Rodeo Time...

RJ rode in the Cowley Rodeo on July 25th, last Saturday. We started off by loading up the horse, Princess (thanks Grandpa for letting RJ ride your horse) and took her to Lovell's rodeo grounds to let her practice a little more before heading to the event. After Daddy got her all saddled and ready to get on we had RJ get up on her...





she still isn't quite tall enough...although she can sometimes do it herself...





so Daddy lifted her up and away she went...





she started outside the arena to get her warmed up and then went in to go around the barrels and do the pattern...














coach Daddy...given her some pointers before running the pattern











Headin for home...














and here she is at the actual event...my little Cowgirl...coming out of the gate











crossin the finish line...woohoo!!!





she did so awesome for her first time...36 seconds was her time.





some fun photos I took of the events...

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Horse'n around

our 2 horses that we had corralled, Bandit(on the left) and Chief (on the right)...Chief was are stud until we had him gelded on Friday so all he has ever known is being in a pin...and Bandit if we let him out to pasture then we have to run him into a corral to catch him...so about 3 weeks ago when we were out at the ranch I saw them playing and rearing up at each other...at first we thought they were fighting but the more we watched we figured they were just playing...so I grabbed the cam and started shooting...these 2 are my favs of the whole scene...I wish they had been out to pasture doing this so the pin wasn't in the photos but we can't get everything we want...








after all of the excitement we realized that this had been going on for sometime...since the top rail of the corral was bent...so we had to swap out a whole panel...after I took these photos they were still doing this and ended busting out the whole top rail...who would have thought a 2 year old would be able to push so hard on metal and bust it off that way...so after all that we were really glad that we had Chief scheduled to get gelded and get rid of all that male ego...just a side note we had our little Pride gelded too...he was born last year in March...the black and white paint...so now we are stud free and can let them all out to pasture now...YEAH!!!

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Training to lead...

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Another day at the ranch...

Putting up fence...Trying to get this fence put up so we can get all the horses on the property and away from the whole herd...hopefully it will change their attitude...everytime we try and catch them they run and it takes forever to catch them...Thanks to mom and dad we can get them by themselves and beable to bond with them better.

Push....pull...hold it still...

go tractor boy....

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Our New baby....Horse that is

These were pics taken of our New baby the day he was born....Shane missed the event cause it happened in the early early morning and I missed it cause I was in California....but as you can see all is well with him and his Momma.

all ready strong and on his feet within a few hours....and already interested in his surroundings.

This is him a few days old...and very frisky.
His name is Warpaints Pride....he definitely lives up to his name he is a very prideful little guy. We are so happy to have him join our family.





His mom is Classy and as you can see he looks nothing like....he got all his good looks from his Dad, Warpaint....he is a spitting image of him.






a little camera shy i guess...

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