The Feast of St. Nicholas Fun

On December 6th we celebrate the feast of St. Nicholas, which is probably our family's current favorite feast day!  Knowing that St. Nicholas is the patron saint of children and our home is filled with lots of little one, I guess this only makes sense!  On December 5th we decided to do a giant baking day to make sure to have some yummy snacks ready for St. Nicholas.  We ended up baking over 200 cookies and the kids had SO much fun decorating.  It is so nice to have them getting older because it was the first year that they were actually really helping.  They measured out ingredients and had a blast decorating everything.

That night we cuddled up to read some stories about St. Nicholas, put out some cookies, our Letters to Jesus and laid out our shoes!  

Then, the next morning the children woke up to the fun miracle of St. Nicholas having visited our home and leaving great treats.  They received gold chocolate coins, candy canes, Christmas plates, a new book and a small toy each.  Santa Clause does not visit our house on Christmas Eve, but instead on his feast day, so it is always exciting to have an "extra" super fun morning in our home! Plus, our Connor had dressed up as St. Nicholas for our All Saints Day party this year and he was so excited to get out his costume and hand out treats to everyone that we saw during the day!

That evening, St Nicholas himself was visiting the Durham Western Museum in our town so we knew we had to stop by to say hello!

It was a beautiful evening and since we were already downtown to visit St. Nicholas we decided to have our fun continue by going to take a walk on the Pedestrian bridge which crosses from Nebraska to Iowa.  The kids think that it is so cool to be able to be standing in two states at once!

To finish our fun feast day we went to the Gene Lehy Mall to go down the big slides and look at all of the beautiful Christmas lights.  It was such a fun feast day and definitely one to remember for years to come!