Horses

Tonight I was trying to find a full pedigree for my horse Bailey(whose registered name is Westways Star), she's a appendix quarter horse(used for racing 1/2 Quarter Horse 1/2 TB) and I found a lot of cool stuff about some of her "family." First of all I learned that her Grandpa is Raise a Native!!!! Raise a Native is the son of Native Dancer!!!!!!!!!!! Native dancer is a pretty famous race horse(his career earnings were $785,000(he ran in the Kuntucky Derby and got second!!!!!!!!)! Also, out of another son of Native dancer is Man to Beat!!!!! Who was also famous!!! The website I found this on only had TB's on it so all of these are TB's my next goal is to do Barbie's Star's(Bailey's mom's who is the Quarter horse) pedigree.

Here are some pictures of them(some are very very distant grandparents)

These are the registered names. And I believe all but 1 or 2 are race horses


Whisk Broom


Reigh Count


Ok, is screwed this up, this is Raise a Native(still pretty don't you think) and he did NOT die at age 17 of colic.


OK, this is Native Dancer he DID die at age 17 of colic and DID run in the Kentucky Derby and got 2nd.


Man o' War(he's famous too)


Teddy


Discovery


Count Fleet


Cleopatra-2

Here is the link for Westways Star's Pedigree (her sire's side anyway) and here is the link for free TB pedigree's

I know I haven't posted in a while but I don't really know what to post...I'll try to think of something...

• I have finally finished memorizing to Declaration of Independence!!!!! It still needs a little(OK, maybe like a lot) more work before we present it to class on Friday.
• I read the freedom factor in about 24 hours. I highly recommend it. It is soooooo good!!!!
• Happy New Year!!!
• Merry Christmas! Sorry I haven't posted anything about Christmas. But we had a really good Christmas.

• Hmmmm. Since this blog is 'supposed' to be about horses I'm just going to say I haven't ridden in a long time, my mare is waaaaaaay to fat!

I know there's a lot more that's happened but those were the ones that are on my mind.

I told you Idaho is beautiful...

Who Says this isn't beautiful? And no, I didn't take this this week! I took it some time in Sept. I think.

Am I ready?

For the new year? I mean do I want a new decade to start? Will I be excited when the New year comes or will I be sad?
So many things have happened this year. For instance:
1. This year was the first time a horse bucked me off.
2. This year was the year the I started Commonwealth school.
3. This year was the first(or second) year that I've really studied in-depth.
This year was the first year I have had true happiness. Sure there's been days where I thought that "this is the worst day ever." But everyone has those days every once in a while. Right?

I'm just not ready for this year to be over. It seems like just yesterday was new years.

Love Story

This is a awesome reproduction of Love Story by Taylor Swift
Enjoy:

New Era

This month the New Era was REALLY good! Here are a few thing I liked:

Elder Cook's message was really good. The section on being a saint today was especially good.

"Mary, sweet and tender maiden" (the song) is powerful.

"Why me?" was good. This is a good reminder that Heavenly Father does love us.

This is the poem:

"Quiet as Starlight"

Quiet as starlight
sweeter then
sugarplums,
warm as Christmas
memories,
welcome as a candle
in the window
guiding me home,
soft as lab's wool,
still as peace,
the spirit speaks to me.

OK, maybe I liked... well, lets just say I liked pretty much all of it. HERE is the link to a list of all of the "stories"

Happy Birthday Jared!!!!!!!!

Jared's Birthday was yesterday!! He turned 10!!!! He had a great birthday! We went to Twin in the evening to visit a friend that was in the hospital. It turned out that he had already been released, so we went to Gerties(a local SUPER yummy pizza place) and went to D&B to get Jared a different size in Wranglers(he got a pair that was to small for his birthday) and to get me a different size in cwby boots(I'm getting some for Christmas but since mom didn't know the exact size to get them in she just guessed and they were the wrong size). Happy birthday Jared!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NO IT"S NOT SUPPOSED TO BE...

DECEMBER! It's just not! Where did summer go? Where did all those warm sunny days go?

Thanksgiving pics

me

runners coming in

getting ready to run

singing happy birthday

Connect 4 tournament

Also I wanted to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving! We had a great Thanksgiving. So we had the family turkey trot at ten. Then we went to finish cooking food and got ready then went back to Aunt Becky's to eat and play for a while. When we got home we found out that our horses were out so dad and I hurried to go catch them. It turned out that they were way over by the hwy and so we started to walk them back and then the ones without halters took off and then FINALLY after what seemed like forever we got them it! And boy, they were sooooooo thirsty.

My pics aren't loading so I'll try in the morning...

Key of Liberty

So because almost all of you read my mom's homeschooling blog you know that I've been taking Key of Liberty and I love it!!!!!!! So here's our schedule:

Devotional(prayer song pledge)

Turn in written reports

Give oral reports( I have my first one next week!!!!!)

5-10 minute break

Discuss our book that we're reading(we just finished John Adams, Reluctant Patriot of the Revolution)

30 minute lunch break

Leave(do errands in Twin)

BYU-I Concert

So last night we went to a BYU-I concert in Twin. We forgot to bring the camera but we were like the second row back!!! It was a empty row then some little girls then us!!!! It was pretty cool. We also took Paul and Ate at Cafe Rio before we went. Then of course we went grocery shopping.

Oh and it's snowed these past two mornings but it melted by noon.

My "New" Room!!

So after all of the carpet and painting was done we put our rooms back together. It really isn't all that different except for I switched from a Queen sized bed to a twin sized bed(I'm a flopper and I thought I was going to fall out of bed that first night!!!) And Switched it around a little.

Here's some pictures of my "New" room:

My bookshelf

My dresser and desk

My bed, I love that horse painting above it

Life is CRAZY right now!!!

So we just repainted, are putting new carpet in this week, new roof and are putting tile in a bathroom and the dinning room. Life is so chaotic!! We have mattresses and just stuff EVERYWHERE except for the bedrooms.

Here are some picture of out life right now, these were taken before we took all of the mattresses and dressers, desk etc. out of the bedrooms.