Monday, August 9, 2010

Beauty!!


If you've been following our blog, or have been around Granny's House the last several years, you know that several of our "Spirit Riders" girls have participated in and event called the Extreme Mustang Makeover and have traveled to Texas, Tennessee and Illinois as a part of this challenge. This challenge requires youth from around the nation to train and "tame" a wild mustang for 90 days. At the end of this time, the youth get together and compete to show off their training skills, and see how well they did! Starr is one of our mustang trainers who has been participating in this event since the very beginning (3 years ago), and this year, was invited to participate in the challenge once again!

Starr and her trainers (Sue Crane and Riki Shipley) traveled to Mississippi a few weeks ago to pick up Starr's 3rd Mustang! Upon meeting her, Starr named her "Beauty" and INSTANTLY fell in love. Knowing that wild mustangs are often unpredictable, hesitant and avoid human contact out of fear, Starr was cautious as she approached Beauty. However, Starr must be a little "Mustang Whisperer" because the only time Beauty WAS happy...was when she was petting her!!

Starr has made AMAZING progress with her horse and on the second day back, she was already doing things that took her MONTHS with her other horses!

We are so proud of Starr and Beauty!

Back from camp!!!


We have been back from KAA for about 2 weeks, and have been going non-stop since! We had many adventures at camp this year, with some VERY hot weather, and a few "tough" situations, but for the most part it was a great time and we watched God move in a lot of ways!

This year we brought 37 children to camp, and all of the children had a great time (with very little homesickness...thanks for the prayers!). We also avoided the nurses office (last year we had 2 kids in the office overnight for several evenings), and had safe travels!

We have many stories to share that we will be posting several in the next few weeks. Until then...enjoy some pictures from our time at KAA! U-KNOW!!