Spring is here! And the kids are outside playing pretty much 24/7 on the weekends unless it's raining or we aren't home. So glad the cold and pollen is gone. Thank goodness we live on a street with great kids and parents. We have a lot of fun! We started off our Saturday as usual with Emerson's dang early horse lessons at 8:30am...yawn! She is doing so well and blowing me away. She's a natural. Now they are working on having her do turns, but continuing to trot as she goes into the turn, like in barrels. No slowing down! On this Saturday it was bigger circles and today it was sharp circles, like what she will need to do in barrels. Dok is so lazy so we have been using the crop each time now. He almost always requires a pop with the crop. Kicking with legs and making kissing noises isn't cutting it with him and he has an attitude. After her lesson we got to see the 1 month old foal (born February 23rd). So cute! She was sleeping but we woke her up with noises and she got up and came over to the stall door for some lovin'. She was so soft and so sweet and Emerson was smitten with her. The foal is an orphan as her mom died during labor :( so they have been feeding her formula from a bottle. Of course Emerson wants a baby horse now too. We might end up with a zoo one of these days, if it was up to her! After lessons we came home and Emerson helped me make some chocolate chip cookies. By help I mean licking the batter! She went nuts and loved it just like her momma. She was in heaven. The kids played outside the rest of the day until we had a crawfish boil on our street with our whole crew, plus some more neighbors and other neighbor's friends. The guys spent most of the time cleaning and boiling the disgusting insects (only Jason eats them in our house) while the ladies visited, munched on all kinds of appetizers, and the kids played. It was a great time, never a dull moment. We finally went inside to bed after 11pm since we had church the next morning but most of them stayed out until 1am. On Sunday we had church and then two back to back birthday parties. First we headed to Laser X for Evan's 8th birthday party where the kids played laser tag (not Emerson), arcade games, and had pizza and cake. While Jason was finishing up that party with Landon, Emerson and I headed to good ole' Chuck E. Cheese (or as my friend calls it Chuck E. Disease!) for her sweet friend Anna's 6th birthday party. Emerson had a ball running around playing games with Anna and Jack Henry while I got to catch up with my friends. She had no fear, played games on her own, and couldn't wait to see Chuck E. Cheese. When he came out she gave him multiple hugs and stalked him around the area. She was rather disappointed with her whopping prize that she earned with her tickets. HA!
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| Hanging out with Ricki. The owner is Emerson's old instructor that went to college. Ricki always has his head hanging out of the stall waiting for Madison to come visit. This time he was nudging and nibbling too. |
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| Sweet baby! |
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| Just like her momma! |
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| Look at the size of this sucker! |
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| Arcade games at Laser X. She was very good at this race car game. Notice she uses ONLY the gas (no brakes, Lord help me when she is 16 years old!) and can barely reach, hence her pose. She got 1st place each time. Even Jason couldn't get 1st place! |
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| Landon always loves the motorcycle racing games |
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| At Chuck E. Cheese with Anna |
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