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Winter Riding

It has been very cold lately, so today was a heat wave to 40 degrees. We started out the morning Luke went with Grammer and Po for the day, Jayden and I helped in Jacob’s second grade classroom at Cornerstone. He liked having me there. After church, we made a quick drive thru run for lunch and then headed to Ankeny with the horses. There is a nice indoor heated arena. Today we were fortunate to be the only ones there. We had Tex, Jessie, and Dakota. We all rode and were there for almost 3 hours. Jake started out being led and ponied, then he rode Dakota all by himself. He did awesome riding her all over the place and even did some trotting. You could see the pride in his face as he tried hard not to smile. He rode the whole day with a grin on his face. We praised him and you could see his confidence rise. It was a great day as we all got lots of ride time.

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