Tuesday was a ride night with the 4-H club and since Hubby M was at a work event, little R had to hang out at the arena with us. That made for a very late night for her because we never get home before 8:30 on those nights. She did great, though, and happily played with her toy horses in the dirt for a couple of hours.
E gave her demonstration speech on Wednesday. She did a very good job, earning a blue ribbon and $5! She ended her speech with "...and you'll have a very happy horse!" and gave a big hug to the toy horse she used as her prop. Very cute! We celebrated her success with treats from the local ice cream shop. Yum!
On Saturday we took R's best friend out to the barn for a ride on Q. She's quite a bit smaller than R so we had to adjust the equipment to fit her...and discovered that our youth saddle doesn't work for really little legs. Even at their shortest, the stirrups dangled below her over-sized cowboy boots. I wasn't too worried, however, because we kept Q on a lead rope the entire time. R had a good time being photographer; she didn't enjoy leading horse and rider around as much, though.
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