Nana and Papa

our dial-up is back (sigh..) so I only uploaded on picture this time. My parents came to visit for the weekend! We had a nice visit! Miss you Mom and Dad!! :)

Autumn events

Sarah and I were invited to go on a trail ride with our neighbor (who is also Kit's vet) and her little girl (who is one of my pre-schoolers!) They had a pony for Sarah to ride.. what a treat to have Sarah and I go together!.. and Kit is doing so well being this is only his third ever trail ride!! He definitely benefits from riding in a group.
Here we are going down by the river.. what a beautiful ride it was..

I woke up early one morning last weekend and found we had our first frost.. it was gorgeous out! I decided to just drive around near our home and take some pictures before the fall foliage is gone... mist rising from the Conn. river..
A pretty picture of the farm where we board Sarah's horse



a frosty field on a back road near our house

distant pic of the farm

My brother and his family came to visit over Columbus day weekend. We celebrated his birthday which was on the 10th.. here he is thinking about what to wish for!!

Christian with his Aunt Wendy after putting Maggie's (wendy's new puppy!!) new harness on... we thought blue was her color!!

tired kids...

boy, this dog got a ton of love over the weekend!

Maggie would howl when Christian "howled".. !!

Christian and Sarah with their cousin Zach (along with "cousins" maggie and Sally!!!)

a rare picture of Eric and I!

Sarah sporting her pumpkin face that she got when our neighbors treated her to a fun filled day at a nearby pumpkin festival! Thanks Linda and family! :)

my cake!

Sarah made me a cake for my birthday last week. She loves to bake and she knows I love chocolate.. (can't you tell?!)

fall is here!

We decided to stop by the orchard on our way to the grocery store to pick some apples.. hey, Christian the sign says "no climbing trees!!!" The best ones are always on the top.. no one is looking.. hurry up!!!

picking pumpkins at the farm last weekend!


say cheese Sally!

it worked..

Wow.. I have tried and tried to update this page. Many technical difficulties!! Today I had success ( it took about an hour and a half!!) Christian sitting in the grass watching his Dad play in a tennis tournament last weekend.

Sarah took this shot of the mist on the Connecticut River while going over the bridge to Vermont on our way to school.

The girls' riding instructor celebrated her 70th birthday last weekend and we attended a big party for her! Here are the girls relaxing on the grass. Cecily (who is doing much better by the way!!, look at that smile!!) Shannon and my Sarah.

At the party a man from VINS (Vermont Institute of Natural Science) came and released a hawk (I think it was called a "broad winged hawk") that was found on the side of the road injured, and then rehabilitated there. It was really ready to go! Can you see it?

there it goes!!

Eric and his pals heading over to the "crepe mobile" for a yummy birthday dessert. What an interesting (and delicious might I add!) idea.. those crepes were heavenly...

Since Micheal Jordan got inducted into the hall of fame (and his old games have been on TV so much with you know who watching...) Christian got an idea into his head.. "please dad.. bring my hoop over to the trampoline?!!" he spent hours last weekend doing this.. haha!






"back, back, back"...






I uploaded backwards yet again.. at the end of each ride Grandma told Sarah to go to the gate, then make Kit back up. Kit is always so eager to go in and get his supper it's sometimes hard to get him to do what you want him to.. Sarah's been doing a good job at it. A good exercise where Sarah is the boss!!! :)

A nice smile..

hey Jenny.. you'd be proud of me... I went on an hour long ride on Kit yesterday down a side road. (no pics..:( ) Our vet and her four year old daughter came along (well, they invited us and I finally caved and just did it!!!) on their horses... it was so fun! He did so well..for it really being only his second time on a trail like ride.. just a little dancy at first and wanted to be head honcho, but calmed right down. WOW.. riding with others is what really worked!! Even went over a bridge with loud bubbling water running with a minimal spooks!! on the way back he passed right over that bridge like he was a pro..I had to dig out (and dust off!) the western saddle though so I could stay on!!! :) Now that I'm over that hump I want to go again!! We need another horse now!!!!! (Eric says NO!)

calves!

Sarah is showing interest in leading calves! Her friend Shannon led calves in the fair a couple of weeks ago and Sarah likes what she saw! She practiced with "Doris" to see what it was suppose to feel like. Doris was shown in a Vermont county fair over the summer by a 5 year old!

Then Sarah tried Gabe.. starting from scratch with this tiny guy was definatly harder than it looks!! they have no clue how to be lead... she's leading two.. Charlie Ray (from a previous post)and this little guy. They were both born in July. Kit was ridden before this picture was taken and you never would guess.. he was soo jealous! He was making all kinds of racket!

Our Labor Day Weekend

Sarah standing by the morning glory poles in our garden. I think it was a little too early as most of them weren't open yet! Some of them have started to spiral around a couple of nearby sunflowers, but those sunflowers weren't quite open yet. I'll have to snap a few pics when they do!

A couple of giants in our garden that have opened up!

Christian put on a yard sale pretty much on his own on Saturday. He did very well and got rid of a lot of stuff that we no longer use.

We went to the Lancaster fair again this year! Our FAVORITE! We held out on a nearby fair this past summer to attend this one that is about an hour and a half away. It's big and has a lot of agriculture. A very fun day! Who are those handsome boys??!

Sarah checking out our hometown cows!




oxen teams

We visited the oxen area.. this guy was HUGE!

Sarah was amazed that his head was bigger than Kits! (Kit has a huge head and ears... traits of a Tennessee walker, we sometimes call him "mule!")

At the fair we once again visited the tent where the cow costume contest was held! The Fleming kids took part again his year (along with regular showings throughout the duration of the fair, but we missed out on those :( ) luckily we made it to see this very cute show! Here is Shannon and her little cousin. The three 60's gals! haha!

Christian's bud superman leading superwoman in the show! Way to go Liam! :)

"Cheese!"