Merrill Family

My Girlie Girls call themselves the Cowgirl Princesses!

We joined the White Mountain Horseman's Association, Gymkanna.

That means my kids are learning how to barrel race with their horses.

So much fun! Charlotte was so excited. She found something that she is really good at and can do it as good as everyone else and even better!

(She was so thrilled to look the same as everyone else!)

The announcer at the stadium had a good laugh because she was waving with a big smile at all the people cheering her on as she rode around the barrels. She ended up taking second in her event of her age group and got a ribbon!

She has been riding horses since she was 2 yrs. old So she did awesome! We were all so proud of her! When she got home, she had so much confidence she walked with her crutches from her bedroom to the kitchen all by herself. She normally is too scared to try it without help and she did it all by herself. This is going to be such a fun thing for her. They even gave her paperwork, to try out for being Rodeo queen of her age group! What fun!

She is loving this and she is good at it!!!!

Caroline is already having fun on the horses!

She sure thinks she is so big! She can start doing barrels in June, as soon as she is two.
Bobbie(Horse) is so gentle with the girls.
Caroline was sharing her graham cracker with Bobbie.

We Spent all day at the Rodeo Grounds! They loved it and had so much fun!

They were having fun cheering on their friends!

Bobbie is an old Barrel Racing horse, she was back in her game and was so happy out in the arena.

I got a lot of excersize that day because Bobbie wanted to run with Kalicia and I was leading, so I was running! Kalica was awesome and ended up taking 1st!!!!!

Both girls ended up doing three events each! They loved every minute of it and played Cowgirl Princesses, as they call it, when they got home. Gallupping around the house and yelling yeeha!