Kaitlyn came out and rode for her 10th birthday and decided she wanted a job out here! Usually, Jim never hired anyone under the age of 16. But that didn’t stop her! She called every weekend for 4 months asking him for a job. Jim continuously told her she was too young and to wait a few years, but she just kept calling! Eventually, he gave in and she came out that next weekend in August of 2005. She spent every weekend and every summer from then on out here at PDRS working with and learning about the horses. She’s started her 15th year and has become adopted into the family! Kaitlyn and her daughter, Raegan, live down in the bottom of our canyon “across town” from Jesse and Kristin (we have a whopping population of 6 in our little frontier town). You’ll see her dancing throughout the middle of the group on her “boss mare”, Sassy or riding point on her Gypsy Lady. Turns out, when you’re around for 10+ years you start getting horses for birthdays and Christmases!