Kids get first snow experience.

Byline: Ashley Rowland and Beverly Carro

Feb. 2--For a generation of area children, Tuesday brought the first significant snowfall of their lives -- or at least the first snowfall they could remember.

"Bless his heart, last night in bed he was praying for his family, and then he was praying for snow," said Lee Shell, whose 7-year-old son Holden has seen snow on television and in the movies, and even played in snow when he was 3 or 4.

Holden, however, barely remembered what snow was like. So he needed a bit of help Tuesday morning when he made his first snowball and went sledding in the inch or so of snow that fell overnight, using a boogie board as …