Horseback Riding Lesson

Today I had the pleasure of joining my granddaughter at the stable.  I picked her up at her house and off we went!

She ride a big stallion who if very gentle and seems to respond to her voice commands pretty well.  They start out with the horse(Casey) walking around the stable and my granddaughter getting her balance.  She then  beginnings trotting around and then reversing the direction and trotting.  Once she is comfortable on the horse  she will go into a canter.  He rides real easy and she is very good with him.

They then practiced going around the barrels.  She seems to be enjoying herself... I'm not so sure about the horse!

New email address

My new email address is, nwhightsel@gmail.com. Please send me an email so I can add you to my new address book. Sorry for the problems.

I've Been Hacked!!!!

My hotmail account has been HACKED!!  I can't get in my account and now my IPAD is frozen!  I will be seeking help at the Apple store or the nearest communter store today!!  I am NOT in the UK and do not need money to get my passport back!!!!!

Of course if you want to send money send it to ME not the hacker!!!!!!!!!!! LOL

Youngest Grandson's birthday

We had the youngest grandson's birthday party at ChuckECheese!!  Hopefully, it will be the last time we have a birthday party there!! Fun for the kids but painful for the adults!  Six years old!!!  WOW!

Of course his mother, the blueberry farmer, made the cake and we all enjoyed it!!  Delicious!  The cake had his favorite Pokemon character on it.

He and his brother had a great time playing the games!!  In fact I am sure they will have nightmares tonight with all the stimulation the games provide!!  The competition was ferocious!

5th grade graduation

It didn't sound like a big deal to grandma but 5th grade graduation is a BIG DEAL to the participants!!  There must have been over 200 people crammed into the gym at the school and they were all happy to see their loved one graduate.  A good time was had by all.

What a good day!

Today I spent the entire day with my grandchildren.  After baking banana bread with Chiara, we went to the movies and saw "Brave".  I think the kids enjoyed the movie and the popcorn and the candy and the drinks.  In the middle of the movie, Robbie says, "Grandma my tooth came out."  It was the first tooth he had lost and he was pretty excited.

All in all a good day!

We Made It!!

Here we are in beautiful Oregon!!  For me it is beautiful in many ways....My youngest daughter's face, my three grandchildren's faces, the mountains, the warm sunshine, the soft mist in the mornings, the lush green trees...ahh Oregon!

The trip was fun and uneventful as far as repairs were concerned.  The first night out we stayed at the fabulous Grand Canyon National Park! We stayed two nights and rode the s
huttle bus all along the Southside of the Canyon.  What a site!!  It is too big to take a picture of and get it all in focus.  I bought postcards to remind me of the colors.  The reds and yellows and browns all together and then layered one on top of the other for a mile down!!!  WOW!

We then drove to Las Vegas and met with a friend there and had a delightful dinner and conversation.  On to Death Valley and the desert surrounded by barren mountains. On and On and On we drove.  It seemed to take forever to reach Reno!! 

Then all of a sudden there was a little green here and a little green there and a tree here and a tree there and a mountain with trees and we arrived in Susanville, CA. at an interesting RV campground! The camp was in the woods with a creek running down the middle of it.  It had old motor homes staying there and they looked like they had been there for a long time.  Next to us parked a cute little "A" frame trailer that was interesting.  A young couple were staying in it and when they got ready to leave watching them take it down was fun. We are glad that all we have to do is push a few buttons.

We had dinner with the "kids" the evening we arrived and then golfed the first full day here.