micah is on an old man's leauge in basketball. he can't even keep up with the whole blogging thing. AHA!

my beautiful cake


well, my graduation weekend is over, and it really has been a blast. i've had so much fun. i got some awesome presents, lots of mulah, and a great party. thanks everyone so much! it was awesome. brittany and i took the canoe and went to the pond, and dug up a snapper turtle. that was fun, then later that night we went out again and jon and nate chucked rocks in trying to splash us. i don't know why it is. i seems like all my friends up here, are either all out tomboys, or not tomboys, but don't do things or talk about things that most girls do. i can't remember one friend of mine that i've talked to about boys or clothes. except angie. : D haha.
no but seriously, here's brittany and i yesterday diving into the river with our clothes on, digging in the mud, while ruth, vanessa and heather watched. lol. its awesome. i also participated in the "sword fight" that jon, nate and micah had in the river today, they were playing frisbee and they wouldn't come in the river, so i caught the frisbee and ran into the river and then they all came charging in. i almost won the swordfight with micah, but i accidentally whacked him in the side of the face, so he yelled and pushed me over. here are some pictures from the party.

mmmm good food. thanks mom and poofy. : D

jon and me

me and margie

seniority rules.

ok here are some pics from today. i'm graduated!!! when the graduates were all leaving the building they were dead quiet, and there was lots of people in the town just watching us, so i decided that we should all be happy, so i said; "ON THE COUNT OF THREE WE ALL SHOUT, 'WE DID IT'" so i counted to three and shouted "WE DID IT!" and nobody joined in. oh well.
more pictures after the party!!!!
enjoy.

ha. beat you again micah. : ) i'm too fast for your kind.


grandpa and grandma and baby

muah

there i am. : )

jon and heather

ma helping me get ready.

nate and i

the family

new specs

my reading glasses

i'm going to re-start the trend of the completely rad spec cords. mine are brown with a little red and green in them.

2006

daddy and ariana

micah and nate-it was nates birthday yesterday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY NATE!!!

micah trying to look cool and ending up looking...weird. : )

ruth and heather

johns first time holding ariana

graduating class

baby and me

"..just like a catapult that fired you.."

well, my graduation rehearsal dinner was tonight. it was super fun, i had a great time with my family. everyone is here. its great. i love them all. i'm excited about graduating, but its kind of scary and "WHOA!"

a lot of pictures were taken tonight so i will post those later. i'm pretty tired. i'm going to sleep tomorrow and write my speech and work on school and a million other things that i have to do. i think i am going to read "man o' war" again. i have been following this whole barbaro thing from the beginning and i will post on that later. i read an amazing article in our local paper today on him. it was so well written.

things are going so fast and its insane. i can't believe i'm graduating. somebody said something to me the other day, i don't even really remember exactly what they said, but it had something to do with the fact that i am in the core of life. he was asking me what i was up to and what i was going to be doing.

three cheers for the galloway family.


and scrambled eggs with cheese.


oh man.

my family rocks.


: )




-E.G.E.

"my sister and me"

poofy got a blog! i'm happy! she's in my links now. its www.ruthyellis.blogspot.com



"we laugh, we cry,
we make time fly,
best friends are we,
my sister and me."

and the results are in!

it turned out to be a really nice day, and it was a ton of fun. ForgetMeNot and I did well, we placed last, out of two, in our first class, because we were very inconsistent with our head, but in the championship, we got it! we won the class, out of eight! i was so happy, and then when i was making my victory pass, jackie told forgetmenot's story over the loudspeaker which was so so cool. about how she was rescued and all that. i was so proud of here, she did awesome. such a good horse. : ) i love her. *sigh*
i kept petting her the whole class..as you can see here:



so i was supposed to be taking pictures, but the battery on bobs camera went so i let him use mine, and he got horse snot on it. haha, its ok. he just owes me. plus, i couldn't have taken pictures anyways, because i was down for every single leadline class, with charles, so i was movin' it. those walk/trot leadline classes are killers. man. i got my workout today. and then for the non-leadline classes, i just spotted on the fence line. spotted as in;
"cut across the ring amanda! now! go! GO!"

"rachel TALK to him! tell him he's ok!"

"you're good emily you're good, push her forward!"

ect.

ok, and then halfway through the leadline classes, they did a tribute to megan and spunky. i was just crying. joce sprinted down to the mare barn and brought him up, and jackie told over the speakers, how he is retiring today because of a diagnosis, its a muscle disease. megan had no idea we were going to do a tribute, and she was just crying, and i couldn't stop, and then they gave her flowers and a garland for him, and i was trying to pull myself together because i had to go in to another leadline class with caleb and charles, so jill, his mom, is like,
"are you ok?"
"oh-*sobs* i'm fine i'm fine"
"ok.."
*breaks down again"
"are you sure? i can take him in there"
"no no i'm- i'm fine-"

oh man. it was so hard.
mom did awesome in her class! she had lots of fun and she did such a good job. even trotted a little! go mommy! happy mothers day. : ) love you lots.


there will be plenty more pictures to come, because bob took a lot with his digital before it died, he got some really nice ones of forgetmenot and me, some good ones in our championship class. so i will post those later. and he's getting all the film he used on my camera developed. so that is cool too. anyways, we went out to pizza tonight and now i'm home! and the car didn't die on me on the way home! i ate two pieces. david ate 4! i know, because i served him all his pieces. i could barely finish my two i don't know how he did 4. man. and then we just kind of chilled around and talked and it was nice. joce and i want to get me, her and steph on our horses before the summer ends, so we can get pictures of us, because our three horses are all related. forgetmenot is full sister to flagship and pilot. so that will be some awesome photos. i'm out. ready to go to bed. haha


-E.G.E.

"she paints me blue"

well today i had an absolutely amazing ride. it was really really nice, because jackie was sitting on a bucket in the ring, and giving me my lesson, and then she said
"i love watching you ride her"
"really?"
"you do an excellent job"

that made my day. when your trainer gives you compliments like that, you know that she means them. it was super cool. i was still coughing all day and my voice sounds horrible. but ah well. i had to get to the barn. it was good to ride her today, that will help us tomorrow at the show. i brought home my tall boots. they are a little big, but when they originally cost $300-$400 and they were given to me, i don't complain a bit. : )

BEFORE:




AFTER:


I polished them up, and I even cleaned out my boot bag and my boot shapers. they got their yearly cleaning. *ahem*
well someone is picking me up tomorrow morning. not sure who. i asked joce and steph for a ride in and they said they'd call me and let me know who would pick me up. joce is pretty much my role model. they made awesome cookies today during lunch.
so we'll probablly get to the barn around 8 or 8:30 and then clean stalls and finish getting everyone ready, and at 10 the show starts! i bought some film so in between my classes i can take my place as assistant photographer. everyone liked my hair. : ) i'm glad. i like it too. nate said its growing on him, but today he said he liked it. its kind of flat right now:

i got a perm.
It made it through a day of ponytails and helmets. I'm not going to try and revive it though, because i'm going to be smooshing it all up tomorrow too. it looks shorter in that picture than it really is. even though a lot got taken off. it was really curly last night.
here is a random picture from talents for Christ.


ok this is a huge post. i'll leave it at this, because after tomorrow, i'll have tons more pictures to post. don't want to bore you all. : )
can't wait! it'll be a fun, long, tiring day, and i'll probablly have a relapse and get sick again. RAW!


-E.G.E.

not the same

hey cory, i learned how to play the above song. : )

my mom rode yesterday! haha, it was great. we went to the barn and about 4 other people were having their lesson, so we got her up and she was really scared at first, but then she was so loving it. it was so funny. she was like "wow, this is really relaxing, i think i'd like to take lessons."
hey i agree completely.

well, i'm still sick but i'm getting over it.

pictures to follow because i did that "thing" to my hair today.

i'm going to ride tomorrow and then saturday's the show. sweet action. speaking of sweet action...go to www.judsongreene.com


-E.G.E.

jon* and ruth are home. : )

yesssss. i'm excited. ruth and i went on a walk last night which i shouldn't have done, because i'm pretty sick. i have a bad cough and a runny nose. it is really hard to sleep at night. i can't wait till it is gone. its frusterating too, because i couldn't go to rehearsal yesterday, and i couldn't go to piano lessons this morning, and i'm still going to the barn to watch mom ride, but i can't ride. it just loses. ahhh i hate this.

"we rounded up the rest of your friends and took them downtown in the paddy wagon. we'll do the same for you if you just tell us your name and why you did it. don't throw your life away, son."

"ok, excluding the possibility, that a female scandinavian olympian was running around outside our house last night, what else might be a possibility?"

"morgan, these crop circles? its all a big scam, its these nerds who've never had a girlfriend in their lives, they're like, 30 and they study greek mythology and write up little codes and have secret societes, so other nerds who can't get girlfriends can join them. Nerds were doing it 25 years ago and new nerds are doing it today. It's a scam"

bo: "why can't they get girlfriends?"

if you can't guess what it was that i watched last night, oh well. : )



-E.G.E.

p.s. dad did a new post. www.coldcofee.blogspot.com

GUESS WHAT?!

Well, you can all be so happy that I didn't post last night as planned, (see comments in previous post) because I happened to go to the barn today and now you can hear all about that!! Nothing much happened though, so I won't dwell on it too much. I was supposed to work Charles and Flicka, but I didn't have enough time to do Charles so I just did Flicka. She was kind of grumpy. It was an ok ride. I was going to head out around 3, but then Steph and Kirsten got up to ride so I decided to watch. Kirsten's been riding Roo and she has about.. 0 confidence. He spooked at something and she started crying so I walked her back down to the barn, and while we were walking he came flying off his feet. So that did NOT help at all. So I hugged her and she was crying and we talked for a little bit and I reminded her off all my issues riding. I think there is a phase that most devoted riders go through, where they just lose it and can't seem to latch on to anything. She'll be ok though. I think Roo will be able to help her with that though. He's a very young horse and kind of immature at times, but he'll be good for her. If she thinks more about him and less about herself, she'll be able to guide him through with his issues and will help her to focus on something else than her fears. Take it from me, that will get you nowhere fast.

John, Ruth and Heather are coming home next week! I guess they are leaving on monday night so they won't get here until Tuesday morning sometime. I'm pretty excited though. I miss them lots. It will be nice to have them home. It means I need to get practiced back up with tennis, so I can beat them all, and hackey sack, and it means nightime raids on dairy queen and the local mini golf joint. yessssssss.

Rehearsal was pretty much awesome on Tuesday. It was halarious, everyone is doing really well with their parts. Quinn was stumbling over his lines a little. He said "intimate" and it was supposed to be "immeadiete" and it was such a bad place for it. Ben is completely hysterical as Spode. Man. He's got the accent great. For somebody who said "I can't do a british accent".
Madeline- what can I say? She loves what she does! But really, I am completely enjoying my part. love it. The two highlights of the afternoon were Amber/Lady Harriett's line; "TCAH!" and then Quinn/Bertie's; "WOMEN!" it was perfect. everyone did great.

Well, this thursday I am going to the salon. I heard you're supposed to get your hair trimmed every 6 weeks. But I'm not going for that. I actually won't tell you guys what I'm getting done to it. I will just do it, and then take pictures. But, I did something different to my hair the other week, and everyone loved it. I got a good response...so if you STILL don't know what I am doing to it...oh well! You'll find out. : )

The Schooling show is a week from today. It should be fun. I'm the assistant photographer. : ) I'm doing a few classes, just an in-hand one with Flicka in the morning, then a couple more classes. It should be ok as long as I get up for long enough time before hand so we can get her worked a little and relaxed. Then the rest of the day will be spent leading the younger kids in the leadline classes, and shooting some pictures. : ) Mom's class is last. GO MOM!
Then we will go out to dinner with everyone. I think pizza land has become a tradition. Good stuff. On wednesday, I have piano lessons from 8:30 (it got moved up!) to 10, then I'm coming home and picking up mom for her riding lesson, then I'm working Charles since Emily is going to ride him later that day, and Flicka, and then I'm probablly going to go to the barn on Friday to help set up for the show and to get a last ride in. I really like riding saddleseat. It's a lot more forward than hunt, and it really makes you feel like you're just floating.
The difference between saddleseat and huntseat? I will enlighten you.

Huntseat:


Saddleseat:


Even though a English Pleasure (saddleseat) horse may hold their head and pick up their feet a good deal higher than a hunter, you still want collection. They can't be going around with their nose in the air. You still want a good curve in the neck and that roundness. It feels awesome to ride a horse like that. It really does. And riding a hunt horse that really can go, you get the same feeling, but for me, its just much better on a saddle horse. It really is. On a perfect, warm summer day, no helmet and the wind whipping through your hair, (sorry guys-well, some of you might be able to share that joy) and your horses mane blowing in your face and that wonderful feeling that you could just keep on going and never stop. Yup. Thats what its like.

I'm off to bed.

-E.G.E.