Anna has been DREAMING of owning and taking care of a horse for many years.
Our friend Robyn is leasing Georgio from his owner, and invited us to meet him a couple of Sundays ago.
These are just snapshots mostly, but I had to share. They were just too cute together.
This is her first glance – I think he was a lot bigger than she imagined. (Her jeans were WAY too big for her.)
I have an unfortunate allergy to horses – I just brush them with my skin and I will break out in hives. I just smell them and have an allergy attack. So, I had to stay very hands off while Robyn walked us around.
Here, Anna shows us how she learned to hold the reigns properly.
And how to look reeeeeeeally cute on the back of a horse.
She was delighted, although a bit shy at first. I was so proud of her for overcoming her fears of getting on a horse much bigger than she expected. She was afraid to kick his sides – I am sure she thought she would hurt him. And her meek little tongue clicks and “whoa’s” were not at all stern enough to do the trick.
After a short while, she seemed a lot more comfortable on him. And giggled every time one of her commands would actually work.
Georgie was very patient with all of us. Even when I wanted to take this silly photo of his ears.
I think she is in love. Georgie, I’m not so sure.
Perhaps the best of all was when she got to groom him after the ride. This was no plastic My Pretty Pony! THIS WAS REAL HORSE HAIR! OMG OMG OMG OMG SQUEEEEEE! I could just hear the inside of her brain making all kinds of glittery rainbow noises.
xo
Tara
awww….sweet. she definitely looks like she’s in her element here.
This is so sweet! I love the one of her brushing his tail…you can really tell how big he is compared to her! What a brave little girl!
gahhh. I love her. these are more than snapshots missy.
Anna, GOOD job kiddo! You look like a pro! Maybe one day you will get to jump over fences and go really fast. That would be so much fun. :)
how precious!
love it :)
tooooooooooooooo cute!
These are adorable! My daughter LOVES horses too and I can only imagine how your mommy-heart felt to see her riding and grooming her that day. Just beautiful!! :)
omg…these pics are so cute!!! adorable!
What an avalanche of precious moments!!!!!
love, love, love! she is getting SO grown up!! we live about a mile from our local ag center and always take my little boy (age 5) to see and pet the police horses that live there. he is always in awe of just how big they really are – i hope we can get him on one soon!!
thanks, as always, for sharing!!
I want that horse! He looks just like my horse Aged Wood that I had when I was 8, 9, & 10
Love the close up of the reins
Tara,
these are way too cute!
my ava has a love of horses ever since she
was about 2…..they are magnificent creatures!
I grew up riding bareback but I am allergic now too.
I sometimes will take some medicine and go on a trail ride anyway! I need to take my girls someday, they would love it!
these are fantastic snaps! you can see her pure innocent joy!
she’s such a lovely girl tara!
love, and happy thanksgiving.
tara pp!
I love her.
How sweet is she! Love the description of what she would have been thinking on the inside. :)
What a lovely afternoon captured.
Tara congratulations for such lovely images !!!
I want to know how do you manage to put so many images together in your
blog,
are you using mcp actions or anothers or is your blog a typepad?
Thank you so much for your help !!!!!
so cute…girls who love horses REALLY love horses :) i know i did…
I started riding horses when I was just about 8 years old, and I absolutely loved it!!! I have such fond memories of those 4 years, your post just brought me right back to the first time I ever got to ride a horse. Such great photos…as always…thank you for sharing.
Omigoodness what a proud little Anna! And so brave to get on that giant of a horse – I remember “riding” in junior high (more like hanging on for dear life) with my friend and she would give me Blue, the gentle old horse, but he was cagey, I guess, and would puff out his chest so the saddle wouldn’t be tight. I still cringe remembering Ronae’s dad coming out and kneeing that horse to make her let her breath out so I wouldn’t slide off the side. I can identify with being afraid to kick them, but I guess they’re big and tough!
She is SO happy here.
Oh girl this is just the start. You have opened the flood gates. My daughter Haili has been so into horses…since she was about 2. She reads about them all the time. Well this past June she started riding. She rides twice a week and also does horse shows and competitions. I think once it is in their blood…it is there for a lifetime. These images are amazing…she will never forget this day!
look at those darling little legs behind the horse in the last shot! what a great memory she will have not only in her mind, but because her mother told a beautiful story with her lens!
you realise you HAVE to buy her a million horses now, right? she looks so happy + blissful! :) love these snaps… so so lovely. :)
ohh my gosh how wonderful…
It is always so sweet to see a child loving on something outside her experience. Kids are so brave and trusting; I wish as adults we could cultivate this spirit more in them and in ourselves. Such a lovely photoshoot of two lovely friends!
I loved horses more than anything when I was a kid… Anna is one HAPPY happy child!!!
these are so beautiful I almost cried. I love her JOY
what is it with 6 year old little girls and horses? mine is equally obsessed and would give up her entire collection of littlest pet shop toys just to get near one…
thanks for sharing!
I love these! I know that happy horsey smile, I’m a horse mad girl from way back. I love that horse too, he must be arabian. He is so pretty. I wonder if he has Khemosabi blood, would be funny to test my spotting skillz :) gorgeous shots
uh oh! I think you might have to stock up on allergy medicine- she looks like she’s hooked!! As the only non-horse person in my family of VERY horsey people, I say join the club of standing around, with your hands over your eyes when they are doing something dangerous… :)
That is ADORABLE!!!! What a sweet mom you are for taking her despite your allergies! Loved the pics! xo
I was a horse crazy girl…taking riding lessons for 9 years. I often wonder if my little Kimmie will be a horse loving girl as well. Anna is very cute with the horse (from the looks I would guess a throughbred?) Watch out…girls become addicted to horses easily! Better than boys though…I think LOL
I was a horse-crazy kid, too, although I was 24 before I could afford one of my own. Now I’m 42 and I still have horses. It’s an amazing hobby for a kid–all the young girls at our barn are so responsible and accustomed to hard work. And their parents always know where they are–they’d rather be at the barn than at the mall. And for most of them, the only boys they’re interested in have four legs. :)
P.S. Hate to tell ya, but that’s how you hold the reins for western, not English riding. No biggie–just another reason why you have to let her go back ASAP. :)