Trying new things!

Hey every one!!! My birthday is coming up here soon, I'm going to be 13!!!! Craziness!!! So, I just want to share a little bit about what's been going on with Hershey. Hershey is the best when it comes to trailering now!!! He hops right in! (Literally.) :) I have been practicing barrel racing and pole bending out in our pasture! You know what the barrels and poles were? Sprinklers. Yeah, that's right. But hey, we've only broke one.... My best score for the poles was 28 seconds. (Which is pretty bad considering the sprinklers weren't even that far apart.) We are working on it though!!! I always gallop Hershey up the hill, so when I was trying to turn him around the sprinklers, he trotted like a crab side ways!! He was confused why we weren't going up the hill like usual!! About a month ago I rode Hershey down the road, just to get him used to it. There is a cow in a pasture that we pass on our way down. The cow came running down the hill snorting and mooing. I think he wanted a friend. Hershey did not. Hershey jumped and stood as stiff as a board, his nostrils were flaring wide!!! He didn't bolt though!!! I found out that day that Hershey does not like cows!!! Lol:) A few days ago we walked Up our road. This is a lot diffren't then going down it. A lot scarier. Hershey met a new horse, and when he saw it, he gave it the loudest greeting ever! I have never heard him winey so loud before!!!!! I think he liked that horse a lot better then he did the cow, that's for sure!!!!
~Miranda

Quotes:)

I don't have a whole lot of stuff to write about today, so I am going to share some quotes and verses!!!

 

 

 

                                                   I love all of these, I hope you enjoy!

- Miranda

First horse show!!

 

I went to the Show!! Hershey and I did great, we got two first places!!!!!!!!!!! Yay!!! It was soooo exciting riding up and getting the ribbons, I had so much fun!(Hershey did to) We did a lot of ground work and riding before we went into the show ring, and we did pretty good, these are the places that I got(They might not be in a row):
-#4
-#5
-#4
-#5
-#6
-# 7 or 8 (Hee hee, that one.....)
-#2
-#1!!!!!!!
-#1!!!!!!!!!!

 I got some good ones they're at the end!! Yay!! It was my first show, and it went really well.(even though some of the placing's weren't awesome, it was still fun) The only not-so-good things were, *sigh*, I had to get up around 5:30.... Not fun, but after I got moving, it was great!! Also, after about noon, it got windy, I mean REALLY windy! I was eating dirt all day, and when I got home, my face was brown and I had dirt in my ears. But it was totally worth it!1 I loved getting ready for the show, grooming Hershey and setting up and practicing. My family and some of my friends came to watch, and that made it even more exciting!! I am so doing more shows in the near future, it will be so much fun!! Especially when it gets really competitive!! Here's some pictures:(Just to warn you, it was very, very, very windy, so my hair, oh my...)                                  
     Here we are posing for pictures, unfortunately Hershey thinks something off to the left is more exciting then a camera.

 

 

 

We are waiting to go into the arena and do showmanship!

 

 

 

We are warming up and doing ground work.

 

 

 

Here we are in the arena, it was so fun!

 

 

 

 

My first ribbon!! (4th place) 

 

 

Much more exciting then the camera again!!

                          

 These were two other girls that went to the show with my trainer, we are showing off our ribbons at the end of the day!!!

 

 

 

 

 

My Hair...... You can laugh, I wont judge.

- Miranda

  

 

 

 

 

 

Going to our first Horse show!!

I haven't posted for months!! Wow, do I have a lot to catch up on... Well, first, we joined a 4-H club, and I can't wait until we do a lot of activity's in that!! But, guess what!( drum-roll please, ) we are going to our very first show this weekend!! I have never done a show before, and neither has Hershey, so this is going to be quite an experience! I am sooo excited. it is going to be so fun, I'm a little nervous to, but I can do it!! Hershey and I can do it! I got a western button up to wear at the show, and my jeans and boots, also, if its warm enough, I'm going to give Hershey a bath before we go so he will be all neat and clean! We will be entering in 10 classes, these are the ones:  -Showmanship, walk/trot
-Showmanship 11-13
-4-H Fitting and showing Junior
-4-H fitting and showing Intermediate
-Bubble Gum Contest(horseless, ages 7-14) (the only problem is, I can't blow a bubble!!!)
-Stock Seat Walk/Jog
-Western pleasure 4-H
-Trail 11-13
-Green Horse Walk/Trot
-And a few others

It is going to be so exciting! I will tell you all about it afterward, bye!!

Friends came to ride!

Oh my gosh! I have not written for ever!! so to day I'm going to catch up on every thing! Hershey came home from his second month of training, and he has been doing great! Before he came home though, we went on our second trail ride, it was amazing! We rode pretty far away, and it took almost three hours to finish the trip, I even had to bring a lunch. He did awesome, my trainer and  another lady rode with me of course, but Hershey is home now for good and he is doing great. Just today I gave my friends rides on him, and they said that they enjoyed it, And I'm glad things turned out perfect, almost, it was kind of cold and windy, but we still had lots of fun! There going to come over again soon and I'm going to teach them how  to ride very well! Wish me luck!! :)

Our first trail ride!

Hershey and I went on our first trail ride together today! It was fun! He got a little bit excited though, but we still had a great time. He was, well, hyper I could say today so he was not the best, but he was pretty good. When we went on the ride every new thing was exciting, so he had his head  high, his tail up, and his ears perked forward! About every 10 steps I had to make him do things like, backing, one rein stop, side passes, and 4 corners because his adrenaline was up so high that he didn't think, so all of those exercises were to help his brain to get back on track and realize that the all those exciting things he saw really were not that exciting! That trail ride probably was the most exciting thing that Hershey had done in awhile, I had fun, and I bet he had fun to!!:)

FUN!!!!!!!!!!

I had fun today! I practiced sensitizing and desensitizing, and I cantered barrels!!! It was so much fun and I don't think I have had that much fun in forever! Soon I bet Hershey and I will be galloping across the pasture and soaring like birds..... Oh how fun that would be! I found out the difference between a lope and a canter today, which I thought were the same actually were not, a lope is slower than a canter, and today I cantered! I even went over a little jump on him too! It was fun, I think Hershey was getting a little tired during our lesson, and when I dismounted for a minute and then went to get back on, he was asleep! LoL!!! I was so excited because my trainer told me that I could go as fast as I felt safe to go around the barrels!!!! I was so excited that when I did the barrels I tried to go really fast, but Hershey was so tired that he wouldn't go any faster than a fast canter, but I still had SO MUCH FUN!!!