Somewhere In The Sun: More than a memory ...

Thanks to my wonderful husband I am the proud owner of a fabulous scanner. I got it last Christmas when I wanted to make my parents a photo book of some older photo's, plus I thought with all my "spare time" I'd scan every single picture I had to make it digital to protect the pictures. Well someone my spare time became no time and I haven't had a "rainy" day where I've been a scanning machine. My mom asked me to make her a card of Dusty pictures to send out in his remembrance. She did an excellent job if I do say so myself about going through all our old albums and sending me photo's even I had forgotten!!! I think its time for another photo album refresher when I go home again. Anyways the other night I scanned in a bunch of my favorites and was reminded of all the good memories:

Me and Dusty with little Katje

Riding at the ring ...

Pat and his cowboy boots ...

Dusty was always up for a good kiss and a self portrait ...

I can't believe he let me do this, I love this picture ... right after I got my braces off! I think it was mom's idea to compare our teeth ... haha...

After walking the dogs one night ... (Dusty still on neighborhood watch)

Did I really used to jump???

One of my all time favorite Dusty memories ... riding in the Homecoming parade my Senior year. Our class was "monopoly" and we were the horse. Dusty got all dressed up with gator ribbon and glitter. I thought he would be super calm Dusty in the parade but he actually was quite spunky as you can see from his high head and ears up, but it was so much fun and how many people can actually say they rode their horse in a parade before??

Me and mom on dusty ... with Pitha on watch

This may have been one of the 1st Christmas's we dressed him up. Mom got the Santa hat and cut out the ears for him ... and the large bow on his tail. I think this was before our annual Christmas day ride ..

Hanging out in the pen ...

Pat on Dusty, the backyard looks so different now.

Practicing riding in the backyard ... with my bike helmet! haha

Dusty and the dogs ... I forgot how BIG Pitha was!

This is probably my most favorite thing to do ... big hug around his neck!

Mom & I at the ring ... rocking the pink cowboy boots!

Happy Easter!

I think this is one of my favorite jumping pictures, you see how gold dusty was, it shows our lovely jumping arena before they screwed it up, and I'm wearing pink ... also it just shows how high Dusty could jump and I always remember being nervous that it was too high for him!