Stitches!

This is what it looked like when I rewrapped it this morning, you can sort of see where the stitches pulled loose.

Grandpa's Quilt

This spring I got to make this BEAUTIFUL quilt for my dear great grandpa Leonard.

I have wanted to make this quilt for a long time and this was the perfect excuse!

The idea came from a quilt a a dear friend's house.

I have stared at that quilt for a LONG time and finally drew up the blocks on graph paper.

Now, i finally got to make it!

I want to make one for me now!

Sorry, the rest of the pictures won't load :( I was going to show you how to make the blocks.

Maybe later!

Beautiful.

Thursday I witnessed one of the most beautiful and sacred things on earth. Birth.

Meet, out filly. Born on June 7, 2012 at about 10:30 am

Sorry if you are sqeamish about this picture, this is one of the only ones I could get to load! It's just the bag hanging out after her water broke, if you look really really hard you might be able to see the tips of the baby's feet.

It all happened soooo fast!

Bailey busted the gate to get out of her pen at about 6:45 am on thursday, I put her back in at about 7 and then fed her, then after we ate breakfast I put her into the pasture at about 9 am and I went to check on her at about 9:45 and I saw that she was starting to have contractions but I figured we still had several hours of first stage labor to wait through, so I ran and got Ma and when I came back her water had just broke! I called Cathy and she came over to watch

After she had been in active labor for about 25 minutes we could still only see her(the filly's) front feet so we called her(Cathy's) husband Wendell to bring his calf pullers to pull the thing out and in the mean time Cathy and I started pulling and we got the nose out and broke the sack so that she could breath(she was starting to suffocate)

when he got there he slipped the chains on and we started pulling she came about 3-4 minutes after that.

It was kind of a rought birth, and if we hadn't of been there poor Bailey would have been dead 3 times over, NOT KIDDING!!!

Because 1, the filly was too big for her( and she is a maiden mare) and she was starting to give up and she was reaching that 30 minute mark where the foal will die if left in longer than that so Wendell the AWESOME and me had to pull her out. (Wendell's wife Cathy is AWESOME to and helped a ton as well!)

2. because right when the baby was born the umbilical cord broke instead of staying attached and she was squirting blood everywhere so we got that tied off with a bit of twine and

3. she had a retained placenta and after about 5 injections of oxytocin per the dr's orders(i'm so glad I bought some ahead of time even though ma had to pick up some more that day 'cause I ran out!) it still wasn't coming so we had to take her to the vet at about 7 pm the same day and the poor vet had to manually remove most of it. she and the baby had to spend the night in Gooding because it still wasn't coming. The vet said she passed it about an hour and a half after we left I think we left at about 8:30. He had been peeling away the placenta that WHOLE time, it was still very firmly attatched I guess!

AND if all of that wasn't enough, she wasn't producing enough milk for the baby even though she had been STREAMING milk for WEEKS!!! I had thought that that much oxytocin would stimulate enough milk( that is one if its properties) if that was a problem, but it didn't, maybe we have fescue grass in our pasture that I didn't know about??? So now she is on oral domperidone to help with that, along with banamine(a NSAID) to help combat the threat of laminits from the retained placenta. She also got a shot of long lasting antibiotics at the vets...sooooo...she's pretty drugged up!

that baby is just so stinking cute! But I still can't figure out what color she is...any ideas anybody? she's sort of buckskiny but she's startin to get what sort of looks like a dorsal stripe, but neither of her parents have a dun gene. her legs also fade out instead of get darker so maybe she won't go buckskin. Who knows! I'm just hoping that she doesn't go red(sorrel, chestnut or blood bay) but brown might be okay! But I think that it would be pretty hard to because of the stud's genetics, I've only ever seen color out of him, even when breeding to a red mare like Bailey.

Another funny thing about her is the filly was supposed to be a colt from the ultrasound, so we didn't really look when she was born, we had all just been calling it a him for 9 months! But about five hours later I was playing with her and realized it wasn't a him, it was a HER!!! So we have a filly instead of a colt, I thought I was DONE with mares, sheesh!

And no, she does not have a name yet. However my mom's cousin Sid(the stud's owner) said that we should call her question or q for short since her forehead marking looks kind of like a question mark and because of her interesting and questionable gender.

They are both healthy and happy now, dispite their trauma! Isn't she sooooo cute???

This was her last night Bailey had been an AWESOME mom so far!


I'll try to post more pictures later...

What do you think?

 DD Lenaspottedgator

1998 Sorrel Overo Stallion

If YOU were a horse breeder would you consider breeding your mare to this stud?

What are some things you like or don't like about him such as:

conformation
color
athletic looks
etc.

another thing about him that I forgot to mention is he is a carrier of the rare RB color gene. Maybe good resell value for those who like that???

He also has a very good pedigree and is a grandson of Smart Little Lena and a great Grandson of Doc Bar and a great grandson of doc Bar Twice, these names appear on either side of his pedigree and are not limited to the top.

DD LENASPOTTEDGATOR H, PAINT, 1998

Color: sor APHA #557,210 Sorrel Rabicano Stallion (CLOSE)

DD LENASPOTTEDGATOR* sor 1998 PAINT

LITTLE LENAS LEGEND* sor 14.3 1991 QUARTER HORSE

SMART LITTLE LENA* sor 13.3 1979 QUARTER HORSE

DOC O LENA* b 1967 QUARTER HORSE

DOC BAR* ch 1956

LIGHTNING BAR*

sor 1951

DANDY DOLL*

ch 1948

POCO LENA* b 1949

POCO BUENO*

br 15.0 1944

SHEILWIN*

dun 1943

SMART PEPPY sor 1966 QUARTER HORSE

PEPPY SAN* sor 15.0 1959

LEO SAN*

ch 1949

PEPPY BELLE*

sor 15 1955

ROYAL SMART sor 1958

ROYAL KING*

sor 14.3 1943

MOSS JACKIE TOBIN

b 1948

DOX ELEGANT GIRL sor 1984 QUARTER HORSE

PEPPY SAN BADGER* sor 15.1 1974 QUARTER HORSE

MR SAN PEPPY* sor 15.1 1968

LEO SAN*

ch 1949

PEPPY BELLE*

sor 15 1955

SUGAR BADGER* b 1959

GREY BADGER III

gr 1947

SUGAR TOWNLEY

sor 1943

ELEGANT DOC sor 1975 QUARTER HORSE

DOC BAR* ch 1956

LIGHTNING BAR*

sor 1951

DANDY DOLL*

ch 1948

KING COBRA* b 1956

KING*

b 14.3 1932

MIMI WARNER*

sor 1946

WB SPOTTY DOC sor 1991 QUARTER HORSE

DOCS KING CHEX ch 1976 QUARTER HORSE

DOC BAR* ch 1956 QUARTER HORSE

LIGHTNING BAR* sor 1951

THREE BARS*

ch 15.3 1940

DELLA P*

ch 1934

DANDY DOLL* ch 1948

TEXAS DANDY*

ch 1942

BAR MAID F

ch 1943

KINGETTA CHEX bl ro 1967 QUARTER HORSE

KING FRITZ* b 1956

POWER COMMAND*

sor 1949

POCO JANE*

b 1948

HELEN STAR rd ro 1959

TOMMY STAR

sor 1948

AMARILLO ROAN*

b ro 1952

IMA TRACKIN dun 1981 QUARTER HORSE

STAR TRACKIN sor 1978 QUARTER HORSE

SKIPA STAR* sor 1973

SKIPPERS LAD*

sor 15.2H 1952

PATS DUSTY STAR*

pal 1964

SABRE ETTE sor 1965

SABRE TWISTER

sor 1961

SCOTCH ANNETT

buck 1960

CHUGETTE dun 1976 QUARTER HORSE

ASCOOTIN DUDE pal 1973

BLONDYS DUDE*

sor 1957

SCOOTS AMIE

pal 1968

MISS CHUG dun 15.2 1964

POCO CHUG

dun 1957

CARAMEL CANDY

sor 1951

* - Photo Available

One thing I don't like, and I know that this will sound silly, but I don't like that he's only APHA reg. just because of him being a roan and he has white hair mixed in his coat.

Up to date

we've done a lot since I posted last, here's a bit to catch ya up!

Our house really is being built!



From this... an old feed lot...



...to this... staking the hole out...

...to this... a big hole!...

...to these...us standing in our future bedrooms...

It's really happening!!

End of the year party for Commonwealth

Friday night we had an end of the year(semester) party for our commonwealth classes, my class (Sword of Freedom) was able to have a "Reunification Ball" to 'celebrate' the end of the civil war(what the class was about) so we all got to dress up for the night and we performed two dances, the waltz and the polka for the parent program. here are some pictures of the evening: the pictures are pretty blury, sorry!



Jared giving his "blurb" about something he learned



Me giving my "blurb" about something I learned

Me in my dress, this one is really blurry!

me getting my sword( the prize for completing the class)

Jared and his Key of Liberty class ( Revolutionary war class) with their mentors

Part of one of the dances we did



Me and my sword of freedom class ( civil war class) some of the boys are too short to be seen!



Part of a dance

Part of a dance

It was a rather long day in Twin but we had a great time and learned a lot of new things! After the parent program was over all of us girls went outside on the grass to spin with our dresses on, it was pretty fun! thanks for a great year guys...

Capstone Pics

me in the governor's office

all of the 'new students'

I finally copied the pictures from capstone here ya go...

Capstone

This week I was able to attend a week long mock legislature "capstone." We have done the day long one "Stonesetters" but this was the first year that I have been able to do the week long one. I really liked it and I can't wait to go back next year! I learned so much in just four days, it is amazing! The last day(friday) there was an optional public speaking class. I was able to go to that and it was really good, but scary at first!! We had to give five impromptu speeches ranging from 30 secoonds to 3 minutes!
We all had to write and debate our bills among other things. I had to debate mine in comittee and on the house floor. The boys only had to debate them on the house floor(one day isn't enough time!)

The videos won't load but I will try later...

Jared's Ordination

Last Sunday we were able to go to Boise to see my darling little cousin Aubrey get blessed. Afterwards, we had dinner at my Aunt's house and we ordained Jared to the office of a deacon.

My parents with Jared

My Grandma and Aubrey

All the grandkids!

Brooks and I hanging out

Jared with all the men that stood in the circle while he was ordained

Jared blowing out his candles

Bailey

Bailey

So, Last night we went and picked Bailey up from being bred!!! I am so Excited. This Stud is awesome too!!! He is a cutter/reiner and has cow!!! So I'm guessing it will be a fast cow horse. Our best bet is that it will be a Palimino. Any way, here are some links to Bailey's and the Stud's pedigrees and other stuff.

Bailey's Pedigree:

Westways Star X0463138 1990 sorrel mare SI: 0 Starts 0 Wins: 0 2nds: 0 3rds: 0 Earnings: 0 Hlt Pts: H- 0.0 Perf Pts: P- 0.0
SIRE side of pedigree		Native Dancer (TB) 1950 T0114251 gray	Polynesian (TB) 1942 T0118035 brown
	Raise a Native (TB) 1961 T0116267 chestnut		Geisha (TB) 1943 T0153156 gray
		Raise You (TB) 1946 T0153152 chestnut	Case Ace (TB) 1934 T0124269 bay
Westway (TB) 1977 T0292235 chestnut			Lady Glory (TB) 1934 T0153642 brown
		Never Bend (TB) 1960 T0115905 bay	Nasrullah (TB) 1940 T0116325 bay
	Album (TB) 1970 T0292234 n/a		Lalun (TB) 1952 T0201475 bay
		Early Frames (TB) 1959 T0159212 chestnut	Prince John (TB) 1953 T0118564 chestnut
			Bed o' Roses II (TB) 1950 T0183135 bay
DAM side of pedigree		Vandy II 1954 0058848 brown 95 19 4 6 4 $ 3,519 H- 1.0 P- 0.0	Vandy 1943 0043628 sorrel 85 3 2 1 0 $ 0
	Breezing Vandy 1960 0124318 bay 45 2 0 0 0 $ 0		Beggar's Pokey 1940 0030715 black
		Breezing Bobby 1945 0015059 brown 65 1 0 1 0 $ 0	Flying Bob U0071183 n/a
Barbie's Star 1971 0823740 bay H- 0.0 P- 71.0			Breeze 1935 0006896 sorrel
		Bar Deck 1958 0123082 bay 95 26 9 2 6 $ 10,379	Moon Deck 1950 0163343 brown 95 62 11 11 6 $ 22,086
	Barbie Deck 1963 0270277 sorrel		Miss Night Bar 1950 0032535 chestnut 95 26 6 4 1 $ 2,702
		Fag's Ann 1958 0176854 chestnut 85 26 5 4 1 $ 3,067	Fag (TB) 1940 T0056231 brown
			Mexron 1946 0022988 chestnut

The Studs:

Mr Quien Sabe 416 3357401 1995 brown stallion SI: 0 Starts 0 Wins: 0 2nds: 0 3rds: 0 Earnings: 0 Hlt Pts: H- 0.0 Perf Pts: P- 0.0
SIRE side of pedigree		Easy Jet 1967 0573195 sorrel 100 38 27 7 2 $ 445,723	Jet Deck 1960 0167014 bay 100 31 22 4 2 $ 200,628 H- 5.0 P- 0.0
	Easy Crimson 1976 1343513 sorrel 98 11 3 1 1 $ 25,246		Lena's Bar (TB) 1954 T0059481 chestnut 95 76 24 18 10 $ 28,311
		Vandy's Lass 1966 0645834 sorrel 85 13 0 0 2 $ 607	Feast (TB) 1952 T0056371 bay
Mr Crimson Shoes 1981 1816069 palomino			Vandy's Pokey 1959 0107683 sorrel 75 7 0 1 0 $ 347
		Azure Te (TB) 1962 T0052758 bay	Nashville (TB) 1954 T0061755 bay
	Soft Shoes 1972 1078473 palomino 93 9 3 0 1 $ 2,261		Blue One (TB) 1952 T0152831 bay
		Cee Holly Joanie 1961 0173121 palomino H- 11.0 P- 99.0	Cee Bars 1950 0032022 sorrel 95 31 4 4 3 $ 2,272
			Holly Joanie 1958 0114561 palomino
DAM side of pedigree		Jet Deck 1960 0167014 bay 100 31 22 4 2 $ 200,628 H- 5.0 P- 0.0	Moon Deck 1950 0163343 brown 95 62 11 11 6 $ 22,086
	Sahki 1970 0709469 bay 92 21 5 3 2 $ 13,870		Miss Night Bar 1950 0032535 chestnut 95 26 6 4 1 $ 2,702
		Miss Croton Oil 1961 0152489 sorrel 100 38 14 6 6 $ 29,406 H- 13.0 P- 0.0	Croton Oil 1955 0058971 sorrel 85 5 1 0 0 $ 770
Quien Sabe Sugar 1977 1331277 gray			How Cute 1954 0071763 sorrel
		Eddie Graygo 1969 0610709 gray	Eddie Red Rose 1960 0144564 sorrel
	Quien Sabe 126 1974 1035504 gray		Miss Blue Otoe 1965 0387541 gray
		Quien Sabe 6 1967 0492193 gray	Grey Badger III 1947 0020285 gray 75 4 0 1 1 $ 0
			Devil's Queen 1960 0358090 dun

and his preformance record:

HORSE PERFORMANCE SUMMARY RECORD

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REG. NO.	HORSE'S NAME	COLOR	SEX	DATE FOAL	ST
3357401	MR QUIEN SABE 416	BROWN	STALLION	04/10/1995	TX

Additional Horse Information for MR QUIEN SABE 416:

·         Genetic Typed

SIRE		DAM		MATERNAL GRANDSIRE
1816069	MR CRIMSON SHOES	1331277	QUIEN SABE SUGAR	0709469	SAHKI

DESCRIPTION	NAME	ADDRESS
BREEDER:	FULTON QUIEN SABE RANCH	LUBBOCK, TX
OWNER:	KRISTEN AND/ OR SID WARD	RICHFIELD, ID

AQHA Show Totals

DIV	EXHIBITOR	DESC	WINS	SHOWS	PTS	DESC	WINS	SHOWS	PTS
OPEN	N/A	LAST SHOW : 07/23/2001
		GRAND	0	N/A	N/A	RESERVE	0	N/A	N/A
		CUTTING	0	2	.0	COWHORSE	0	2	.0
		TOT PERF	N/A	N/A	0.0
AMATEUR	RAY BLAIR	LAST SHOW : 07/10/2005
		GRAND	0	N/A	N/A	RESERVE	0	N/A	N/A
		COWHORSE	0	6	.0	TOT PERF	N/A	N/A	0.0

AQHA/Alliance Totals for MR QUIEN SABE 416
Accuracy and completeness of information are the responsibility of each alliance.

NATIONAL REINED COW HORSE ASSOCIATION

$ 133.00

Earned thru 08/13/2005

She is due May 5, 2012(if she caught this time). It will be fun! The only problem now is, I'm broke!!