Bullseye!

So. This morning the boys went to archery class. This was their second week. Another mom in our homeschool group set up the lessons and we jumped at the opportunity. All three boys go once a week for an hour. The lessons will be six weeks altogether, though I'm sure there will be talk of repeating this experience or extending it through the summer. ;) They LOVE it...they wish it were every day and lasted forever. ;) 

Anyhow. During this second lesson, the boys started working a bit more on accuracy and got to shoot at balloon targets. They were stoked:

There are 11 kids in the class and two instructors (so very awesome!). They get to shoot with recurve bows right now, though there's been talk of experiencing compound bows during one class. The lessons were set up for 6-12 year olds (there are two sessions and one more for older kids...yes, they made an exception for Micah after he proved that he was strong enough for the bow and able to listen well). 

Here are their balloon targets after one of the rounds (they actually get to shoot a number of times in each class):

Micah was on the far end (lane 2), Asher was on 4 and Noah was on 7...yeah, they were pretty dang happy with themselves. Meanwhile, us moms were jealously watching all of this and wishing we had a session for adults. :) It really does look like a heap of fun, though I'm still not sure what we'll do with these skills after these sessions are over...pretty sure our neighbors wouldn't appreciate us shooting arrows into their yards repeatedly, lol!

Anyhow, just wanted to share since the boys are so very in love with this right now. If you're local and interested, check out Rocky Mountain Archery...very cool!