Horses and Slime

Mark came home from work one day with an idea in his little head, he wanted a horse. What? No thank you. There are horses all around us out here and I love it but I don't want to own one. He thought we could own one and keep it in our neighbors stall. "All we'd have to do is clean the stall and feed it, plus pay for the stall." Again, no thanks. We settled on letting the kids have some horse riding lessons. We headed over for family night a couple weeks ago and it was a lot of fun. I took a lot of pictures so I'll let them do most of the talking.

Taking the horse to brush her and get the saddle put on.

Leila liked her.

I love how Leila will reach for your hand when you hold it out to her.

Leila loved the dirt.

Mark got on the horse and went for a ride! The tighter you squeeze your legs the faster the horse goes, well when it starts going fast your instinct is to tense up and squeeze your legs, he quickly learned. :)

This is what happens when I give Mark the camera. :)

That night I thought it would be fun to make a "spooky dinner", alien eyeballs (meatballs with peas for eyes), over intestines (spaghetti), and brains (brussel sprouts.) Honestly, they didn't think it was that cool. Charlie kept saying "those aren't eyeballs, those aren't brains!" They didn't get into it like I thought they might. When we came home from horse back riding we had green slime (home made vanilla pudding with food coloring) with dirt (crushed oreos.) They got a little more into that. Charlie thought it was cool that he ate it and realized it wasn't really slime and dirt. Then he reassured Kenya that it wasn't slime and dirt and it tasted good.

Here they are eating their slime. Love Kenya's teeth. She gets food in them like this like you wouldn't believe.