Meet Mr Flowerpot & Mr Leafy...
With more than a foot of snow in our backyard, Lu Lei decided that we should attempt to build our very own snowman. As you can see, we ended up with 2.

HOW TO BUILD A SNOWMAN
What you need:
1. a foot or more of fresh, undisturbed and sticky texture snow on the ground (temp should be about 0 degrees celsius)
2. 2 slightly curved twigs or buttons for the eyes
3. a longer curved twig for the mouth (to give him a smiley look)
4. a short straight twig for the nose or a carrot
5. 2 branches for the arms
6. more twigs or buttons to either give a buttoned shirt look or one with chinese buttons
6. some yellow leaves left over from autumn for the hair or a pail as hat

What you need to do:
1. gather some snow on the ground into a small ball
2. start rolling the ball around the undisturbed fresh snow causing it to snowball.
3. roll your snowball around till it gets to the preferred size or till it gets too heavy to push. Ball should be rolled around from left to right and front to back to prevent it from being cylindrical in shape
4. start on the second snowball, this time smaller. Make sure it is not bigger than you can lift it as you will need to set it on top of the first bigger snowball as the head.
5. start to sculpt the "man" by using a circular motion around head and body to get the round shape.
6. fix the eyes, nose, mouth, arms and buttons
7. fix the leaves on the head
8. set the pail just slightly askew on the head

VOILA! your very own snowman in your backyard!