More and More Snow

We sure have had a lot of snow this year.  I finally took the kids sledding somewhere other than the small hill next to our Driveway.  Our friends, the Kacmarynski's, have an even bigger hill in their backyard.  We took advantage of a snowday and got some sledding in.  Sylvia loves the snow more than her brothers.

Eric going for a run with Emily.

Sylvia and Macy heading down the hill.

Drake is looking forward to some spring weather so he can get down and play outside.

Eric watching daddy clear the driveway.

Sylvia (followed by Eric a little later) helped daddy with the shoveling.  She loves being helping and being outside.

The kids built this snowman with daddy a couple of weeks ago.

Nana came over and built another snowman last week.  This will hopefully be our last snowman of the year.

The Pink Song

We took Sylvia's pink picture at Emily's house.  Glad to have friends help me with homework!

 

 

Valentine's Day

We had a fun Valentine's Day here at the Broffitt home. 

 

Daddy made origami cards for the kids and I made heart shaped cinnamon rolls.

 

I found some cute Valentine activities on pinterest that the kids enjoyed.  They sorted their hearts by color and measured how many candy hearts across the paper hearts were.  Eric said, "I won" and gave himself a thumbs up when he finished sorting his hearts.  I love his enthusiasm.

 

Sylvia made this heart ring for me.

 

My beautiful Valentines!

Sylvia's preschool Valentines that she worked super hard on.  She cut them all out and assembled them.  We made a potato stamp for her name so she wouldn't have to write it so many times.  She insisted that her Valentine for Mrs. Fink say, "Owl be your hoot!"

Snowstar

We had the opportunity to take the kids skiing back in February at Snow Star in Andalusia, IL.  My parents invited us along with John and Gretchen's family.  Although gearing up to ski was a lot of work, it was well worth it.  Both Sylvia and Eric had a fun time learning how to ski while John and Gretchen's kids tried out snowboarding.  Sylvia was a little stubborn during the teaching process with mom (which I think made my parents chuckle).  She figured things out pretty quickly and went down the bunny hill over and over again by herself.  They had a conveyor belt type lift that was very easy for the kids to get on and off of by themselves.  Eric spent the day going down between our legs or at the end of our ski pole.  My wonderful husband spent most of the time with Drake so that I could ski with Sylvia and Eric.  I am so thankful for him as I know it was not the easiest task.

 

Ready to start skiing.

This is what Sylvia looked like going down the bunny hill.

Riding up the bunny hill.

Riding the ski lift with mom after going down the Little Dipper.

Feeling a bit tired after a day of skiing.

 

snowboard sledding

This girl could play outside for hours.  She figured out how to turn her sled into a snowboard earlier this winter.  I enjoyed spying on her out the front board.  She kept working at it until she was successful.

Iowa Basketball

Grandma and Grandpa took me, Sylvia and Eric to an Iowa men's basketball game this winter.  The kids enjoyed ice cream and popcorn and from the looks of it, Grandma enjoyed getting her picture taken with Herkey.

 

We also got to go to a Iowa women's game thanks to tickets from one of Sylvia's classmates.  Nana and Papa have season tickets so we got to sit with them during the game.

 

After an exciting but disappointing end to the game, we got to take a tour of the locker rooms, offices and practice courts at Carver Hawkeye Arena. 

 

Thanks to Jack and family for a fun afternoon!

Fire Station Field Trip

Sylvia's preschool class learned about community helpers a few weeks ago which included a trip to the fire station.  I drove the school bus again and got to tag along on with the preschoolers.  The fire station is always such a wonderful field trip and the fire fighters do such a great job with the kids.  Sylvia wore her fire chief rain coat and was especially excited to meet a girl fire fighter.