Last Month...in picture review Part 1....

Tommy's First Ice Cream Truck Experience...June 9, 2008
I was attempting to not get him involved with such a habit at such an early age, and we had plenty of treats in the house that didn't cost $2 or $3! The Ice Cream Man actually GAVE Tommy this red popsicle! Pretty Cool!

Sharing a bite with Dad...


Up close of the mess and reason Mom was content with NOT getting him ice cream!


Ah, man! Oopsie!!!


After sharing Kaitlyn's ice cream sandwich...


Clean UP!!!
This started with the idea of everybody cleaning their hands and feet from the stickies before going in the house. Tommy naturally needed the head to toe wash. Really him getting wet was started by his curiosity in the WATER and how he couldn't GRAB IT!!!


Grabbing it turned out to be quite disappointing as he got splashed every time!!



Just to prove this was an all smiles event :)


Kings Island - June 12, 2008

My cousin Trevor and his wife Sawyer we're in town for a show and actually had a day to spare for PLAY! Crazier yet, Larry had this Thursday OFF from school...I may not mention it here, but even though school is going well for him, it takes a bit of family time away from us and finding timeto do fun family stuff is limited. In a nut shell school stinks ;) He graduates in about 8 1/2 months. Nah, nobody is really counting!?!

Robby and Kaitlyn are in the front row to the right ;)



We had a fun and exhausting day, notice the younger two were too tired to join in the picture with Trevor and Sawyer!!


KAITLYN'S FIRST HORSE SHOW!! June 28, 2008

So literally THREE lessons before her first show her normal riding lesson horse, Lacy went lame :( Kaitlyn and Jordan worked together trying to learn each other. In just three lessons. They did great, especially for Kaitlyn going into her very first horse show.
There was some pretty yucky storm weather coming in, it was very cloudy and gray out. The horses were all on guard as they sense the weather long before it's in.
Kaitlyn's first class was Showmanship (where she leads Jordan through a pattern), the next class later in the day was Equitation where she rode Jordan.

Practicing for her Showmanship class.
Attempting to back Jordan up 4 steps, he really wasn't interested :)
Warming up before her Equitation class...in the warm up ring. This was RIGHT after her warming up out of the ring and using spurs, she's not very used to spurs and Jordan obeyed a good kick by cantering off. It really startled Kaitlyn and she felt as he was "running" away. She kept great composure during the 30 second escapade. needless to say the spurs were removed and they proceeded to warm up in the ring.
Doing her pattern in the show ring! This was right after Jordan attempted to scare Kaitlyn again. He didn't want to "line- up" to wait their turn for the pattern and did a small rear-up on her! She sat that well too, and proceeded on just fine!
Showing off her "cups" - just what exactly happened to show ribbons??? We were a tad bit disappointed... she'll have a couple more shows in the next few months...please let them have ribbons! Kaitlyn placed 6th in her Showmanship class- Miss DeeDee was disappointed in the judge...I watched Kaitlyn and Kaitlyn only, verdict was others placed higher that didn't deserve it??!?! Kaitlyn placed 2nd in the Equitation class...she was tickled pink even though each placing was last place!

I told her that I started showing English at an older age and never endured the excitement of being run off with or reared up on! She should be broke in to the show ring excitement for sure!! All in all a good day and she stills wants to show more!

Delaware details to come soon...