Always live your life to the fullest..NO MATTER WHAT!!!

As of today, Trevor is doing amazingly! I'll get to that in a few. On Tuesday the fourth, I was up with my mom, dad, and sister for my birthday at El Farols and we had just got served when I got a phone call from Utah Valley telling me that trevor had quit breathing and they were taking him to the ICU. So, we got up and left and just as we got onto the freeway the lady called me back and said he was doing fine. I was so mad because I had missed eating my favorite food AND that something like this could happen. So we still flew back to the hospital and come to find out, after they took the catheter out he still couldn't go by himself and the lady who was putting it back in I guess took her sweet time so by the time she got the catheter back in trevor was in a lot of pain! So she gave him another shot of demerall and it stopped his breathing. They gave him some kind of narcotic that removes all the drugs in his system so he had to be without pain medicine for about 6 hours. so, on wednesday, I had our good friends Don Robinson and Skip Crawford come over and give him another blessing. After that he really started to recover. He was able to come home on Saturday. He has been doing amazingly, walking everyday and now he is able to get up on his own and he gets his stitches out this wednesday. I am so proud of him! He is already looking forward to this weekend for our Region riding club meet! And now for the title of this post. I went out Sunday to my mom's field so I could get katie out and take her for a walk after being gone for a week. I noticed my mom's cutting mare Tahitia laying down and rolling a lot. Unfortunately, this isn't unusual for this mare, but I did watch her for a while and finally decided that this wasn't one of her usual episodes. I called all 4 vets in the 2 counties and couldn't get a hold of one of them! SO IRRITATING!! So I called our good friend and equine veterinarian from up in Kaysville 3 hours away, and he told me what to give the mare for pain and he told me that either it works or we're SOL. So, we gave her what we were told and I really figured she would be dead by morning. She was still alive on monday morning and we finally got a hold of a vet so he came and rectaled her and said she just had a displacement and he gave her a shot for pain. At this point her heartbeat was 80. My mom came home at 3:00 and we finally decided to just put he down because she was suffering. This mare was the most amazing mare I have ever had the opportunity to own. She was also the mother to my two Missin Lena babies. When the vet got there to put her down her heart beat was 100. So we put her and her yearling stud colt down because he had a growth on his foot that would never allow him to be rode. Unfortunately in the past two weeks I have really learned how precious life can be especially since I have been told Trevor should have died when the mare came down on him. So, no matter what, Live your life to the fullest because you just never know when someone or something will be taken away from you. Will keep updating! I figured things can't get any worse so, it has got to be better!

The trials of life. part 1

this might take a couple posts to write this and just a warning, i needed to vent a little bit so it might get really ugly. well on saturday august 1st we had our district riding club meet. it was a pretty good show. i took 2nd in the reining and katie and I's team won the barrels and poles and for individuals she ran a 24.11 in the poles which put us second and a 17.94 in the barrels which was the fastest time of the whole show but we knocked a barrel and the only closest time near it was an 18.26. i am so proud of her. after the poles though, trevor's mare was acting really stupid when she seen some miniature ponies that were being shown the same day. we tried calming her down but she got really mad and reared up over on him. she came down on him really hard with her whole body. it took the stupid ambulance crew 12 and a half minutes to get from the ambulance garage to the fairgrounds, which on a slow day takes me 6 minutes at the most. so we got trevor stabilized as best we could on the ground then waited for the ambulance to get there. a couple of our friends and club members performed a blessing on him right there. i really appreciated it! finally they get there and take their sweet time getting him stabilized and take him to the hospital. finally they get him there and get him cleaned up. he had a 2 inch laceration and the saddle horn hit him right in the scrotum. they did a ct scan on him and said everything looked good but they were worried he had ruptured a vein so they sent him up to utah valley. we found out early sunday morning that in fact he is not fine at all but has 4 completely fractured vertebrates! how the **** do you miss that! i can't believe they're equipment is so old they can't see that! grrr. so now we're sitting in the hospital doing a very slow recovery. i'm heading to bed for the night and will blog tomorrow about how he about died. good luck everyone and make sure you tell your loved ones you love them becuase you never know when they might be taken from you.

Riding Club & More

I haven't updated in a while so I figured I would now that I have some time. We've both been very busy with work, and horses, and trevor starting to work on his demolition derby car. I got a new part-time job working with trevor's mom at Beehive homes, an assisted living business. I cook part-time and help if they need me. Trevor has been working on his new project with his friend Richard Heinz. They are doing demolition derbies. They're next derby, which I don't think trevor is driving in is August 25th at the Carbon County Fairgrounds. He is just going to mechanic. Should at least be fun to watch! $10,000.00 grand prize. After that they are doing the Peach Days Demolition Derby on September 12th in Ferron. I'm really excited that he is getting into something he loves other than the horses, since he was never into horses before he met me. Pictures will be coming after the derby. As for me, I've been working my butt off at both work & on my horses. I've rode every night for the past week since we did eliminations for western pleasure and reining in the riding club. I rode Reggie and he did decent. He was very hot and has lately been going through a phase where he must be with a mare or he acts dumb. Here are his pleasure class and reining in eliminations and we took 3rd in Western Pleasure and 2nd in the Reining. Reining:
Western Pleasure:
I have also been working with my three year old Reserve World Champion filly for our runs in barrels and poles for Riding Club. For eliminations she took 4th in barrels with a 19.84, so we weren't planning on running her in district, but I found out tuesday that I would be running her due to a friend's horse getting hurt and she was 3rd place. I then ran her in the Barrel Race on Tuesday and she ran a 19.554! I didn't even get her into the arena and she ran like a little champ! I am so proud of her! For poles we placed 2nd in poles with a 24.72. I ran her a week later at a local playday and she ran a 24.235! WOOHOO! I absolutely love this filly. She is truly a dream come true! So now we have district on Saturday and i'm sure I'll be adding more videos and the results as soon as we're done!

Pinto World!!

Every year since 2007 we have made the 1400 mile drive to Tulsa, Ok to compete at Pinto World Championships. In 2007 we took Mister Bruce Almighty, he was 9th in Amateur & 6th in Open. It was a great experience for me since it was my first time ever showing! In 2008 I took Mr Almighty Scribbles, a son of bruce's. He placed 10th under one judge in amateur but did nothing in the open. This year, we hauled a 3 year old filly, RS Together Forever aka Katie, that I was given to train and my new stallion Cool Skipin Awesome aka Jax! I was so nervous about both these horses because I knew they could be great! On Sunday we showed barrels & poles in the open breeding stock classes.
Here is a video of Katie's Barrel Run! This was her second time ever running and the first time I've ever really pushed her to go. She has a heart of gold. Unfortunately there was a guy sitting about eight feet off the third barrel in a bright green shirt. We're not sure if she thought he was the barrel or if she got scared when she seen him. Either way we got a no time for breaking the pattern but I could not have asked more from her. And on the way home, I am riding with no stirrups! She's the best filly I have had the pleasure to ride.
Here is a video of her Pole Run!This was also her second time ever running poles and we changed the way she runs since the first time she ran. She made me so proud! She ran a 26.277 and we ended up Reserve World Champions!! I absolutely love this filly!!
On Tuesday I got to show Jax. I have never been more nervous in my life! Before we ever got into the class I almost had a mental breakdown. I had a flashback of when I showed Bruce and started crying. My hands and legs shook so bad while I was showing him! I am so proud of him! We received a 2nd, 3rd, & 6th and ended up 3rd overall! Can't wait for next year! He is definitely a dream come true! Here's his video:
This is Jax being shown by Hal Schiffner! He showed so well! I can't explain how proud I am of him! Big Thanks to Hal for Showing him & helping me get him!! Here is the video:
I am so excited for next year with these two horses!! Keep watching for updates on these great young horses!!!

New Baby! Part Two!

Well, everything has been going good with our new boy cowboy! Up until Wednesday Night. We went to riding club and I noticed that he was straining to pee. When we came home i noticed dancer spraying milk all over and decided that something must be wrong. So I called Hal Schiffner and asked him what I should do. We ended up going to the store and got baby bottles and pedialyte. We ended up milking dancer and giving cowboy and enema. Enema worked great but we couldn't keep him up or get anything down him. So hal came over and looked at him and gave him some banamine. At that point we had gotten a thermometer and his temperature was 99.5. Hal finally told us that he needed to get to the vet immediately. So poor guy, we through him into the trailer and hauled him 30 miles to the vet. We got there at 11:00 and immediately put an IV in him as a precaution, then we tubed him after milking dancer again and getting milk into him. We then ran a full bag of fluids and got antibiotics into him. I went home with my husband and dad until 3 and then headed back to the vet at 3:30 to give him fluids again. I have to send a big thanks out to Hal & April Schiffner! The vet told me that either I take care of him or hire someone, so I decided to just take care of him. Hal was there to help me at 3:30 and then they let me stay in their extra bedroom so I could be back at 7. Then to make things great, thursday was the vets day off, so we had to make sure we were there every 2-3 hours to check on him. We gave him his antibiotics and he was doing better so we didn't give him any fluids until 3:00 just as a precaution. He has now been nursing and doing good on his own! So we were they again at 8 for antibiotics and I was able to stay with Hal and April so I could be back at 1 to give him his last antibiotics, or so I thought. So this morning I had the vet draw blood for a blood panel. He ran a blood panel and everything was great, electrolytes were great also, however his IgG levels are really low, 800 is optimum, 400 is really bad and his number is 428. So now we've got him on antibiotics and diarrhea medicine. We also are ready with fluids if he should need them. So..as of right now we will be ordering an IgG transfusion on monday and getting it into him on tuesday. Then hopefully we can get over this little issue! We brought him home because the vet won't be in tomorrow and these pictures and video were taken when we got home and got him back into his stall! He is definitely doing better!

New Baby! Part One!

Well after 13 days of being overdue our mare finally foaled!




NPH Hez Country(pending) AKA Cowboy came into the world Monday morning, May 11th, 2009. We woke up and found him there since we had slowed checking on her down to 3 hours since she was just standing when i checked on her at 3. He is a georgous Bay Overo Stallion! (Mister Bruce Almighty X Shes A Sundancer) Unfortunately, when he was born he tore her up decently so we took her down to the vet and had her checked and he said just let her heal naturally!

Still Waiting for a baby!

So my mare that is in foal to my old stallion is still in foal! NO BABY YET!!! She is 11 days over due and has had wax for 11 days! She did drip milk 7 days ago! Yuck! We're both getting sick and tired of checking on her in the middle of the night with no results!

Updating

So it's been an interested month pretty much since I updated! Lol! Trying to get better! I took my stallion Jax to the Hurricane APHA/AQHA show and we were the only stallion in the class. O well, it was great to have some arena time with him. Two weeks later we took him to the first Utah Paint Horse Club show and we were the only two year old stallion in the class again, open and amateur, but there were three yearling studs so we did get points, but we only took a reserve under one judge, so we got a point, still good to have arena time! Trevor's mare was due April 28th and we are still waiting for this long awaited baby to make his/her entrance to the world. I can hardly wait to see what it is as it is by my late stalion Mister Bruce Almighty. Hopefully she will foal soon, i'm getting sick of waking up every two hours to check on her and there be no baby! lol! Got to love Foaling season!!!!

As far as me and trevor we have been pretty good. they cut his hours back so we are having to cut back to keep things going. We moved our dogs to their new kennel and that's been fun. Last friday, they got out and ended up getting picked up by the animal control, but we got them picked up before they were taken to the shelter, then tuesday she got out and looks like she got caught in a fence. she's not moving too great, but at least she has stopped getting out! So that's about it! Will update when we have a baby or something new happens!

Easter Weekend!!

Well Easter was amazing on this end! It started early Friday morning when we welcomed the newest edition to the Nelson Paint Horses Clan! We welcomed Troy into the world at 4:00 friday morning. He is by Missin Lena out of Docs Silver Done. After getting him all taken care of and blanketed I headed down to work to get Jax ready to show in Hurricane on Sunday! We got to hurricane and got everyone taken care of then we went to the hotel and got ready for saturday.
I woke up at 4:58 Saturday to get up and moving! My mom and I went and fed the horses and get ready. Unfortunately it was a small show and the Quarter horses showed early and the judges didn't really like either one of our quarter horse stallions. Finally, it was mine and Jax's turn. I have been working with him at the ranch getting set up and everything. He doesn't allow you to put a lip chain on him so I hoped that he would be a good boy being in the arena with all the mares and geldings running around him. The sad but good part about it was that we were the only paint stallion at the whole show! It was sad cause we didn't get any points, but the good part was that we got arena time and i got to show him and figure him out in an arena setting. He did great with only the chain under his chin! He also stood with all the horses running around and by him and never let out a peep! I was so proud of him!
Sunday was a good day and I got more pictures of Troy at 3 days old! Here they are! He is such a little sweetheart! Loves to be petted and touched!

One for the books

Wow, it's been a while since I updated! Lol! So much has happened lately. Jax is going to be a dad! We checked our first mare in foal to him last week! A Beautiful red roan by the name of RH Graffiti! And on tuesday, i got stepped on by a yearling filly and then almost passed out. Talk about weird, as far as i know she just clipped my ankle but then i was standing there talking and everything tilted, i got hot, and ran into the bathroom and closed my eyes and all i saw was white. Afterwards i couldn't stop shaking and kept getting dizzy when i walked. Thankfully my mom and dad came and got me and the horses. My wonderful hubby took me up to Utah Valley Hospital. The doctor did an EKG of my heart and a CT Scan of my head. Everything checked out fine, but the doc did say i have some water behind my ears. The water in my ears and the shock of getting hurt is what he thinks cause the little episode. thankfully all is well now! Check back soon!

Vegas Baby!

We are so excited! JAX IS HOME IN UTAH! Trevor and I took off Tuesday at 5:30 in the morning and headed to Las Vegas to pick up Jax! It was a great trip just us and the road! It was a beautiful ride to Vegas and once we got there we went to the petro truckstop by the Las Vegas Speedway! We sat there for 2 1/2 hours waiting anxiously! We got to watch the Nellis Air Force Base fighter pilots go out for training and come back in. It was great, they were so loud! While we were sitting there, the fighter pilots came in and circled over our heads and they set off a ford pickup's alarm system! It was funny! We got to also watch the nascar cars and trucks come in! It was so cool to see them but then we talked about how expensive it must be to have all that equipment and it was amazing how chromed out the trucks were and how well taken they were! Finally he showed up and we loaded him in the trailer and hauled butt home! Once we got home at 10:30 pm we had to collect him and breed him to 3 mares! He was a little champion! Here is a photo we took of him on Wednesday! We will be getting more tomorrow and i will post them here!

Great Weekend in Hurricane

After this past week going to Hurricane for the APHA/AQHA Show was a great mini vacation! And then... On Saturday a client showed his horse and swept the whole class. He won the amateur and open and grand & reserve stallions! Then the two year old stallion we showed won his class and took reserve stallion for the show! And then my boss had sold one of his horses and it was the kid's first time ever showing in a breed show and he took a third and fourth, which is not bad at all because the first and second horse, you will never beat! He was really excited! And for the best news in the world! Hal and I had talked about some stallion prospects for me to look into and on saturday he printed pictures out of a nice stallion to show me and then would never show them to me. Right before we showed the gelding he took me out side and asked, "How would you like to own a two year old stallion?" I was like, "Which one" and he said, "A horse by the name of Cool Skipin Awesome!" I thought I was going to pass out! We then went and talked to the people that sold him to me and i started crying! They just didn't want to have to limit the mares they breed each year, so we made it into unlimited breedings and we are going to pick him up on tuesday in vegas!! I am so happy!

One Bad Week

Wow, you know it really sucks when the weeks starts out bad and just gets worse and by friday you hope nothing else happens! On Monday a stallion we are standing came up for being positive for a microbial infection so we can't breed anything to him right now. On Tuesday we brought a mare in to wait for her to foal, well she wasn't doing anything monday night and so my boss didn't watch her. He came out tuesday morning and found the baby with it's head stuck under the belting in our stalls unable to nurse or anything. They got a hold of the vet who was in price with me at the humane society clinic and he told them what to do while i flew down there as fast as i could to help. The baby was doing ok and seemed to be getting stronger, but at 3:30 they called and said the baby passed away. On Wednesday, i had turned my filly that i am riding out in the arena to run off a little bit of steam before i rode her and she took off at a dead run and slid right into the fence and skinned herself up quite a bit. And hopefully last but not least, i e-mailed the guy who i had bought my new stallion from, contract signed and everything, and he replyed back, 2 days before i am to bring this horse home!, that he has decided he wants to keep the horse for himself and he isn't going to sell it. I was devastated! How could someone do that, wait two days before you bring something home to say that they want to keep it. We have mares waiting to be bred to him and have paid insurance, got testing done, and everything, and he backs out! Makes me so mad but sad at the same time. Now i have to go to the show this weekend and face him. Will keep everyone updated! Hopefully this week won't get worse!

New Stallion

I have been looking for a new stallion since my halter stallion Mister Bruce Almighty whom i loved to death passed away. I came across this stallion a few months ago and had given up on him until yesterday when i found out that I would be able to buy him! I am so excited for this stallion and can't wait to finally see him in person and show him February 21 in Hurricane, UT. His name is Cool Skipin Rhythm. He is a 2 year old AQHA/APHA/PtHA Sorrel Overo Stallion. He is by Mighty Awesome who is a world champion halter horse and out of Cool Skipin Attitude who has he Register Of Merit in Open & Amateur in AQHA. He was the 2007 APHA Reserve World Champion in Amateur Weanlings and 3rd in Open. In 2008 he was 4th in the Amateur Stallions at the Paint World Show. I can't wait to get him home and start showing him! Below is a picture and a video will be coming soon!

NEW FOALS!

one thing i absolutely love about my job is foaling season. Our first baby is due january 11th but now she is over so hopefully she will foal soon! So...keep watching for new pictures of the newest additions to Rising Sun Quarter Horses!
Toby here was born on January 15th, 2009!