Cave Creek/Carefree Lighted Christmas Parade

We needed to be in our staging area BEFORE 4:30 so I aimed early and actually accomplished this! In fact we were there by 4!!!

Sister hug!

Getting ready




Some pics without flash while waiting...









Laurie with Spot, and behind them, Jennifer with Ellie Mae
Mikey with Peter Pan (wow did that flash pick up the red or what?) and Mercy with Ozzie

Our poop scooping crew, Dan and David
Isn't David's hat appropriate???
My sweet lil girl Sarah Beth was being such a pistol, the inexperienced gal that was supposed to walk her got lucky that my horse friends Keith and Kat showed up to wrangle her!
Our little snow princess and her mount Foxy
My lil precious Emily Ann (this is our bottle baby!)
What a ham...


Milly Jo refused to walk the whole first half of the parade... so this poor dad had to PUSH!

Santa was pulled, but not by 8 tiny reindeer...
It's my granddonkey MADELINE!
Winchester...
Yup still pushing {sigh} - actually shortly after this, she got irritated enough to give a mighty kick, which dad luckily dodged! And she walked the rest of the parade nice as you please!!!


You wouldn't believe who got the MOST applause...

Isn't she the cutest thing?






Betty Lou and Mathilda

Emily Ann again



A grandma picture with my Madeline...


A different perspective here:

http://thehorseshoeinghousewife.blogspot.com/2010/12/round-2-cave-creek-light-parade.html

Minimizing...

That's our goal as we remodel the house, to get rid of a bunch of stuff and simplify our lives...

But when it comes to Christmas that just plain sucks! I LOVE Christmas lights, they are so cheerful and pretty, and I usually do the WHOLE front fence in white lights, and the porch, both roof and railing, in colors.

Things are better but still tight so this year only half the lights got put up... the porch roof...

and the fence on the side in front of the house...


Once the parade is past, I'll snag a couple of the battery-operated light strings and put them on my Jeep again {grin}

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Better Late Than Never...

Finally got back onto the website and found the endurance ride pictures posted... so here we are, me and my Glory, in all our glory ;)











Only 4 more weeks until the next one - which will be my FIRST 3-day ride! Can you say n-e-r-v-o-u-s???

A Granddog Visit

No pictures darn it but the cutest story... we had dinner with our friends Frankie and Carol tonight on the way to dance lessons... last spring they took Darci's pup Justin home with them. After dinner Carol asked if we had time to stop by and see Justin, and of course I couldn't say no!

Well we walked in the door and Justin pulled a typical chihuahua move, he started yapping like crazy and backed up through the doorway into the other room, peeking around the corner at me and wouldn't stop barking... I talked to him, called his name, nothing worked... until I said, "Don't you remember Grandma?" Well I guess Grandma was the magic word, as he immediately stopped yapping and started wagging and ran right to me, jumped up on his hind legs, let me pick him up and smothered me with kisses... what a happy boy he was, he about wagged his tail right off his lil behind!

Now that's the greeting a grandma lives for!