Sunday

We woke up this morning not knowing if we should even try. Karin didn't sleep at all during the night trying to figure out what happened. We voted at breakfast and the kids wanted to try again. We brought Ribbon out over where the cowboy mounted shooting was going on. She did fine at the walk and trot ignoring all the noise. Then we started allowing the vaulters to start. Ribbon acted like nothing had happened the night before. After much prayer and talking things over we decided to go ahead with the show and have Karin lunge and Sarah stay up at Ribbon's head just in case. It wasn't needed but better to be prepared.
I didn't write anything about Rhoda and Monica's performance on the mares yesterday. It went fabulous! Jenis looks like a million bucks. One of the Horsefair officials came and asked if they could use Jenis and Valiant for one of the clinicians. Of course we said yes. Jenis does not stand well with Valiant out of her space and sight. In the first clinic Chris Bohenek worked with just Valiant. It was amazing how he could work with a 7 week old colt, without the mother in the ring, and have him leading and standing quietly with all his weight on 3 legs, the 4th just his toe touching the ground. Chris explained how important this is for your farrier. The second clinic he worked with Jenis. He had her standing quietly within 2 minutes. I just hope we can keep her this way. It was amazing to watch.
Sunday morning after our discussions and breakfast we headed over to cowboy church. Got there and there was no speaker yet so Rachel led us in song. We sang 3 songs, then a lady came up to tell us the speaker was going to be late. I nominated Fedi to start. Fedi gave such a good talk that HIS CLINIC was the most attended of the entire horse fest. The vaulting went on about the expected time and thankfully was fine. Then was Rhoda and Monica's turn. I video taped some of their warm up, then tried to video their performance. They did so well and I was such a proud mother. We had already torn down the stalls so as soon as the girls were done we loaded up to start home. But... my 4 wheel drive broke and I was stuck. Fedi was able to get me out and we got home with no other incident. All in all it was a very successful weekend. The video below is our Sunday performance of the vaulters. Those kids have COURAGE to get back up on Ribbon after Saturday nights disaster!