1st day of school! Senior year for these two beauties!

 1st day of kindergarten, vs 1st day of their senior year!  

Rocky the mustang

Rocky was Maddie's summer mustang project for the Teens and Oregon Mustang competition.  She picked him up in April, and he sold at auction the very beginning of September.  He was wild, untouched, in April.  By September he had just over 30 rides and was a sweet cuddle bug! 

 

Silly horses... Hank, Dakota, and TInker!

 

Happy 17th birthday Lucy and Ava!

How, please tell me, how can you be 17 years old!?  Time sure does fly by.  You'll be 18 before we know it... Graduating from high school, going off to college, being an adult!  I can still remember bringing you both home from the hospital... and now here we are 17 years later.  I hope Poppa and I have prepared you for being an adult.  If not, we have 1 more year. :-) I'm going to hold onto this last year before you become an adult and cherish every "last" (as in High school events, Prom, 4h, Eq team meets, etc.) kid years we get to spend with you! 

 

Camping trip on the Breitenbush River!

 

4h Chicken fair!

 As soon as we completed 4h horse fair we went to actual fair week with market animals!  Unfortunately, Lucy and Ava's meat birds didn't make market weight for the division and were born; they were 1 day too early to be in the other category! Bummer!  Their show birds placed well, and 1 bird, Josie, won champion of ALL the birds at the fair!  

4H horse fair!

 2023 horse fair is officially in the books.  We were so thankful that this year's temps were only in the 80's!  We've had years where it's near 100 almost every day, and let me tell you, that's miserable!  Lucy ended this 4h year and qualified for State in Showmanship, Western, Trail, and English Eq.  Ava qualified for State in Showmanship, Western, western Dressage, and Trail! Great job girls!