walk Cody, WALK!

Tim surprised me on our anniversary. We went horseback riding! I love horses, and I love riding. Tim found out when I was blabbing about all that stuff when we were at the fair at the beginning of the month - and he remembered! We went to this ranch outside of Marysville, and they just had fields and fields full of horses. It was beautiful. We went on an hour trailride through the hills of that area. I loved it. Tim... well Tim was happy I loved it.

235 of 365: field of dreams


So there were kittens all over the farm, and signs that they were for sale for $10. Man I love a kitten, but my cats are making me crazy, so none came home with us. This one followed us all over the place though (he was an older kitten, there were smaller ones there too)


As well as having horses, the farm had all sorts of regular farm animals... and reindeer!


I rode Cody. Cody apparently has won awards for his jumping. He would not win any awards for walking from me... I had to constantly nudge the poor dude along (another rider joked that his name should have been eeyore) So I spent most of my ride yelli..I mean talking to Cody and coaxing him along.


Tim road Solomon, and he spent most of the ride running into bushes. Solomon enjoys eating on his trailrides, and doesn't really care what that puts his riders through. Look how happy Tim is to be sharing this moment with me :)


I love you Tim, and thank you for a great anniversary!

Ohio State Fair 2009

I know, I'm behind again... and I'm sorry for it! But I have some great stuff to show, and I'm very excited about it!

But until they're ready....

We went to the Ohio State Fair last Sunday. Saturday night, both Tim and I spent forever trying to get our wagon into the trunk of the rental car. Turns out that while the car (and its trunk) is significantly bigger then our totaled '03 Civic, the opening to the trunk is very very teeny tiny. Funny that our even smaller '95 Civic fit the wagon almost comfortably.

213 of 365: better bring a long the wagon


Tim and I joked that we would have to carshop with the wagon, just to make sure it fit in our next vehicle.

Sunday was Fair day, and I was pretty excited. The girls love animals, so I figured it would be a hit. Olivia's on this big kick of pointing out flags to us (stems from the Fourth of July) So like every car ride, on the ride there, Olivia yells out every time she sees a flag. And when we walk in, she's pointing out all the flags. Then she see's this...



and she literally sighs and says "Mommy, there's just so many flags"

But we loved the animals... the baby cow and the sheep were big hits. We had a few melt downs, but not too many.

baby cow - born the night before


Claire at the sheep pen
214 of 365: farm girl


Olivia managed to completely surprise Tim and I. She tends to be very tentative about new things. She talks a big talk, but when it comes to actually doing the new things, she tends to back down. So we walked past the pony ride. I always feel bad for those ponies... five little things tied up to a circle, not able to go anywhere... just bums me out. But I wanted Olivia to see the ponies, because she's really into horses lately. So she runs up to the ponies and yells "I GET ON NOOOOW!" I think she saw the saddles and knew she could ride them. We figured, what the hey, it's only three dollars, might as well give it a try. Buy the ticket, give it to Olivia, tell her to go to the man manning the gate. She runs off without us, gives the man the ticket. He plops her on a horse, tells her to hang on, and then walks away. And she rides!









I'm just so proud of her!!