Blog Challenge#3

This is for ScrappyChatters!!
Describe yourself as a child of 8. What were your favorite things to do? Your most treasured possessions? Your favorite teacher? Your best friends? Talk about your home, your room, your family. What were your dreams, your hopes for the future? Include a picture if you have one.

I think when I was 8 years old my life revolved around horses! I had a Shetland Pony named Smokey and a Cocker Spaniel named Peppy. I lived on a farm with folks and my big brother, Rod. I loved living on the farm and playing with all the animals. If I remember right we probably had cows, horses and chickens when I was this age. Later we would have rabbits, pigs and sheep depending on the year. Anyway life was a lot of fun when I was 8. My favorite things to do would be riding Smokey and feeding the baby calves that we bottle fed. My favorite possessions would have to be my play horses and my Barbie dolls. I would play with them for hours with my friend Karen. Who by the way was my Best Friend in the world!! We spent a lot of time together over the summer.
We had built on to the house we were living in so I finally had my own room. It had a huge living room and 3 bedrooms. My great-uncle Herman helped build on to the house and then my Uncle Gary built my mom these awesome cupboards in the kitchen. They were beautiful!!
It seemed like we always had company back then. My Grandma Freda would come stay with us for a few days and bake lots of goodies for us. She also helped teach me how to sew and bake. My Aunts, Uncles and cousins from the city would come out often too and we always had lots of fun. I loved all my family and all the fun we had together. The times that I remember most were the brandings, picnics, water fights and a family vacation to see some of my Dad's side of the family.
This is a picture of me at my Aunt Lavina's in Nebraska with her little dog Clyde. I remember this vacation because we travel to 3 states and saw a lot of neat stuff. Including huge turtles that we rode on, the Corn Palace, Mt. Rushmore, and I think it was Wild Bill's Museum. We didn't get to go on many vacations so the ones we went on I remember pretty well!
Let's see I think my teacher for 2nd grade was Mrs. Morledge (she was awesome) and my 3rd grade teacher was ??? I can't remember. I have been sitting here thinking and it is totally eluding me. I can remember all the rest of my grade school teachers but of course not her!! Oh well I must move on. My goals and dreams were pretty much in line with the thing I loved most...Horses. I wanted to have a horse farm or be a veterinary. Maybe even both. I just wanted to be around horses all the time and I always wanted to train them. I guess that's about it. Whew!! That was a little harder than the last challenge!! Have fun everyone...can't wait to read all of yours!!!