My Favorite Breeds

Here are my top ten horse breeds. Google has great images of all of them. I love them all, mind you.

1. Gypsy Vanner
2. Arabian
3. Lusitano
4. Friesan
5. Andalusian
6. Percheron
7. Quarter Horse
8. Clydesdale
9. Rocky Mountain Horse
10. Mustang

Click here for a link to an awesome Gypsy Vanner website.

Here are my top ten dog breeds. Once again, refer to Google for pictures.

1. Husky
2. Golden Retriever
3. German Shepherd
4. Collie
5. Saint Bernard
6. Border Collie
7. Sheltie
8. Cocker Spaniels
9. Jack Russell Terrier
10. Australian Shepherd

Click here for a page of beautiful husky pictures.

I love animals!

The Colorado Trip

On August, 3rd, we left with J-dogs family in their 15 passenger van, to go to Pagosa Springs, Colorado . We got a little past tiny Claude, TX when the van broke down. All ELEVEN of us piled out while the dads tried to fix it. Pretty soon a State Trooper saw us and stopped to help. We ended up getting towed back to Claude to get fixed. We spent a night there (that puts us one day behind schedule) and left about noon the next day. We finally got to Amarillo, where we were supposed to spend the previous night, and promptly broke down again. In a cemetery. There we played Tips and I chunked rocks at turtles in a pond. Luckily there was a transmission store close by. We spent TWO WHOLE DAYS in Amarillo (3 days behind)!! It turned out being kinda fun and I got an awesome knife. Leaving on the third day, we made to our condo in CO at about ten pm. We hiked, swam, tubed, saw ancient ruins, went on a trail ride, hiked some more, rode a train... Oh yeah, we also saw a bear at our condo. Speaking of, I saw a momma and a baby bear while on the train and only one other person saw them. We shopped in Durango for a time... On the way home the car broke down twice, but we did finally make it back. Very, er, eventful, wouldn't you say?

Tips in the cemetery...

11 people, 7 passenger car.

Will we make it home?

Update on project: Mustang

Well, I know I haven't blogged in a long time and I will now tell you why. In short, the land that we were living on had to be sold so we had to move out by July, 14. My Dad had been working in Bryan for over a year so we went to stay with J-dog's family, in Bryan, for a while. Then, while visiting my grandparents in Dallas, my Dad got a job offer as a well paid construction manager. Work was drying up in Bryan anyway, so he took the job. We then moved in with my grandparents in Dallas and are currently still there. Yes, that means we had to sell my horses. I miss them. That also means I am now 5 1/2 hours away from Firefly. :*(  Now that you're updated on why I haven't blogged, I'm gonna blog!

Saying Goodbyes...

       Saying permanent goodbyes are hard. Very hard. Probably the hardest goodbyes I have ever made were when we moved from Hearne, TX to the Texas Hill Country(THC). My first major goodbye was to Turtle*. Let me tell you about Turtle. I had known Turtle ever since I could remember. I was born a year ahead of her, but that never mattered to us. We were almost always together, partially because we lived right next to each other. We were often mistaken for un-identical twins, because we would wear matching shirts. When my family moved to THC, hers moved to Houston. Now I see her just about once every two months. My other great friend lived about ten minutes away from where we lived, and her name is J-dog. I can't remember not knowing her either. We share a lot of the same interests, and I miss not seeing her all the time.
        When we moved, people weren't the only things I missed. I also miss my mulberry tree, which was the best climbing tree ever and, in the summer it produced yummy mulberries! We also had a pond behind our house that was fun to swim in.
         More recently, I had to say goodbye to a dear family from co-op; Grateful For Grace and co. If you remember, Gypsy is the horse we got in Oct., 2011. Well, she proved to be too much for me and my mom, and my dad is working out of town, so we had made the tough decision to sell her. The first person to come look at her was a girl about 14, who had been riding her whole life. She ended up buying Gypsy... Part of me is glad she's gone, especially to that girl, but the other part of me is going to miss her. I hope God will help you get through sad times, just like He did for me. 

* If you have been wondering, my name isn't Mustang and Turtle isn't really her name; I change the names of people to protect their identity.

A Style of My Own

I'm sure that by now you're aware that I am very liable to do the unexpected and I am unpredictable. If you're not aware, I am not usually bothered by what people think of me, and it is very hard to offend me. Thus, I don't care what my hair looks like, if it's brushed, what clothes I am wearing, if they match, what shoes are on my feet, if there are shoes on my feet, etc... For some examples, I ride my horse like this, than I learned why you wear jeans- 

Giddy up?!



And I used to wear these shoes every chance I got, until I wore too many holes in them-



Lovely shoes!



So, here is a funny story- In co-op, a couple semesters ago, I was in a history class studying the 1900's.  For the presentation, we would each pick a decade (50's,60's,70's...). to dress up and represent.  I ended up picking the 70's, because no one else would do it. I for one, don't have old, creepy, 70's clothes laying around (shame on me!), so my mom and I started scouring every thrift store in town, to no avail. We were on practically the last thrift store in town, the last rack of the store, and I spotted something. I pulled it out and immediately burst into laughter. Words cannot describe what I saw, so I will show you :-O. I started to put it back on the rack, but mom said, "Wait, that's perfect!" Bingo! It was a perfect fit. We also got a pair of uncomfortable platform shoes, and a disturbing belt. Also on hand, we had my dad's Afro wig (why he had that, I don't know).
When presentation day was finally here and it was time to suit up, I was excited! After I had suited up and was walking toward the gym, two of my friends, Bob and Joe, were talking in the hall ahead of us. Joe had his back to me, and Bob was facing me. Bob stopped in mid sentence and said "Oh my gosh, is that Mustang?!" Joe turned around and his jaw dropped. I was like, "Hi."
It was time for my class presentation and slowly, the decades before me came up and did their thing. Teacher finally said, "70's!" Now, I had been behind everybody so pretty much no one had seen me. When I stepped up to the front of the stage, a collective gasp rose over the crowd. I looked, er, scarily 70ish.
That was talked about for a loooong  time. Alright, brace yourself! 

Yes, that really is me! Go ahead and say it, I look horrifying!!!!!! So yeah, there is not many people who would do that. Unpredictable? Yeah, you could probably say that.
                                                         
                                                      Have good week, Mustang

My Guide to Christian Music Artists

Here is my guide to christian music artists-   ( * = my personal favorites.)

If you like slightly rocky christian music, you'll love- Kutless, *Casting Crowns, *TobyMac, *Sanctusreal, *Newsboys, Switchfoot, *Third Day.

If you like praise and worship music, you'll love- Chris Tomlin, Chris August, *Matt Hammitt(Matt is the lead singer of Sanctusreal, and he made the solo album *Every Fallen Tear when his newborn son Bowen almost died of heart problems.), Darrel Evans.

If you like regular christian music, you'll love-*Casting Crowns, *Sanctusreal, Switchfoot, *Third Day, Chris August, Chris Tomlin, *Tenth Avenue North, Brandon Heath, Steve Fee, Leeland, *Matthew West, Matt Maher( I don't like Maher much but he sings three cool songs- Alive Again, Christ is Risen, Hold us Together), *MercyMe, *Sidewalk Prophets, Steven Curtis Chapman, Jamie Grace, Phillips, Craig, and Dean, Building 429, Britt Nicole, *Francesca Battistelli, NewWorldSon, David Crowder Band, Peter Furler( Former leader of Newsboys), Luminate( *Come Home.), Abandon(*Hero, *Feel It In Your Heart.), Kristain Stanfill(*Day After Day.), Group 1 Crew(*He Said and *Get Movin'), Andy Cherry(*Our God's Alive).
                                                                                                                                                              

If you like most of these, I'd suggest going to klove.com and listening to it online, or if you live in San Antonio, its on 91.3.

My guide to movies

Here is my guide to movies-      ( * =  my personal favorites! I still like them all though.)

If you like adventure and sci-fi movies, you'll love; Journey to the Center of the Earth, Journey2, *Prince of Persia, Race to Witch Mountain, All the Narnia movies, **The Avengers!

If you like fiction movies, you'll love; *National Treasure, National Treasure2, *Courageous, Karate Kid.

If you like animal movies, you'll love; The Air Bud movies, Two Brothers, *Cloud's Legacy, Dreamer, Seabiscuit, *Secretariat, *DolphinTale, *Spirit.

If you like true stories, you'll love;  We are Marshall, *DolphinTale, *The Blind Side, *Cloud's Legacy, SoulSurfer.

If you like comedy fiction, you'll love; Kicking and Screaming, Napoleon Dynamite, The Princess Bride.

If you like kids cartoons, you'll love; *Kung fu panda, *Kung fu panda2, Cars, Cars2, *SpaceJam, The Smurfs, Bolt, Madagascar, Osmosis Jones, Space Chimps.