One thing everyone wants to do when they come to Grandma and Grandpa's is ride a horse. This gang was no exception. It was the 5th week of their stay and we still hadn't found a horse to ride. We had friends about an hour south of us that had a horse they would loan us for the duration of Deb and the children's stay but SOMEBODY had to go pick it up. NOBODY would go after it, so we were stuck!
I finally called on our neighbors, Jimmy and Lisa. They have two horses but they are working horses not kid friendly horses. It turned out that Lisa's was kid friendly and they invited the whole tribe over to their place to ride. The girls were ecstatic, finally it was happening.
Jimmy getting Cramer ready for the children.
Jimmy giving Jude instructions on how to start, turn, and stop Cramer
I don't think Jude was expecting to ride the horse entirely by himself.
Lance taking his turn.
Karen
For the first time of riding, Carter did really well.
Tesla was a little wary of her first time.
Cramer followed Jimmy around the corral while Tesla held on for dear life.
after each ride she got a little more comfortable, till the end of the evening "Cramer was the bestest horse ever!!" and she was sitting tall in the saddle.
Jamie
Jaci
This is what Deb really came to Idaho for!!
Now if she could just convince her Dad that horses really are an asset!!
Jimmy became Tesla's greatest fan.
She latched on to every bit of cowboy wisdom he had to offer.
Jimmy drew quite an audience.
After the boys had two rides each they started to get buggy so we
decided to walk home and let the girls keep riding.
When we passed a pond they began looking for stones to see which one could throw from the road and get the stones into the pond.
The competition got quite intense.
It soon became evident they were going to need to get closer if they wanted to hit the water.
Any closer and they would have been in the pond!
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