Playing with our Toys

Here are a couple pics of Carver enjoying his new found treasures! :D

Party Time....

We had Christmas dinner at Mike's Parents. Stopped by Grandma Laura's before that. It was a good day. :)

Christmas Morning!!!

Carver had a blast. This was the first year he really started grasping the Santa concept. He found out we could "track" santa online on the Norad Santa site. Loved that and wanted to be sure first thing Christmas morning that Santa was home and safe. :P What a goof ball! The he was shy in front of the camera, but after a while, started tearing into the gifts. He got a ton of stuff and we had fun spoiling him this year. Here are a few pics of Carver that morning.

Snow Day!!!

So we got relatively pounded with snow the past few days. Its finally melting off a bit with the warmer temps, but unfortunately, winter is here to stay. So why not make the best of it? Here's Carver out playing.

Boomer and Maizy

Here is a cute pic of Boomer and Maizy. Boomer forgets he's a dog and Maizy doesn't quite know she's a cat.

Working ponies....

Today was such a beautiful day. Caught all the ponies and worked them in the bitting rig. Bee is just a yearling, but she's doing great. Needs a lot more work on collection, but that'll come later on. Put Lisa in the bitting rig. She use to drive before becoming a broodmare. So we decided to get her driving again for next year. Should do well as she has a ton of natural action. And of course, Bugs. Awesome to see a horse collect himself and work. All that time and effort truely does pay off. :) Got to love having an awesome camera on my phone that I can then download onto my computer. :P

Cowboy Up....

Well, Paul is getting next year off from the show season to relax, recoup and just be a horse. So the new leadline pony position falls onto Bugs. He did great as usual. He's broke to cart and throwing a saddle on usual doesn't take much effort for transistion. Carver is learning how to use the reins and voice commands this year and did pretty good. Of course, Bugs has a "are you serious...I have to do this" look on his face. Hahahaha! He'll get over it.

Beautiful Sunset

I caught this sunset the other night while eating dinner. Had to snatch a picture. Think its pretty awesome looking....almost spooky.

Happy Halloween!!!!

Halloween Golbins...

Every year we head over to my sister's house and go trick or treating. We didn't get any pics of them in action because it was sopping wet. Rained on us the whole time, but Carver still got lots of candy and had a blast. Him and Kaylee are fairly good friends. They held hands the entire time going door to door. Don't ask about the camo hat. No point in trying to reason with a 3

year old about fashion! Hahahaha!

A Boy and His Kitty....

Meet Maizy. She's our newest addition (can never have too many mouse hunting barn cats in our area). She's about 6 weeks old now. But Carver absolutely loves her. Most kids have dogs they play with, but Carver plays with Maizy. He takes her down the slide, plays in the sand box with her, throws her in the dump truck, takes her on bike rides, etc. They cat just adores him. Here are some pics of those two playing together. :)

Pumpkin Carving

Got the pumpkins carved on our own homegrown pumpkins (9 plants later, we had plenty to choose from). I tend to stick to more traditional jack-o-lanterns. So I did a scary face this year. Carver wanted a ghost. That killer pumpkin is done by yours truely. :) Mike decided to go with Mickey Mouse this year.

High Point Award

Chase won the IMHC High Point Performance Horse for 2010. He got this snazzy looking blanket. I was pretty proud of him as I've done all the training on this horse. Carver will do quite a bit of showing with him next year. But here those 2 are modeling.

Whites Valley Dog Trial

Mike has gone and watch dog trials with his friends who compete for the last year. He decided to try it. Did okay. His dog needs more work and training, but I think he had fun non the less. We made an overnight camping trip out of it. Here are a couple pics are friends snapped as of course, we forgot our camera.

Harvest Time....

So I finally got my butt outside and got the barn and the front of the house decorated with straw, pumpkins and scarecrows. It hasn't felt like fall, but its already October! We had a bunch of pumpkins this year. Mike thought that he should plant like 9 pumpkin plants! Had them everywhere!!!

Fall Fun

We decided to go on a drive Saturday evening to see the fall colors. Brought the camera along to try to get some pics. Some are a bit crooked. But what can you do when you set the camera on the hood of the truck and let the timer go??? :D We then went to Paradise and had a nice dinner. It was a good evening out.