This weekend we got out annual family picture taken in the bluebonnets. This year we tried a new place out in Argyle near where my parent's live. It is this old house on the corner of 377 and 407. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE it!!
My friend, Melissa took them, as she always does. These 2 were just taken with Instagram. I can't wait to see the professional ones she took. Such a lovely place with so much character. And the bluebonnets were thick and big and smelled so beautiful. Rhett kept watching the bees and telling us that bees make honey.
My mom snapped this family pic of us just real quick with her phone. I always like to have a family pic in the bluebonnets because Max and I were married on April 12 (bluebonnet season) and to me the bluebonnets are a time for us to mark each year of marriage and how we have grown and changed. Plus it's a Texas thang. :) It is far more important to me to get a family bluebonnet pic than a Christmas picture. However, this year the bluebonnets came early and we had to get our picture taken in March! They only last about a month and I was afraid that if we waited until our usual 2nd weekend in April pic that they would be gone by then.
After our pictures were done we went to my parent's house to ride horses and eat dinner. The kids love it when my dad pulls them in the wagon, but I think he loves it more.
My mom had been working with Buttons to get her ready to ride again for some friends of hers. She asked me to be the guinea pig to test out to see if she would throw anybody. Great, thanks, mom. But she fine. She still needs a little more work to get the anry out, but overall she did ok.
The best part was that Rhett and I got to ride together! His horse, Honey, looks so small, smaller than I thought, next to Buttons.
Mom walked Honey around the pasture with me so Rhett and I could ride together.
Kellyn was not interested in riding at all. She was busy "making a nest for the ducks." She told me she just isn't a horse girl. I guess I will just have to accept her for who she is and stop trying to make her like me. She is so sweet and empathic towards animals, but riding on top of a horse is just not her thing and that's fine. I think it is so kind that she was concerned enough for the ducks to want to build them a nest.
You can see her in the background of this picture walking up the hill with a handful of yucky, old, cut grass for her duck nest.
Next, Max wanted to ride. I don't think he or Buttons were quite ready for me to let them go on their own so I just walked them around the small pasture.
But it was fun for me to get back in the saddle again. :)
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