KRISTEN FELL OFF A HORSE AND SPRAINED HER ANKLE!!!

Gaaah!!

So yesterday we had the horse trainer over to help us train our horses (no duh).

The trainer asked me what horse I wanted to work with. I said Cocoa. She said that since Keena cut her leg, Kristen could work with Allie because Bonnie isn't broken. So we go out and try and catch Cocoa, but like the little Spirit she is, she runs off. So we halter Allie up and go to work with her in the round pen.

I got to put the bridal around my neck and zip my coat up around it. Keeps the bit warm. Hm.

The trainer has Allie run circles around her, and then she lunges her, and then she's finally ready to ride. We saddle her up, and the trainer rides her. She does great! So they put Kristen on her, and Allie just takes off cantering in circles in the round pen. Her only goal: to get Kristen off her back, which eventually works.
Kristen lands funny, and her ankle starts to hurt, and later, swells.
The trainer is not happy with Allie at this point, so we put her back in the pen with the other horses.
I carry Kristen in, and we ice her ankle, and we can tell it's sprained, because she can't walk on it.

She got to stay home today.

NO FAIR


Ow! The chiropractor messed with my neck today and it freaking HURTS.

~Steph

BO-BO!!!! It's Boaaaaaz the Baaaatdoooog!!

Boaz's pictures!!!

Kristen and the Baby Bo Boaz
Nyaaaaawww....it's Bauw-Bauw!

Horse Pictures!!! Mwaha, but no faces allowed.

So this is like, part II of the Mexican Ghetto Truck Adventure, but everything past the second picture is at our house.

Daniel and I in the Mexican Ghetto Truck. Kristen's to my right, but she's not in the picture. Haha!

Kristen and I with Bonnie (brown one) and Allie (cream one)

From Left: Bonnie, Allie, Cocoa, and Keena

<==Allie Keena==>

<==Bonnie Cocoa==> Neighbor Horse===>

<==Allie Bonnie==>

<==Me <=Kristen Cocoa=>

<=Cocoa Kristen=>

Oh, so you think YOU'RE COLD? I'M FREEZING IN MY OWN HOUSE!!

This is what i'm wearing RIGHT NOW. A wool hat , fleece jacket, pajama pants (well, and a pj shirt), and my skate shoes. And the scanner's light took forever to warm up 'cause, well, IT'S FROZEN.

Does anybody else bundle up like they're camping in their basement?

And I slept in my sister's room on a cot because she had a space heater in there, and that threw my back out of whack because have scoliosis.

Hehe, and my new haircut gives me severe bed-head.

And the computer's running slow because it's frozen

too.

Well, i think i'll go upstairs where the temperature is at least above freezing.

Over and out,

Steph

Steph Went on an Adventure in a Rainbow Ghetto Truck. She Found a Painted Pony and a Burrito

Today we had an adventure. My dad bought this aweful truck that cost half of the ATV to pull the horse trailor. It has a rainbow stripe on the side, just like our retro RV.

I think my dad has something for the 80's.

So we drove up to Buena Vista to get the other two horses, and it took pretty much all day. Three hours down, three back. All i brought was four CD's (with the player), a pillow, and a book (which i did not end up reading). My sister got me to bring my iPod, but i didn't end up using that either.
I got the middle seat, with Daniel on the left, and Kristen on the right. Daniel almost made me carsick when he dicided to get out his pretzels and blueberry cream cheese from the cooler. I told him i'd puke on him, so he took one last bite and put them away.

We also ate at a diner, and we sat in the mexican corner with tiles. My mom looked for burritos on the menu.

He brought many things. It was like, "I need this, and this, and this, and this, and this, and this, and two pairs of shoes (????)."
I only brought one pair XD

So we got Allie and Bonnie to go with Keena and Cocoa (WHO I AM SO RENAMING!!! Any ideas?). We got home with the trailor, and Keena and Cocoa start whinnying, like, "OMG IT'S ALLIE AND BONNIE!"

There's a pile of gold under every rainbow pickup.

Over and out,

Steph

HORSES!!!

Okay, so i raided a coloring page site and found a picture and painted it so it looks like my horse. My horse is a Dunn, but she is also Buckskin and Indian Paint. She is so pretty! I need to get a picture of her on here soon (and Kristina, you need to come over soon!).

Today, my mom's friend and her two girls (both older that 15) came over and helped us get our barings on horsey's.

I learned how to round pen, but i couldn't ride my horse (still coming up with a name, only i can't tell you her full name because you could literally find me and kill me with that name because she's a regestered horse.

I don't know how many of you yahoos are crazy maniac mass murderers who plan to kill me at the first piece of info you get of me, but it's a risk.

I AM NOT A CRAZY FREAK SHOW MASS MURDERER!! I swear, i'm not. (Don't listen to any comments that Michael may post about that statement, okay? Okay.)

Oh, and Michael? OBAMA IS A BUTT HEAD!! When he comes to kill us, we're gonna send Boaz after him, charge him on our horses, and we are gonna LOCK HIM IN THE HORSE TRAILOR!! YEAH!!

And then we'll throw Molly in there with him to finish 'im off. XD

Mwahaha.

So yeah, 10-4, over and out.

Our daschund just tried to kill our schnoodle. I am not even kidding.
I wake up, and all i hear is daniel screaming and a muffled "Rrr-rur-rur-rur". And i'm like, "Oh crap," so i go downstairs to knife-hand Molly (dashcund) in the back, but Dad's already on it. And Maggie (schnoodle)'s mouth is bleeding and Dad said that Molly was hanging on to it with her teeth like her life depended on it.

Geez that thing is so evil.

Yeah, so you remember what daschunds can do next time you reach down and say "Oh...!! She's so cute!!! Because that thing could kill you. I swear.

{it's a} "AAAAAAUHHH!!!! A RAT!!!" {rat's nest}

I was working at this lady from church's house, and she, Kristen, and I were working outside. So she (I'm just gonna call her Mrs. Jones) was sweeping the deck [because of the owl turd everywhere], and noticed that there was some of her greenery under the grill. She thought that it was because of the hail storm they'd had, and that the wind just pushed it under. Then it donned on her.

"Hey, guys? Can you help me move the grill? I think there's something living in there."
So we walk over and move it. Then there's, like, urine stains on the deck below it. She groans.

I pipe up, gasping. "Can i open it?! Can I!?"

"Um...sure," she says, standing back.

So we take the cover off the grill, and I lift the lid...

...and there's this rodent that looks like a mouse on steroids. *

"AAAAAUUHHH!!! A RAT!!!" Mrs. Jones shreiks.

I onto the deck rail (and Kristen jumps off the deck) and watch it run off.

And there's a nest (i kid you not), and it looked like a little rat condo.

So, yeah. Now i know the truth to it when my mom used to tell me that my hair looked like a rat's nest.

> ^.^<

We're getting four horses! Coaco [**], Keena, Allie, and Bonnie. They're pretty.

Boaz rolled in poop today *ew*

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YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!! YES! yes! yes! yes!

We got our new dog today!!!

His name is Boaz, and he is sooo cute. My brother was convinced he was going to like him best, so he smuthered him with hugs and pats.
Now I think Boaz doesn't like him as much. But it's just a hunch.

I drew a picture of him, but it's not very good. His front left leg bot kind of weird.


He's a maremma sheepdog; they look kind of like white golden retreivers. But they're really big. We're using him as a guard dog because we moved to a ranch and we're getting alpacas.


Winky (our weenie dog) and him are already good friends.

Hey! Did you know that you can get tax deductions for farm animals? So Boaz is an asset! We collected the recepts from the Toll Roads that we took to go get him, and we're gonna get tax deductions for 'farm expenses'. Cool, hugh?

My dad put up a pen for him with our deceeced golden retreiver's dog house in it. It has a tarp over the far side of it so the hay we put under it doesn't get wet. It also acts as a windbreaker.

We put it by the driveway in front of our house.

Gotta go. I have to wake up at 5:30 tomorrow because of frickin school. Wish me luck and hope that Colton/Josh/Cameron/other-people-i-don't-like aren't on my team!

Bye!

~steph