Friday, August 22, 2008

Oops! I fell off again!

So earlier this week I went horse back riding with Brenton and his girlfriend. I thought it would be a good idea to ride Skittles even though she hadn't been ridden in a few days. It wasn't such a good idea though. She is still learning to keep her balance as she trots and I am still trying to master keeping my balance as well. Unfortunately, for both of us, neither one of us had quite mastered it yet. She was sloppily trotting down the hill, and before I knew it, her awkward movements caused me to lose my balance and fall right over the top of her. Luckily, I was able to curl up into a ball and roll down the hill a little ways. It knocked the wind out of me and I suffered a few bumps and bruises, but other than that I am alright. I think I was actually more scared that Shea was going to get mad at me. He wasn't mad at all though. He is such a good husband. He just laughed and told me not to worry cuz it's not going to be the last time I fall off a horse. That is the second time I have fallen off a horse this summer. When we first started training Granola Bar I fell off of her too. Oh well, I will have to blog about that one later. Cowgurl up!

Our Babies

Twizzler

Granola Bar

Skittles

Twix

Rocky

Our babies!

Okay, here are the pictues we promised. We currently have six horses. Our oldest horse is named Skittles. She is a two year old buckskin mare. Jewl has been working really hard to break this horse and make her a good ride. Unfortunately, that has come with a couple of bumps and bruises. Our next oldest baby is Granola Bar. She shares her birthday with Brenton, and just turned two on August 12th. She is a silver grulla mare, and we both have been working really hard to get her broke aswell. Then we have Twix. He is Jewl's pride and joy. He is a bay roan gelding that just turned one this year. We have saddled him and done a lot of ground work, but we still have to wait another year to jump up on him. We will probably get Jakson out here this fall to take him for a ride. Our fourth baby is our stud prospect. His name is Rocky Road. He is a buckskin dun stud colt. He is the same age as Twix, but doesn't quite learn as quickly as Twix does. He is absolutely gorgeous though. Our fifth baby arrived on our farm just five days ago. She is a bay filly and is the full sister of Twix. Her name is Twizzler. Get it, Twix and Twizz, oh we are so funny. She is going to have a bright future, especially if she is anything like her older brother. She is gorgeous, except for a little wart on the tip of her upper lip. (We'll have the vet fix that.) Our last horse was recently given to us. Her name is Montana. She is a six or seven or eight or nine year old mare. We got her to help us train our other horses out on the trail. Anyway, that is our family. So we will keep you up to date on how they all progress.

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Vacationing in Yellowstone




First post~

Hey, Everyone!!!

This is our first post. This is all new to us so we'll see how it goes. Shea just started school again today. School is never ending. We also just got a new horse this week. She is so cute!!! She is the full sister to Twix (one of our other horses). We have a lot of training to do. We will post some pictures of her soon, and maybe some of our other horses as well. Well, this is it for our first post. We'll post more later. Peace out~~~