Maybe not...

Today the kids and I went to a local horse show. We often pack a lunch and eat it at the fairgrounds when there is a show going on. It gets us out of the house and we like to watch the different horses. They have all sorts of shows from breed shows, hunter/jumper, dressage and others. Today it was a hunter/jumper show and we were watching a small jumper class (which usually means some poor riding!) and Tyler keeps saying maybe next year he'll take Killian to a show and jump. He was really watching and I was explaining about the jump off. As we were watching, a cute, chunky little black and white pinto jump-off, he ducked out and the girl fell off underneath him and the saddle slid around his belly. It looked like she might have been stepped on and it took her a minute to get up. Tyler says, "Alright, I am NOT doing a jump-off!"

But it didn't deter him from riding. They both rode Killian again and we worked just in the big part of the ring and I moved some rails in for them to walk over. Emily went first and did really good, she even stopped Killian from trying to pull the reins out of her hands to grab some hay. She did a great job of getting him straight when walking over the rails. And when it was Tyler's turn she was giving him advice about getting him to the center of the rails!