In His Eyes...

Hi Friends,

Here is just a short update. Recently Brizzee and I have just taken a couple of walks. We haven't really done anything but spend time with each other. While walking I let her eat a couple old, dried up weeds (really, what is so tasty in a yucky weed? lol) and eat some grass.

When we were having nice weather I sat in the lawn with her (all that nice green grass, yippee! lol) and let her eat while I read in my History book...that was fun. Though I noticed that she was not standig still.

The whole time she was eating, she was moving around. It wasn't lazy bites, either. She was eating as if she hadn't eaten in years, and she's not starving. We feed them twice a day and she is kind of overweight, so she's not starving. SHe never relaxed. She kept her tail tightly clamped down, only swishing it at the flies. She never held still. And I wasn't doing anything except sitting there, not paying attention to her, and reading my book...

Mom and I were talking about this and I wonder if she eats becausse of safety? Instead of wanting to go to the gate or horses for comfort, what if she eats? Eating is the only thing that she "knows" how to do and can't do wrong...hmm? I've just been thinking about that and wonder if I've gone about everything wrong. Is she a RBI who tries to put in a bluff, but is really scared and eats not because she's a pig, but because it's her safety zone? Hmm. I have to play with that :) Like Linda says in the Liberty and Horse Behavhior "It's a fifty fifty chance!" lol.

Anyways, Brizzee's sores are healing up really well and you can't even see them real well anymore, so that is good. But other then moseying, we haven't done much...

Here is a poem that I wrote tonight. It just sort of came to me and I thought maybe I would share it and see what you guys think...

In His Eyes
By Miranda

In the green pasture
You stand with your horse

Between the branches
The wind howls
Thunder shakes the earth
Lightning streaks across the sky
Lighting the earth for all to see

In the flash of lightning
In your horses eye
You see
A reflection of yourself
The person you want to be
In his deep, dark, chocolate eyes

The branches quiet
The howling wind subsides
The thunder leaves
The lightning seeps into the black night

In your horses eyes
Is nothing but the deep, kind brown eyes
And you wonder
Was that your reflection you saw?
Or was it the horse
Showing you what he sees
Not as a human being
Nor a predator,
But his buddy
His partner
That he sees?

In the branches
The wind howls
The sky shakes with thunder
And lightning streaks across the black night sky
What is it
In his eyes
That you see?

Thanks for reading,

Randa & Brizzee

Colt's First Leading session

Here is a video of my mom playing with my Uncle's colt. We call him "Rustic Chrome" and he was about a month old when we got him. Now he is about 3 months and as you can see, he's changed a lot of colors. Anyways, this is the first time my mom has had the halter on him and played with leading him so he's kind of not sure about it. Anyways, I hope you all enjoy.

Thanks for reading,

Randa & Brizzee

Results...

Hi Everyone,

Well, we took Brizzee to the vet yesterday (Tuesday) and got good news. Her sores have started to heal up some with the cloudy and cool weather we've been having here lately so they weren't as black or looking nearly as bad at the Vet's yesterday. But we looked at some pictures and he believes that she doesn't have skin cancer (thank goodness!) but thinks she got a pretty bad sunburn so we will hav eto watch it really well now because he says it can easily turn into skin cancer with her real pink, fine skin. We have some sort of some medicine to put on her sores (it looks like whip cream, lol) and when the sun is out and hot we need to put sunscreen or black shoe polish on her. But I'm relieved that it was nothing serious and I feel much better about that :)

We've kept a fly sheet on her to keep the bugs off her sores and what not (it'd be nice to get one for all the horses but 12 fly sheets will be a lot of $$$, lol). When I came back home Friday evening I got her and played with her a little bit while the flysheet was on.

It was the first time we've played for a long time. I've been gone for a month and before that I haven't done much with Brizzee. I've sort of just neglected her and I feel really guilty about that now so we are going to change that :) I'm going to play with her all the time. It felt extremely good to play with her on Friday.

Here's a video of our play session:

You can go to www.youtube.com/naturalwriter to view more of my videos...

Thanks for reading,

Randa & Brizzee

Pictures!!

Here are some of the pictures that I promised. The pics of Brizzee are old, but I promise I'll get some more soon...

Brizzee

This is my Uncle's new red roan mare & her colt...

This is Half Pint, my pony. Sorry the pics are a lil blurry.

I'll post some more pics of Brizzee soon. We also played with her Fly sheet last night after I got back home last night. It felt good to play with her =)

Thanks for reading,

Randa & Brizzee

Update on Skin Cancer...

Hi Friends,

We are supposed to go down to the Clark Equine Clinic in Albion on Tuesday at 3:00. That is the soonest they could get Brizzee in, unfortunately. So I guess I will know on Tuesday (5 days from now) what is really going on with her. Whatever it is I hope it's not too bad and I hope they can fix it. People come to Clark Equine Clinic from all around the world. They are very well known and I trust them, so I hope they'll be able to help Brizzee. I'm sure they will. So I will give you all an update about what they say sometime after Tuesday.

As a side note I wanted to also let you all know that I have another horse :) Technically, it's a pony. She's smaller than I am and my mom bought her for $50.00 last year. She was going to go to my neice and nephew, but things with that changed. Mom gave her to me so now I have a horse and a pony. I'm too big to ride her, so I'm just playing with her on the ground and stuff for now. SHe's so cute. I call her Half Pint.

I'll post some more pics of Brizzee and Half Pint soon, I promise. And I will definitely let you all know what the Vet says about Brizzee :)

Thanks for reading,
Randa & Brizzee

Skin Cancer...

Hi Everybody,

First of all, let me apologize for being gone from here for SOOOOOOO long. Honestly, Brizzee and I haven't really played that much in the last few months. My Grandmother passed away in July and things have been pretty hectic here. The weather's been uncomfortably hot and we haven't done much of anything, really.

A couple of times this summer we've played a little bit in Level 2 and 3 and we've played with Freestyle a little bit, but other than that we haven't done much of anything and I feel completely guilty about that.

But I've realized in the last few weeks how completely I've ignored her. She's my best friend, my partner, and I haven't done my part to improve our relationship and to have a good and strong friendship.I've failed.

So from now on, that will change. Every week/day I will play with her, or at the very least spend time with her. And I hope to take a couple videos each month of what we're playing with and hopefully see the improvements in me as her friend rather than her "trainer", which is what I've been doing all along, I think...

Starting today, this month (October) things are going to change. I'm not going to ignore my horse anymore. I'm going to play with her and spend a lot more time with her and give updates at least once a month or more...unless something else goes wrong.

Right now I'm really worried about Brizzee though. I've lived with my dad all the month of September but this Friday I'll be moving back in with my mom where I can see Brizzee every day. But according to my mom Brizzee has bad spots all over her back end and beneath her tail. Normally Brizzee keeps her tail tightly clamped down, but according to my mom she's carrying her tail up all the time and she's been even crabbier to the horses. Mom thinks it's skin cancer and I'm very worried about my horse.

This has opened my eyes and made me realize how terrible of a friend I have been to my horse. I lost my brother in December, I lost my grandma in July, my mom had her left eye removed on March 31st and we made several trips to Salt Lake, Utah and back for her eye removal and then check ups and then to get her prosthetic eye. And the man we live with, Bob, had his knee surgery in July, and I've been busy helping him with that, also. I've been so busy with everything that I completely neglected my horse.

Now, Brizzee might have cancer. And I'm not there because I chose to move with my dad for a month or so to get away from everything and now my horse might possibly have skin cancer. My mom makes it sound really bad so I don't know what is going to happen. We are going to make her an appointment and get it checked out as soon as possible, and I pray that it's not skin cancer and she'll be okay...the thought of loosing my horse is terrifying.

I love my horse very much and I'm not going to neglect her anymore. She's my friend and she's been through so much. She finally was beginning to open up and let me in, she was finally beginning to trust me, and what did I do then? I got too busy in my life, in the human world, that I just completely neglected her. Sure, I fed her and watered her and petted her every now and then, but I didn't spend any time with her and that's wrong. I'm going to change. I'm going to play with her. Not because she's just a horse. Not because I want to Graduate Level 2, 3 and 4 in the Parelli program. Not because I want to do all the amazing things that everyone else does (which I hate to admit it but that's been my goal almost all along...I just didn't admit it to myself or anyoen else) but because my horse is my friend. My friend. And I am going to treat her like my friend and we are going to play, spend time with each other, and have fun just to be together. Nothing else matters except our relationship, our bond, and our friendship. And that is going to start right now, as soon as I get back home things are going to change...I just pray to God that Briz will be okay. She has to be...

Last night I went back and collected a few videos and pictures of some of the things Brizzee and I have done together--last year and in 2008. I hope that things will change a lot and the next videos I will have of Brizzee and I playing will be much better, as it will just be a video of a couple of ole' friends playing :) If you'd like to check out the videos please visit www.youtube.com/naturalwriter

Thank you for reading and I will definitely keep you updated about Brizzee and how things go at the Vet's next week.

Thanks for reading,
Randa & Brizzee

*Long* Time No See...

It's been a *long* time since I've been on here and I feel really bad about that. I've kind of neglected my blog. lol. But so much has been happening this summer (especially just recently).

For the last two weeks my mom and I have gone riding almost every evening. I hate to see but I haven't played with Brizzee very much this summer. I've been helping my mom so much with irrigating, swathing hay, and baling it that I haven't had much time. But for almost two weeks we've been playing with the horses and riding almost every evening.

We have a few new additions to our family, lol. My mom bought a BLM gelding Mustang around the last part of June. His name is Mohawk. He's a light bay and he's so sweet. Mom can already spray him with fly spray and groom him. She had the halter on him a few times but didn't lead him around or anything like that.

And just last Friday my Uncle bought a "pair" of horses that we brought here on Sat. There is two, a red roan mare and her 1 *month* old colt, also a red roan. He is thinking about naming them Tater Tot and Spudnick. I would name the mom Tornado and the colt Saffire, if it were up to me, but they're his horses so whatever.

That's really exciting. The mare has let us touch her and her colt a few times. Journey (our buckskin filly that is almost a year...I think) is doing really good. We've been playing with her at liberty a lot. She responds to pressure really well and she's turned into such a sweetheart. She's always the first horse to the gate and always the first one to greet you. It's really cute. I love her. Mom finally decided to call her Journey instead of Mikkah Journey, so I like that :)

Anyways, that's what's been happening lately. I hate it that we haven't done much with the horses lately, but that will change :)

Thanks for reading,
Randa.

Wonderful Cold and Finals...

I finally got over my cold and the runny nose from my last cold around Dec. 14th, and now I have another cold...figures. lol. My nose is running non stop even though I'm taking medicine and all kinds of things to stop it...right now I have some Kleenexes stuffed in my nose--even the vicks kind. lol.

School Semester 1 Finals are coming up this coming Wednesday and Thursday (20 & 21st). I'm very worried about that...I hope I pass all of them!

Last night (even though my head felt like it was being hammered from the inside out. lol) my mom and I watched the "Balance" Savvy Club DVD. That was very informational /inspirational. My mom and I both would like to write to that gal and tell her how awesome she did and how much that really made sense. Whenever this cold leaves, the ice, mud, and water dry up and disappear, I'm going to start playing with Brizzee again and I'm a little anxious to do that Pushing Passenger Lesson now. So many things made sense and "clicked" in that DVD. I would love to pet that little black "horse" too. lol.

Right now it is all ice, mud, and HUGE puddles of water here. Other than that it's a very nice day outside, unfortunately I'm stuck inside doing school. Wish me luck on the finals! lol.

Randa & Brizzee

New Year's Resolution...

Happy 2010 everybody! Phew, I can't beleive that it is already a new year...wow. I have been gone for a long time and I'm sorry about that. For an update on Brizzee: I haven't played with her much lately. I've been really busy this summer/fall. And I especially haven't been doing anything except feed after my brother passed away on the 3rd of Dec.

But, as my 2010 Resolution, I will update this blog more regularly, at least twice a month. lol. No, I will try to put up an update once a week, or more if possible.

Here are some things I would like to do this year with Brizzee:

1. Complete Online Level 2 Self Assessment.
2. Complete Liberty Level 2 Self Assessment.
3. At least complete all of Level 1 and most of Level 2 in Freestyle and Finesse Self Assessments...

There are many more things I want to do with Brizzee too, but I'm still in the process of making a list so that will come later. lol.

Anyways, I hope to update all my blogs (www.mynaturalbooks.blogspot and www.parellifromthegroundup.blogspot.com and of course this one; www.naturaljourneywithbrizzee.blogspot.com) at least once a week...

Thank you and more "Resolutions" coming later!
*~Randa~*

Crawling In A Hole...

Tell me, why can't I just crawl in a hole and disappear? I hate life. I really hate life. It sucks. You have to live through it, somehow, you ahve to somehow live through all the economics, everything it throws at you, death, and everything else only to die, what's the purpose? Why do you have to put a smile on your face and act like everything is okay, when it is isn't? I don't want to take care of the horses. I don't want to be here tomorrow! I don't want to have dress all nice, put make-up on my face and be all smiles for our friends' family to come down. I don't know them, I don't want to get to know them. I just want to cry. I'm tired of all this.

Sometimes, I feel so alone. WHo can I talk to? I can't talk to my mom or any other of my family because then they will just get upset, and how can I talk and get ALL my feelings out without them interrupting? And afterwards I know I'm going to get the "I know, but you should..." or "Trust me, Randa, I know and in time..." Blah, blah, blah. I want to know what other people are going through, too, but I don't wnat them to give me advice on what I should or shoudlnt' do. After all, what is right during this greiving stage? Is there a right way to handle it, or wrong?

Going into denial is not a right way, I'm sure, but it seems to be the one that's finding me; it's almost as if I deny it and ignore it, that means it didn't happen. But it did happen. My brother is gone. There is nothign I can do about it...

I jsut want to crawl in a hole and die for a while. I want to be away from the world for a while. Sometimes I escape out to my horse or Half Pint, since she was originally for Wes's kids, but they see me and leave. I'm sure my horse is really liking me right now from not doing anything with her for a few months, so I guess I can't blame her. Even the animals leave me, though. Sometiems I feel so alone. I also don't want to talk to my family because I don't want them to get upset even more, too. My sister and Wes were really close, that won't be fair to her.

Nights like these I just want to crawl in a hole and disappear from the world...why can't I do that? Sometimes I wonder about escaping too, running away to somehwere new, but will that help anything? Willa ll my fears just be left in the dust behind me? Life sucks. Tomorrow sucks. Isn't it bad enough that it'll be a month since my brother died, why do they have to come over? I hate this, I hate life, I hate everything!

I needed to vent...

In Memory Of Wes Veeder...

My Big Brother, Wes Veeder, passed away on December 3rd, 2009. Wes and I weren't that close because we were a lot different. He was outgoing, and I'm not. He doesn't let things get to him, and I do. He was a HUGE football fan (Green Bay Packers), and I didn't get Football at all. He was loud, I was quiet. Though we had our differences and we didn't do a lot together, I love my brother very much. Whether he knows how much I love him or not, I guess I will never know. Right now I am just kinda here. I'm trying to do school work, but my mind keeps wandering.

Wes was my sister's best friend...they talked about everything. So now she is sort of lost without him. I wish I could understand what she is going through so I could better help her during this difficult time.

I turned 16 yesterday, my first birthday that Wes never called me to wish me a "Happy Birthday". The first birthday that he didn't give me a bad time about being into Twilight, or reading so much, being so shy, etc., etc.

The last time I saw Wes was at Thanksgiving. I was wearing my "Team Jacob" shirt and he was giving me such a bad time about being "Team Jacob." He thinks that all movies rated PG 13 were bull...

But Wes is gone now, living with God. I'm sure he and my Grandpa (and of course his dog, Grizzly, and Festuz) are all having a ball up there.

I love you, Wes!

Randa.

For my best friend...

Here is a video of my best friend, Lea and her horse, Eddie. Just a short video to let you know that you're a very good friend, Lea! Thank you for everything you've done for me! =-)

~Randa~

Midnight Ride...

Wow, it's been a while since I posted what Brizzee and I have been doing lately :-) Actually, we haven't been playing nearly as much as I'd like to, but hopefully this week I can organize my schedule with school a little better and then we'll have lots of time to play =-)

Originally, I had been hoping that Thursdays would be a Freestyle day for Brizzee and I. Whenever we play we always do a little bit on the ground and then I get on her bareback just for the fun of it, but we don't really do any of the DIrect, or Indirect Rein or things liks that, so I was hoping that since THursdays aren't a very busy day, we can play with Freestyle then.

Yesterday (again) I was bummed because I was sure that I wouldn't have time to ride her again because I had school and everything else. Well, my mom surprised me! We went to a Team Sorting Practice. Brizzee did really good. At first she was being defaint, fighting against me with the Natural Hackamore, so my mom insisted that I try the Tumb Thumb bit (since she had the bozale or however you spell it). I really didn't want to use a bit, but my mom showed me how to put it on Brizzee.

WOW! The change was very evident. I was as light as I could be on the reins and I used the Direct Rein and she did really good. At first she was confused between bending and the Indirect Rein, but I probably wasn't doing it right in my body. But she didn't argue that much wanting to Ute. She tried every now and then, but she was a lot better. I only sorted twice, and both times Brizzee did really good. When she made a mistake (mainly I was the one making mistakes. She'd go after the cow and then I'd try to bend her...poor girl. lol), I always petted her and said "sorry" for my stupid mistakes.

After the stirrups really started to hurt the side of my foot I got off, put the halter on, and we played on the ground a little bit. I backed her up by her tail!! YEA!!! I had the very end of the 12 foot line in my hand and I put my hand under her tail, and as I backed up I slowly wiggled the rope. She backed up so nicely!!

She loaded and unloaded really nice. After we got back home in the pitch dark and I unsaddled her, my mom gave me a leg up and I rode her around in the dark. Even in the dark; however, Brizzee still knew where that darn grass is. lol. But it was very fun. Her head was down, she was really stretching when she walked, very relaxed. Even more so after she got the GRASS! LOL.

Until next time,
*~Randa~ & ~Brizzee~*

Goals...

Here are some of my goals with Brizzee & the Parelli Program:

15 Years Old (2009):

1. Officially Pass Level 2 Online

2. Self Assess Level 2 Freestyle

16 Years old (2010):

1. Officially Pass Level 2 & get my certificate and blue string

2. Officially Pass Level 3 in at least Online & Liberty.

3. Start doing a lot more Level 2/3 things in Freestyle & Finess & Liberty

4. Learn to have a lot of patience with any horse, especially Brizzee with grass. lol.

17 Years Old (2011)

1. Officially pass Level 3 and get my certificate and green string.

2. Start playing in a solid Level 3 & 4 level, officially passing Online & Liberty in Level 4.

3. Hopefully go to a Parelli Celebration! :-)

18 Years (2012) & older:

1. If didn't accomplish before, Officially pass Level 3 & get my green string

2. Officially pass Level 4 & get my black string.

3. Hopefully go to a Parelli Celebration with Brizzee. lol!

4. Ride anywhere and everywhere, doing whatever bridle-less & bareback with Brizzee ;-)

Other Parelli Dreams/Goals

1. Be a Celebration Spotlighter.

2. Start my own horse rescue and help all other horses.

3. Major in foals and young weanlings.

4. Help people with their horses.

5. Go to Colorado and take a course! :-)

My dreams are pretty near the same with Mikkah's Journey and Half Pint, but basically it's the same goal, Officially Graduate Level 4!

Savvy On,

*~Randa~ & ~Brizzee~*

What A Day

Boy, WHAT A DAY! We were running a little behind by the time we got everything together and finished with Breakfast, so I didn't have time to groom Brizzee--she was a little messy. But oh well.

Trailer loadin' went really good this morning. She waited until I got in on the right side before she followed on the left side (we took our two horse straight load trailer). She didn't paw or anything on the L-O-N-G drive up there. But she was very excited to get out of the trailer once we got there.

David gave her the "dope" shot first before I put her in the chute thing, and she followed me right in. She was pretty confident the whole time. It took her a while when we finished to remember how to actually step up into the trailer. lol. I was worried she was going to fall. hehehe. But her teeth were okay. He said there were a few points, and that she chews mainly on her right side, but other then that there were no problems.

After we got back home my mom and I played with her a little bit. My mom helped me "sideways" her towards me, and she didn't really good with that. We ended it where my mom didn't need to help and she took two steps towards me! And then we worked on tapping her feet to lift them. She still either takes a step back or forwards, but it's a start anyways. And we did some Stick to Me at the trot again. She is doing so much better at that! I think she's beginning to trust and look to me as her leader!!! YAY!! Today was a super great day. She was trying so hard to do the right thing when we played with her...and for the very last thing we did, she got a very nice leg massage. She stood completely still, her nose touching the ground as I massaged her legs. It was so cute!

Here are some pics:

Yummy---not. lol.

Savvy Out,

*~Randa~ & ~Brizzee~*

Today's the day!!

We are just getting ready to leave for the Vet's today =-) I'm so excited. Yesterday Brizzee and I played with the trailer. My mom parked it right on the grass, so of course we all know how that was! lol. Here are the games we played with it:

Squeeze Game - - between me and the trailer.
Circling Game with Change of Direction -- Change of direction between me and the trailer, so kind of the squeeze game.
Sideways Game -- along down the trailer.
Transitions at the Circling Game--She wanted the grass and was annoyed when I kept asking her to go, so she would either trot, or else eat the grass. So I "stopped" her when she was between me and the horse trailer.

It went pretty good. She didn't go into the trailer, but we played around it and stuff and she wasn't unconfident or anythign. She's just stubborn and doesn't want to go in there. lol.
Today we're going to play with it a little more.

We did the Stick to Me at the trot too, yesterday. That was really fun! And we did the sideways game all the way down the semi trailer. That was interesting. Brizzee kept sticking her head under the trailer, like "darn, I'm too big to fit under there." It was funny.

Anyways, I'd better go. I'm so excited about taking her to the Vet today!! :-)

Savvy On,
*~Randa~ & ~Brizzee~*

Tit for Tat and Indirect Rein

Yay! I played with Brizzee on the ground yesterday, and she actually did a spin! I was so excited. I don't exactly remember how I did it or how it happened, but she spun around in a complete circle and afterwards she ASKED me a question! I was so excited! And we did a few driving things also. I would squeeze her between our truck and trailer and the motor home. I had her go in first and then I followed. She was pretty confident with that. Sometimes she's okay with me walking behind her and "driving" her, other times she just keeps trying to turn her HQ away and face me, that's okay. We're playing with it =-)

Today we did some Freestyle things. That was pretty fun. I accidentally left my Natual Hackamore in my room from practicing with the "rein positions", so I used the Bozale--however you spell it--with her today. It went really good! She was somewhat listening to me, and everything, though she tried to get her few bites of that so delicious green grass. lol.

Walking down the side of the corral Brizzee decided that she wanted to turn back. I asked her to go a little bit and she didn't want to, so we started getting in an argument. After she stopped facing the direction she didn't want to go, I thought I would try the Tit for Tat, and see if I could Indirect rein her and turn her so that we would be facing in the direction she wanted to go. We haven't done a lot of those because I kept getting confused until the Sept. Savvy DVD came. That helped a lot! But she did it! It was wonderful and felt great! Today I think was one of the best Freestyle days we've had in--forever! We didn't do anything fancy or anything, but we felt connected, and in tune. I think I was on my Balance point, and when I wanted to turn left, it felt so natural when I lifted my leg and "looked" with my body. I'm practicing, practicing, practicing with everything in my body before I get on her, and I think it's finally beginning to pay off, I hope ;-)

Tomorrow we MIGHT be herding cows. I'm not sure but a friend of my mom's is hauling cattle into the sale, and they might need our help with the horses to seperate them and everything. It sounds like it'll be fun if we get to help and take the horses. I just have no idea how Brizzee will act in a strange place especially with Ute there. She'll probably go right back to being "herd sweet" and need to stay close with him. But I'll just play with any horse that shows up! And on Thursday Brizzee gets to go to the Dentist...so exciting! My dentist appointment for today was cancelled, the Dentist was sick...YIPPEE! Oh, I mean sorry Mr. Dentist but yippee!! lol.

Savvy On,
*~Randa~ & ~Brizzee~*
PS. I'm really hoping to get the video done this week, I hope. Whenever I'm playing with Brizzee my mom is never around to film me...I wish I had a younger sibling. lol.

So...

One thing I hate about Autumn / Winter when the weather starts getting cooler, besides the cold, of course. lol. Is the seasonal flu that comes with it! ARGG! I have been sick since Monday with this blasted cold. I think it's finally starting to lift a little bit. I don't know if I'll ever be able to catch my nose or not, but my head isn't pounding anymore and I can stay awake. LOL. We haven't really done anything with the horses this week besides put a very LOOSE web halter on the filly before turning her out in the paddock with our old mare (www.parellifromthegroundup.blogspot.com)

But other then that not much has been going on. When I glimpsed out there this evening I see that my horse is all wooly'd up and looking like a pony. She's so pretty in the spring and summer, but when she gets her winter coat it...not sure. lol. But she's still my pretty girl :-)

Kay, well I gotta take some medicine. Hopefully tomorrow I'll get to play with her a little bit. She's get a "dentist" appointment a week from tomorrow (Thursday). So we're going to do some stuff with the trailer and "simulating" going into the gate / chute thing. Let's see, I can walk her thru, back her in, sideways her, move her forequarters and then her hindquarters...hmm, interesting! lol.

Over and out,
Randa.

Pictures

Here are the pictures I promised!!


We just brought her home today. Check out http://www.parellifromthegroundup.blogspot.com/ to learn more about this weanling!

Now, meet Kaelee Alet:

Isn't she adorable?!

*~Randa~*

SHE'S FINALLY HERE!!

After nine months, and and 5 days over due, my neice finally arrived at 6:20 PM tonight!! YIPPEE! I am so excited, I am an Aunt again. Though I did hear about something very sad today--no, two things, actually, having a new Niece and being another Aunt again is still exciting! We just have to live in the moment, and appreciate what we have, and focus on the happy things, not dwell on the sad thigns, and I am planning on doing just that.

Tomorrow morning my mom and I are probalby going to go in and see my big sis and her new daughter! My sister has a son AND daughter now, how exciting is that? Now she just needs to quit acting as if she is MY mother. lol.

I will post pics of her tomorrow, if my sister says it's okay =-) I love new born babies, they're so cute. Then agian, my year and a half year old nephew is pretty dang cute too.

Tomorrow evening we will probably pick up Mikkah, the filly. Everything is happening all at once! This week has just gone by so fast, and it's been so busy. Hopefully now that baby is here and hopefully after we bring Mikkah home tomorrow, hopefully next week we can all relax, breathe, and get caught up with things lol.

Boy, I do want that Babysiting job (thankfully they haven't called me yet!) for the money and stuff so that I can start saving to go to the University of Idaho in Moscow, Idaho, I really don't want to do that or have time really to do that. I can already hear my sister asking me to stay with her and help her with her two kids, but I don't think I can do that.

Though this is only my first year of High School, I still have my whole future planned. I'm hopign to save up enough money to go to the University of Idaho in Moscow, and take a Writing, Editing, Theatre, and some kind of horse course. I want to at least get a Bachelor's degree in Editing so that I can be an editor after I'm grown up. That will hopefully bring in enough money to help other horses using Parelli Natural Horse Man Ship. I don't think I want to be a Parelli Professional because I don't think I woudl get along to good with other people, I'm not very good with people in person. But I still want to go as far as I can with Parelli and help horses, so that's what I'm shooting for: becoming an editor, edit books professionally, and of course, continue writing books. Being an actress would be nice, but that's more of a "fantasy dream" than an actaul "dream". Being a writer and editor is more important right now then being an actress.

But anywho, I promise I will post pics today or tomorrow of my new niece if my sister okays it, and I will keey y'all posted on that and Mikkah. I'm hoping we'll bring her home tomorrow, my fingers are crossed!

Savvy On,
~Randa~ & ~Brizzee~