Riding Along

So I am pretty bad at posting...   So much has happened since my last post but this is a video taken of Shelby riding a horse named Rockford.

Frying Pan Park Horse Show Slide Show

And here are the pictures!  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8eLrm_XDQ0

429 Days Later

I was informed recently by my wonderful Florida BIL that it had been 428 days since I updated this blog. I HAVE been posting things on Facebook but I guess that just isn't the same, is it?? I won't even begin to cover the things Shelby has done over the last year but it is safe to say that she has turned into a horse lover! She had her first show yesterday and had a great time.

Weekend Fun!

We had a really busy weekend May 16-17! Started Saturday morning with pictures for Baseball, then we had a baseball game and then off to 6 hours of Relay for Life. I didn't actually bring a camera to Relay which turned out to be a good thing - we had one "go inside" warning at dinnertime - storm coming - turned out it was just black clouds and a light show but no rain. Then around 8:45 - another warning. Shelby and I decided to pack it in which turned out to be a good idea. This storm wasn't a false warning - it was a good spring storm. The event ended up being canceled around 11pm.

Then Sunday! I had promised to take Shelby fishing and despite having WAY too much work - we went. It was cold (ok - 60) and overcast and very windy but we went. Turns out that sort of weather makes for great fishing (who knew?). Shelby caught a ton of fish (little fish - don't know what they were) at Locust Shade. We also got a little lesson about the food chain reinforced.

A little boy came down to the lake and dropped a baby duck (white feathers coming in but still covered in baby down) in the water. We thought maybe he had taken the baby from the water and the baby was looking for its parents. We named it Peep-E in honor of the racket it was making. It swam right over to us and Shelby was even able to pet it before it tried to bite her!

So we found a Park Ranger on our way out and asked about orphaned wild animals. The very nice Park Ranger informed us it was probably a dumped Easter duck and that, well, some fox or eagle would be having a nice dinner.

Shelby basically said - poor Peep-E - part of the food chain. That was the end of that! Of course, on the way home, the car in front of us hit a woodpecker that managed to fly off in to the woods near Quantico. Gotta love life lessons.

Pony Rides!

We have had a crazy day today! Our friend Neva had her birthday party today and her surprise visitor was a miniature horse named Danny. Shelby got a brief ride before we had to run off to our baseball game. Thanks to our friend Colleen, we have a little bittie video of her ride.

Swim, Swim, Swim

So no pictures, but Shelby had swimming lessons today - just by herself with a substitute coach but she swam 50 yds of backstroke today! We had a very brief pause at the wall in between laps but she did it! I am not sure it would have qualified during a swim meet and it wasn't what anyone would call FAST but hey!!!! 50 yds when you are only 3.5ft tall.

A Trip to the Driving Range

Shelby got to visit one of her favorite places for the 2nd day in a row on Sunday. Dave and I took her down to the local driving range where she informed Dave that we would be getting two large buckets of balls. Dave laughed but we ended up buying two! We saw two groundhogs on the range which watched carefully while Dave tried to hit them with golf balls. The groundhogs were more than safe!