Almost a month

It's been almost a month since I last posted anything. In that time we have finished the move to the new digs. Our official "home" is Whistle Stop Stables in Wando. Tara Osment is providing excellent care to our boys. Surrey has moved on to a new home of trail riding and loving cuddles. We're excited to again be sharing barn space with the Friedman's, and are having fun getting to know all of our new barn buddies.

The kids have all been working really hard to prepare for the last couple of shows of the spring. We will be going to both Sea Island the last weekend of this month, and the PSJ at Mullet Hall the first weekend of June. Chipper is opting for a trip to Mexico with 35 of their families nearest and dearest instead of showing this go round. He'll be missed:(

I have some pictures from Gia and Chipper's last lessons on Johns Island. It's amazing the impact riding on the uneven ground had on the kid's positions. You'll notice there has been a change to Chipper's mount. He has regained his confidence and has moved on to Pickles. We will be focusing on schooling pony or the green pony division in the near future.

Gia on Riley

Chipper's First Lesson on Pickles

Now that you've seen Pickles "plopping" over the small fences with chipper aboard here are a couple of pics of Lexy and Pickles. They have improved tons since the first pic a month ago. They are jumping up t 3'6" high and wide...yes at the same time. They will experiment with pony jumpers, but Pickles will be out sized by about 8 inches, so they may not have enough boogie no matter how hard he tries. If they don't have it for the jumpers we will try to fine tune him a bit and they'll be doing the green pony division.

2'9"

3'

3' 6" (notice the gap between the standard's feet)

I have more news to announce tomorrow, but need to take some pics to go with it first. Stay tuned.