Emma's 1st Summer Job

Thanks to our good friend Aleshia, Emma has a chance to earn money over the summer doing something that she loves....feeding horses!!! Every day at around 5:00, we go to a barn with 6 horses and give them fresh water, food, hay, and clean out the stalls if there is a BIG mess. Emma chose her three to feed: Oreo, Trigger, and Sky, and I feed the other three: Duke, Magpie, and Bear. She could not wait to come home from Nay-Nay and PaPa's house on Monday so she could go to work. Mallory was supposed to help, but her pictures will be at the bottom. As luck would have it, she just happened to fall asleep in the car before we got there. So she stayed in the air-conditioned car while Emma and I bled sweat and tears out in the hot summer sun! Emma didn't even care. She did not want to leave and kept looking at the list to make sure there was nothing else she was supposed to do. She is excited about making some money and changes her mind every day on what she will spend it on. She gets paid 10 dollars each time she goes out there. Right now she feeds them every weekday afternoon and then on the weekends she will feed them in the morning and in the evening. So she has a chance to make 90 dollars if we are home a full week to do it! Way to go Emma! Keep up the hard work!

Here are the pictures from her first hard day at work. I took a lot because she was just soooo cute! I wish I would have thought to take the ones of her cooling off at the trough where the horses drink in the arena. She was sticking her hand down in that big tub of water and putting it all over her face and hair. She's a real cowgirl!!!

Here she is greeting Sky when she first got there.

Getting the bags full of feed makes it really easy to grab and go!!

Feeding Oreo...YUM, YUM!!

Introducing herself to the new horse, Trigger.

Shoveling POOOOOO!!!!!

Okay, so this picture was staged. Only because I missed her doing it the first time on her own. All I can say is, "PPHHHEEEWWWW!!"

Okay, here is what Mallory was doing when we got there:

And this is what she looked like when we left...over 45 minutes LATER!!!

She looks real concerned about making the big bucks!!

And FINALLY, here is how Emma felt when she got back in the car:

The End!

Job Well Done Emma!!