Mule Drive

On October 23, 2008 Preston and I celebrated our 1 year dating anniversary by spending the day together. I went to work with him and his friend Ike, took us for a chariot ride pulled by Sage the mule. We went off-roading and had to hold on to the chariot for dear life! As we raced up and down hills and through the sagebrush, I kept thinking of scenes from the movie Ben-Hur... They call the chariot the "Roman Rumbler."

Sage, Preston, and Ike. Talk about mule power!

Preston and Buckaroo

Preston competing on "Buckaroo" at the Utah Arabian horse show in September.

Photo courtesy of Pam Olsen Photography.
Here are a couple of pictures I took while he was warming up in the outdoor arena.
If Preston's horses do something good, he gives them a little pat on the rump. Buckaroo must have done something special.

Jazmine and I Competing at the World Show

All photo's courtesy of All Things Digital Photography.

I got my pictures from Ava! Enjoy!

Here I am competing on Jazmine in the Out-of-State World Grand Championship. I was the highest placing female and got 4th place. Jazmine and I competing in English Pleasure World Grand Championship. Look at her HUGE reach with her front legs! (The judges like that.)I won reserve (second place) in the English World Grand Championship! I had placed 4th in the qualifying English Pleasure Hunt seat class, so she had improved a lot throughout the week!
The victory lap is a lot of fun, I hope this won't be my last time doing it!

Here I am competing in the Open 3-Year-Olds World Grand Championship. This is such a competitive event, before I went in I was praying I would at least place in the top ten. This event was during the last night of the show, Saturday night. I went in and had the best ride I had had on her all week and I ended up getting 9th! I was so excited to place. The biggest trainers in the breed were in there and all the politics to go along with it. Again I was the highest and only placing female in the class. Her tail set was high, she was almost 100% consistent and she shook her little head off. She's such a fun show horse.
I competed in 7 events at the world show on a horse I trained myself and placed in the top ten of every class. Many of those classes she competed against horses that were much older and more experienced than she was. She also beat a lot of well-known trainers as well. Over-all it was an awesome show and I was very pleased with her performance. We even had a guy offer to buy her right as I came out of the English Pleasure Championship.

General Conference

Trying to get Preston to cooperate and take a picture...

Little kissy on the cheeky! I absolutely love this picture. I absolutely love this boy.

Awww. There we go.