104 Days of Summer Vacation

There's 104 days of summer vacation, then school comes around just to end it. So the annual problem of our generation is finding a good way to spend it. . . Like maybe . . . . This has been going through my mind as we enter summer full force this week. We have a list of activities that we are going to do this summer and each day we'll try to check at least one off the list. So here we go . . . Day 1 Hey kids, I know what we're going to do today. . . Horse Riding. My brother and sister-in-law have been living quite close to us this year and it's been a lot of fun getting together with them. Her family has a farm with a few horses, mostly that they use for herding cows seasonally. On Monday they took us out to their horses and let us ride. It was so much fun. I think at the end all the children rode on their own at some point, well except Bonnie, but she was in the saddle alone at one point, she loved them and hated it when it was time to leave, which was triggered by the mosquito swarms. We are so grateful for them this opportunity. What a special treat it was for all of us. My girls have been asking for weeks if we can get a pony to live in the backyard. I don't think we've heard the end of it. Going out riding sure brought back a lot of memories for me. My best friend growing up had lots of horses and in the summer we went out and rode in the hills were we lived.