friiiiiiday

friday morning was the big horse show. we all got up nice and early and got all ready to go. we dropped addie off at 8:30 and headed down to the beach.

they loved walking along the little shore.

and playing in the sand.

delaney (the worlds slowest eater) had brought her half eaten pop tart (breakfast of champions) with her and set it on the table, where a dog promptly came and ate it. she was sooo mad! she was trying to yell across the water to the dogs owner "your dog ate my pop tart!" but i held her back.

from the beach we walked to the dock.

of course they had to walk on the rocks which made them even more slooooow.

the dock was super fun!

there were 2 nice ladies out there fishing and crabbing, and they were so sweet to us.

they caught a crab while we were there and showed the girls their loot. i don't know anything about crabbing, but i think that's a pretty good haul for one morning.

then they caught another crab, but he was too small, so they had to let him go. before they threw him back though, they let the girls take a picture with him.

franks wouldn't get anywhere near him, and this was as close as lanes got.

then it was time for the big show. alexis and tito came, and when laney saw lexi coming down the trail she got all excited and ran to her.

addie was the third kid up. they had a little routine that each child did.

big girl addie on her horse, achansee. (like i-can-see, but with an 'ah')

he was a little bit of a spirited horse, and on monday, as she was riding him bareback, had galloped into the barn with her. she said when she got into the barn they told her to pull the reins and tell him "whoa." that made a big impact, and she told over and over again how achansee had said "i don't want to be out here, i'm gonna take you back into the barn," and then galloped her back to the barn.

jumping position.

such a big girl!

she loved her week at horse camp! she kept asking why it was only one week. she would love to take lessons, so we shall see. one of her other favorite things was that one of the horses, jackie, had just had a foal named summer. addie got a kick out of the fact that jackie and summer are two of my activity girls. and little summer was soooo cute! she also thought it was so funny that their tornado shelter was the little outhouse. some of the counselors joked that summer was so little, they could take her in with them in the event of emergency.

horse camp craft. don't worry that her head is cut off. it adds to the charm.

after the horse show, we met up with darlaina and lana's crews for one last swimming date. it's been so nice to be surrounded by church members in our neighborhood, but now there are just 3 active families. we will miss the utzingers so much! :(

in happier news, frankie was able to borrow a mermaid tail at the pool.

she was in heaven! if they weren't so darn expensive i might think about buying one for them to share, but holy smokes, $$$.

i left frankie at the pool with alexis and tito and came home to let delaney take a nap. then they even picked up addie for me. pretty sweet! we invited them to come to the river concert with us, but they ever so politely declined. we headed out around 6. i looked back and delaney was making these goofy faces. love her.

the kids ran around playing hide-and-go-seek. i told addie she should hide under josh, so she ran up, told him her plan, and without skipping a beat, he threw her under him and gina rolled closer to cover that half of her. of course, she got found pretty quickly, but it was a cute encounter.

our small crew for the last river concert. this was our 4th time this year and i loved every one of them. i'm sad they are over!

such a beautiful venue, i just love st. marys city.

colleen and crew showed up after myers and mc's had left, so we hung out with her until the crowds had died down sufficiently enough, and then headed home. another wonderful summer day.