Berkeley's 1st Horse Show!

 Visiting with Fancy before the show

 Kisses for Fancy

 Taking Peaches outside to warm up

 Some of her favorite fans!

 Outside warming up and loving it!

 More of her fans!  Fin loves her Papa!

 Waving to the crowd during the show

Talking to the judge

Her 1st blue ribbon

So proud of herself and her 1st ribbon!

On March 9th, Berkeley had her 1st horse show!  She was so excited.  She was in the youngest group (all riders in the youngest group were guaranteed to get a blue ribbon) and got to ride Peaches.  She had her heart set on Fancy, the horse she usually rides at her lessons, but another little girl was already riding Fancy so she got to ride Peaches for the first time.  Berkeley's dream has been to win a blue ribbon in a horse show.  When she got her ribbon I thought she'd burst with pride and joy.  She was absolutely beaming and so excited.  She held onto it for  the whole rest of the day and has proudly hung it in her room above her bed.  She told me she wants her entire room to be full of blue ribbons.  I told Tom he'd better work some more over time so he can make his little girl's dream come true.  On the way home he said "It just figures that my daughter would have be into horses (since it's such an expensive sport)."  I said, "Well, you were into golf growing up and that's another crazy expensive sport.  What goes around comes around.  Did you really expect anything else?"  He laughed and said "No, of course not."

Great job Berk!  We are so proud of you and we love how much you love animals.  You are doing awesome at your lessons and are a perfect little horse girl.  All of your teachers have been blown away at how brave you are for your age.  You are doing what most 10 year olds are too scared to do and they just can't get over it.  You're a natural!  We know how excited you are to start jumping and although it makes us a little nervous we can't wait to see you go even further!