Here are some pic of Keely

We have had Keely a month when these pics where taken. She was backed before we obatained her for 60 days but we understand that didn't go well. I have restarted her with the Jen method of teachig horses.

If you don't know this, it includes a large amount of treats, kisses, and some teacher stuff. She has been a doll since the second week. She loves people and loves to work for treats. Yesterday I took her out on a long trail ride all over the back roads, creeks, hills, parking lots,back yards and deer trails of Cypress. She is an excellent sure footed trail horse. She is very senisble with new things.

We were plannig on taking her to see Laurie and Jutta in Flordia, but the barn she is at has an out break of strangles. So she has to sit out this trip. Spudik the PMU rescue is going in her place. He's Chad trail horse and our vistor horse.

He is gentle for anyone to ride. He is now the back up dressage star. He was at home romping around with little Cupcake.He's in for a shocker.
We leave tomorrow for our trip. We wiil keep everyone posted on how things are going.

Poor Chad has to stay home and babysit. He does have a new game he is very engrossed in, something with castles? He even has his brother playing it. I think it will last till Fanasty Football rolls around. He has already given me a count down to the draft.

My Dad has sent him 3 or 4 pictures of my Dad wearing the League's Championship shirt. He is determined to take everyone down this year.

more pics of Avery

Wonderful Weekend with the Girls!!

Jutta Heinsohn (http://www.adsagsona.com/index.htm)

our wonderful trainer was back in town to kick our butts and teach us the art of Dressage. It was another wonderful clinic hosted by TP Farms (http://www.tpfarm.com/) Linette and Pat are the most gracious hostesses. It was great to watch everyone's ride and how much they are improving. This clinic I rode Avery by Hertog Jan v.d. Paddensteeg again. The last time Jutta had been here Avery had less than 20 rides in her. This clinic she has been under saddle for 3 months. I have done all the training myself. The last clinic Avery was only trotting on light contact.This clinic we worked in all the gaits. On sunday I rode our new RID mare by Pride of Gloster RID. Keely turned four in April of this year. We are just loving her, another huge thanks to Bill Appel(no take backs) for this outstanding mare. Keely had only been under saddle for 1month and she did awesome. She was so well behaved and relaxed. This was her first real outing. I will try and post video of their lessons on youtube. Mike did another great job taking some really lovely pictures of the girls. He is really spoiling us. Sarah and I are looking forward to going to Florida next week to be working students for Jutta and Laurie. We are both giddy as school girls. We can't wait to see all her lovely horses and soak up all that dressage knowledge. We are taking the irsh girls on this trip. Both girls are doing so well it was hard to decide who to take.

We will keep all you updated on our Florida adventures

Memorial Weekend

We had a great time this memorial day weekend with my parents in Bay City. Their house is looking great. The floors were redone, the second floor is finished, and the kitchen looks lovely. On saturday we had a great dinner in Palacios . We walked on the board walk and enjoyed the summer breezes. On Sunday we went fishing . We were in deep with redfish, most were 18 in but we did keep 4 that were the legal 20 inches. Mom pulled in the largest fish at 22 inches. We had a great time relaxing on the boat, seeing the wildlife and talking. The next day went plant hunting and went to a local bird watching park. It was super hot but we saw some lovely birds. I of course came home with some plants. We can't wait to do it again !