excitement

Taylor had a busy week last week. On Thursday of week before last, she spent all day picking out halters for her horses and then picking out jewels with which to bling them up. She then went to her local park with several of her close supporters, family members, and spent the rest of the day decorating the halters. It took approximately 6 hours for us to decide shapes, colors and locations to get the jewels installed and the halters turned out perfect. We then had to take them both back to the house and try both halters on Blackie as Lady was out of the area. We took several pictures of Blackie wearing the halters and some pictures of Taylor wearing her masterpieces as well. It was a great day with much accomplished. Then on the following Monday Taylor ventured down to Williams to check out how Lady's halter would look on her. It was beautiful. Taylor had picked a light blue halter for Lady because as most of us are aware Lady has one baby blue eye and the halter was a perfect match. It was all decorated in light colored jewels and looked gorgeous on her. In the meantime, Grandpa showed up and decided Lady needed new shoes so he proceeded to shoe her with Taylor making sure to supervise every moment if the process. Lots of questions and wondering how you can drive nails in her foot and not hurt but Lady didn't jerk her foot away so we decided that it must not hurt! Then, to all of our surprise, when Lady was done getting her new shoes on Taylor decided she wanted to ride. Boy, did she want to ride. We saddled up about noon and rode until about 4 pm. No breaks in between and speeding up the pace every few minutes. We trotted in circles and trotted around the barrels and it was only because her pilot was a little leary that she was held back from loping. Lady is extremely out of shape and a little pregnant so Taylor would let her rest a few minutes every once in a while. Taylor's cousin was here and on another horse with Taylor's Uncle Ryan so that was enough to spark on a friendly competition and the race was on. To the end of the barn and back as fast as we could trot. Taylor was thrilled and her love of her horses was shining through again. Then, two days later she was back for a couple more hours and has plans to make this a regular activity until she has to go back to school. There is a spirit here that just can't be stopped and we wanted you to know how your thoughts and prayers are helping and hope they continue to help her along. She hasn't regained much use yet but with this kind of spirit, we all have to believe that something will make the future even better. Thanks again for all your support and I am going to try to attach some pictures to show just how spunky she remains.