{"id":73167,"date":"2018-07-18T11:06:38","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T11:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/?p=73167"},"modified":"2018-07-18T11:06:38","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T11:06:38","slug":"land-of-little-horses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/2018\/land-of-little-horses\/","title":{"rendered":"LAND OF LITTLE HORSES"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m sure you’ve read about my friend Trudy. We met when I went to college in Philadelphia. She was my RA and took me under her wing. I was so very homesick and she was so very supportive.<\/p>\n

I transferred after one semester but we stayed close – thank GOODNESS for email and IM – in those days!<\/p>\n

Trudy lives in Virginia about 7 hours away. When I got married – she was there. When she got married – I was there. But that time – I was IN the wedding AND photographing it. So – my friend and fellow photog Megan Hampton came along with me. Fitzy was 6 months old and Megan was pregnant with her first!<\/p>\n

Jared and I met Trudy and her husband in Lancaster three years ago – but – she has TWO sweet boys now and I haven’t met them.<\/p>\n

Megan and Trudy have stayed in touch over FACEBOOK and we messaged one day that we should meet halfway – in Gettysburg – at a place called Land of Little Horses<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Monday morning we piled our 5 kiddos in Megan’s van and started our 3 hour tour!<\/p>\n

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This guy – he has always reminded me of Fitzy – and seeing him in person – made it all the more true!<\/p>\n

He is such a sweet pumpkin!<\/p>\n

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I mean – LOOK AT HIM!!<\/p>\n

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And this little pumpkin – she is SUCH A DOLL!<\/p>\n

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It was an UNBELIEVABLY hot and humid day. But when you make plans in advance THREE HOURS AWAY – you keep them!<\/p>\n

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THOSE BOYS TOGETHER!! OH MY HEART!!<\/p>\n

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That guy lounging on the bleachers – he is cut from the same cloth as my Enoch guy.<\/p>\n

It’s absolutely wonderful having a friend like Megan who I love and respect who happens to have a son just like mine.<\/p>\n

I can text her – tell her my frustrations about the stubbornness and the dedication of that sweet boy and she very much understands.<\/p>\n

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BROTHERS!! 13 months apart!<\/p>\n

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Typically the horse rides are outside – but thankfully they decided to hold them IN the arena!<\/p>\n

We saw a horse that could ADD and stomp out the answer with his hoof!<\/p>\n

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This guy – he wanted to take this little horse home in our car! ALL THE LITTLE HORSES actually!<\/p>\n

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THOSE CHEEKS!!<\/p>\n

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Trudy and her boys left mid-afternoon – because as you mommas know – wrangling a one-year old and a two-year old in nearly 100 degree weather is EXHAUSTING and the kiddos get EXHAUSTED.<\/p>\n

We hung out for a little bit to pet some horses!<\/p>\n

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He is very seriously trying to figure out how to smuggle those 2 horses home.<\/p>\n

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This guy loves his animals too!<\/p>\n

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This guy does NOT do well in the heat – but we made sure to stay hydrated and take lots of shade breaks!<\/p>\n

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ONE LAST PICTURE before we make the drive home!<\/p>\n

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And one stop at RED ROBIN to fill our bellies! YUM!<\/p>\n

Megan – thank you for being adventurous and awesome! I LOVE YOU!<\/p>\n

Trudy – thank YOU for making that trip with two kiddos – LITTLE KIDDOS! YOU ARE AWESOME!! I LOVE YOU!<\/p>\n

WHAT DOES YOUR FRIENDSHIP LOOK LIKE!?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m sure you’ve read about my friend Trudy. We met when I went to college in Philadelphia. She was my RA and took me under her wing. I was so very homesick and she was so very supportive. I transferred after one semester but we stayed close – thank GOODNESS for email and IM – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,7,8,11,20,21,24,25,74,30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73167"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73167"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73211,"href":"http:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73167\/revisions\/73211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}