2008 Show & Celebration - Preparing for the Show to Start

After months of training and preparation, and blood, sweat, and tears, we finally were able to head out to Missouri for the World Show. The 2008 Show and Celebration was held in Ava, Missouri again this year (as always.) It took us about two days to arrive at the show grounds in Missouri from Wallsburg.

We brought two rigs, our Chevy dually hauled our 4-horse trailer and Lacey's mother's mini International diesel hauled her 4-horse trailer. We hauled a total of six horses. 5 were owned by Stephen's Fox Trotters and 1 we hauled out for a youth rider that is a good friend of ours. We brought Touch, Pizzazz, Tuffy, Majestic, and Jazmine. In our Chevy there was Dan, Bryce, and I, and in Nancy's rig there was Nancy, Lacey, and Kamille.

Both horse trailers have living quarters in the front of them and that is where some of us stayed for the 2 weeks. We also rented an RV and had it set up out in front of our stalls when we got there. Bryce and Dallin stayed in our horse trailer's living quarters, Julia, Kamille, Lacey, and I slept in the RV, and Nancy slept in her trailer. Dan and Stephen slept at a hotel in Springfield. Stephen, Julia, and Dallin all flew in the day the show started.

This year Stephen bought new stalls. He bought them because we liked that they were bigger, they had cross-ties in front of them, the location was great, we could plug our RV's and trailers in front of the stalls, and they were over-all much nicer. At the Missouri Fox Trotter show grounds, you don't rent stalls, you buy them. So, Stephen's Fox Trotters owns five little patches of land out in Booger County Missouri.

Here I am outside of our new stalls. It finally stopped raining for a minute..Here is a short video clip of the front of our stalls.

Here are our trailers all set up in a half circle in front of our stalls..

Sometimes we just loose our minds for a second cause we are in muddy, muggy, miserable Missouri for too long...
Julia sometimes likes to strangle Bryce.

Jazmine chillin-out in her stall...
Lacey's mother, Nancy, is one of the most talented and creative ladies I know. Not only is she an incredible artist, she also sews clothes. She custom makes all of our show clothes. Kamille wanted a purple outfit made and Nancy didn't quite have it finished before the show, so she brought her sewing machine with her and finished it! She's amazing!


Here is Jazmine in the cross-ties in front of our stalls.
Stayed tuned for more pictures and show results...