August 13, 2017
Last year in the fall, Julie got to ride a pony at Klackle Orchards. She really enjoyed it and since then, I wanted to see her get to ride again. Not just in a circle like at the fair and the orchard, but something a little less structured. I asked earlier this spring on Facebook about anyone who knew where we could do this and I heard from a few people but I really just didn't have time to worry about it then. I thought of it again a week or so ago and the awesome Amber Lansdale spoke up. She's one of my recent clients and such a sweetheart.
Sunday, we went out to the ranch she boards her horse, Gracie, at in Rockford. She let us give Julie a chance to ride a real horse. This girl was so excited. I told her about it Wednesday (because I just can't keep stuff like that quiet ;) She got a chance to meet Gracie when we got there. Even though Julie had a cold, that didn't stop her from riding. She had to wear her bike helmet and then she was off.
Amber led her around on Gracie inside the barn and outside. There were lots of other horses around that we got to see. Julie was loving every second of it. She was chatting to Amber and Gracie too. And whenever they would stop, she kept saying "Let's go! Let's go! I want to go!" Thankfully, in a nice tone of voice ;) She even got to feed Gracie carrots and brush her when we were all done. What an awesome time. I hope I am not spoiling her, but it's so fun to be able to do cool stuff like this. I can't wait until Laina can do that sort of thing too!
Thank you so much Amber. You made my little Julie SO SO HAPPY!
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| ^Meet Gracie! |
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| ^Yup, not one bit scared! |
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| ^Loving it! |
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| ^Barn cat. |
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| ^Riding with Amber. |
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| ^Gracie smiles. |
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| ^The trick they are working on. |
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| ^Laina wakes up like "Where are we? What IS that?" |
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| ^She likes Gracie too! |
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| ^What a beautiful, sweet horse! |
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