my date with robin hood of old

On Saturday, the hubs and I had the opportunity to go on a date for the first time in 2 months. Dates are in short supply when you're having babies. Well Grammy Pammy and Papa Kip (my parents) volunteered to watch our munchkins, so we jumped at the opportunity. We dropped them off with a few toys, a full bottle of milk, and got out of town. We went to Antonito, any of you that have been to Antonito might not find this the ideal date location, but you are sadly mistaken! First, we went to dinner. Now there is the ongoing debate wich restaurant is better in this small town; The Dutch Mill, or Dos Hermanas. Well for me personally it is Dos Hermanas, and here is why I think this is. When I was growing up, in the winter my family would go snowmobiling, and on our way home we would always stop and eat at Dos Hermanas. There was just something about the warm Mexican food after I had been cold all day that made me fall in love, and now this is my favorite restaurant. So Spence took me there we each had a DELICIOUS chili burger, mine with red his with green, and washed it down with a couple of soda pops!

Recently, someone put an archery range up in Antonito. The kids and I had gone to a birthday party there a few weeks ago (Spencer was on the truck) and had a blast! So I mentioned to Spencer that we should go, and the little dear remembered and threw our bows in the pickup before we left home. We showed up and started to shoot the 3D range which is a bunch of life size targets placed all around this indoor range. We were killing it!  I felt like flippin Katness and Spence was like Legalas! Okay maybe not quite; his hair is a little too short, sooo he was Robin Hood. We would each shoot our four arrows then go pick them up holding hands the whole way giggling, frolicking, throwing heart shaped confettie at each other, (swoon) just kidding.  We actually raced to see who could get theirs the fastest, but my strong sweet heart always won because he would have to pull my arrows out of the plywood behind all the targets; because I was too week and dainty to do it myself, and I kept missing the darn antilope so they would stick in the wood behind it. (Humph)

Well at this archery range they have a life like simulator (which I called a stimulator on accident and got teased for A LOT, followed by a very inappropriate comment, oh well a slip of the tounge haha. Who knew one little T could change a word so much. It's a good thing I grew up with a bunch  of boy cousins always giving me a hard time or I might have been a little mad.) So, the SIM-U-LATOR is basically a long tunnel with a giant screen at the end of it, and different videos of moving animals come up and you try to shoot the animal, and where ever you hit the screen the game tells you if you hit it in the body, vitals, bullseye, or totally miss it. It was so fun!  Some of the targets are the obvious elk, deer, and bear however some of the stranger ones included a wasp, duck, and a walking stick bug thing (because the first thing I think when I see one of those is here let me shoot this with my bow and arrow) but none the less it was challenging and fun! All too soon our time was up and we needed to begin our journey back to the kiddos. If any of you valley people are into archery, and are tired of doing it in the cold and wind this is your place! Go check it out, it is awesome!  It's called, Double Vision Archery behind the fire department in Antonito.

So thrilled to take a pic, but he's so handsome!

Don't pay attention to the lack of release its just for effect lol.

Why yes my outfit did match my bow, thanks for noticing! 

I sure do love him :) 

In other news Houston went to church for the first time this week,  and yes I did make them match. Even though my dad says "boys don't match, matching is for girls." I think they look adorbs!