Updates

Hey guys so got updates for you no videos to post this post cause I'm on my phone but if you want a sneak peak go check out YouTube! Okay so Anyways....  busy week this week Monday we had chores and stuff to do and I got this crazy idea in the works..... Tuesday Roni and I decided to ride and we worked on barrels Chuck did AMAZING! He ran his heart out! I put on my spurs to see how he would react with them while on barrels I normally don't need them but apparently that's what he needed to kick into high gear and I don't even need to really touch him with them as long as he knows they are there.... we worked on barrels and a Keyhole type pattern or a down and back ad I call it. ... In between our turns Roni and Jack went and Roni didn't want to canter him do they just trotted, I started to cool Chuck out and I told Roni I would canter Jack quick for her.... anyways at first he was a little dingy but then he settled down and apparently I needed some action according to him, he bolted and then slammed to a stop with his head down, there wasn't even a chance to catch myself I didn't even touch him on the way down I went completely over his head and neck and flipped over and landed I'm our gravel/crushed asphalt driveway flat on my back! And I being to stubborn to let him "insult" me more kept ahold of the reins considering his track record of taking off cause he knows that bolting equals punishment of having to run and work. .. He drug me backwards a few feet I really am lucky I was wearing 2 shirts or I probably would have been in worse shape... I got to my feet and that horse knows how to run! Backwards that is... I backed him, while running..... and then I told Roni to lunge him and I would put a better saddle on and ride him again after I put Chuck up.... I got up to Chuck and my adrenaline was wearing off and I started to get a feel of what type of shape I was in... All but 2 fingers on my right hand had swollen up and bruised. .. and my back was killing me I went upstairs and asked my mom what she thought,  we thought my thumb might have been broken but when nick came home and looked at it he just said to wait it out and it turned out to just swell up big and bruise.... then the big bruises on my back didn't even show up until today (Thursday) 2 days later and they are still getting worse... I have a little bump in my back underneath the one but doing yoga today in PE seemed seemed to help stretch it out. .. so Wednesday I came home and gave chuck a bath cause I had played around with paint on the horses and he needed to be to be clean for the crazy idea I had and it was the next warmest day this week so it was the best day to do it and it took forever yo get the paint our of his tail! I had to shampoo the thing 4 times before I got it and all out!! Then it was getting cold as I was drying him off and he started to shiver, his legs and belly were still wet so I brought him up to the house and used a shammy rag to get what I could off cause they are really absorbant and and then I plugged in an extension cord and used used the hair dryer on him and then u gave him a treat of of a little grain and an apple.... so so the big surprise surprise or crazy idea is that we're going to a fun show this Sunday!!!!!! I'm super excited it's not fancy stuff like WP or anything like that but just a relaxing fun show! I can't wait! So excited it's going to be fun to see what we can do! So So that's it for now more videos In a post that will be up tomorrow!!!!
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Got it!!

Hey guys so no riding this weekend.... Saturday morning nick and I went out to the pasture because I needed some practice with my gun cause I haven't used it in almost 2 years cause nick has been gone for shot gun season each time, so we made a lovely target out of a board and some spray paint.... we put it out in the pasture and started shooting, the horses didn't freak they would stick their heads up and trot a little ways but they never actually freaked out and by the time I had shot all 20 shots they didn't even look up from grazing other than lucky..... and you guys want to guess my luck? Very first night out this season (youth season which ended today Sunday) saw 2 does and finally shot one out of all my youth seasons hunting I have got a shot at a deer 4 times for youth season and I passed one up... it was less than 20-30 yards away and I passed it up cause the doe still had a fawn with her.... but that's okay heck by now it would be old enough that I may have shot that same fawn! Anyways then we spent about 3 hours today skinning and processing it... Nick said for my first time I did really good and he was most proud of me because 1 I actually wanted to help like a lot, most girls I know would be big sissies and not want to even touch a dead deer but here I am lol flopping meat around and playing with blood clots because they feel like jello lol it is actually really cool to go through the different parts of the deer, although nick did give me the easier stuff that was almost impossible to mess up lol the front legs, we put the meet in the freezer until Bud (coppers owners dad) gets his locker started up again which should be somewhat soon considering it's starting to get closer to shot gun season,  we're going to have deer jerky, and sausage and other various things nick is going to fix up the heart and tender loins and eat them the way he and everyone else likes them lol, the only downside is I accidentally cut myself with the knife while cutting fat and blue skin off ( blue skin is a term used for the little layer of a skin like connective tissue) and by golly you would swear I had cut half my finger off the way it bleed, it wasn't a bad cut but it wouldn't stop bleeding it's on the top knuckle of the ring finger on my left hand,  I accidentally bumped it and it started bleeding again the darn thing! Anyways it was a really fun weekend I did get to spend some time with the horses but what fun is it for them if I just ride them every time I see them, I went out there to just feed them and apple and they all just followed me around like puppy dogs they didn't have to be with me a 7 acre pasture to run and play in and they prefer to be with me... I just stood there and they all came up and put their heads down for me to scratch Jack decided my pony tail would be a good thing to wiggle around with his lips Lucky walks up and puts his butt to me for scratches and Chuck and Jet are both greedily sniffing for more treats in my pockets oh the love that they have have for me and food, but mostly food lol so
that's my weekend that I am awake enough to write about right now more update of this weekend along with videos to come later!!

Birthday

Hey guys so if you didn't know today was my 17th birthday! I just wanted to share with you some of the things my AMAZING family got me. So I will start off with the smaller things and save the best for last... so first off I got a really pretty necklace it has a leaf kind of pendant and it's simple but elegant, after that is a wubble bubble which is like a big inflatable ball it's pretty darn fun to play with.... then I got a really cool chair it's like a bungee cord/trampoline chair it's really comfortable and fun.. after that is the one goofy but pretty awesome present I got a chicken! A chicken showed up and my mom's work and it didn't belong to anyone so I get to keep her! Her name is Wieser  (also the nickname of my best friend) she's very friendly and calm I have wanted chickens for awhile now so that is an awesome suprise. Next up wasn't really a birthday present it was kind of one to myself and it works out that I can share it in this post and it involves my last present, so my mom and Nick were "looking at a saddle for nick" when they got there the saddle was apparently not what the guy said it was, but he had another saddle for sale... now I have been casually looking for a new saddle and my mom sent me pics of it and it is practically brand new with one little scratch on the seat... so me being me said sure and bought it.... I have ridden in it 2 times now each for about 2 hours and it's pretty darn comfy if I do say so..... so now onto the final gift... this was from a combination of my parents and I really want to thank them a lot because it is a very nice and very big gift for someone my age and I couldn't be more thankfull.... so the whole story my mom told me about going to look at a saddle for nick was a huge lie they just happend to find the saddle I bought by accident... they were really there to find something else look at the pictures to find out what it was! I will do a video on it as soon as I can si you guys can see it all!

Mini update

Hey guys so it rained all day today so no riding but maybe tomorrow after school registration... anyways I went shopping with my grandma today we had a lot of fun mostly bought clothes and we did stop at western edge I got a sweatshirt a twisted tack jacket (love their breast collars and head stalls but can't afford them :'(  ) a shirt that says keep calm and ride on, and I limited myself to only one tack item which was a lovely shaped English saddle pad.... It was really funny I was showing my grandma my curry comb that on the other side has magnetic massage ball/roller things and she's like that probably feels good and I'm like ya and I rubbed it on her back and I went to put it back and she's like "no don't put it back I want it!" Gotta love my grandma :) it was really nice to spend some alone time with just her (sorry Roni lol) and have fun, we ate at Fazolies which is one of our FAVORITE places to eat then headed home it was a wonderful day...... :)

Today

Hey guys so today we went to train with Copper, his owners took him to Brushy so they could work with him, we did ground work and then I got on him, he was doing good at the walk, so I moved on to trot and he was doing good, but not as responsive as I would have liked so we stuck to the trot, he was doing good by the time I got off so Randi could get on, he walked and trotted, and Randi canterd him a bit and he did good but had basically no steering, that's where I had my problem, steering wasn't very good at the trot and it would be very little to non exsistant at the canter, he took him around the barrels a few times. Randis end goal for copper is to be a nice pleasure and pleasure as in riding for fun and a gaming horse and his parents want him to be able to ride copper around without having to worry a whole lot about him, and I'm sure I can do that for them :) then we went back to their camp and untacked and groomed and Randi went to get him some water and food, and I had fun braiding coppers mane and then we all just hung out and talked for a bit....
Ps there were 3 Frishans there and a Gypse Varrner cross and I wanted to just wall over and pet them lol below is a pic of one of them...

Short update!

      I reached one of my other horse training goals today which is to lay a horse down... I did it with Jet and it took less than 20 minutes and we also got a huge jump start on bow but his lay down needs work lol it was very ungracefull lol will post vids and stuff later but here is a pic of bow and one of him after I laid him down....

Horse judging

Hey guys horse judging went well today, I was very disappointed with how the horses and facility was managed, one of the things that really grossed me out was that even though I wasn't close to their big round bales out in their pasture I could see they were black and moldy, good way to get your horses sick.... I think for the most part the horses did okay, there were a few issues, a horse accidently stepped on one of the handlers in a halter class and she handled it very nicely, from the looks of it, it was an accident, the horses in general seemed spooky and nervous some of the handlers were around our age, so maybe that had something to do with it, two of the horses obviously didn't like the bits they were ridden in, one was a tomb thumb (basically one of the worst and most harsh common bits out there that people think are okay, but infact are VERY harsh and bad for the horses mouth) the other was a very thin sharp twisted wire snaffle, if it had had a.thicker mouth piece with more rounded edges but that thing was sharp!! Anyways idk how I did individual, but our team got a silver ranking, I got to hang out with Erica a bit today and again tomorrow at colt, can't wait for it, I also have a little update story on that mare that wouldnt load but that's for a different post, maybe post a video or pics soon, a room tour is also comming up in a week or two....

First half!!!

Hey guys so far this has been an AMAZING day!!! We started off with an almost 2 hr lecture and I LOVED it!!! There was so much information on horses and horse behaviors, I now have two full pages of notes and still more to come!! Then Clinton worked with a local horse named Niblit who is a 10 year old mare who had issues with being caught and was head shy pulled when tied and overall just very disrespectful horse. Clinton worked with her for awhile and by the time they were done she was doing really well!! After that and throughout the tour Clinton has been giving out prizes he has given out quite a few so far, this weekend they will give out $9000.00 worth of prizes I hope we win something!! Can't wait!!! Also ps Niblit was wearing all green tack!!! Clinton comes back out in a few so update later!!!

Showing Soon! Arena finished!

Hey guys, sorry I havn't updated in SO long.... anyways we finally got the arena finished! We finally got it done (minus the gate) on Tuesday and we rode Tuesday and Wednesday and Thursday.... I worked on Chuck with some different things, and we even did some bridleless work, I had one rein clipped on and tied to she saddle horn and used the other as a neck rope, didn't have to use the rein, but I used the neck rope some, but only when we cantered or he didn't respond to just leg at the trot.... I was also happy because I free lunged Chuck in the arena, and I just free lunged him down on one end, and he stayed close to me... he could have run away but he didn't... (at least not until Chance walked in haha) anyways we had a great time.... it will hopefully be less busy these next few weeks so we will have more time to ride.....

2 weeks from today Roni, Nick, and I will be doing something that we have never done before! We will be going on a competition trail ride. Basically its a 2-3 hour trail ride that has I think 6 obsticles that are judged along the way. It will be a new exciting experience for us... and it will be the last big horsie thing that we do this year.....

Another thing I have to update about is my trailer.... Nick looked a little closer at it, and the wood in the manger, and the tack storage area up front was a little rotted, so he took it all out and welded a nice heafty chunk of steel in there, so that it will hold up good. The floor is all good thankfully, so thats what we have been up to lately... Here are some videos of the arena/riding!

Showing the horses!

Hey guys, so I havn't posted about it yet, so I figured I would post about it now, don't have any videos but I do have the pictures of the ribbons I got at a show we went to a couple weeks ago. Anyways it was my second time showing, but Roni and Nick decided to show for the first time and we all had a blast!!! My first two classes were walk trot and pleasure, and now that im above 16 I am in the senior division, I didn't place in walk trot, but I did get fifth in pleasure, anything above 6th you get a ribbon for, so I got a ribbon for that, then I did trail which nick beat both roni and I at, chuck had a couple of hissy fits but thats okay we worked through it, and theres always next time! Then we went on to barrels and poles, barrels went pretty good considering we got 3rd!!! poles could have been better, it seems in at least 1 speed event every time that Chuck tries to run sideways, that slowed us down but it didn't stop us from placing as I got 4th in that, then we did musical tires, I didn't know that I would have to climb back up on chuck every time so I oppted out for that, Nick beat Roni and placed in that although I can't remember how he did, then after that we did ride and switch, which is where you have to ride down to the barrel hop off and the other person gets on and rides back and its a timed event, I participated as Nicks partner and Ronis partner, with Nick we rode Chuck and with Roni we rode Jack, I thought Nick was going to fall off on the way back, but he made it, the stirrups were set on my length and obviously theres not time to change them, and we did pretty good, I am not used to riding Jack so we only cantered down instead of galloping and Jack didn't like the fast paced stuff to much and it took roni a little bit to get on because Jack was spinning in circles cause we were being crazy and in a hurry, we can definatly work on that though, I don't know what place Roni and I got, but Nick and I placed 3rd, and it was a open class so anyone could enter, we got beat by 2 groups of teen girls one of which goes to my school and is actually in my animal science class. Overall it was a super fun day and im glad we got the chance to go out and have fun. Later tonight I will make a post about what our next adventure will be so stay tuned for that!!!

Arena Update

Hey guys so this is just a short arena update we are almost there! If you don't know we have got all the concrete moved out and have been spending the past week or so picking up the smaller pieces of it, tonight we finished picking up the big pieces (anything bigger than a fist) and tomorrow I get the job of sifting through all the dirt for the smaller pieces while vironica and Nick will fill in post holes then the rest of this week we will finish the fence, so by next week we will have a nice arena to use! The size of the arena is roughly 60 feet by 120 feet although I believe it is slightly bigger than that. Anyways its going to be a nice training tool to use, Nick already has plans to add lights to the arena which won't be hard really just get a couple of yard or flood lights and we will be good although that is going to be later because we still need to get our AC fixed. Anyways heres some pictures and a video for you guys so you can see!!!

The Red part is where we normally ride so the arena is quite a bit bigger than what we are used too....

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Todays Video!

Hey guys, heres todays video.....

One more Video!

Hey guys, sorry the video is a day late, so today you get two of them!!! Hope you enjoy them, one of them was made today and one over the weekend, we filmed the last part of We lived just last night (Monday) So be watching for that special part at the end It was a blast filming it!!!
The first Video is pretty good too.... Vironica liked the first one, and suggested the music for We Lived... Like I said more videos to come this week!!! If you don't want to wait to see them, go check them out on youtube!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=womylT4K0nI

Hey!!!

Hey guys, so sorry I havn't posted in so long, anyways I finally figured out a new way to get my videos because a long while back my computer crashed so I had to get a different computer, and I lost all my videos, and my usual method of getting my videos that are saved to youtube to my computer is by making a screen video/shot thing with quick time player, but the one on the computer I have doesn't work, and neither does the microphone or camera, so I finally found a different method of downloading music and videos cause I don't have quick time or itunes and such to get music on my computer (heck and even if I did half of its blocked haha ) Anyways I made a few videos this weekend, I hope you like them, and I am going to post one today, one tomorrow and one tuesday and MAYBE one on wednesday, and sometime between now and then I will do a short update on a ride we took last weekend that was really fun and upload the videos from all of that!!!

Hey

Hey guys, sorry for not updating, I ment to these past few days but something came up. That something would be my Great Dane Sadie, started having seizures. We took her to the vet and they diagnosed it as epilepsy. She had 2 seizures the first day and 3 the second day, and (thankfully) she only had one today. She got put on medication that she has to have twice a day. It really sucks when she has her bad seizures, she loses control of her back legs and can't use them at all, and with a dog her size its difficult to keep her calm, so ya just gota sit there and try to keep her from getting up cause all she does is slide backwards on her butt into things. Its just no fun cause theres nothing you can do about it and she shakes so bad, and sometimes she whines, and theres nothing you can do, you cant explain to her why she can't stop twitching and shaking, or why she can't move her legs. The meds are sopose to take about a week to completly kick in. Im just glad she only had one small episode today. Thankful for the friends who have been praying that she has a speedy recovery, you know who you are :)     and thankful to God for helping me and her stay strong. Its no fun watching your pet go through that, and I wouldn't wish it upon anybody.  Thanks again for the prayers from everyone.

This is one of her mild seizures, her legs were shaky but she could kinda stand on her own

Roni and I went riding over Christmas break, and Roni fell off when Jack spooked at the skidloader, (which he has seen only 1000 times and its been used to move hay to feed them the silly bugger! LOL), she had been cantering him he had only been cantered a few times in the past year, so considering that added to the problem, oh well, she got back up, even though her hip and hand hurt, and she cantered him to the left again (left is his good side) and then she went to canter him to the right and we were both pretty happy when he picked up the correct lead right away!!! He almost never picks up the Right lead, usually it takes a couple tries, and he tries to counter canter, but he picked it up no problem!!! They also worked on riding up and down hills, which is good practice to make them think through the hill.

Also I would just like to remind everyone to donate blood whenever you can!! I just went back on friday for my second donation! I was again told I bleed fast, as the whole donation process took 5 minutes and 21 seconds! The person who drew my blood's name was Ben, we talked the whole time, I brought my phone to play on, but I didn't even need it! He had a pen that had a horse head on top, it looked like a really realistic grey horse, and I said I loved his pen cause im one of those horse crazy people and he asked if I had horses and how many I had. Then he told me about how he fell off when he was younger and didn't get back on till he was 24 as a suprise for his fiance, who then proceded to tell him all the stuff he was doing wrong! After that we talked about how Roni would love his watch and lanyard that he had because his watch had a captain America shield as the backdrop, and his lanyard had the avengers all over it. I really wonder how in the world can 38% of Americans are able to donate yet only 4% do? More people need to get out there and do it, all it is is a slight pinch in your arm, and thats it! Its not hard people, don't be squemish about it, it saves lives! Sadly right now because of the weather the center I donate to is on a blood shortage, but you can only donate whole blood every 56 days, so I won't be able to donate till Feb 27, and that is close to our FFA's next blood drive, so I think I will donate platelets instead because you only have to wait 2 weeks, but it takes 1 1/2 to 2 hours to donate because your blood has to be processed through a machine, platlets removed, and the rest of the blood componates put back into your body. But the more you can donate the better! So get out there and donate today!!!

Chuck and I worked on hills too, and he did pretty good, I got him a new hack its a fleece lined hack that looks like this one except the top part of the noseband has fleece on it....

 

He did amazing, I havn't done much work bitless lately, and he has started getting fussy with the bit, and saving up my money so I can have his teeth floated, but he worked so well in this, I was very happy, normally when we canter, when we first start he will pin his ears back a little, but he didnt pin his ears the whole ride! It was an amazing ride, we worked on flying lead changes, which he is still working on, he gets them about half of the time now, working on really getting him up under himself and collected, because it makes the flying easier for him, and I think hes starting to realize that, we did have a little case of the zoomies, but what do you expect after not being ridden for a month? He is doing pretty dang good if I do say, who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks right? 

Anyways here are 2 other videos for you guys, these are of roni, I ment to use my gopro but I forgot to charge it before we got there! So I just took 2 videos of Roni, and I have a picture of the frozen creek, but not on my computer yet, so Ill post that next time...

The first video is riding down the hill by the bees hive and the second is riding up the hill to the hogsback....

Random thoughts and questions!

Hey guys, so its been cold lately so havn't been doing much for riding. Anyways not much going on in my life lol, so anyways some questions that have been asked to me and random thoughts bout tons of other stuff.....

Why don't you pat your horse when they do something good?
Well thats a pretty easy question to answer, horses are prey animals, they would much rather have a scratch than a pat, dogs (preditors) like pats but most prey animals would prefer a scratch. Its more enjoyable for them, they scratch eachother all the time, but you don't see them patting eachother right? There has even been a scientific study done on it! It fully supports scratching over patting!
http://www.thehorse.com/articles/34855/do-horses-prefer-patting-or-scratching

Why do you always use a mounting block?
I see people haul themselves up and down to work on mounting, and it really isn't very nice on the horses back, yes mounting up once every hour isn't bad, but constantly getting on and off isn't doing your horse any good, now there is a difference between being able to mount and choosing not to, I can mount from the ground, just have to let my stirrup down, but if I can use something to make it easier on Chuck or Jet then I will, I have mounted from the ground before on the trails and such.

And now on to a few issues I would like to talk about!

So its no secret that I am not an itty bitty girl.... but guess what on horses that doesn't matter! I am an appropriate weight for my horses, would you like to know why someone even  heavier would even be okay for my horses? A balanced rider does SO SO SO much less damage to a horses back than an unbalanced rider even if the unbalanced rider is lighter. Its common sense! If you had to carry someone would you rather carry a person that was stable but heavyer or a light person that moved all over.You may say the light person but it would actually be harder. Heres a experiment done to help show this.

Anyway not much else I can think to talk about right now, will update later this week if anything interesting happens.

TONS OF UPDATES!!!

Hey guys, so I havn't updated in so long! The last update was quite short, so rewind way back to not this past weekend, but the weekend before! So last weekend we decided it was probably going to be the last nice weekend for awhile... so we went to Brushy trail riding! It was really nice, we went to the southern trails and we rode for about 5 or so hours, we brought our lunch and it was really funny we found out that Jack likes potato salad!!! Overall it was a really fun trip and we all had a good time!!! Here are some videos from that!

 

 

Then this past week was National Convention!!! I had a BLAST! It was so crazy fun! I can't believe how many people were there 64,000!!!!! It was so cool! I had such a fun time! there is so much stuff to go over.... so the bus ride took awhile, like 12 hours! But it was fun we watched movies, then we checked into the hotel, I said hi to Erica and turns out shes breeding Clover, don't know who shes breeding her to, but Clover has good lines, here sire is actually a world famous connemara pony, the first ever to be made into a breyer model! Anyways it was fun to catch up, the next day we went to the mammoth cave, which is actually the longest cave in the world, it has been mapped over 400 miles and is still increasing, we went on a tour of the cave, we went on the historic tour, which included a 2 mile hike and 18 flights of stairs on our way up out of the cave..... it wasn't to bad, the size of the cave is crazy!!! We also got to experience complete darkness, about 1/4 a mile into the cave, our guide had us all get close, and he lit a lighter and had our other guide turn off the lights, it was amazing how much you really could see in complete darkness, something cool is the first tours were led by slaves, way back when slaves were not respected, so if the white people would protest they could very easily just blow the candle out and make them listen to them. Complete darkness is really kind of confusing, you think you see stuff, but its just your mind playing tricks on you, no matter how long you would stay down there your eyes can't adjust, he told us to hold our hands in front of our faces, and our minds played tricks and made us think we saw a shadow, but when he told us to close our eyes the image was EXACTLY the same as when you had your eyes open! It was all really cool and fun, then that night we went to opening session with our keynote speaker being Nick Vujicic who was born with no arms and no legs.... I will being a different post on that because it was on of the highlights of our trip...
The next day we went to Louisville Slugger we got to see how proffesional baseball bats were made and it was a very cool experience, it would probably be more enjoyed by someone who actually watches baseball. We went to the convention for the rest of the day we went through the job fair and I got quite a bit of stuff (ill make a video later) and it was quite fun, then we met up for the talent show, and boy there are some amazing people who performed! After that we changed seats for the 3rd session, we listened to keynote speaker Tyson Foods CEO who inspired us to take back the story #myAGstory was #1 trending on twitter that day all thanks to the people of FFA it was an amazing way to get the word across! We went back to our hotel later that night and then the next day was (saddly) our last day in Louisville (also why do you natives to Kentucky say "lolvol" you and your weird Kentucky accents!!)  we went to the job fair and the FFA Shop which is the largest physical FFA store there has ever been! It was really cool to see all the stuff! Then after that we headed out for Churchill Downs, it was amazing to see how big it was, they just added a big tv screen a while back for the people in the infield, the screen is bigger than 3 NBA courts combined! Thats a lot of space!! Another interesting piece of information, during the Derby the infield of Churchill Downs becomes the biggest "city" in Kentucky!!! Crazy right?!?!? We saw one of the previous Derby competitors Twinspired, and his adorable stable mate, Winston! He ran in the Derby in 2011 and is taking a break from his breeding (deffinatly not a bad thing) Then we headed home on the bus, it again was a long drive, and then on the Sunday after we had gotten home I started to feel crappy and ran a temp, for 3 days and still had one again today, I really hate being sick to my stomach its no fun, but I needed to get back to school, so I went today, but I still had a headache, but life is life ya gota live a little!!! Thanks guys heres some more videos for you all and I will get pics from convention up here in the next few weeks, because I have to get them off the camera because dummy me forgot my phone in my truck! I do pretty good about stuff like that though so it wasn't to bad!

Happy National Convention!!!

Hey guys, so this week is national convention week! So yesterday was a VERY long day spending almost 12 yours on the road! It was a long but fun day! We left on our charter bus at 8 yesterday and didn't get into our hotel till 10:20. We woke up and took a buss from our school to the pick up place for the charter bus and we were one of the first groups there so we got decent seats, this is my first time riding on a charter bus and I have to say I really liked it. It was really weird being so high up though. We watched 4 movies along the way, we watched one which i don't even remember which one it was cause I read a book during it, fast five, remember the Titans and the blind side, we stopped for lunch and roni and I ate pizza hut and then we ate supper at Ihop. But so far its been a very exciting trip I have made 2 new friends who are also sisters traveling together, today we are going to the Mammoth Caves, can't wait!!!!

Updates!!

Hey guys so some updates, so we went on a road ride last week, and it was grandpas 3rd ride with us and his first time out of the yard, he only had a problem with comming back he was a little barn sour... anyways I rode Jet for that ride, and he really is quite good at leg cues already, they just need some refinement, I didn't even have to use direct rein much at all, and no we wernt just walking along the side of the road, we zig-zaged at the trot and he did really good with that too.... then when we got back we went up and down the ditches a few times, and then went to do "arena" work in the yard, and I got Jet to pick up the canter a few times and boy is it smooth.... he has the fancy WP gaits and no wonder those people don't have any trouble riding those horses, I hope they have actually ridden real horses because a 3 year old could ride that and not fall off lol! His canter is so lovely :) anyways then we havn't ridden from that time, but I have gone out and worked with Chuck at liberty again :) He is doing so much better :) Heres some videos for you guys also riding videos to come this weekend :)


Go to 10:52 to see where he really starts paying attention and we "Join Up" later in the video :)

Also below is my new channel trailer! Hope you like it!!!

Horse Show Weekend

Hey guys, so this weekend was really fun! Saturday we had our lesson, it was the last one for the year, they are closing down again this winter because Libby (our instructor) is going to have another Baby. We went on a trail ride and just to clarify that their trail rides arn't just at a walk we trotted quite a bit too... and if we hadn't had a younger girl with us we would have cantered, its fun to canter on trails, we have done it a few times before and it was really fun. So then we went home and ate, then we went out to move our deer stands, the area where I shot mine had little deer activity I was actually pretty lucky to have shot one there lol so we moved ours back by the creek I also showed Roni where we had rode last winter where the big cliff was and I had her take a picture of me from the bottom, I will get the picture up later and compare, it looks bigger from the bottom. Anyways then we went home and we watched the new transformers movie, the movie ended at exactly midnight, we had popcorn and it was really yummy too!
The next morning I got up at 6 to start getting ready, I went out and caught Chuck and brought him up and got him all really clean and then got everything else packed up and Roni grabbed Jack so Chuck wouldn't be lonely... we drove and when we got there there were 3 other trailers there, then we unloaded and I went to registure and Roni groomed Chuck again, I came back and tacked him up after I registured my number was 138, I finished and then I took Chuck out to the arena to warm up and get him used to things, at first he was a little nervous, he tried to trot and didn't like to go near a portion of the fence, but he got used to it real quick, I was super proud, there was another girl there who's horse really wanted to go and they kept blowing by us at a quick canter a little closer than I would have liked, but Chuck was pretty cool about it, then more people came and I had w/t/c with chuck both ways so I just walked and let him Chill out, we were asked to exit the arena and we went into the holding area and waited, I was in the first class so I didn't wait long, the first one was Simon says, Chuck did really good! But I messed up, we didn't last long lol I was the first out, the anouncer said stop without saying simon says before and I was so focused on my riding and trying to ride well I didn't think about him having to say simon says and I stopped when he said, and I was out, although I was happy because Chuck stopped instantly and listined very well..... Next up was egg and spoon I did okay, I dropped when I had dropped my reins while backing and went to pick them back up and I knocked the egg off with my reins lol, I was NOT the first out of that though :) then went some of the actual gamming classes first up was the ride tire and lead and I did okay with that, I didn't place but I was happy, its easier to jump out of an english saddle than western so maybe I should work on that more, then next up was poles, and it was the one thing I placed in, but ironicaly the one thing I hadn't had any practice with along with not being able to practice keyhole, but we placed 5th in the junior division which had around 10+ riders so I was really happy with that :) I was especially happy with the fact that we did that good even though half way through I lost BOTH my stirrups lol there were girls who rubber banded their feet to the stirrups because they do the horrid "flying starfish" where they bring their legs way out to kick their horses and can't stay in the seat of the saddle even though they have such a deep seat..... then after that was barrels and then keyhole, barrels went well, we ran a clean pattern and were only 8 seconds slower than the winning time which was 18.6 something, we ran a 26. something time (it says it in the video) and I was happy with that being the first time we have ran outside of our yard and Brushy he really put his heart into it.... Keyhole he was either just being silly or was scared of the white chalk on the ground but he didn't want to go to it at first, but we broke pattern (stepped on the line) but he gave me his heart on the run back, he really tried hard and I think we would have had a pretty good time had we not broke pattern, overall it was an amazing day, we watched the last event (dizzy bat spin) and during the last few riders I went back and took Chucks saddle off, threw his halter and tied a lead rope around and just rode him back up to the arena bareback and when everyone was done I rode him around the arena once more then went back to the trailer and we packed up and left over all it was an AMAZING day and I had tons of fun!!!