A blast from the past two weeks

Hey everyone i know i havent posted in like well forever but it was only like before christmas well last week i got to ride three times count that three because i rode tuesday in my private lesson and then on sunday and monday we had our barn christmas party on sunday and had a big group lesson and then on monday we had another big group lesson and then i went to pigeon forge with my mom and aunt and we ate at my most favorite place olive garden but on the saturday before lessons i spent the whole day with my closest bff so close we are almost sisters josie or as some may know her the amazing indigo i spent the night with her and then we where of to our favorite place in the whole wide world you guessed it the barn then my mom came and got me and on monday i had to take extra clothes because that night we where going to pigeon forge but on monday i got an early chjristmas present and it was a red halter a RED RED RED HALTER for those of you that dont know all my grooming tools and i want my eventing colors to be red and black so the red halter was the perfect gift for me and i also got money for christmas and i am going to order a custom saddle pad with my name on it and you guessed it its going to be black with red trim and a red monogram hopefully so i am going to go because i dint know what else to say but what i might get to see josie because see my be coming over to see a movie and then she might spend the night so peace

hey everyone

Hey sorry i have not put a post up in like two weeks well today we were supposed to have a lesson today but it got rained out so ya i was looking forward to Friday because i was going to have a private lesson well i talked to my mom and she said that my lesson had been moved to tuesday and i was riding home with my instructor so i am very happy and then on Saturday we have a Christmas party and then our lesson so that is going to be a ton of fun and this week i we only have four days well four and half but i am not going that half a day on Friday so only four yay then its Christmas break so yay again that's all i have for now

Sundays lesson

HEY everyone i am sorry i have not posted in like forever ok so sundays lesson went great and you guess it i rode my new best buddy gus we did our normal warm up and that is walk ing and troting both ways and i rode with out sturrips a lot and then we did a jump box and that was basically it so i am so tired now and i will post more this weekend after lessons

Hey guys some good news and some bad

Hey everyone today i had my first private lesson this morning and i rode jefferson and we worked on collection and cantering well keeping him collected so that was kinda a challengebut we worked through that but otherwise the lesson went great and this weekend i will be rideing on sunday so yay about getting to ride twice this week and hopefully i will have another private lesson next tuesday after noon ohh and something else i did today is that after i got to may dads house we walk the connection to 160 and then around the bank and that was three miles and we did that in 15 minutes and 30 seconds so ya and now the bad news i am sad that sara the eventingbelle is not going to coutinue to blog anymore so i am kinda sad about that because i will miss he insight on things that are happening at the barn and when i am sad her posts always cheered me up along with the amazing indigo's posts so ya that is all for now i will post more on sunday HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE love you all

movies and lessons

[this is Josie form theamazingindigo.blogspot.com] Today Megan and I went to see the newly released second installment of the Twilight saga, New Moon. It was an amazing cliff hanger that has me us dying to see the third installment, Eclipse. I am spending the night tonight, so I can just get up and go to lessons in the morning and help, since it is prettyyy late. :) Anyways, I hope we end up doing Dressage or jumping again as to where Indy and I are the bomb. Im going to let Megan take over now! ok hey everyone like josie said New Moon was FAB U LOUS and tomorrow like she said is lessons and i hope we do jumping so now that it is late i am very tired because we got in line to go into the theather at six thirty and we where the second group in line and we got great seats in the first row of the stadium seating and in the dead center it was great and we could see everything and next week i will be going again with my step mom lee so happy about that and that is all i have to say because well it is late and i am tired and have to get up early for lessons so there will be another post tomorrow after noon so from Megan and Josie goodnight and goodbye

hey update time

OK updates tomorrow is Friday yay i am going to see new moon and Josie is coming over double yay and i have been thinking some about well everything i have the stress of school then dance after that because i just found out that we might be competing in march so stressing about getting the dance ready and just some other school drama but i wont go into that right now this post was to just clear my mind and you guessed it i am dying to ride like always i will post more about the movie and lessons on saturday love you guys

Bonfire and another post about Gus

Last night there was a bonfire at the barn and well i did not get to stay for all of it but it was a lot of fun sorry no pictures OK on to another subject and that is you guessed it Gus he is one of my favorites now i love him and yesterday i was so surprised that he didn't even glance at the jumps even tho they were small he is still learning and an update on the private lessons none this week i have to wait till the twenty-fourth and i will have them in the afternoon because of school yuck and i still have homework to do but i am avoiding it right now so i really don't have much to say that is unusual for me if you know me oh i am so happy because Josie (the amazing indigo ) is coming over this weekend and we are going to see new moon on Friday and i know this because i order the tickets online today so very happy that i see it on opening night and then the weekend after that i am going to see it again because my step mom Lee is going to take me again double yay

Weekly Lesson

HEY guys today we had weekly lesson and you guessed it i rode Gus and we warmed up by walking and trotting both directions and then the fun part came she brought her cavalleties and we walk and trotted them both ways then she raised them up and we started trotting over them and i was the horse that normally does no like to jump well i thought he would run out and look at them and not go over them well i was wrong he trotted over them like it was nothing and i am so pround of him so here are some pics and videos from today

THis is gus aand i standing in the stall door way before lessons

this is out in the yard after getting on and walking around some i let gus just chill before heading down to the arena for lessons

this video is after warming up and doing some of the smaller jumps i am in the front still on gus so the jumps were only like 12 inches but that is good for gus

the video on the left is josie jumping the cavalletties on foot and she said that was a special video she made fo me and i have an update on the private lesson thing i dont get to start untill the 24 and then we just kinda have to play it by ear and see what days work so i will post more later tonight because i am going back i the barn fo a bonfire and hopefully i will get some more pictures tonight at the bonfire its gunna be a lot of fun because josie sara and brandi and i think everyone else will be there to ohh and here is one of my favorite pictures from lessons today

I am Dying to you guessed it RIDE

OKAY guys i am dying to ride and its Wednesday and tomorrow is the last day of school for me be for i get to ride so very happy about that next week should be my first week having private lessons !yay! to day very long because i had dance but the good news is that i think i am finally getting over this stupid sinus infection thats another !yay! tomorrow at school i wont really have a second class because i will be in first period for like 180 minutes well some of that is going to be in rthe gym watching Night of the patriots welll it would be day of the patriots so ya iam going to have to come home tomorrow and pack to go to my dads house but that wont be to hard well i cant wait to ride on saturday i want to know what we will be doing but i will just have to wait and be suprised so i guess that i am board or tires because i cant think of anything else to say so good night and goodbye

Gus

HEY guys this is a post all about Gus and how i have grown to love this horse he is still in the learning process and his mind i dont think has caught up with his age yet but that is onne thing i love about him is his young at heart and mind . He is a horse that when you first meet him its like you he leaves this lasting impression on you that is like i love this horseand now that i have stated riding him more consistantly i think that i will continue with that so i can build up to where he is able to jump anything with a rider on his back.He is so sweet and i dont thik i have ever meet a horse sweeter than he is. I love him to death he is a horse that needs a rider that has soft hands,seat, and legs, and i hwve found that a dressage whip helps just as a little reminder.Like i remember one time one of my instructors brush boxes was sitting in the stall door and gus put his hoof in it and i cracked so when i am around gus he makes me want to laugh i love riding him because i can bring some of the best things out of him and i hope that continues. i just love this horse to death and that is all i have to say for now.

My Friends

Okay i wanted to do another post and this is all about my friends and their personalities


Josie-i love her to death and i swear we are sisters she rides Mister Indigo and her riding level is off the chart so her personality she is someone that i want to have behind me and will stand up for what she knows is the truth what ever i have on my chest she will let me vent and she is a great listener and i dont want to lose her or any of my other friends i can trust her with my secrets i cant find enough special words to describe to josie JOY FULL
OUT OF THE ORDINARY
SWEET
INTELLIGENT
EXCITING

Sara-i love her to death too she rides belle duhhh thats her horse her personallity is hypper funny can be a bit bossy dont get mad sara please, always has my back her riding level is amazing SASSY
AMAZING
ALWAYS RIGHT LOL
AWSOME




Brandi-i lovve her to death too she rides indigo jefferson and millie she is the life of the party very very hypper very strong person her riding level is at the same mark as mine
BRIGHT
R
AWSOME
N
DARING
INTELLIGENT

THIS WEEKS LESSON

I am so very happy the first reason is that i don't have school this Friday and that i have lessons next Saturday and that i will be stating private lessons along with the group lessons

today i rode Gus and we started in the arena and then we took the trail up to the top pasture and did a little cross country oh and i guess u are wonder how the new student did she did pretty well for her first lesson and Gus did very well today even with the jumping and they are smallbut he is still learning and we only trotted over them here is the vid eo. So i am very excited about next weeks lesson and priviate lessons soon !yay!

One Awsome day and another one to come

Today i went to River Glenn its a local equstrian park and they where holding there fall horse trials and i have got to say that it was AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING one day i hope to be at that high of a riding level one day ok enough about that tomorrow i have weekly lessons and i cant wait i want to jump so bad that its not even funny but i dont think that jumping will happen tomorrow because we are suposed to get a new student so that may ruin that idea i will find out tomorrow and i will let you know andd hopefully will be pictures yay love you guys its getting late and i am not feeling swell so i am going to log of so goodbye and goodnight

One rough week

OKay guys i am very sorry i have not posted in a while its just that we had a famoly problem this week and that has kinda has put a damper on my blogging mood and last week we did not have lessons last week which killed me and this week they arent till sunday and appearently from what Josie (the Amazing Indigo ) said that we are getting yet again get another student so not to happy about that so i get off that subject and on top of that i dont know what we are doing this weekend and i think i have a sinus infection so yuck and that wont make riding as much fun because i dont fell spectacular so not to much fun i will post more on sunday evening so

Okay now my least favorite lesson

This is going to be a tie because i don't like centered riding or the one were i was riding Millie and i was cantering and she turned into the center and i fell off of her well lets just say both i absolutly hate riding with out stirrups and reins and well i love millie just not her attitude so i dont know what else to say about this so so long fair well and good night

MY BEST LESSON EVER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<3

Okay

my best

lesson ever has

to be the one

in the winter when

we rode bareback and

i got to trot and go over a very small

jump i was so proud of myself because

i had not ridden bareback in forever and when i use to i was always

scared that i was going to fall off but when i rode Jefferson i knew that i would not fall

because i trusted myself and Jefferson because i new that he would get me trough it

well i actually have another favorite lesson it is when Sara Josie and i went on the trail down to the lake and i got my baby Jefferson and we cantered and hand galloped some of the hills and that is when i learned to keep my heels down so i would not fall off well long story short i lost one of my stirrups at a had gallop up a hill and i did not fall off so that is ny other favorite lesson

Hey guys

First thing i want to say is that i am sorry that i have not posted in a while i just got home from a long night at dance and i just got to eat so i cant wait i only have two more days untill i can ride so happy still have so much to do in so little time like tomorrow i will be leaving to go

to my dads house well that and school in the morning i hate the Amazing

Indigo she is on fall break and she got to ride today i was txting her earlier and i was kinda mad but i am over that because saturday will be here very soon

so i still sont know what we will be doing and that is killing me because i want to know like so bad

i wish we would do jumping but i dont think that is going to happen but if it does i will be so

very excited and happy because then maybe i could ride Jefferson and get some much needed

time in the saddle with my favorite horse thats all for now i will post more later

You Belong With Me

OK well You Belong With Me is like one of my favorite songs every time i hear it i want to sing and when i am in the car i will sing out loud well that's how i feel about Jefferson and Gus that the rider doesn't pick the horse the horse will pick its rider an i feel that Gus and Jefferson have picked me as one of their riders i can trust that when i am one them that i know they will get me through the obstacles that are put in front of us when i ride them it feels as if i am flying and all my troubles just kinda fall right off of my body like when we are jumping it feels as if i am soaring over the the clouds and there is no pressure on my shoulders so when ever i here you Belong with me i just think about how riding Jefferson and Gus and how it is like we are alike and act like one when really i am the rider and they are the horses but when i ride it doesn't feel like that at all its more like having trust between the horse and rider the song for me represents passion and love so people may think of there boyfriends or girlfriends i think of that to but i mostly think of the horses i ride and the funny thing is that i it comes on at the barn we all start to sing so i think we all feel the same way This is me on the Amazing Indigo and i also think that we have a special bond that also belongs with me

i am having that that same feeling again

OK guys it only Monday and i am dieing to ride and lesson are still not for another five days

and i think we are going to do something that i absolutely hate and that is centered riding which means riding with out sturrips and reins so ya thats if one of the students shows up so if he doesnt that means no centered riding yay but i dont know what we will do then because we still have a new student so i dont know and i wish it was friday like so bad so thats all for now will post mire later

my friends

these are two of my best friends in the whole wide world sara is on the left and josie is on the right i dont know what i would do with out them they are my shoulder to cry on and they will always have my back in the toughest situations that may occur

weekly lesson

Yesterday i had my weekly lesson and i was kinda mad through out the week because we were getting a new student she came and turns out that she had never riden before i was like great but it was not to bad and guys this does not leave this blog. i ended uo starting on gus and then later switched to jefferson i just now relized that i dont have any pictures of gus or jefferson really on here well here you go for all of you have been wondering who gus and jefferson are these are pictures from this weeks lesson jefferson is the grey and gus is the chestnut. i am so sore but that is probably because my instructer bumped up the amount of cantering we had to do well after that we rode back through the woods to get back to the barn as my friend called it in her blog the begining lessons well in the second lesson my friends went on a ttrail ride to the lake well it turns out that one of the girls wnded up riding jefferson and she fell and then was drug off and now she is scared of him whish is sad because he is a very good horse its just that you hold him back he will fight for his head and just want to trie to get you off of him so he can go i guess thats it for now because i am having writters block i will hopefully post more tomorrow

a little more about me

i think i waited a little too long to do this but oh well this is me and Jefferson at a summer show at my old barn well i realized that i am fourteen and i started riding when i was six so that nine years an i still cant believe that my name is Megan now that riding is part of my life again i don't now what i would do if i lost that because the friends i have at the barn i only get to see the days that we have lessons i dont

i dont know what to say about me i mean that there is so much and so little to say i am one of those girls that if you say me at school and then at the barn you would not believe its the same person at school most people would think i am a dacer or cheerleader and many people when they meet me thought the same thing but thats at school at the barn i am different i guess at school i might be faking a little and at the barn i am just myself and there is nothing to hide well more now with a younger kids there so some of the girl talk is put of then afterwards we txt and then thats when every thought we have said come out so no matter with that as my best friend sara said with the picture titled my dorks its true we all are dorks no matter what

its only wednesday

God its only Wednesday but i guess why i am hating it is because i was out of school monday and tuesday so this is the begining of the week for me and to day was hell but that was my opinion i am still dieing to ride and i still have like three days well really two because i ride on saturday i am so board i am sitting in my room after a long well an hour of dance and then eating no homework thats a good thing well not really am hate the novel i am reading in english its lord of the flies and i want to fall asleep or have some one kill me just kidding i dont knoe if i can stand another day at school the only class i like is art sorry i am babbling if i get inspired later i will poset more thats it for now

have you ever had this feeling

have you ever like ridden and as soon as you leave you want to go back and ride again well thats the feeling i am having right now and that is mostly because af that three day clinic and i dont get to ride untill this saturday i am still on fall break well not really i go back to school tomorrow and well it seems like the shortest week can seem like the longest i still dont know what we are doing saturday and i am dieing to know what we might be doing i want it to be crosscountry but i dont think we will because we where jumping at the clinic and so i dont think that will happen but i would mind if she would let us condition.
so i am dieing to get back in the saddle and to just ride and have some more fun if i had the chance and my instructor would let me i think i would be at the barn every day but i guess when you love to ride that would be all you would want to do

a bond to beat all others and you always have a shoulder to cry on

Even though jefferson is not my horse we have this bond that is strong. well how many of you have cryed your eyes out well i know i have and like what if your friends are gone and they wont answer their phone and you dont want to talk to your parents well the horses are always there for you and they can be your shoulder to cry on they may not know what you are talking about but they will still listen and not just act like it cause there or day when i have had makeup running doen my face and i have had no one to turn to well there is always the horses they dont judge you and they wont laugh at you no matter how silly or serious the situation is so what i am saying is that it does not have to be a human shoulder to cry on it can be one of your best friends and no i dont mean people i mean the horses i know that jefferson has been with me through some situations that may not seem very big to you but can be life changing either for the good or the bad well just loving a horse is one thing but haveinga bond with that horse is something completely differenti know that the horses at the barn that i have a bond with all of them and they are someone that i can tell my secrets to and that wont give up on me no matter what they will always be by your side and they will help you get through anything when you are stuck between a rock and a hard place they can help you make a decision. they can also since when you are happy or sad or depressed well they can pull you out of that sadness or depression so a bond with a horse is not just loving them and taking care of them its a very special relationship that you have with the horses all riders should have a special bond with their horses almoxt as if the horse and rider where one

picture

the picture that is on here is from a summer show at another barn and we are all leaning on belle which is sara's horse

3rd and finally day :(

it is so sad today was the last day of the clinic and we did crosscountry and jefferson and i rocked it after ridding we did a scavenger hunt and i was with my two best friends josie(the amazing indigo and sara the eventing belle )i love cross country because you are out in the woods and when you jump it almost feels as if you are flying above everything the scavenger hunt was fun untill we had to climb up this hugemungous hill and this is all on foot:( and since we were the last group to go that ment we had to pick up all the markers and which carrying all that stuff back was not much fun but just hanging out with my friends was great i cant wait for next saturday because that means more riding i am glad that i am still on fall break and i dont have to go back to school till wednesday and then i only have to wait for three days to ride i will write more tomorrow but till then enjoy

day 2 clinic

today i said that i would update later and i kept my word and we did stadium and i had my baby jefferson and tomorrow we will be doing crosscountry and i am hopefully getting him again tomorrow and that is all for now but there will be more tomorrow

second day

GOOD MORNING sorry i am so awake even though the clinic does not start for a while i am trying to kill some time before i have to go get ready for a cold day and its only gunna be like 47 :( so cold but i will just have to get over that so i still dont know what we are doing to day but i think it will be some sort of jumping and i am hoping to get my baby today if his own was to ever sell him i would work my butt of to try and get him but that wont happen but i can dream thats it for now and there will be an update later today

first day of the fall clinic

hey everyone today was the first day of the fall clinic and i end up riding every horse i started on a horse named gus and after riding for a little while i switch to the next horse a little mare pony named millie well a younger student had been riding her well she was using a kids saddle guess what i had to ride in it was so small then i moved to another mare named belle she belongs to another rider there named sara after that i moved to the amazing indigo and the to my baby the i dont own jefferson i love him to death and yes there was some riding in between all those changes tomorrow will be the second day and we might do cross country or staidium i will let you no what the choice is tomorrow after the i get back from the barn thats all and stay tuned for the next exciting blog of the life of a rider at hickory hills farm omg i just remebered that on that day i rode indigo also and my goal was to canter only half way around with out stopping but he beat that TWO two times with out stopping i am so happy

weekly lesson

hey everyone today i had my weekly lesson and the horse i rode is gus even tho he will be six sonn he is still very young and has a lot to learn still today we had to move lessons to one because of rain well gus got me through every little challenge that we had throw at us well then i stayed after and we built some new log jumps for a horse clinic that is next friday saturday and sunday i am so tired but i still cant wait to ride next week for three days straight but gus in the begininig thought o crap but now that he listens and still needs some training i feel that i am obligated to do that for him because with me and more work by next year he could be ready to show so thats all for now but next week i will update or try to everyday

this weeks lesson

hey guys today i had my lesson it is normally on saturday mornings but my insturcter had to do something for her son at old time saturday but today i rode a little mare pony that i have not always seen eye to eye with but today she did great and then i switched and rode a horse named gus or defunny and hes is five years old and is pretty good but can be a little frustrating but with a dressage wip he is a good horse and a big accomplishment is that i got a posting trot out of him two times a round and he did not stop for him and me on him that i huge so here is a little update and there will be more next saturday

sorry i have not posted in a while but i am working on it today

From the Start

From the begging i first started riding almost eight years ago i first did not start at Hickory Hills i started at a place called small meadows stable and after a two year break i started riding at hhf when i first got there i felt kindda scared because i had not riden in forever so when i first got their i rode a big sixteen hand horse named jefferson and i rode him for a few weeks but after that first lesson i knew i had fallen in love with jefferson and from then on i knew why i had fallen in love with riding in the first place .
Now after several months and only one fall off i can now canter and have even hand gallop so i am very proud of myself but what i really am proud of is being able to canter on an ex race horse named Indigo you can read more about him in the Amazing Indigo so thats all for now just a little back ground and you can see some of my videos on youtube if you search jeffersondreamrider just like i have it typed