Finally getting the pictures off the cameras. Today seems to be a bad computer day as I've been having one issue after another dealing with the camera and computer. Oy.
These are the pictures from the Open Barn event that the girls had spent the week helping out with. And all their hard work paid off. It was a great event, and they did very well.
Most of the pictures that we have of our girls riding turned out very poorly. The angle of the sun was hard to get around. But I think you get the idea :-) I'm sure we'll have more to come in the future.
BTW, Isabella had her first day of driving on the road!! I have to say I really don't like that it has to be some other adult teaching her, as if we are incompetent. But, state laws are state laws. She only has to do the driving with the teacher for 3 days. After that I am still unsure how we are to exactly go about getting her permit. Does she get a temporary one since she finished the whole course, or does she need to wait till we get all the needed paper work before she can drive again? I am non too pleased that it was nearly impossible to find the information I needed to get this ball rolling. If it hadn't been for a "chance" meeting with someone who just happened to finish a driving class I think I may still be trying to find the needed info. And, this was *months* ago.
Flannery waiting for the demo to begin. We had a little wait, which was a wee bit hard for these guys....
Those bleachers were a little boy magnet! Not a fun thing to try to keep them off of. Between the bleachers, the cars that would drive right behind us, the two fire ant hills 3 feet away from us, and the boys trying to climb up on the ring's fence to get a better look, my nerves were undone.
Not sure what he had found while he was under the bleachers. I think he was mostly looking for flowers and leaves. He had found this one skinny little leaf that he was pretty obsessed about.
Isabella waiting her turn. There were more riders than horses, so each horse had 5 riders assigned to it. The first round would go in and demonstrate their skills, then the next round of kids would come in, help the others get off their horse, if needed, and readjust the stirrups for their turn.
Moira, probably feeling nervous. She was very excited for this day to come, in spite of what her expression says :-) Isabella and Moira were in the last group for the demo.
Isabella readjusting the stirrups before her turn.
Moira waiting for all the riders to be ready to start.
Isabella is off!
Moira, just passing us.
The girls had to do a turn. I'm not sure if I could do that myself, let alone they were doing this turn (360*) at a trot. I definitely know I couldn't even get in a trot, let alone do a 360 on the horse while it was trotting! Ha!
Isabella coming towards us. I wish we had more pictures, specifically of the girls riding, but the camera batteries died. Ugh.
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