Horseback Ride

So most of you know, I'm dying to get pregnant! So I am in a mode where I am trying to do all the things I can't do once a baby is on it's way. This includes riding roller coaster, working ridiculously long hours, horseback riding, and eating ice cream for dinner.

It has been over 6 YEARS since I took a horse ride with my family. Mainly because Chase is usually gone, and I'm so busy we haven't had a chance to go. So Chase and I sent Ruark over to my mom's house for the day and took a trip with my dad and step mom up into Harriman Park. The leaves were just turning and luckily for us the elk were bugleing. Chase had too much fun bugleing back and forth.

Me and my daddy

We found a beautiful spring to rest at on our way

Luckily for us we were able to sneak right up on them and watch a whole heard from just a few feet away. In all my years of riding into Harriman Park I don't think I've ever been so close. This however has woken a sleeping giant in my husband. He now LOVES his cowboy hat, and is dying to get into hunter's safety so he can go hunting with my family next year. I love his enthusiasm. I'll admit I was a little nervous for him, he hadn't had a lot of experience riding and I really didn't want him to be made fun of for the next few years as my family tends to do. However, he suprised us all when he looked like a regular cowboy running up and down the valley and was as comfortable as I was in a saddle.

After 6 years I still find myself amazed by his enthusiasm for life and find myself falling even more in love with him. I am so thankful for this beautiful world we live in and I am so thankful for my wonderful family and frieds for all the blessing they bring into our lives.

As for Ruark he of course had a wonderful time with his "andma" and spent the day playing with his cousins playing games and ended the night watching movies and eating root bear floats. He was not ready to come home but after a whole day away from him I couldn't hold and kiss him enough when I got him back in my arms.