cutest outfit?

As the weather is turning colder it is time to get out the jeans and sweatshirts. And at our house when you get out the jeans that means the girls get out their cowgirl boots, not to just wear when you ride horses but according to their dad to wear everyday. (Yes, deep down inside Bill is a cowboy, he wore boots everyday until the soles literally wore out.)

So Friday morning dad dressed Mikayla for the day and this was the outfit of choice. She is pretty darn cute I must admit! Bill could not let the day go by without taking her picture.

 And to quote Bill: "There is no dress in the world that is as cute as this outfit." Now I'm not sure I completely agree with that statement but she is one cute kid, no matter what she wears! And my girls do love  their boots, just their dad!

riding horses

 Jennifer has been asking for weeks and weeks to ride a horse. Finally Saturday afternoon we were able to go with our friend Roxann. I can not tell you the excitement Jennifer had about going. It is very fun to see her so excited about horses. 

Jennifer rode with Roxann for a while and then Bill hopped on to ride with Jennifer for a while.

 Mikayla is usually not all about riding horses so her and I walked around, followed behind the horses and just kind of hung out for a while. She had on her cowgirl boots too though, she looking pretty cute as a cowgirl. In the first picture she is following after the horse, signing horse.

 We did finally get Mikayla to sit on the horse! And she even rode for a little bit, she didn't love it but it was a great first step for her. She has a lot to learn from her sister about horses.

 Jennifer rode with Roxann on the brown horse named Beau for a while and then she rode on Skittles all by herself! She did great and was very excited to ride by herself. I love to watch her!

 And we tried for a cute picture of both the girls on the horse. Mikayla wasn't really having and well Skittles wasn't really having it either. This was as good as it got.

 Always cute to have a picture in a tractor tire!

 Kind of hard to see but after Jennifer was done riding Skittles she "lead" him around for a while. She has no fear! Oh the joy she has when she is around horses. 

 Jennifer already has plans to ride again. She was making plans with Roxann before we left about riding the horses and taking a picnic with them. They are going to go for a long ride. If you know Jennifer you know she always, always has a plan! When I picked her up from school yesterday her words for me were this : "I'm sorry mom but I can't go home, I better go ride." She would be there all day, everyday if she could! (Also, for those of you wondering I did ride Skittles as well and there is picture to prove it, it kept turning sideways whenever I tried to put it on here so, no picture, sorry!)

Pony ride

School is well underway and we are getting back into the routine that comes with the school year. Football games have started and the weather outside has been beautiful. I finally was putting pictures on the computer and realized I have lots of pictures to put on the blog! Don't worry I won't overwhelm you in one post I will try (try I say) to to do them over the course of a few days.

These pictures were taken a few weeks ago. I had actually forgotten about this until I saw the pictures and then I just had to smile! Bill and the girls were outside working in the garage and I was inside making lunch, when I looked outside this is what I saw:

 Kind of hard to see in the picture above so here is a better look. Jennifer riding a bike, pulling her pony. Oh the things she thinks of. She decided to do this all on her own but dad had to help a little bit to make sure that pony actually stayed connected to the bike!

This girl loves this pony! Thankfully yesterday she was able to actually ride a real horse! Pictures of that adventure to come...