February 24, 2018

Summer 17--Colorado Roping Arena and Tack Room

We just had our February break. Facebook and Instagram are full of warm beaches and exotic locales. Real life is full of sapping, frozen ground, and patches of sunshine and warmth. 

On the whole, February break has been perfectly lovely. 

I mean, of course, there was a very long to do list created at the beginning of break. So much optimism!! I spent the first half of break doing completely unrelated things and the last half of break wondering where the list was. 

So pretty normal. 

Still, since everyone else had vacation pictures, I decided to get back to the summer vacation pictures I never finished putting up last year. 


The first day in Colorado almost always involves riding if at all possible. 




Poppa had to be pretty patient with these Cotten kids that weren't born in a saddle. 


Orianna 


Showing Elsie the ropes. For real. 



Fortunately, Gilbert's horse was also patient. there were a lot of contradictory directions given to it. 






Kicking up dust



Daddy and his horseback kids



Elsie being all shy, but proud


Aislyn and Major got in on the riding




This tack room is completely awesome. 







Showing Orianna how to take off the bridle


Mick and Dawna's brand





It was a pretty big load


Grandma Dawna showing Elsie and Gilbert proper horse etiquette







Love all the details




One of these days, I will have a tripod so I can take non-blurry pictures of this saddle.
SO GORGEOUS.




Lovely!



Chaps



Cutest little cowboy!


Riding the roping dummy



Upsie-downsie cowboy


Heading back to the house


And the view from the roping arena. 

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Beauteous. What a great experience for the kids.

Virginia said...

Gosh, wouldn’t we have loved this when we were their age! Fabulous photos, m’dear. I’m so surprised that you don’t have tripod! WHATTTTT! Get on that, girl! If anyone needs one, it’s you!