11.11.11

Um...I think I'll be doing laundry.

The Dead Sheep

We got this picture from Peter last week.

 Yep, that's one dead sheep.

My Favorites

There were a few pictures from the benefit that I particularly like.

 

This one is cute because the horse is so big and the little girl is so small...

Coleen's son Jordan is so much fun-

And this one is just too cute- good little buddies sharing bites of their caramel apples.

Birthday Boys

Happy Birthday to the following young men who all share the same special day!

Peter:

Ben:

and Jacob

Love all of yous!

And Then Things Got Crazy.

The wildest moments of the benefit happened during the stick horse races. The little kids held it together pretty well:

The 8 to 12 year olds were a little more competetive:

But the big kids were out for blood:

Thank goodness no one got hurt!

Creative Donating

We try to provide lots of ways to spend money at our barn benefit. This year we added a classic car show. I think I would look pretty amazing driving this car around:

The man who owned it was saying something about leaving it to his oldest daughter. Ridiculous. I was probably meant to have that car.

 Kari's husband, Lon, restored this old Rolls Royce Silver Cloud. He would love someone to take bridal pictures with it- if you know of anyone. I think I should take pictures of Brian and Lindsey in the 70's clothes they got from the DI with this car. It would probably look like those car ads you find in the old National Geographic magazines.

There were other neat-o cars too:

For a $5.00 donation, your little one could have a pony ride:

You could even buy a carrot for your horse.

Yep. Fundraisers are all about creative ways to spend money.

Old Friends Are Best Friends

What was Shannon's job at the benefit? She shared show secretary duties with her awesome riding friend, Karlie. Shannon and Karlie rode together for years. In fact, both of them went to their very first horse show together, 10 years ago.

I think Shannon grew up with 2 sisters at the barn- Karlie and Kaitlyn and I love them both. Those 3 were the stalwart LDS ones who never rode on Sunday. (Except when Karlie rode that one time in Elko, but she always regretted it. We don't speak of it.) This picture makes me laugh:

These two took over all of the show entries, which is a pretty big job.

Then after Kaitlyn's Ochem test, she and Shannon rode together in some partner classes, one of which was a class where they traded horses. They showed the youngsters a thing or two!

Here's Shannon on Kaitlyn's horse, Gary:

And Kaitlyn on Rocko:

Whoa, Big Fella...

Shannon and Kaitlyn impressed the crowd when they warmed up their horses at the same time, Kaitlyn jumping the course right behind Shannon, like a shadow. In another class, where they seemed to be the only ones who understood how the rules went, they traded off jumps 1-12, jumping every other jump in order. That was hard, because Rocko is faster than Gary and they had to time the jumps perfectly to do them in the right order. "Gallop, Kaitlyn!!!"

Old friends are the best friends, no doubt.