New Years 2012

My sister-in-law Crystal bought us tickets to see horse racing on New Years Eve, they had a special event for the holiday. My niece Naomi loves horses, one of her favorite movie is Secretariat, she dressed up as a jockey for Halloween a few years ago too. She also takes horse riding lessons and is only 5. I've never seen horse racing before, but have always wanted to see it live. It can definitely be addicting if you go to win money, there's people that are really into it. No bets were placed on our part of course, but we still had a great time. Here's the trumpet guy, letting everyone know that the race is about to start.

It was really cold, my mom gave this fox hat to Uzziah for Christmas, he loves it.

I loved the back drop to the track it was beautiful with the mountains in Santa Anita.

Uzziah loved these tractors that smoothed out the dirt for every race.

Some of the jockeys and their horses

Poor Sofia was so tired by the end, you can see it in her little face.

This is one of the winning horses

Nana bought Ziah and Naomi stick horses from a gift shop at the end of the races. They drove home happy.

That night we did our usual vision boards, we cut out pictures and words from magazines that represent goals we want to accomplish throughout the year and put them on a poster board, that way we can look at our goals everyday and take the appropriate steps to accomplish them. One of our biggest goals this year is buying our own home, so excited!!! Happy New Year everyone.