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Our town held a snow festival this weekend filled with events. Truckloads of snow were hauled to the middle of town and a ski course was set up down one of our main streets. Another area held kid activities, a beer tent, and entertainment. We braved the snowy road conditions and headed in to meet up with some friends.

Bejos boy was quite tickled with the big pile of snow in the middle of the square and took up playing with the other kiddos. And then suddenly we were in the middle of a snowman building contest that mr bejos and I didn't pay much attention to. I figured bejos boy was too little and wasn't getting what was going on so mr. bejos went to get a beer and I kicked back watching him play in the snow. But then he too was visiting the "accessory table" piled high with carrots, potatoes, coal, and various costume items with some serious intent on his part.

From my point of view I saw this.

When the hat blew off for the third time I was pulled in to help secure it better. It was then that I saw the masterpiece that my 2 year had created.

Besides the tubular oddity on the top of the head I was floored by the actual composition of the face. We named it the melting snowman and joked about it as the competition continued, pointing out to the judges just how original this sculpture was. To our utter surprise bejos boy was included in the awards ceremony and won us a nice and tidy gift certificate to our local Ace Hardware.
Rock on bejos boy!