chinese cowgirl

I was so excited on my way down to the mailbox to see
that the cattle next to us were settled into our shady
corner of the pasture....with their babies!
You can only see one here.

Lucy just loves these calves.
She's very family-oriented and will point out who
the mama must be...and then proceeds to
talk about the rest of the bovine-family.

I've had to explain to her that animals don't have families
the way people do, because she actually
gets worried if she doesn't see a clump of them
together and she assumes that something must be wrong.

She doesn't believe me.

Sweet girl.
She loves her family
and thinks all creatures should have the same experience.

Cute.

Here she is giving us her cowgirl look.

Then in the other direction came our neighbors riding
their horses.

Lucy has wanted to ride those horses for SO LONG!

But simply petting it was the thrill of her day!

And in an extreme effort to get her ON the horse,
we had to pull some rather risky maneuvers.

Which included me.

Getting ON a horse.

Which I haven't done since I was a tad older than Lucy.


But I hoisted my big back-side up and looked like
regular Jane Wayne.
Get it? John Wayne...Jane Wayne.
Never mind.

Lucy managed to muster up the same courage as Mom
and had an absolute blast!!

Then she got to ride on the BIG horse!

Macy didn't want to ride but took most of the pics.
She loves being behind the camera.
I can definitely see a budding talent there.


We had soooo much fun!!