Snow Days

I know! It has been forever since I have posted anything! (except for the video) so im sorry about that! iv actually been kinda outta blog ideas! lol but heres some pictures that we took with us and the horses in the snow! It was fun so enjoy! I'll try to post again soon!

This ^^ is one of my FAVORITES! I totally love it!

and this ^ is like my all time fav picture of sapphire!! ♥

my awesome bro and his georgous amazing horse! :D

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and of course cowgirl and I!!! :D she is such a sweety!

my ponys

theres cowgirl!!! not the best picture! but she is doing sooo much better! she's gained some weight... got her coat shined up, and shes doing really well under saddle!!! :D im so happy!

**now... just a few pictures of my baby!!**

so this is kinda where i guess it got intresting. we were working on turning tight, in prep for barrels on Sat... and sapphire turned a little TOO tight, and the dirt was a little to deep, and loose. and sapphires front end ended up going into the dirt. i couldnt believe brandon actually got this pict. her head and chest ended up in the dirt... (which you dont see here) but thankfully, and totally PRAISE THE LORD... sapphire and I are ok!!

My Pretty Pony

Barrel Racing Through Life

A couple weeks ago I was down at an arena practicing barrel racing with my pony sapphire. we went through our normal warm up, then set up the pattern and started to walk the pattern. we walked it a few times, and then trotted the pattern several times. finally i felt like sapphire was ready to bump up to a good lope which turned into a hand gallop because she just wanted to go faster, and faster. she started our pretty good. correct lead for the left barrel, slid into the turn, switched into the left lead for the second barrel she was a little ahead of my cues but not to much. we headed for the last barrel and as we got closer and closer I felt like I had last sapphires mind. she seemed to say "i'll take over from here" and with that she turned into the barrel WAY to soon... smashing my leg into the hard cornered rim of the barrel. OUCH i had coveralls on and it STILL totally skinned my leg. what in the world? why did my baby girl do that? after i recovered from my throbingly painful leg.. i turned her around to try it again. 2 more times sapphire did the same thing. stop listening to my cues around the last barrel because she was so excited to run home. she kept smashing my right leg into the barrel. .. beyond painful! let me tell ya! finally after a LOTS of correction we were able to make a nice little run with OUT smashing my leg. but let me tell ya. i was quite frustrated. as i loaded the horses up into the trailer i was fuming. what had been wrong with sapphire? why did she do that? (the pain in my leg was a constant reminder!) but as i drove home God shifted my thinking into a spiritual sense.

we as humans do exactly what sapphire did. we start out going through life fine and dandy. but as we near home we say "I'll take over from here". we can get so excited about making that last turn that we stop listining to the Lord and his direction. Which only causes pain for the Lord. It hurts Him when we stop listining to his guidence. Just like it hurt me when sapphire stoped listening.

Just like running around barrels is a race... Paul tells us that running through Life is a race. and we must run for the prize. but we cant do it with out the Lord. no matter where we are in our race, we need to be listening to his voice... the guidence that he gives us. it will save us a lot of chastisment.. and the Lord a lot of pain.

so there you have it... thoughts from a cowgirl! (this post was especially to please Bekah ;) but i hope you all enjoyed it... and i pray you let the Lord guide and direct you through the race of life.

Adorableness

just love these pictures so much... i wanted to post them on my blog to. my wonderful puppy and my beautiful Sapphire. i had so much fun taking these pictures and editing them on face book! i look at them every day! :D lol well i hope you like them as much as I do! :D

Rodeo Pictures

heres some pictures of the rodeo yesterday! it was the last one of the purina seiries for the year. but i can not wait untill next year!! sapphire did extreemly well at the rodeo! i think we did better on every event except goat tying. poles we got a faster run, the catalog race we placed over all first. barrels i think we got 3rd outa 6. somethin like that! im not sure on all my times but yeah!

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in, out, in out, in out - turn around- in out, in out, and RUN HOME!!!!!!!!!

i actually did really good on getting off!!!


yeah that was a bad run :\ the stinkin goat had absoutly NO flank to grab!! it was so funny! but it was still fun! :D

my pony was sooo excited do barrels! and so was i! we beat our last time by a whole second! (which my not sound like much, but when it comes down to a fraction of a second, a whole second is pretty good! :D)

would ya look at that! ^^^ i really like that pict!! :D

the 3rd barrel is always the best!!!

i thought this looked pretty cool :)

do yall love sapphires bell boots!!! i just died over them! i love them!!! aint they cute? yes i think they are!!!

long awaited

life goes bye, with hardely a moment to sit down. haha most of my good dear friends know what iv been up to. but i thought id post a few pictures for yall!


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Yesterday i got to go and see Oui Kelsey!!! i was soooo excited!!!! heres a few pictures of her!!

sweet kelsey! <3>

I also got a new Saddle!!!! how yall like??? :D

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My First Rodeo!!!!

we all put big Red N's on our horses for the husker foot ball game that day!!



Barrel racing!! <3>

we missed 2nd place by 0.16th of a second haha but it was awesome!

the edited pict :D

horse show!

hey yall! im trying to get some posts done before we go on vacation (friday the 20th) so i hope this satisifys ya for a few weeks! :D heres some pictures of my last 2 horse shows. :D and then when i get back in 2 weeks, i'll do a posts of montana!! :D enjoy these for now.

im running Grace! she did soo good. we played a few games with her.

bad girl she started rearing!

reining

barrels are so awesome

pole bending

and halter :D

Nebraska State horse show

hey yall. right now were at the nebraska state horse show!!! and since this is mostly horse stuff, i blogged it all on my horseytalk blog so yall can go over there and read about my horse judging and Sapphires show!!!
http://www.kodashorseytalk.blogspot.com/

horse show

yep today was our first real horse show!!! (under saddle) it was quite interesting! we got at the show grounds around 8:30, checked in, did all that. i saddled Sapphire up and warmed her up a bit. while i was in the warm up arena they had started the first class (english pleasure) well the first class, not 5 minutes into it, a gal got bucked off. right in front of my mom! my mom was standing right on the edge of the fence and the gal fell practically at her feet. she got hurt pretty bad. they had to call the ambulience, my mom think she busted her femer. anyway the gals horse went buckin around the arena and another gal got bucked off! (all the horses started buckin, crow hoping, and stuff while this horse was tearing around the arena. ) thankfully that got over with and the show moved on. i didnt hear any thing more on the gal that got hurt, but hopefully shes ok.

well to spoil such a beuitiful morning it started raining on us. i was completly soaked. while i was showing we had just a real steady rain. as soon as i got done and took sapphires tack off. it started down pouring. yeiks. oh well!

Sapphire did very well considering her age and that she wont pick up a left lead. she did perfect on her transitions between gaits, of course when she picked up the right lead instead of the left that kept us in the reds. but it was fun, i think Sapphire learned some stuff and i sure did! heres a few pictures! (in some of the pictures you can see the rain)