Halloween Horse Show

Halloween Fun

We went down to our annual Green River Riding School fun day show in October. It was Ayden's first show, and also a couple of my students first show. It is always fun to go down to see Terry (the lady that taught me everything about horses), get the horses out for some fun and learning and play a little.
I was a sucker this year and Ayden got his first pony (its for me to because he is dang cute!) His ponies name is Sparky and Ayden loves him!!! When I was thinking about buying him and Ayden would come with me to the barn and brush and ride sparky. One night we came home and I was thinking I didn't need another pony. Ayden woke up in the middle of the night saying no no no.. he always is sleep talking so I ignored it as usual :) Then first thing in the morning Ayden crawls up on my bed and looks me right in the eye and says 'Mommy why did you let that man take Sparkie'. Lets just say hook, line and sinker. We bought a pony, and we love him!!

Here is Ayden in his first class. As you can see it is very low stress :)

Helping out after the class!!




Had to throw this one in. I was busy helping Ayden and a few of my students when Darcey told me to get on my horse because we signed up for the drill class. Well we didn't have a drill pattern or music, so in 5 minutes we came up with a little drill, and Jess found us a nice song. Dancing Queen. Oh my did we laugh!! But it turned out pretty well. Gotta love the parelli patterns!

Next we got to eat lunch. We had to eat fast because after lunch was the costume class and Ayden Sparkie and me had to get ready. Darcey was the mastermind behind our costume. It took and army to get him ready but it was soooo worth it. Here we are getting Sparkie ready.

What is that saying it takes a village to raise a child. Well I have a great village and they are so good to me and my little boy!!
Look at all those helping hands in the picture!!

Ayden came next to get ready... the paint stung his face a bit but other than that he was a good sport!! Lots of pulling to get into that Crock costume.


Ta Dah!! With everyone's help we turned into the Crocodile, Peter Pan, and Captain Hook!!!


Check out the first blue ribbon!! Ayden had said all day long that he wanted one, he had no idea what blue meant but when he got it he was so excited. Not so sure if Sparky was or not but he was a good sport to. Gotta love ponies!!

For Halloween Day we got to eat Chili at Rena's and Darceys which was yummy, then we went over to grandma's and grandpa's for trick or treating. More pictures to come... For that little adventure Ayden was the same thing that he was the year before (still fit the costume). 'Mike Wazoki' from Monsters inc.
Thanks Grandpa for trick or treating with us!

Summer time..Finally!

Summer time weather has finally arrived in Utah, and its been nice to not have to wear a sweatshirt everywhere. We went to a rodeo in the middle of June and it was seriously cold. Then we went to another rodeo over the 4th of July and it was warm. Yipee!!! This is Cy and Ayden checking out the action. Ayden loved the first Rodeo he kept saying he wanted to go back. Cy bought him a Sprite, cotton candy and he was thrilled. He lasted until 10pm when it was almost over. This rodeo wasn't quite as exciting for him so he wanted to leave an hour after we got there. However Ayden did enjoy the Mutton bustn'. Next year maybe? I don't know if I can get him to ride a sheep backwards but heck its worth a try...

Elaine and Todd were down from Alaska and Ayden got to play with his cousin Huxley briefly. We went up to Logan and he saw Huxley for the first time since he was a baby, baby and Ayden held him on the grass (sitting down), I tried to get a picture but Hux fell over on his head in the grass and needless to say we didn't get a good picture after that. So they came down to visit before they headed back to Alaska and we got a picture in the love sac. Not the greatest of pic but hey least they are together. :)


Ayden and Grandpa,
Ayden loves both of his sets of grandparents and he doesn't realize what a lucky boy he is to have them around to love on and they both live so close to us. He is one lucky boy, he loves to go over to 'Papa's' house and make popcorn, help him check is sugar levels and wake him up by running in screaming into the room (we thought he was going to have a heart attack).




Every 9 days at our new house Cy gets to irrigate our pasture, our orchard and water the lawn with the 30 gallons a minute of water that we get. This was our first day time irrigation and Ayden had a blast running and playing in the water. Its pretty fun to see how much water runs down our driveway and how much fills up the pasture. We get the water for 8 hours and Cy pumps it all up onto the grass. It saves us lots of money in our cullinary water bill but Cy has to put a lot of time into running pipes and hoses, and when we get our water turn at night, well he is up from 8pm to 4 am watering the lawn. Slight down side. But its all good!!

Ayden's 3 years old!

My dad told me its been 6 months since I updated my blog. He told me all of the holidays had gone by and I hadn't posted anything, so I am going to try harder from now on dad!! Here you go!

Ayden turned three years old yesterday! It is amazing how time flies, he is growing up so quick.
His favorite activities are going to play with his friends at Rena's house. Digging in her yard to try and find glass bottles (there are a ton of them buried in her yard), going to the zoo. The aquarium, or home depot with his dad and he also likes to come to the barn with me. However doing projects around the house with dad is much funner than being with mommy. Chopping trees down, raking the grass and going to the dump are his favorites right now. He also likes to paint and draw. His favorite movies are Panyo, Toy Story 3, and Astro boy. His favorite TV shows are Barney and Mikey Mouse Club House. He doesn't sit still long enough to watch to much tv unless its bed time and then he likes to watch it all. :)


Aydens family birthday party was a success. We had lots of the cousins and a few friends over to his 'new home' as he likes to call it (since we lived at G&G house for a year that is all he knew for awhile there). He had a great time opening presents and playing with everyone. He was very patient while everyone ate their dinner (he didn't eat because he was starting to get sick-but this had been a record time of 2 months without a snotty nose so I guess he was due again).

Happy Birthday Ayden!

I'll post your video that is so cute later! It won't post right now.