Josh is Riding Again!

Most of you may remember Josh

had an incident with his knee

a little over a year ago,

and blew it out loading hay.

Well, he is know confident in the

leg muscles that were knee-glected (hee, hee)

from being down for most of the last year.

He has been riding for a while

at the arena,

and just started working on trail rides from home.

So, I got out there with my camera!

Here is Josh getting Bell ready.

and Heather working on Cheyenne.

I included this picture, because

I never realized the size difference between

Heather and her horse.

Heather is a TALL 9 year old,

(only a half a head shorter than me and I am 5'1")

Cheyenne is a TALL horse

and

Heather's head is level with the horses butt!

ready to go

mom, quit with the pictures

let's ride!

and off they go into the desert for

hours!

Last night

(11-13-09)

Josh and Heather went down to Dunn's Arena

to see how their horses

and them

do with Team Penning.

Well, it was really dark

and my camera was struggling getting some

decent pictures.

But,

here they are warming up their horses.

Payton and Hailey

freezing on the bleachers.

Jasmine saying hi to dad

when he stopped for a drink.

Savannah, just being cute.

We are going again next week,

hopefully I will get some better pictures.

Overall they did OK.

The first 2 runs, no cows in,

but learned some things.

The 3rd run

the got one cow in right at the buzzer,

but it didn't count.

Not to bad for their first time.

Heather and Josh's horses both did really

well. Even Bell, with her one eye.

Bell and Josh have a great connection/bond.

She really trusts him and will do things for him

that she won't do for anyone else.