ManyBlessings

She's finally loping!!!

Today, we didn't have school, so we started out our day with a riding lesson with Kayla's trainer. KAyla didn't ride her horse though. She rode a school horse who is completely trained.... he's pretty push button. Although Nipper (Kayla's Quarter Horse) is very quiet, he is only 4 and still in training. He has fallen behind in his training a little because, as I said last week, he has EPM, and so that has put us behind a bit. Anyway, KAyla hasn't loped at all yet on Nipper, and since her first Quarter Horse show is coming up in March she needs to learn how, so Megan put her on a school horse today. Let me back up a bit.... She has a pony too that she has been riding for 4 years now and she walk, trot, canters, and jumps him, but this is a whole new style of riding, so she has to learn that new style and that's what she 's learning now. So, today, she learned to lope. It was a little fast for a western lope, but she did it and sat very still in the saddle and all her fear of doing it left her. So, her and Nipper are leaning together. It's nice for them to be "growing up" together so to speak. As soon as she gets her Q's a little better, Megan will put her on Nipper to lope but, for now, he is very sensitive to the Q's so she will ride the school horse until then.

After her lesson, we went to a sportsplex and rollerbladed and rockclimbed with the rest of my children and other friends and then we came home and ate a quick dinner, then she had cheer practice til 8 pm. Then, we came home and kids got baths and went to bed!! Another busy day.