Mom and Baby

My Extreme Mustang Challenge mare has been interesting. As I posted before the mare foaled on the 7th of this month and since that day training has regressed significantly. She and I had established a great trust and since the baby she does not want me anywhere near here. I am working to regain her trust again which is coming slow... VERY slowly. I have spoken with The Mustang Heritage foundation and there are 2 other mare who have foaled also. They are considering revising the competition on order to accommodate the foals. They are strongly encouraging us to train at the mare pace and not to push anyone or get anyone hurt. So we will just have to see how things go and progress along. I will get everyone some new pictures soon.

Our Fun on the Weekend - March 14th

Well this weekend was birthday weekend. The first and most fun of the weekend is of course the bounce house. We had about 20 kids over to enjoy the bounce house and what a great time they had. Only 2 adult actually made it into the bounce house up the ladder and down the slide and of course I was the FIRST one.... ha ha yes I am just a big kid and enjoyed every minute of it. Every time we have a bounce house my rule has always been the first adult in the bounce house gets 10 bucks and you know I don't rush to get in there but I seem to always be the first one so I have yet to pay out my 10 bucks to anyone.... Thank you to Extreme Jumps (760) 900-1141 once again for providing all the fun.

The wind then picked up quite nicely as we can always expect late afternoon in the high desert and we broke out the kites..... these were not just any kites they were cool dragon kites. Anyway I did not get up close pics of the kites silly me but do have one of them up in the air... you have to look very very close but you can see 3 little dots in the sky and those are the 3 kites the kids were flying.

Here is a picture of the cake for the girls that we all enjoyed soooo much...gotta LOVE Birthday cake who doesn't.

Then I saved the best part of the day for last. As I have talked about before many times to most of those who know me and I think even on the blog here my ULTIMATE DREAM and passion is Therapeutic Riding and I continue to say one day I will have the funds in order to pursue that dream and I really hope it comes soon!!! Anyway, the part I ALWAYS love is Micah and Emmie together. Micah is an Arabian gelding who was purchased several years ago at Mike's auction where we bid again the meat man in order to secure his future to a good home. his original intention was not for therapy riding but just as a trail horse but he has evolved into much more then a trail horse. Micah is the perfect gentleman and you can watch every step is carefully calculated in order to keep Emmie safe. Emmie has Cerebral Palsy and riding for her is an excellent form of therapy as is the case for most CP kids and adults. Not only is it great therapy for her muscles and body but also for her mind, spirit, and confidence. It is amazing that EVERY single time I see her mount up on that horse it literally brings me to tears and all I can think of is "THAT is what its all about", my dream, my passion, my desire...... here I get teary eyed just thinking about it and tell you all about it..... Here is a picture below which is not that great but it still shows you a small piece of my heart and where it is at. So one day I KNOW it WILL happen in God's time........

THIS is what life is all about!!!!

Yard Sale - March 7th

We had another yard sale on March 7th and 8th and it was a success once again. Thank you to all who donated to help make this happen. To those of you who are coming out to the sales thank you also for coming out and supporting UAWR. Remember to all that we are getting new items all the time so if we did not have what you are looking for this time then please check back with us. Also, just an FYI to all I am told that I have a large donation coming of horse items, I don't know yet what we have but there is alot of tack coming. I also have a donation of more furniture and other large items coming. Then if anyone has a queen sized bed we have a beautiful headboard with shelves that was hand made and is beautiful!!!!!!

I thought I would throw some cute pics of the last yard sale. After a long weekend Sunday evening we ran and got some pizza for dinner for us all to eat and well only horse people would come up with saddle chairs...lol sooo as you can see we had packed away all the chairs and we had to make do for chairs to eat but hey you know what it all worked out great we enjoyed our pizza then finished packin up and headed for home.

Speaking of our next sale is March 28th & 29th but if you are coming shopping on the 28th we will only be open until noon as we have a birthday to celebrate elsewhere but we will be there all day Sunday for you to shop too. I am thinking we will also be out there the weekend after that which is April 4th & 5th also.

I NEEEEDDDDD volunteers desperately!!!! I just need people to come out Saturday morning the 28th to help set up everything and then more people to help pack up at the end of the weekend. This process I have been doing alone and it taking me several hours (4 hours minimum) and at our last sale I was not even able to get everything out that we had for sale. So I feel we could be much more successful with the yard sales if we had all the items out for viewing by the customers. The more items we have out to sell the more funds we can raise for the horses. You would not need to stay all day long just a couple hours in the morning and couple hours at the end to help put everything away.



I hope to see some of you out there on the 28th. Thank you and if you would like to volunteer with UAWR please see our volunteer website at http://www.angels.uawr.com/ for more info.

Catching Up

Ok I am gonna try and write several days worth all in one shot. My issue now is that at home I am on dial up service we do not get DSL at my location and every time I am trying to post more to the blog it times out when signing in. So today I am at my dads house which he has DSL soooo we are operating in HIGH SPEED yippie I am soooo excited... anyway so I have alot of catching up to do and will try my best to update everyone on that haps.

I'm so excited!!!!

I am sooooo happy my computer is co-operating this evening cause I have exciting news to share!!!!!

First I have to say gotta love that dial up internet connection between that and my computer I have not had access to much these days..... but tonight things are behaving themselves Yippie!!!

Sooooo We have a baby today!!!!! VERY exciting!!!!! I was not here when the blessed event happened I was off hosting a yard sale to help all the wonderful UAWR horses and when I got home I had some people coming to look at horses and as we walked into the back yard I looked over in that direction and saw something laying on the ground and got excited and started say we have a baby, she had her baby, oh my goodness.... an everyone kinda looked at me like I had lost my mind.... then they too saw the baby and got excited.

Mom and Baby seem to be doing well. Baby is up, trotting around, nursing, and doing good! Mom was quite nervous and upset with all the people here so I was not able to play with the baby yet but during the daylight tomorrow I will play with mom and see how it goes with her trusting me to play with baby too.

I am not sure at this time if its a colt (boy) or filly (girl) but pretty sure It's a girl from what I can tell. I will have to update all of you on that part.

Sooo exciting news today....makes it even more heart breaking to have to give them both up at the end of this competition though....but having a new baby is always fun and always a good thing!!!

Stay tuned for more pictures and better ones too.

Mustang Update

(This was written March 4th but not able to post until March 7th)

So I have not been doing much with the mustang seein as she has gotten twice as big around and is VERY pregnant! When working with her after a short period of time even with very little stress she gets diarrhea really bad so I have been trying not to do too much with her... I am quite concerned about the her and the pregnancy and do not want to put money and a contest ahead of their well being sooooo things are going very slowly for the sake of her and the baby.

My guess would be we will be having a baby fairly soon maybe a couple of weeks sometime end of this month... I can't wait and hope once the baby comes I will be able to put more time into her. At that point I will then have 2 horses to work with for the competition.