PrairieMouse's House

Ride for St. Jude

We had our Annual ride for St. Jude's Children's Hospital this past weekend. Both of my girls rode for the event and camped out at the Ranch for the whole weekend.

It is a great event and they raised over $8000.00. They really roughed it this year and slept in the back of the horse trailer, toughed out a tornado watch (which had me on the edge of my seat until well after 3am) and they worked the kitchen for some of the weekend, helped with the stalled horses and the wagon horses. My JIM didn't pull the wagons this year. (He really isn't mine but Oh how I wish he was). He is the draft horse that has been here for about three years. This year he didn't pull the wagons cause he lost his pasture buddy to a horrible horrible situation. He suffered depression and just isn't strong enough yet to pull. I love him so!!

Anyway, here are some photos' the girls took.

Here is Tommy Brown, He is the owner of Kanawa Valley where the event took place.

Here the wagons start to pull out... Here are the horse back riders that followed along.. I think there were over 300 people in all. Here they are taking a break after riding for about 4 hours. after the ride everyone met back at the ranch for lunch and entertainment. All in all the girls had a great weekend.

Thank you Lord for keeping them safe even in the not so best of circumstances.