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Today Abby had her last riding lesson before summer break. That was the last of her activities to wrap up and I'm excited to have the lazy days of summer stretched out before us.

The exciting news is that Abby finished out this session of riding lessons cantering by herself. It still makes me stomach lurch a bit to see her flying around the arena so fast, but my gosh if you could see the smile on her face while she was doing it. She is beyond thrilled to have graduated off the lunge line. I was disappointed not to have my camera with me to snap some pictures, but I know that in a blink it will be fall and we'll be back at the stable.

I did have my phone with me though and got to snap some pictures of Maya's big moment....



Her feet don't quite reach the stirrups yet and she was nervous as heck the first time she went, but her much more horse experienced older sister talked her through it.



And now... she's in love.