Snow Holiday!

Nathan's favorite subject in school is American history.  We've been learning about the Pilgrims for several weeks, slowly reading through The Story of the Pilgrims.  It's a great and easy read, and usually Nathan wants to keep reading more (and I do too:).

The Pilgrims obviously faced religious persecution in England, but before they sailed for America, they lived several years in Holland where they could worship freely.  One thing we learned about Holland was that every year on the first day it freezes they would have a holiday, and the people would stay home from school or work and enjoy ice skating on all the channels throughout Holland. 

So, this year we decided to imitate this tradition by having our own Snow Holiday!  Thursday, October 25 was our first snow.  It was unexpected (at least by us), so all the kids were excited to see the yard covered in snow when they woke up.

We decided to go out first thing...so, the coats and snow pants just went over the jammies.

The girls were up first, so they got to leave the first tracks.

Nathan got up soon after and didn't waste any time! 

They made snow angels, threw snow, ate snow, and Nathan even started to make a snow man.  However, the snow was so wet and his snow balls were so big that they were impossible to lift by us!  Instead he decided to roll them next to each other and make a caterpillar!

Of course, we called off school, went out for hot chocolate, and made paper snowflakes.

And lest you think the day was perfect, we did also have appointments that afternoon to get flu shots...definitely not a fun part of the day!  And though the snow looks thick, it was gone by the time we got home that afternoon.