We had a wonderful week-end. Esther and I enjoyed a ladies' tea on Saturday with my mom and many friends, and Charlie took Charsie, Luke, and Reece to a Pee Wee Rodeo.
On Sunday, we all made it to the rodeo, and what a beautiful day!!!!
The horses and the kids were just feeling good and having a ball. The Lord has blessed us mightily with being able to continue to rodeo this year. We took last year off, as it was just too expensive, but this year we decided it was important to the younger kids and so we are going to make it to a few. We could not have done it if it wasn't for our horse trailer being donated back; every time we look at it we are reminded of the goodness of our Lord. We often talk about it like the scripture in Joshua, that talks about God having the Israelites building a memorial as a reminder of what God had done for them.....
The horses and the kids were just feeling good and having a ball. The Lord has blessed us mightily with being able to continue to rodeo this year. We took last year off, as it was just too expensive, but this year we decided it was important to the younger kids and so we are going to make it to a few. We could not have done it if it wasn't for our horse trailer being donated back; every time we look at it we are reminded of the goodness of our Lord. We often talk about it like the scripture in Joshua, that talks about God having the Israelites building a memorial as a reminder of what God had done for them.....
Joshua 4:4-7 (New International Version, ©2011)
4 So Joshua called together the twelve men he had appointed from the Israelites, one from each tribe, 5 and said to them, “Go over before the ark of the LORD your God into the middle of the Jordan. Each of you is to take up a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the Israelites, 6 to serve as a sign among you. In the future, when your children ask you, ‘What do these stones (or this horse trailer) mean?’ 7 tell them that the flow of the Jordan was cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD. When it crossed the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. These stones (this trailer) are to be a memorial to the (Brewer)people of Israel forever.”
4 So Joshua called together the twelve men he had appointed from the Israelites, one from each tribe, 5 and said to them, “Go over before the ark of the LORD your God into the middle of the Jordan. Each of you is to take up a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the Israelites, 6 to serve as a sign among you. In the future, when your children ask you, ‘What do these stones (or this horse trailer) mean?’ 7 tell them that the flow of the Jordan was cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD. When it crossed the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. These stones (this trailer) are to be a memorial to the (Brewer)people of Israel forever.”
I added all the parenthesis....obviously!!! haha
Our big red "Hart" trailer is a memorial of what the Lord can and will do and what He has done for not only our Esther...getting her home....but, the blessing to the rest of our family to be able to enjoy our rodeo life with our kiddos.
This was Esther's 2nd time EVER on a horse and she loved it!!! She was somewhat timid at first, but by the end of the time Charlie had her in a full-on trot and she was enjoying it VERY much.
3 comments:
oh, great weekend, look at all of them! I'm so glad you guys were able to giddie up and go at the rodeo this beautiful weekend. Yes! Way to go!
Great post! Love all the pics!
We're going to try to make it to a rodeo! We need a schedule...
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