Graduation

My baby boy graduated!

This is the family including Alicia.

Brother and Sister.

The most adorable Alexander.

The beautiful Faith. With Aunt Tika in the background.

more horse riding

This is from this past Monday. It was raining so they had to ride in the barn. Josie was on a new-to-her horse named Buddy. They got along ok, but Miss Linda still stayed close by. In the video, Miss Linda was pretending that Buddy bit her. You can hear Josie's reaction.

Yeah, OK

So, I fell down on the updating the blog thing. But, you can only post so many "music videos" of Josie riding horses.


A couple of weeks ago, Linda and the girls came down to visit. Little Alexander is just cute as a button! But in getting video clips of him, Linda was in the middle of telling her birthday story and I just had to let her share with the world.

Is this so not John just with no teeth? Amazingly cute.

I also caught Dani and Alexander playing patty cake. I missed getting a shot of the really cute episode, but I did get this little gem. I'm sorry if it's a little dark, but hopefully you can see enough to get the idea.

I do have new video and pictures of Josie's horse riding, but I want to put the clips together before posting. Hopefully I'll get to them soon.

See Y'all.

Josie's Horse Riding

I'm trying to find a good place to upload the videos of Josie. I made a YouTube account but I'm not happy with all the other "junk" there. So, I'm trying this one that I actually forgot that I made!

This first video I made with my little Nikon COOLPIX 8m camera. The quality isn't the best, but it's what I've got. The first part of the video shows Josie riding by herself for the first time ever. She's been taking riding lessons for almost a year at Risner's Stables in West Plains. Her class is for therapeutic riding and usually all the students have some sort of disability. The instructor works with the kids to improve verbal and physical skills.

In the second half of the video, Josie is back to riding with someone behind her. She wasn't real happy about that to begin with, but her "helper" let her do most of the work. The first horse is Zebe. He's much younger and quicker to respond to her usual horse, Tapper, which she's back to in the second half. The girl riding with Josie is Hayden who I hope forgives me if I don't spell her name correctly.

Since I put music with the video, you can't really hear everything going on with Josie when she's riding, for that I'm sorry. Hopefully I'll get all this figured out soon and you'll be able to hear her giggles and "woo-hoos." She LOVES to "trot" or lope" on the horse.

One thing I really like about her riding lessons is how the day ends. The picture below is a good example. It's only a little after 8pm, Josie's had her bath, unfortunately she is on my bed, but good 'ol Squid watches over her.