Our Lil' Buckaroo in the Oven

Over the Labor Day weekend, we went camping with the angel boy-O and his mommie, Wendy, and her lovin'-man in the Los Padres National Forest near Santa Barbara...

We spent part of our Sunday not around our campsite, but a place called Solvang in the Santa Ynez valley. Solvang is essentially a delightfully dutch themed tourist trap! For our time in Solvang, we did so many funny lil' things that stand out in my memory - - like cafe hop from one place to another, to another, and back to the second choice... and Solvang's Scandinavian shoe shop... and Mmmm... Aebelskivers with raspberry sauce (Arne's featured HERE)!

There were also loads of gift shops full of kitchy, strange who-ever-buys-this kind of stuff... and also lots of cool, crafty, stylish how-could-I-justify-buying-this kind of stuff. There were LOTS of children's shops too... Wendy saw this lil' number in a shop window and she went nuts! See, we think my honey-man was maybe a cowboy in a former life... On n' off for over the last year, depending how busy his work gets, he exercises horses a couple times a week at a local horse ranch. Yup, my honey-man, he LOVES dah horseys, and dreams of someday owning some equestrian zoned property in northern UT.

So yeah, when Wendy saw this, the two of us went searching inside the store, and once found, she said she just had to get it (and it is perfect!):

That's a pair of ears and a horsey mane on the hood there!

There are more horsey-shoe prints across the back, plus a row of fringe across the shoulders.

WAY CUTE ~ Thanks again, Wendy!