Happy Birthday Susan!!!

Hey Yall,
First I want to say happy birthday to Susan Baton!!! You are the best! Amador, Danny, and I all , love you so so much and we appreciate everything you do for us!

Everything has been going really well. Danny has found his soul mate. My friend Ashley and he do so well together and they get along great! Amador has been doing super but because prom was this weekend I was super busy Saturday and had to do barn work Sunday, so just my mom rode him. They look better together everyday. He is taking such great care of her as she gets back into the swing of things! Sunday I mucked the pasture and worked on a couple of other projects, then headed over to Susan's birthday party. I got to meet her whole family and they were so nice.

Today I am going to put Stephanie on the lunge line and we hope to work on our trotting and all the stuff we have been working on!

-Paula

Me a Hunter Again?

Hey Yall,
So on Saturday my friend Susan came out to give me a few pointers with my riding. It was really good to see her because she hasn't been out to work with me in two weeks and I had some questions for her. She started by working with me on my transitions and my free walk. She said that the free walk is o important because it lets Amador stretch his whole body out. Also with the transitions I learned that even the way we breathe when we ride effects our horse. Then we worked over some itty bitty verticals. It was so cool Amador was just taking them in stride! He didn't race or anything! We even have him in a snaffle now! So our new goal is to show hunters. Once we have the hunters we will try jumpers again, but I am very excited to go back and proove to all those who said we weren't able to do hunters that we can! I have a video from our lesson I just have to get it loaded I'm trying. Also yesterday I had a cleaning day and I completely organized all my stuff I'll try to post a pic of that to!
-Paula

First Jump?

Hey Yall,
So today I got to sleep until almost 10 o'clock because Tania feed for me and it was amazing!!! The only thing I don't like about having my horses at my own farm is that I have to wake up early to go feed in the mornings. After my sleepy butt woke up and got going I went to the feed store to see Amelia and to get beet pulp. Then I went out to the farm and picked up Stephanie from Tanias. For those of you who don't know Stephanie is Tanias daughter. She is six years old and has been learning to ride on Danny. She is really a natural. Today she walked around with a little help from Tania and practiced her steering, posting at the walk, and two-point while I rode Amador. She did very well until Danny stopped walking about five feet away from one of the jumps. She gave him a kick and told him to walk on, but I guess he misses jumping because hi gave her a smooth trot to canter transition and proceeded over the jump! luckily the pole had fallen so it was just a ground pole and Stephanie shocked us all because she stayed perfectly centered and two pointed over the pole. She was a little nervous afterwards but she really liked it! I jumped Amador and he was really good and got all of his hunter strides. I'm very excited because Susan is coming to help me on Saturday. Tomorrow I'm going to ride again so I'll let yall know how that goes.
-Paula

Jumps!!!

Hey Yall,
So yesterday I brought all of the jumps I've built so far up to the front of my farm where my ring will be. Tania and I set them all up into a little jump course. Then later Tania on Danny, Kenzie on bridget, and me on Amador all went trailriding over at Hampton Road Stables. It was alot of fun and I got to see my friend Annie and her Pony Remi! It was very muddy and wet on the trail but Amador was such a troopeer I was actually suprised at how well behaved he was. Tania took Danny because her horse, Loretta, has very sensative feet and no shoes. It was so much fun thanks Debbie for letting us join yall!
-Paula
P.S. I'm going to try to post pis soon I promise!

Ribbons and Muck!!!

Hey Yall,
Things have been so crazy! Last weekent my god mother, Tania, and I along with a friend went to a dressage schooling show over at Hampton Rd. Stables. For those of you who don't remember I used to board there. It was great to see our old friends and the show was lots of fun despite the rain. We showed training level one and placed 3rd out of about seven or eight! I was so proud of Amador he was so good! A big thanks to Debbie Hankison it was a great show we hope you put on another one soon! Also thank you to Susan for all of your help. Shout out to Tania who won first place in her division, which made for a great first horseshow! So that explains the ribbons part so I'm sure your wondering what the muck part means...? Well since Amador and Danny have been at my land they have been very happy and Amador has gained lots of weight and is looking alot better. However, this also means tons of work for me! It has rained for the past two days and so when I went out to work today I was expecting it to be wet, but it was muddy and icky and gross! I couldn't get any work done out in the pasture, so I decided to work on my jumps. For those of you who know me you might be like, Paula, building??? Well lots of good has come from the move to Huger including my learning how to use power tools without killing myself! YAY Well I've been working on building up my jump collection and today I build a brush box! It's really cool and I actually suprised myself at how good they look. I'm very excited to start putting my ring together with all the pretty jumps I've made! It's so much fun and I think that all the measuring and stuff is really relaxing. We have been working so hard to get the land to be a nice little farm. In addition to the jumps I've been working on building a round pen, putting together a small dressage ring and eventually a nice little three stall shedrow. I'll put pics up as soon as I can! Well I'm off to get some sleep after a long day of work!
-Paula