What do archery and waffles have in common?

They are both new adventures that were experienced over Spring Break! 

I know what you are thinking.  How could waffles be a new experience?  I'll get to that.

Overall we had a pretty laid back Spring break.  The kids were happy to stay in their jammies into the afternoon and enjoy just kicking around and playing outside.  It was a wonderfully relaxing week, with the exception of trying our hands at archery...which was just plain fun!

We learned that wielding a bow and arrow is a lot more difficult than it looks!  We had a one hour session with instruction and supervision and all of us had sore arms by the time our hour was up.  We would all shoot 3 arrows then retrieve them and start again.  Mike had the most accurate round of all of us (all 3 in the yellow circle), but we all had fun and hit close (enough) to the center mark to feel pretty proud.  Check out our form!

Go Mike!  The target on the left was for the kids - half the distance of ours.  Part-way through they put a smiley face (named Squat) on the middle of it and challenged, "I bet you can't hit Squat!".  Seth hit him so we went out for Steak and Shake afterwards!

One day Katey asked if I would teach her how to make pancakes or waffles.  So, we opted for waffles and she was quite surprised when I told her I would help in an advisory role but she was going to do all the measuring, mixing, pouring and cooking.  She was so very excited about this prospect and did an excellent job!!  The only part that I assisted her on was folding in the whipped egg whites as she didn't know what it meant to do that and asked me to help. 

The waffles were absolutely scrumptious and even Seth gave a thumbs-up, which is no small feat when it comes to something that involves his sister! 

 

 

PS - Note that the kids are in their pajamas.  We ate waffles for lunch.  I love pajama days!!