Colorado Horse Show

This past weekend I have been in Golden, Colorado (just outside of Denver) for a horse show. I showed two horses, Patriot's Dixie Pizzazz (Pizzazz), and Image's Jazzy Ragtime Hit (Jazmine).


This is Pizzazz. I won the 3-Gait-Championship on her and after this show I am in second place overall in my circuit. My coworker, Lacey, is in first place. We are pretty happy that we are doing so well.
Kamille on Tuffy, Lacey on Majestic, and me on Pizzazz. All of our shirts were custom made by Lacey's mom. She also made Kamille and Lacey's pants and chaps. She is making me some pink chaps and pants for the next show.Lacey won almost every class she entered on Majestic. I took second in trail, barrel racing, western horsemanship, and English pleasure. I took third in western pleasure, and pole bending.

Jazmine is a three-year-old filly that I broke and trained myself with some help from Geno Middleton (the greatest foxtrotter trainer ever to live) who is from Missouri. So far I have shown her at two shows and in 5 classes and she is still undefeated. At this show, I showed her in a class with 12 other horses, all were older than her and she kicked their trash. She also won the 2-Gait-Championship where I won another belt buckle. Here is a short clip of her being shown. She is amazing. I am really looking forward to showing her at the world show.

Father's Day

On Father's Day, Dad got three new ties. Preston is really good at tying ties and he even knows how to tie the double windsor. On father's day, I had him give dad a double windsor lesson...

I love this picture above. Classic dad-concentrating-look.

Let's just say that dad is going to need a little bit more practice...

After the tie-tying lesson we decided to go American Fork canyon and go for a hike. It was such a beautiful day.

Dad's Birthday Flight to Manti

On Dad's birthday, Dad and I flew down to Manti for the Mormon Miracle Pageant. In Dad's student ward there is a flight student named Jorge who has completed over 200 flying hours that agreed to take us down to Manti so that we could watch the pageant with the rest of the ward. We felt pretty lucky to be able to fly instead of have to drive down like everyone else. We flew in a really nice plane that is worth over $500,000. Jorge was a great pilot and he gave us a really smooth flight.


I really liked the plane we flew in. It was really nice. I didn't get sick a all, even when we were doing tight circles and zero g's. Jorge let dad fly the plane for a while. He thought dad had a lot of natural ability to fly a plane, way to go dad! Jorge was really impressed.
Here is Mount Nebo. We flew out of the Spanish Fork airport. It was a beautiful sunny day with no wind at all.When we arrived at the Manti airport, we saw this ghetto little pilot's lounge. Take a look inside...
We all had a good laugh when we looked inside. How ghetto.

Here we are at the foot of the temple hill before the pageant started. The temple looked so pretty. This was the first time I got to see the pageant.

Barn Photo Shoot

Here are some pictures that we took up at the ranch yesterday. We were having an open house at the barn and had to dress up, so we figured we should capture the fact that we can do our hair and put make-up on if we want to. We had a lot of fun.

Kamille, Me, Julia, and Lacey.
Attempting to jump... It didn't work.

How do you do?

I wanna be a cowgirl baaabbbyyy.

Three crazy horse trainers. And three best buds.
Having way too much fun.

The end.

Another Hard Day Of Work...

The other day my coworkers and I got a little distracted with some pitchforks while we were working. I showed them a trick with the pitchfork and then tried to teach them how to do it. the challenge is this: you have to maneuver the pitchfork from behind your body to the front of your body without letting go. This was more like a flexibility test and we all had a good time laughing at each other trying to do this.
I was taught how to do this fun trick by the Cazier's in Idaho Falls years ago. For some reason I can do it very easily and at first I was the only one who could do it at the barn, but after much bending and stretching, quite a few people were able to do it as well. It was a great team building activity. We all had a good time. Enjoy the photo's and videos. See if you can do it as well.



This is Julia, Spencer, and I having a race.


I am so blessed to work with such highly motivated, positive, and amazing people. From left to right; Courtney, Chris, Taylor, Julia, Kamille, Lacey, Dallin, John, and Spencer. These are the people that I get to work with everyday up at the farm. We have so much fun!

Utah Valley 5k

This morning I ran the Utah Valley 5k! Preston was so supportive, he even signed up this week to run with me even though he hasn't been running lately. We woke up super early and started the race at 7:00am. Preston stayed with me for the first quarter mile and then I told him to go ahead because I could tell he was going crazy because I was going slow :)
He finished 5-10 minutes before I did and then he turned around and ran the last little bit with me. I ran the 5k in 33.34 minutes and got 10th place for my age division. I can't remember Preston's time but he got 4th place in his age division.Crossing the finish line! (Do you like the sign that mom made for us? What good parents!)

Preston and I Ridin'

Yesterday I went up to Coyote Creek Ranch and helped Preston ride some of the horses he is training. Here are a couple of pictures.Preston on his stallion Dude, and I am on one of his client's horses, Mirage.

Slide stop! Isn't Preston amazing?