Caroline Riding Today...

Hi Bloggies...
Sorry I am so pathetically behind in my posting... I just can't seem to keep up these days!! Soo much going on... and not enough time to share... yeah I know excuses... excuses!!!

Alex Graduates frm High School next week.... he ois off to Central Ct State University in the fall... Engineering Major for him...

David Graduates from 8th grade... he is is off to a specialized High school setting about an hour away from home... he will be commuting back and firth every day...

Lots of planning and work on my part to make all this happen.. and life goes on here in the mean time...

Anyway the main reaon for this post... my beautiful girl at her riding lesson today. She has been riding for about a year and in the last couple of months has gone from needing to be led around the ring to trotting and posting on her own.... from having to be in the safety of the indoor ring all by herself with the instructer to being in the outdoor ring with other riders! I am sooo proud of her and her determination to do her best... the riding has done wonders for her tone and more than that for her confidence!!!
Enjoy the video!
Love to all and I promise to update soon with more photos!

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~Vicki

Prom Pictures...

They had a great time!!!! scroll to the bottom of the page first though and turn off the music player I have playing...
Enjoy!!!
~Vicki

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Special Olympics Pictures..

Hi All,
Sorry for the lack of posts... it's just such a busy time of year.... here are some pictures from Special Olympics soccer qualifier at U-Conn 2 weeks ago...

The next few weeks will ring lots more pictures.... David is going to the Junior prom in Shelton with his friend Brittany (who also has PWS) on Friday night.... I promise lots of pictures.

Stay tuned for that and other upcoming events such as
Special Olympics State games
Alex's Senior Prom
Davids 8th grade graduation
Alex's High School Graduation

nope it isn't going to be TOO busy here this month!!!!!

Love 'ya all....
Vicki

Ben... the goalie

David

Caroline and her friend Hillary

Jake (he is a partner on the team) Look at that hair... isn't he just adorable???

Please Say a Prayer....

This is our friend's son Brent. These photo's were taken a couple of years ago when Brent had first joined the army.

Brent was critically injured lastweek in Iraq when a roadside bomb went off right where he was standing. He was the only survivor.
He was initially sent to the base in Germany for surgery and was then flown to Walter Reid on Sunday. From there he was flown to Seattle and then to his base in Alaska where he faces more surgery to remove shrapnel from his face, neck and legs. His wife was able to get to Alaska to be with him this week, so he has her support now, but he is facing many painful procedures to repair his injuries.

So please take a second and say a prayer for Brent and for all our soldiers as they fight to defend our country.

We love you Brent....get better soon buddy.... David Ben and Caroline miss you!!!

Some Birthday Pics from this month....

Caroline opening her Birthday gifts with Ben Helping

David and Papa

Happy 16th Aric!!!!



Caroline and Googs
And I had to share this one of Ryan last week after work... he crashed and the cat was happy to keep him company!

Stay Tuned for Bens Birthday Pics.. his 10th is tomorrow... wow... where are all my babies going???? and Alex is 18 on Sunday!! YIKES!!!

Saturday we have the SPecial Olympics Soccer Qualifier at U-Conn... Pray it doesn't rain and that it isn't 9- degrees either.... we seem to either get one or the other every year!

Have a good weekend everyone!!!

~Vicki

What we did today...

Well...
I now have water to my barn!! This may not seem like a huge thing to some of you, but after lugging water buckets 2 times a day for the last 4 months Its a HUGE dealt to me!


Bright and early this morning we got up, put the ponies in the barn for the day (they were less than happy about this arrangement, but we had to pull up the fencing to ge the trench dug) and the digging tarted at 8am. We are also making the paddock twice the size that it was by opening up a huge area behind the barn and around the other side of it.

Theres more backhoe work to be done tomorrow but it is going to make such a huge difference when its done!!

Enjoy the pictures from today... My sisters fiance is the one who owns the equipment and spent the day digging for us..... Thanks Jeremy... See you in the morning

Frosty being entertained with a dandilion in his stall
Bear sayin' I've had enough... let me out!!!

My Children finally succeeded in BREAKING ME!!!

Take a look at my left elbow.... this is what happens when your kids are too lazy to bring their laundry al the way to the laundry room and just toss the laundry down the stairs for the "Laundry Fairy's" to come clean up!
I went down the stairs, slipped on someones gym shorts and slid on my butt all the way to the bottom... unfortunately however, my left arm didn't follow me! I went and had it x-rayed and initially they told me that nothing was broken, but I got a call yesterday from the Drs. office that there is a tiny hairline fracture just below the elbow and I need to go see the orthopedist.

Lovely.

Stay tuned for more soon....
Birthday posts maybe tomorrow...