Andy Tullis / The BulletinCooper Mandelblatt, 27, plays with his 6-year-old dog Thunder as his brother Zach Mandelblatt, 29, puts the eyes on a snowman they built outside the home where they are spending their holiday vacation with their parents in Bend on Monday morning. The brothers, who both live in San Francisco, were celebrating Cooper Mandelblatt’s birthday Monday with their parents, who live in Portland. “Yeah, we were going to go to the mountain to go skiing,” Cooper Mandelblatt said, “but it’s too stormy.”

Cooper Mandelblatt, 27, plays with his 6-year-old dog Thunder as his brother Zach Mandelblatt, 29, puts the eyes on a snowman they built Monday morning outside the Bend home where they are spending their holiday vacation with their parents. The brothers, who live in San Francisco, were celebrating Cooper Mandelblatt’s birthday Monday with their parents, who live in Portland. “Yeah, we were going to go to the mountain to go skiing,” Cooper Mandelblatt said, “but it’s too stormy.” See a weather forecast for the week on Page B6.