Playing with Charleigh....
Meeting our kitten Fuzzy for the first time, lets just say they are not friends yet. 
Adalyn at the Warren County fair, 13 months old. She is gabbering up a storm, she will try and say just about anything you say. When you ask her where someone or something is and she does not know she will put her arms up in the arm like "you got me". It is funny. She will also come to you when you ask her to, she seems to listen pretty well, we will see is she keeps it up.
This is Ben after some of the swelling went down! He is still looking a bit scarey form that damn tooth.This is Charleigh at the Warrenton rodeo on July 8th 2010. She was so excited so many people came to watch her, she was talking about it for weeks prior and will probably be talking about it for weeks to come. She asked her Grandpa "Grandpa, are you gonna come watch me run barrels?
Grandpa "Uh-huh"
Charleigh" Will you say "Go Charleigh?" "
Grandpa "Yep"
Charleigh "Will you say" Bring her home Cowgirl"?"
Grandpa "Uh-huh.....
She really wanted everyone to notice her fringe on her shirt flying behind her as she ran. Outlaw Rodeo Company let her run exhibition and Mark Ficken, the announcer, announced her as the winner. He really talked her up and told everyone that she was 4 and she was a cowgirl. Everyone was super nice to Charleigh and made her feel so special. She had a big crowd of fans there to cheer her on as well. You can kinda hear the crowd going crazy for her on the video, when she comes running out. When she goes around the 3rd barrel she always wants us to yell "Bring'em home Cowgirl." As she came out of the arena her smile was priceless, and she looked at me and said "Mom, you yell for me?"
Charleigh was so happy she got to carry the flag inthe parade, now she wants to carry the flag in the rodeo. At the Outlaw show their flag has fireworks that stream out the top on the flag pole. Now Charleigh REALLY WANTS TO DO THAT. baby steps......
Charleigh carried this flag through the entire parade! She did awesome, so did Scooter and Pete. She had so many people commenting on how little she was. A couple people even asked how old she was, and when she said four, they were suprised. They all told her she was such a good rider. She would grin form ear to ear and say "Hank you." 
Talk about making your heart swell..... She is such a little cowgirl she makes us so proud.
Clementine and Charleigh were super excited about putting glitter on their horses. it was the highlight for Clementine. She must have asked us 50 times about getting the glitter on her Palamino. It was funny when she got off and Ben rode the horse covered in glitter through the parade alone. (Even funnier cause I didn't have any on Pete, just Benny and Charleigh.)
Ben had Clementine on with him but she fell asleep before the parade started. She looked very uncomfortable and everyone we went by commented on her sleeping. When we saw Uncle Alan we handed her off and she woke up, but she wasn't to sure she wanted to get back on when we asked. It was a good thing because Ben's tooth was infected and he was in some major pain, the next morning it looked like he had a softball in his cheek (no joke) he was super uncomfortable and I had to work! Grand Gram, Grandma, and Grandpa were at a funeral and Ferrell and Grandaddy were in Mississippi, or as Charleigh calls it "Sippi" I got a girl from work who always helps me out to come in so I could go home and help Ben. I got home and he was laying in bed with Ada and Charleigh playing in the bed making a tent with the covers. Charleigh waqs Daddy's little helper and watched her sister until Momma could get home. 
Notice Ada has a sucker in her hand and is still reaching for more candy.
Charity and Rick drove an hour to watch the girls in the parade. By the time we got to them we no longer had their kid. Opps, maybe next year.
Ben and Charleigh going for a ride this spring. Ben is on April, one of the horses we trained for someone and Charleigh is on Scooter (of course)
We decided to give Scooter a break since he was getting riden everyday sometimes twice a day so on this paticular day Charleigh rode Pete. He is such a big horse, 16 hands or close to it and he is a big old puppy dog. 
Ada and Dawn over Memorial Day weekend. Ada drinking all of Dawn's flavored water.
Charity and July on Memorial day weekend. 
Ada and July playing on a blanket in the shade, it has been unseasonably hot so far this year, but we are loving it! Ada is so funny with July. Anytime someone is holding him she wants them to hold her. If July gets passed off, then Ada wants to go too. It is almost like she wants to be near him, it doesn't matter who is holding him, she wants to be held too.
