Riley's 1st Horse Ride!

Well sort of...really it was his 1st horse ride photo op! My sister and I grew up with a horse we still have...Sam also known as Sam-Bo most of the time. He's a million miler in that my sister and I BOTH put a million miles on him growing up! It's what we spent almost every summer day doing growing up, etc. And Sam can thank us because we obviously added some years to his life with all that training we put him through! He would carry us and our tools to build playhouses down in the pasture or away on the next adventure in the "back pasture" read out of the site of any adults! ha! It was like the forbidden thing, so you know we had to do it! And he raced many a barrels too!

Anyway, he's around my age -35 years old - so he's ancient for a horse! And we figured we'd better get a picture of Riley on him....just in case! I really can't tell you how awesome Sam was! There is no better horse! My sister raced barrels on him! And he competed even though he was only a Welsh pony, but he had the heart of a gladiator! And if you put a little kid on him and they kicked and kicked and kicked...it was like he knew they were a little kid so he'd just walk around slowly!

So we took these few pictures on Father's Day when we were in Grand Saline. Sam wasn't really ready for a photo op, so you have to excuse his nappy hair! Next time we'll have to break a saddle out, but if you saddle Sam up every kid wants to ride him so we figured we'd avoid that drama!


Riley wasn't too sure about this at 1st.


Amy, My Dad, Riley and Sam-Bo.

As you can see Riley was more interested in the tree and the panting dog that was out there with us than Sam!


I had to take a picture of Bullet - I always loved that he had those glass blue eyes, but he's a little crazy so not a lot of people ride him these days!