ARTISTS UNITE!

Heather took this great picture. When Ari saw it she was inspired by it to write this poem. They make an awesome team! Ari and Heather have teamed like this before. To check that one out go to Kendricks blog (yes I know it is Heather and Tagg s family blog but hey I am the Grandma hehe)

Dragons dancing in the air.
Finally they alight
taking a breath before they go

Just a great Picture of the Birthday Girl!

Ari's Pictures with her new CAMERA!

Ari just loves her new camera and she will be a regular contributor to the blog from now on! Here are a few she took of the furry people (and feathered) that share our homestead.

Here are a few chickens from Ari's flock!

This is Sadie the carnivore wannabe!

Bear went on our ride as our "protection" he is a very tired and footsore boy now. But happy very, very, happy!

This is Sweety Pie the kitten. She is studiously ignoring Ari and the Camera.

The Birthday RIDE!

We did more riding than picture taking but we did get a few.

We stopped and had our lunch at (IN) this pretty stream. Ari's horse Sadie was a HUGE MOOCH. Even tried to get us to let her taste the fried chicken. YOU ARE NOT A CARNIVORE SADIE! Grapes and bread and carrots as well as the apples were a big hit with our equine partners.

Here is Ari explaining the dietary laws of horses to Sadie. Note the look of disagreement on that horse's face! With us were Terry on the left and Lori on the right. Jenny was not able to be with us and we missed her!

This was the After Ride Party!

More presents! Ben was the present delivery person and enjoyed his job immensely. Ari received lots of cool stuff and says thank you thank you thank you!

Lori's husband Mike did not even go on the ride and he looks more tired than the rest of us! HA

I do not know why but I really like this picture of my beautiful sweet daughter!

Ari's Birthday!!!!

Yesterday was Ariana's Birthday. We had a GREAT day! We took a girls trail ride. It was a little sad without Q and Pony but we had a lot of fun. We did find that without the leadership of Q we have no natural leaders in the whole group. Therefore everyone wanted to follow or walk beside someone else. This did not work so well and we had to do some schooling to get a good trail line going on the narrow trails. Here are some great pictures from the day!

Here she is intently working on seeing what was in the BOX! That is her brother Ben and her friend Erica with her on the couch.

She Squeals with delight when she sees NIKON and knows it is a camera!

This camera came with all sorts of cool stuff!

The Ships

This is Heathers new Boat, or is that Ship.... hmm what is the size criteria on that? OK really it is not Heathers but since she is Heather Marie and this was Marie... well hopefully you get it!

This is my dream Ship/Boat! And it is for sale!!! OK well you know me I have to get stuff that needs fixed so I am not bored. Then I can fix it up and........

It will look like this when I am done! We can live on it and be happy. The down side to this is I am pretty sure the horses are not going to think this is a great plan!

This is a wonderful vessel called the Lynx ( I am pretty sure of the spelling maybe) I know for a fact that this one was called a SHIP! I got these shots as she was coming in. I do not take very good pictures and for that I apologize, But I hope you can get a least a little of the feel for how wonderful this ship is! This was taken at the Port if Ilwaco.