow, Milk, SugarPour Milk into Snow, add Vanilla and Sugar

    Vanilla, Snow, Milk, SugarWhisk together until creamy and smooth, pour into cups

    Vanilla Snow ShakeEnjoy!

  • Snowy Days

    One thing I love about Colorado is the balanced seasons. I like the snow but could not live somewhere that was snowy and cold all the time.

    It was -11 degrees earlier this morning. Too cold for my taste.

    But snow is amazing, beautiful and fun to play with.

    Brr, "let's go find the escape pod"

    The other great thing about Colorado is that sometimes you can experience different seasons all in the same week. I was looking through some recent pictures and remembered it was sunny and 65 degrees the other day.

    Downtown January
    Downtown in January

  • Snow Much Fun

    I have been following a super-cute blog and have been completely inspired, an old flame has been re-light I used to love to do so many creative things but I pushed all that aside at some point… After seeing what this blogger did with a little food coloring and snow – I knew my boys would love it and they completely did!

    My husband bought the spray bottles, he bought 2 each of 2 different kinds (we found that the full action pump sprayer is better than the one finger pump)… the first time out we mixed red and blue to make purple, red and yellow to make orange, then had blue and the last bottle with red.

    Oliver found squares that another child must have made with a snow mold, he filled those in with different colors. We also made footprints and then colored them. Samuel couldn’t manage to get any color out, he would throw the bottle in the snow. I guess he was hoping that would get the color out. When Oliver was finished I took all the tops off and let Samuel pour it on the snow, he really liked doing that – looked like a slushie!

    When Preston came home from school he was thrilled at the idea. He headed just as a fresh layer of fluffy snow fell. Perfect day!