Just for laughs!

This post is just for fun!

Isn't she so cute!!!!

My cousin Erica and I both went over to my Grandma's house to pass out candy and hang out on Halloween. We got a hold of my Grandma's ipad and went to town taking silly pictures of each otherin between trick-or-treaters. Oh, and we laughed ourselves silly in the process!

Oh, and Erica crocheted the skirt that she is wearing (plus her belt and headband!). She was a crochet doll for Halloween. Isn't it soooooo cute?

Great Article

This is a really great insightful article on horsemanship click here to read it.

Teaching a Horse how to Neck Rein

So I got a crazy hair today and I decided that I wanted to ride Idaho. I knew that she was broke because she was raced. I wouldn't have just jumped on her if I didn't know that! I don't think that she's been ridden in 5+ years.

Anyway...I got on her and she did sooooo good! She was waaaay better than I thought she would be! She acted like a good old broke mellow horse...not a racehorse at all! She didn't have any bad racehorse manners except for she hates her ears being touched at all. So it took a looong time for me to figure out how to put a headstall on her, especially because that one is a sliding ear. She was happy to walk around and trot a little bit. She didn't try anything at all. Caleb rode her around the arena by himself a lot. But she was trained to run, not to be a good usable horse. So she is really green. She's probably the greenist (is that a word?) horse I've ever ridden. She knows zero neck reining and knows nothing about moving off of your leg. She has no buck in her or anything but she knows nothing except for a kick means go forward and whoa means slow down or stop (oh and she backed up when I asked her to). She was soooo sweet and was trying so hard to do what I asked her to she just didn't understand the cues I use on my other horses.

She is a really jumpy easily spooked horse so I was kind of nervous about it but she was soooo steady. Que was running all over the arena and she didn't even bat an eyelash! She has the SMOOTHEST gait i've ever ridden, even more than Bailey, and Bailey is really smooth!

But anyway, I found these videos on how to teach neck reining, I have always taken for granted the fact that my horses have always known how to but I'm going to see if I can teach her to because it is sooo much more fun to ride a horse that neck reins vs. on that doesn't!

The House: The Library Room

Sorry for the bad lighting! Here the boys are studying hard in the Library.

Lots of shalves for lots of books!

This is a cool little shelf in front of the window with a BOM and Dictionary along with some atlas' and random books!

The House: The Basement

Shelf in the Stairwell going down



Our couchless family room. Until we get couches it is a great play area since there's so much open space that's carpeted!

Piano area of the family room. (Please excuse the dollhouse!)

Nice big storage room!

Caleb's room

Luke's room (he has a desk in the corner you can't see)

Jared's room

My room (ignore the books on my bed...it's kind of like my desk!)

The House: The Bonus Room!

When you look to the left as you come up the stairs this is what you see...my sewing/music room!!!
(It's already messy! Oh no!)

Closup of the sewing part of the room.
On a side note, I LOOOOVE having a real design wall, it has been sooooo nice!

When you look to the right when you come up the stair this is what you see!
We're planning on having dances up here! It should be super fun!

This is a little family room on the very end of that looong room!
The bunkbeds are for when people come over and us kids are kicked out of our bedrooms.

This is our 'wii area' there's just the perfect amount of space to play the wii!

This is the view from a dormer window! The arena, then beautiful pastures and handlines :) and then the mountains!

View to the left from the same dormer. Can you see Bailey's head sticking up in there?

Closeup of 5 of the horses out in the pasture.
(in case you were dying to know Fanny and roxy are the ones standing, the other 3 are lying down and Bailey is over in the corrals since Que is being weaned)

This is a bad view of the cool chandelier that is in the stairwell going upstairs. I'll have to get a picture from the outside at night, it looks really cool!

More later...

The House: Main Level

Some people have requested pictures of our house via. email so I figured that this would be the easiest way to show everybody. Let's just say I took a LOOOOOOT of pictures!!

This is the Living Room

This is the Kitchen from the Living Room

Kitchen view

Mom's butler's pantry

The Mudroom

Closeup of the lockers

The washer and dryer (in the mud room)

Laundry area, for sorting, folding clothes etc. in the mud room

Half of the garage

 

The guest bedroom that is sheetless

The Master Bedroom

 

Big Girl = Sad Mommas!

I just love that look on her face!

Que is getting so big! These pictures were taken about a month and a half ago and she has grown so much since then! The halter that is on her in these doesn't even fit her anymore!

She is halter broke and I trained her to back up as soon as I wiggle the lead rope a little bit!! I can also tie her to anything!

She's being weaned right now. It's crazy how time flies! I didn't want to wean her this early ( she's about 4 1/2 months old) but Bailey was having a hard time nursing her so I've been gradually separating them. It's pretty loud at our house right now!

So Bailey and I are both sad mommas, our baby is growing up!

This is amazing!!

What do you think?

It's so exciting just to look at!!!!!
http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/que8

This isn't her registered name (It's going to be Miss Susy que) but since the registration isn't done yet I just put que. I'll fill it in completely when her registration is complete.

Cabinets

Cabinets are in! Sorry but the rest of the pics won't load. The formica is on now and it looks like a real kitchen except for the missing appliances!

What makes me smile...

amidst other things :)

"Peaches"

SS SHADOW LAKE
2001 bay mare
click here for her pedigree

We made a trade today...we got a horse for a box of peaches! Pretty good deal eh?
We're up to six and a half now! I need a job! Rest assured we are not planning on getting any more for a while! This broodmare was rescued this past spring so she isn't pregnant right now. She has some pretty awesome lines! Dash for Cash is on her papers!!! We are planning on breeding her to Cowboy next spring.

Another one...FFQ POCOS FOXY FLASH

Since it appears that I do not have enough horses Ma and I went down to Utah on Friday and picked up another one, FFQ POCOS FOXY FLASH aka. 'Roxy'! So now I own 5. That is a lot! This mare is just a broodmare and is pregnant to foal next may. She is super sweet and nice...but really, 5 horses! Crazy!

here is her pedigree, she is pretty well bred!
FFQ POCOS FOXY FLASH M, QUARTER HORSE, 2003

(CLOSE)

FFQ POCOS FOXY FLASH 2003 QUARTER HORSE

IMA SKIPPIN CHEX 2000 QUARTER HORSE

WARRIOR COMMAND buck 1981 QUARTER HORSE

FRITZ COMMAND* buck 1967 QUARTER HORSE

KING FRITZ* b 1956

POWER COMMAND*

sor 1949

POCO JANE*

b 1948

SUTHERLANDS MISS buck 1951

JODIE THE TUFF

b 1945

TANGERINE W*

blk smky 1944

SUGAR CHICKS b 1972 QUARTER HORSE

TRIPLE CHICK* br 15.1 1955

THREE BARS*

ch 15.3 1940

CHICADO V*

br 1950

SUGAR MAYDAY sor 1958

LEO*

sor 14.2 1940

FRONTERA SUGAR

pal 1943

MISS CLASSY CACHE 1989 QUARTER HORSE

SKIPA STAR LAD* sor 1978 QUARTER HORSE

SKIPA STAR* sor 1973

SKIPPERS LAD*

sor 15.2H 1952

PATS DUSTY STAR*

pal 1964

SKIPS JOYCE* pal ? 1966

SKIP SCHOOL*

pal 1957

LITTLE PEARL ANN

sor 1960

TWISTIE CUE sor 1959 QUARTER HORSE

CUELLAR* ch 1942

KING*

b 14.3 1932

OLD SILVER

b 1923

TALLULA TWIST ch 1953

HARD TWIST*

ch 1942

BABE LUX

sor 1934

POCOS FANCY FLASH buck 1988 QUARTER HORSE

LEO SAN BUENO buck 1981 QUARTER HORSE

POCO SAN BUENO* buck 1965 QUARTER HORSE

LEO SAN* sor 1949

LEO*

sor 14.2 1940

SAN SUE DARKS*

sor 1945

POCO FAY buck 1955

POCO BUENO*

br 15.0 1944

PRETTY ROSALIE*

buck 15.0 1943

CLASSY BIEN ch 1962 QUARTER HORSE

POCO BIEN dun 15.0 1958

POCO BUENO*

br 15.0 1944

LADY PEP-UP X

dun 1949

TYPY TAMI ch 1957

SOPPY*

sor 15.1 1946

NICKITA

ch 1949

JILL BLANTON buck 1969 QUARTER HORSE

STERLS LUCKY dun 1960 QUARTER HORSE

LUCKY BLANTON* ch 1936

MARK

sor 1925

GOLD NUGGET 3

dun 1941

HEART 87 dun 1955

HOLLYWOODS PARKE

dun 1950

HEART 42

1952

POCO PEGGY 1956 QUARTER HORSE

POCO DELL* b 1950

POCO BUENO*

br 15.0 1944

SHADY DELL

dun 1946

BONNIE BENEAR b 1948

DUSTY BENEAR

b 1942

BONNIE CLEGG

br 1945

* - Photo Available

If you go to this link you can see the pics of the horses with astericks by their names http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/ffq+pocos+foxy+flash


This is the pedigree of the stud that she is bred to, son of the great DRIFTS CHIP!!! This dude's brother was champion heeler a couple of years ago!!

DRIFT SUNNY FOUR H, QUARTER HORSE, 2000

Color: buck (CLOSE)

DRIFT SUNNY FOUR buck 2000 QUARTER HORSE

DRIFTS CHIP* blk 1979 QUARTER HORSE

DOUBLE DRIFT blk 1956 QUARTER HORSE

GRAY CHIP gr 1953 QUARTER HORSE

DRIFTWOOD* b 15 1932

MILLER BOY

b 1926

THE COMER MARE

ch 1920

SUGAR TIT gr 1942

KELLY

1938

LOUSE SCHUYLER

b 1936

ROSE WOOD b 1954 QUARTER HORSE

DRIFTWOOD* b 15 1932

MILLER BOY

b 1926

THE COMER MARE

ch 1920

MISS HONDO b 1942

HANK I

1936

NELLIE 21

~1935

DIAMOND ISLE ro 1959 QUARTER HORSE

DIAMOND CHIP b 1948 QUARTER HORSE

SILVER KING* b 1937

OLD SORREL*

ch 1915

CLEGG MARE NO 3

b 1925

SCAR FACE S br 1935

BAILEY

sor 1913

MARE BY MIDNIGHT

gr 1926

DUSTY BABE ro 1946 QUARTER HORSE

DUSTY HANCOCK* bl ro 15H 1940

ROAN HANCOCK*

b ro 1935

TRIANGLE LADY 12

buck 1939

8 0 3 BABE 1939

RED JOE OF ARIZONA*

ch 1932

DREAMY 9

BELLES SANDY SUNNY buck 1990 QUARTER HORSE

BAR MONEY SUNNY* buck 15.0 1982 QUARTER HORSE

BAR MONEY* ch 1960 QUARTER HORSE

THREE BARS* ch 15.3 1940

PERCENTAGE

ch 1923

MYRTLE DEE*

blk/br 1923

MISS RUBY b 1946

LOS MOLINOS

b 1932

TEX

b 1939

SUNECE BAILEY buck 1962 QUARTER HORSE

GOLD KING BAILEY pal 1945

HANK H*

ch 1942

BEAUTY BAILEY

pal 1932

MACS SUNNYDAY b 1951

STAR BRIGHT MOORE*

b 1945

NILA B

br 1939

DOCS BONNIE BELLE b 1984 QUARTER HORSE

DOCS TIVIO JACK sor 1981 QUARTER HORSE

DOCS JACK SPRAT* sor 14.3 1972

DOC BAR*

ch 1956

PURA FINA

b 1965

ME LICKA STAR sor 1968

STRING FLAG

buck 1963

DANNY DOLL

sor 1959

MONTE BONNIE b 1980 QUARTER HORSE

MONTE JIBO sor 1967

BUENO ROBIN

b 1961

MON SUE STAR

br 1961

SWEET BONNIE GAL buck 1973

HANCOCKS DUDE*

br 1960

HOPETT

pal 1964

* - Photo Available

 if you go to this link you can see his progeny and the pics of the horses with astericks by their names http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/drift+sunny+four