The View From A Saddle

Pet Photography

2012-02-08T19:47:00.000-08:00

Ever since my Mema died, I have been so upset of not having photos of us together. I wish I would have taken more photos with her and I wish I had MORE photos of her.

This is what made me decide that I need more photos of everything. My family, my boyfriend, and my animals. And then I decided I need to get an external hard drive.

Hey, there really isn't anyone taking pictures of pets around this town. Hey, I think that might be a good idea.

I pondered on it for three or four months... I fiddled around taking some pictures and I finally decided to just post some. Maybe people will ask for it, maybe people won't. Even if I don't take pictures of other people's pets... I can enjoy taking pictures of my own! I have plenty to do that with! I even asked Jaclyn if she wouldn't mind taking pictures of me and my horses. Just so I can have them. I would do the same for her with any of her pets. I only have one photo of me and my horse Scout and it is in a frame in my room and it has never been replaced as all the other photos have. I hold it very dear to me (even though it is a horrible picture of me! one of those self timer pictures!). If I don't have pictures with them, at least have pictures of them.

All I do is take photos of my animals anyways, why not do it for others?!

So enjoy!

All photos copyright of "MKM Photography"

Silly boy!

2012-02-07T17:14:00.000-08:00

Today after a nice relaxing ride on Flint... I was taking pictures of my horse because I think he is the cutest horse in the world.

This precious thing always acts like the world is coming to an end and that I have run him too hard. He shows this by yawning 20 times in a row. Then making a moaning sound.

I was steady trying to get a picture of him yawning... but I never really succeed. This is all I got.

But I kept on taking pictures anyways. He is SO. Dang. Cute!

How could you not love a face that cute?

Then the clever horse decided to do a little shake... the whole body shake.

and shook his saddle right off! He proceeded to turn around making sure the deed was done.

Then he looked at me as if he was saying can I please go get in my pasture now?!

I didn't get a picture of that look cause I was laughing so hard!

What a Cutie. :)

My First Recipe in..3..2..1..

2012-02-02T12:56:00.000-08:00

I can't be related to my sisters and my mom without putting recipes on my blog. Who agrees? I do!

3-2-1 Cake.

I have never heard of this... until today.

One of our precious RVers staying here at my family's RV park (which I work at) brought me two little delicious cakes. They were moist and yummy.

She said it is called the 3-2-1 cake.

photo source

She said you use one box of angel food cake mix and one box or regular cake mix of any flavor. She used the confetti white cake for mine!

Mix the two cake mixes in a gallon ziplock bag and make sure all the lumps are out. This will keep as long as you want it!

You take 3 tablespoons of the cake mix, 2 tablespoons of water, mix it in a small microwavable bowl and microwave it for 1 minute. 3-2-1.

Ideally you want a 'cupcake' shaped bowl. Because if you just put it in a cereal bowl... well, you'll have a cereal bowl shaped cake. Flat and sad.

This would be great for kids! Aunt Cheryl! :)

I don't know if any of you have ever heard of it, but I like it!

Now, if you want some real recipes go to my sister's blog, this sister's blog or... The Pioneer Woman!

I think my family will be ashamed that my first recipe was a box cake recipe. Box cake is banned from our household!

Last Pig Show

2012-01-25T14:55:00.001-08:00

Joshua had his last pig show this past weekend. He went out with a bang.

Bree placed 4th in class and ended up selling for $1000 dollars to the same guy that bought Blanche last year! I was SO happy about that! They keep their names and they have a good home! You can see Blanche here when you scroll down to the gilt section. Bree will be there soon! Dan is an awesome guy and I'm so glad he has our two girls!

Aubie placed first in class and ended up with another Reserve Champion title to his name!

He is such a handsome boy. I'm talking about the pig y'all! ;)

Just Kidding. My Josh is the most handsome thing I have ever seen.

Sadly, it is the end of the road for dear ol' Aubie. He is a barrow and that means he is pretty much good for nothing.... except bacon.

It was fun while it lasted and I can't wait to have pigs of our own one day! I know Josh will miss it.

Cutie Pie

2012-01-24T11:11:00.000-08:00

Mrs Candi brought to my attention that Cutie Pie has never had her own post.

Shame on me!!

She is THE most important dog in this family.

Ok, maybe she is tied with Lola, Latch and Tug.

Ok maybe we have the best dogs on this planet.

Back to Cutie Pie.

We got Cutie Pie a long time ago... over 12 years!

Before we had Cutie Pie she would make the half mile trek from her house to our house and would spend the day playing with our dog, Cadi. A half mile was nothing for her because she was only a puppy! She was under a year old. At the end of the day when she was done playing... she always went back home.

Sadly, our neighbor that owned Cutie Pie was killed in a car accident and after that Cutie Pie came to our house and never went back. We tried to take her back two or three times but the guy's girlfriend finally just said I don't want the dog y'all keep her!

So we did.

She fit in well in our family and she must have known it!

Cutie Pie is about 13 years old.

Although she looks it... she doesn't act it!

On any given day you can find her playing with Latch like she is a puppy again.

She loves armadillo hunting! She has backed off of this activity a little bit in the past year, but occasionally you will find her covered in mud and solid black from hunting with the boys!

She mostly sleeps, but lately she has been a little more active! I think she likes all this warm January weather!

She LOVES going on trail rides with the horses. She has always been my trail buddy.

She would go for miles and miles with me.

There is no where I have been on my horse that Cutie Pie hasn't been.

As she has gotten older, she doesn't go on rides as often as she use to, but every now and then she will go with me. I try to keep those rides short so I don't wear her out!

Even if she doesn't ride... she always goes out to the pasture with me to catch up the horses!

Cutie Pie looooves babies!

Anykind of baby...

It seems like whenever she sees a baby her eyes light up and it looks like she is saying "A baby! A baby! A baby!"

Baby cows, baby ducks, baby dogs, baby cats, baby humans, baby horses.... she loves babies!

You can easily see how she got her name... cause she is SO DANG CUTE!

Even in her summer look!

She is extra cute when she is sleeping!

Cutie is head dog around here. She puts Latch and Tug in their places when needed.

The day that Cutie Pie isn't here anymore is going to be a very sad day.

She is such a special dog and we all love her.

Who wouldn't love a dog that cute!

90 minutes.

2012-01-23T14:44:00.000-08:00

I blow dried my hair for the first time in over a year this weekend.

That means that I only ever need to buy.... 1 hair dryer in 20 years.

Or, maybe my entire life.

Don't be jealous of that volume, people!

It takes practice getting it to look like that!

I use to get made fun of for my hair being so frizzy, but I bet those people that made fun of me never were offered money for their hair. Yes, I said offered money for their hair... I have been offered money for my hair on multiple occasions.

Of course that was when my hair looked like this!

This is exactly what I look like on a normal day.

My everyday, 10 minute, easy hair do.

My hair do that only takes me.... 10 minutes.

This hair do also takes me 10 minutes.

Don't mind the menagerie of dying plants.

This hair do....

takes me 90 minutes.

1 hour and 1 half.

1.5 hours.

The length of a Disney movie.

The length of a Tuesday/Thursday college course.

The length of a very short horse ride.

The length of time it takes me to drive to Auburn.

One and a half hours.

One hour and thirty minutes.

and don't be jealous of my christmas tree that is still up, sparkling, and brightly glowing in my bathroom. I plan to keep it there all. year. long.

Normal people are able to achieve this hair do in... maybe 20 minutes.

Some people are able to achieve this hair do in the amount of time it takes me to fix my hair when it's curly! 10 minutes people!

And you wondered why I only ever blow dry my hair once a year!!

This is my best friend.

This is Chi.

Did I mention she is my best friend?!

She is!

So, mark this day in history as the day you saw Molly with straight hair!

Cause it only happens once a year!

It may actually start happening more than once a year if I can bring myself to invest in some dry shampoo in a tiny bottle that only costs $10 dollars at walmart. Geez.

If I can get this hair do to look good for 3 days with dry shampoo, and not start getting greasy... then you might just start seeing me with straight hair!

Inside my phone part 3

2012-01-22T21:22:00.000-08:00

Pictures from my phone! Enjoy!!

My MeMa gave me this charm... She truly believed this poem told the truth about every one. I believe it too!

Friday's Child is Loving and Giving!!

fits me perfectly if I do say so myself!!

My and my MeMa were both Friday Children. The only two Fridays in my family. I will always strive to be just like her. Classy, loving, giving, and unforgettable.

What child are you?! Just look up what day you were born!

Monday's child is fair of face

Tuesday's child is full of grace,

Wednesday's child is full of woe,

Thursday's child has far to go,

Friday's child is loving and giving,

Saturday's child works hard for a living,

But the child who is born on the Sabbath Day

Is bonny and blithe and good and gay.

My precious Cutie Pie.

That Latch!

Foggy Morning

Brothers and Sister!

Took this from atop my trusty steed.

So apparently, it was destined for me to be a horsey person from the very beginning! :)

Nightly ritual.

I love Christmas!

I live in a beautiful place.

Training :)

My amazing sign that my amazing boyfriend made for me!

it really is me!

Training gone good!

If you can't tell, the majority of pictures on my phone are of this handsome creature!

riding with my daddy!

A man, his horse, and his dog.

That Latch!

This was taken at the beaver pond on our farm.

New Year's Eve With Joshua!

Zac Brown Band

MY Man.

My beautiful Breyer horse that Jaclyn got me for Christmas! It is hand painted and looks just like my sweet Scout!

Cutie Pie.

Her name says it all. Cutest dog ever.

Pig Show!

2012-01-16T13:42:00.000-08:00

First off,

It was only last week when someone came trudging onto my blog and made me feel as if I couldn't write what I feel for being watched like a hawk and picked apart. Well guess what, I don't care. If you want to come onto my blog and mock me- that is perfectly fine with me! You are only wasting your time and brain cells.

I only hope that one day you will be as mature as I am and have a relationship with someone that makes you as happy as I have been with my boyfriend.

I also can only pray that you will never be treated as I have been treated by you, but I can hope differently.

As one of my favorite bands sings "I don't think that I could be so Cold hearted".

That being said! Moving on.

On a lighter note, and the reason I started to write this post, Josh and I had a very busy and successful weekend!!

As many of you know Joshua raises showpigs. Duroc showpigs. He had a very bad incident where his main breeding sow and best momma pig miscarried. She was carrying the pigs for the show that happened this past weekend. Since she miscarried, there were no pigs for the show this past weekend.

That all changed when Josh and I made the long trip to Butler, KY. I could have sworn I wrote a blog post on that, but I can't seem to find one! I'll just post a quick recap! :)

We left the boring flatness of middle GA and headed toward the gorgeous mountains of TN and KY.

We got to our destination and picked up all these little piggies!

Most of them are for kids that show pigs and wanted a KY pig that Josh picked out for them.

The two 'red' pigs at the top left corner are Josh's two little show pigs.

I loved that trip. It was fun and relaxing.

Josh and I both agree that roadtrips are our favorite things to do. Just the two of us, no one else to worry about!

While we were at the barn in KY, Josh had to pick out his pigs. He was looking for a gilt and a barrow. He was had chosen his gilt and was trying to figure out which barrow he wanted. He and I narrowed it down to two, then, boars. He has since castrated the poor fella making him a barrow. Anyways, it was down to the two. Josh couldn't decided which one he wanted for sure. I knelt down beside him and tried to help him figure out the flaws of each and the positives of each. At some point, after he was still undecided, I just blurted out... "That one! He's got the best... everything" and he said "Looks good to me!"

So Aubie it was. Bet you can't guess where I got that precious name from!

I named the gilt Bree and the rest is history!

Bree

Josh and I spent some time walking them and Josh fed them up the way he knows how and off to the show we went. Since the two pigs were litter mates, they are very much the same size. He was sure they would be in the same class (since classes are done by pig weight), but they just happened to be in two separate classes! He took Aubie out first. The second he walked out of the holding pen the judge pointed at him. He was pinned! Yes, my little Aubie has a chance to win this thing! (Every pig that the judge likes he sends to a different holding area to look at them again after all the other pigs are out of the way. He has to look at about 20 different pigs in each class, sometimes more, and pick 8 of those to place.)

I go get Bree and bring her around into the holding pens to get her ready to go into the ring for the next class.

They let all the 'pinned' pigs out of the ring and the judge looks over them for a while. He slowly pins certain pigs again which are the pigs that are 4th-8th places.

Josh and Aubie are still in the ring.

Then the judge looks at one guy and holds up three fingers. He turns around and quickly flashes two fingers at the other showman and one finger at Josh. He won!

Now it's Bree's turn! Guess what, same thing!

We have 2 first place pigs and there are only 2 classes of Durocs. Josh automatically wins Grand Champion and Reserve Champion for the Duroc breed! It was just a matter of picking which one was Grand and which one was Reserve. Aubie ended up with the Grand and Bree was Reserve.

I'm so proud of Josh! He won BOTH Grand and Reserve! He was pretty excited too.

Sorry for the horrible quality of this picture! I was the only help Josh had and I didn't have time to fumble with my camera, alas the cellphone was there.

Since Josh won the overall Duroc show, he had to stick around and show in the overall final drive. That means there will be one pig from each breed (all the Grand Champions) showing together in the ring for the judge to pick out the Grand Champion Overall Pig.

Josh didn't expect to win this because the Duroc never does, and just as suspected the Crossbred won the Grand and the Hampshire won the Reserve.

Overall, it was a great (& long) Saturday!

Big thanks to Clint and family for helping Josh get the pigs to the showgrounds while he was on his way back from Athens!

The rest of the weekend was great as well. I am now sitting here at work waiting until I can see Josh again! I miss that boy when he is gone...

But, so happy I can call him mine! :)

I think we might just have to have some little pig showers of our own one day! Don't worry, they will show horses too!

My MeMa

2012-01-12T22:11:00.000-08:00

Some never have the love of a grandmother. Most do. I sure am glad I had the best grandmother of anyone I know! MeMa was some kind of special and I think about her and miss her every single day.

Nothing hurt worst than losing my MeMa on October 1, 2011.

The fondest memories of my MeMa are those at her pink house that is nestled right across from the middle school in my hometown. Countless memories happened in that house.

She sang us to sleep. All kinds of songs from She'll be coming around the Mountain when She comes to Minnie the Mermaid to Yankee Doodle Dandy. She also told us stories- the most popular was the one with my sister Ashlee. Her duck that my dad had shot was kept in the freezer and she played with it for a while. When it started thawing out, they put it back in the freezer! one day, it's head fell off. Ashlee quickly looked up at MeMa and said, It's ok Daddy will fix it with his screwdriver!

My favorite memory- I would wake up in the middle of the night and she would be gone from the other twin bed that was shoved up next to mine. I would listen... and she would clear her throat from the den. She always did that... but my favorite part. The next time I was over there I would grab her thumb and hold it really tight and tell her "I'm going to hold onto you so you don't leave me in the middle of the night!" She would always laugh so hard. Little did I know, the moment I fell asleep my grip would disappear.

I use to dig for worms in her flower garden- I loved digging for worms.
We use to draw on her driveway with sidewalk chalk- hop scotch to sunshines to horses.
I was always allowed to bring a friend over. Brittany was always my top choice. We would play dress up in her long, elegant nightgowns from the 80s probably. They had lace and were made of silk.
Linsey and I wore her high heels and her jewelry. We always put on a fashion show.

One of her bathtubs was sunken into the ground. I thought that was the neatest thing ever!
She always had the fun bath tub toys. I had a blue wooden whale that had a hole in the top of his head that let out air bubble when you put him under water. I wish I could find that whale...
Then we always had the numbers, letters, and shapes that stuck to the side of the tub.
And you can't forget her stockings and hose hanging over the bathtub!
She always had a little heater in the bathroom and would always turn it on when I was in the bath so I wouldn't get cold. I can still see that heater sitting on that lime green wicker shelf with the glass balls that looked like giant grapes.
She always had a tongue scrapper and a rock for deodorant.

In the room next to the bathroom, there was a huge great dane figurine under the bed. He always scared me... but now I would love to have him. MeMa is responsible for my love of Great Danes... she had one named Goliath and now I want one. I just may have to name him Goliath just like my MeMa's.

Every morning for breakfast we always cooked pancakes. Drip Drop Pancakes. Circle pancakes. Any kind of pancake. Cottage cheese pancakes. and I always had fruit. I could eat a huge bowl of fruit. It was always so yummy at MeMa's house! Grapefruit was a big hit as well.

My siblings and I would always get on tricycles or bikes (whatever our too long of legs would fit on) and race around the house. She had a perfect circle that went from the kitchen through the den through the foyer and back to the kitchen. It was like our little racetrack.

She had a miniature table next to her bookcase that was just for us. We played GOfish, OldMaid, colored with beeswax crayons, and did puzzles. That little table is in my house for Blair and Faegan... I remember that table being so huge when I was little!

MeMa loved lions and roosters. They were all over her house.

We had huge bean bags in front of the tv that we always sat in.
We always watched 'Savannah Smiles', The Munsters, and played the old nintendo game with the duck hunting game.

Christmas Eve was always celebrated at MeMa's. MeMa was as good to us as Santa Clause was. She got us anything we wanted and loved watching us be spoiled.

I can't think about MeMa without thinking about her gum bag. She had a little green velvet bag that had 5 or 6 different flavors of gum. Everytime we went somewhere, we always got to choose a piece of EXTRA gum!

We also played the time game. When we left the house we would try to guess down to the minute what time we would get to our destination. Whoever got the closest won the game. We never won anything, just the title of being winner.

I will never forget MeMa's black station wagon. It had a little pop up seat in the very back that came up out of the floor... Brittany and I always sat in that seat and begged the truckers to toot their horns by pumping our fists up and down when we were on our way to the movies.
We always went to the movies with MeMa. She took me to the movies well into middle school!
She loved those kids movies just as much as we did.

MeMa was also known for going to the beach with us. She taught us how to make drip drop castles and I always looked forward to the long back scratches on the way to the condo!

We would always have our own bike or rollarblades or scooter at MeMa's house. She would go on a walk and we would all go with her on our bikes throughout her neighborhood.

When I went off to college, I always received a letter from my MeMa. She always called me her precious angel and always was trying to send me money. Even if she didn't have it!
I will treasure those letters and every bracelet, earring, necklace, ring or little figurine she has ever given me. Little did I know that all those little gifts would mean so much to me now, but before I only thought of them as 'little MeMa QVC gifts'.

When I came home for summers I worked at the vets office. Across the highway was Curves... MeMa went to curves and every time she left curves she would come over to the vets office and visit me in her workout clothes. she was so precious.

The most important thing to me is knowing that she was able to meet and get to know Josh, and that Josh was able to meet and get to know her beautiful soul. Josh and I use to spend hours at her house.. just sitting and talking. Maybe watching criminal minds, law and order, or the news.
She had the best advice and the best stories.
I always pictured her at our wedding sitting right there on the first row and it breaks my heart knowing she won't be there.

She was classy, silly, beautiful, honest, happy, forgiving, patriotic, and full of smiles and laughter.

How I wish I had more pictures of the two of us together. You never really know how important those things are until it's too late to get them.

I miss my MeMa so so so so much. I wish that they could stay with us for forever... At least my big brother is able to have her now and get to know her the way I knew her!

I love you and miss you MeMa!

Sad blogger right here.

2012-01-09T11:47:00.000-08:00

Josh moved off to go to college this weekend... 2 hours away from me. I'm going to try not to be the sulky, I want my boyfriend back kinda person that I probably would be. To be honest, I couldn't be happier for him. He needed to get out of this town and I'm glad he did. I was in Auburn for over 1 year of our relationship in the very beginning and it was great. I don't doubt this will be any different. Distance does make the heart grow fonder, doesn't it mom. I'm quite sure this will bring us even closer! :)

I went up there late Saturday afternoon and spent Saturday night, all day Sunday, and Monday morning up there. We had a blast!!

Went to Menchies (my favorite yogurt place ever- the kind where you serve yourself), ate at Loco's and Waffle House, watched the Tom Hanks/Julia Roberts movie (Larry Crowne), and made a few runs around Athens and got to know the town a little, hung out with a couple friends of his... it was quiet, relaxing, and wonderful.

It'll be hard going from seeing him every single day to only seeing him on the weekends, but I'm sure it'll get better. I'm lucky to even see him on the weekends. Some couples I know don't get to see their other half but once a month. I would die!

I'm going to be trying to keep myself busy during the week.... riding horses, walking with my friend- leslie- and our dogs, plus I have to get a job at the hospital now.

Hopefully, these will be the fastest two years of my life!

What I wore Wednesday #6

2011-12-20T21:03:00.000-08:00

Hope everyone is having a good week! Christmas is so close! :)

It's time for another week of what Molly wore to work!

Linking up with The Pleated Poppy and Real Momma Real Style!

Monday for work!

Love my horse ring! :)

I love this outfit because I love black and brown together!

Shirt: Target Scarf: Target Jeans: GAP Boots: Style&Co

Earrings: New York & Co. Ring: Forever21

Tuesday for Ice Skating and dinner :)

Shirt: GAP Ruffle Scarf: Rumor Boutique (Macon GA)

Jeans: American Eagle Boots: Nocona

and my horse ring again!

LOVE my Noconas!!!

I want a new pair of boots pretty soon. Can't decide between some taller lucchese boots or some ariats. I lean more towards Lucchese because they are made in the USA. Noconas are made in Mexico. good boots!

I also want some Fryes. Paige Tall, please.

So much for outside pictures! Josh hasn't been getting here until after dark. I guess the tripod and I may have to experiment this week.

Merry Christmas!!!!

What I wore Wednesday #5

2011-12-14T03:10:00.000-08:00

I'm back!!

Linking up with The Pleated Poppy and Real Momma Real Style!

It's been so long! I'm just not a big summer clothes kinda girl! :)

I like boots, skinny jeans, and cute tops. So here we go again for the winter time!

Shirt: Target Cami: Walmart? or Target? Jeans: Gap Shoes: Walmart (on clearance!!)

Sorry for the blurriness, I was in a hurry and my camera wasn't feeling the light! ;)

I was in such a hurry that I forgot to cut the extra string off my knot ties... you don't see that, ok!

Instead of giving away 5 or 6 of my outifts a week... I'm only going to give two. That way I will have enough to last me a while ! And I'm sorry there is only one this time, I decided late last night that I was going to link up. So excited to do this again!

Also, I have lined up the boyfriend to start taking pictures for me.. outside! yay! no more mirror!

Thanks for looking, y'all!! :)

Do you have a Facebook!?

2011-12-02T14:36:00.000-08:00

I won't ask you to be my friend... but I WILL ask you to vote for my picture!!

Go HERE and LIKE my picture! I will be forever grateful!!

Look for this picture!!

I have entered a contest to win a free saddle pad and I would love to win it!

If you follow my blog and you have already 'liked' my picture, then click on share and share it with your friends! The more the merrier!!

Courtesy of Kate at The Adventures of Lucy and Polar Square Designs.

Thanks so much Kate!

Birthday Boy

2011-11-22T20:52:00.000-08:00

The 21st was my Joshua's birthday!

I surprised him with a scavenger hunt around my house to find his present. It was hilarious.

Some of the clues:

"Don't be BLUE, we'll be back in the spring!" (thanks to Linnie!)
- blue bird houses!
"Your favorite snack! Better race back!" (and he actually did run! ha!)
- oreos!
"This didn't come from Opie!"
- Milk!
"Ssssstop by and visit our ssssspecial family member!"
- Minnie the Snake!

Blair ended up knowing where his present was in the end... It was too cute seeing him run from place to place and animal to animal! Lola and Latch both had clues on their collars; SoBe had a clue on her halter.

So what was his present?!

Concert tickets :)

I hope you had a wonderful birthday weekend, Joshua! I love you so much and I can't wait to spend new years eve with Zac Brown!

Christmas Wrapping

2011-11-19T19:19:00.000-08:00

Why not start early?!

Slowly checking people off my list!

Hoof Update!

2011-11-17T15:12:00.000-08:00

I caught lizzie today and took an update picture of her hoof. For a flashback, you can visit this blog post!

Here is a miniature collage I put together that is a tiny recap:

and THIS is what it looks like today!

Day 1 Today!

NO quarter crack. NO funky growths. YES it looks perfect! (Minus her needing a trim some kind of badly!)
But, Her coronary band looks amazing! You can see how much it has actually grown out since she got hurt. That funky looking band and below where her hoof looks retarded is the injury line.

I'm ecstatic about this. I thought I was going to have a lame horse for the rest of her life. She is only 6 and that would have been devastating. I already lost her brother at the age of 6... I don't need anything to happen to this little mare!

After a lot of hard work and wrapping, I have successfully gotten my first injured hoof healed! All I know is Furazone is some amazing stuff.

The handsome-est dog.

2011-11-08T16:46:00.000-08:00

And the sweetest..

Amen.

I'll be back soon.

2011-10-27T22:05:00.000-07:00

It has been a crazy month!

Nursing school has me completely booked.

I had a Psychology test today, a huge research paper due yesterday, clinical (1 1/2 hour away) all day tuesday, clinical all day monday in that same town, and... it goes on.

Josh and I are driving to the blue grass state this weekend to pick up at least 13 little pigs! We are getting 2 for him.. the rest are for others that are wanting pigs for their kids. I think it will be a fun little trip.

I have been trying to ride horses as much as I can. I have been trying out a new saddle that someone brought into my dad's business to trade him...

What cha think?

Josh and I have been hanging out with my friend/neighbor Lexie and her boyfriend Matt. Riding horses, watching movies, and going to haunted houses. Oh yes. I love haunted houses! They are so not scary. ;)

My best friend came into town on the 14th/15th. I was SO excited to see her! She helped me out tremendously with Blair's 3rd Old McDonald birthday party. Josh did too! We loaded up SoBe, Donkey, and Opie, along with 2 baby goats from my neighbor! It was so much fun.

I still can't believe we got Opie on that trailer! He did so good!

We also went to the Georgia National Fair. That is always fun!!! She also refreshed my trimming skills. There is so much that I forgot! Then we ended the weekend with a good horse ride! :)

Love you Rhi!!!

Now I am going to bed. I have a date with a 1 year old in the morning at 7:45.

Let's see if I can remember how to babysit! ;)

October.

2011-10-07T22:18:00.000-07:00

October from day 1 has not been a good month.

My MeMa passed away. It was sudden and unexpected. I still can't imagine her being gone, because she has always been there. Always.

I loved her very, very much. Along with everyone else that had even laid eyes on her. She was such an amazing woman.

I walked my friend, Leslie, outside tonight after catching up on a television show. Revenge. If you haven't watched it, watch it. Well, only if you like that kind of thing.

When we walked outside, I heard pounding of hooves.

Lately, I have been having a few issues, so I told her goodbye and walked up to the horse pasture.

It's 1 AM, the moon is shining so that I can see everything clearly. There are tons of stars in the sky and my girls are right up by the house.

Those hooves were Sir Flint's. Who else?! I mean, did I really think different!

I unlatched the gate to my girls pasture and visited with SoBe and then Lizzie.

It was so very peaceful. No noise, no people, nothing but silence and my beautiful creatures.

I just thought... How blessed am I to have such a wonderful family, home, friends... and horses.

God can create some beautiful things. Moonlight, stars, and horses (all combined) is so beautiful.

Yeah, that may sound weird to you. But, that was the calmest I have felt in days. Just being able to lay my head on my horse's neck and look at the stars and just breathe...

Thank you, God, for creating such beautiful creatures. And thank you for giving me such an amazing family.

Ummm

2011-09-19T18:48:00.001-07:00

1. I'm a slacker.

2. I'm a nursing student.

3. I'm super busy being a nursing student.

4. I'm a slacker.

The End.

It's Gameday!

2011-09-03T10:56:00.001-07:00

War Eagle!!

Pictures

2011-09-02T12:59:00.000-07:00

Enjoy!

Love that face.

and that puppy.

This is what I love. Actually, I adore.

I adore that brown and white head even more.

New roommate.

Still nameless. I wanted to name him Presley. Josh objected.

Hey... wait a minute! It is MY roommate! Presley it is. Shh. Don't tell Josh.

This is the face I come home to everyday.

MOM!!!

There is that lovely face again!

The sunrise that joined me while I put Lizzie out to pasture every morning.

One day there was a donkey in my front yard.

I have ALWAYS wanted a donkey that lived in my front yard!!

Mama Jan does not think it is that great.

She sees it as donkey poo living in the front yard.

This is how gorgeous it is at my house all the time.

Except, the grass isn't that green anymore.

We need rain.

Lola.

I put this photo on facebook the other day to show everyone how well she puts her eyeliner on and how well she forgets to paint on her left eyebrow. :)

Flint trying out his new 'ears' on our ride this morning!

They work well keeping those nasty deer flies off!

I took this picture this morning... about a week ago this fire happened about 50 feet from our farm. All because of one cigarette. I was in class when I got a call from my neighbor who NEVER calls me unless there is an emergency. So, I automatically thought, oh no one of my horses is out or cows or something... I jump out of my desk and go out into the hall and he says Molly, there is a fire heading towards your land and I wanted to let your dad know. I tell him thanks and immediately call my moms friend that works as a volunteer firefighter (she's got one of those cool radios), she didn't answer so I called my dad. Thank goodness he just happened to be at home!!! He went and checked on it and the fire department had just gotten there and gotten it out.

I was so worried about that fire taking off and swallowing our land up... but thank goodness it didn't!!

So... don't throw your cigarette butts out!!! We haven't had any rain you dodo brains!!

Where's your tail?!

2011-08-26T14:30:00.000-07:00

This is a question that I ask Lola daily. She quickly responds letting me know exactly where her little nub is!

I don't know why I felt impelled to share this with you, but I did!

I have successfully gotten my horses foot well and she is no longer in the stall. Thank the Lord!

I LOVE having a horse in the stall and I very may well decided to put her in there a few nights out of the week. I have had zero problems catching that little mare ever since she was stalled for her injury. Also, I like actually having something to do with my horses besides look at them (when I'm not busy with school!). I don't mind cleaning out the stall, her water bucket, and filling her hay bag. I actually thoroughly enjoyed it. I don't miss the wrapping her foot everyday with a new bandage though, but I miss her being at the barn.

Here are some before and after pictures of her foot just for my records! And, of course to show you what I was dealing with! ;)
I am aware that her feet are hoof disasters X 10. She is such a little twit when it comes time to catch her for her trims that she doesn't get trimmed because she is a twit. Did I already say that?! She's a twit. Me trying to catch her did this to her, so maybe she learned her lesson.

But she is so much better now that she lived in a stall for a month!

click for larger view!

Day 1: July 31

on this day, I was clueless as what to do... I don't remember what I did. I know I washed it with an iodine scrub, globbed some furazone on some gauze that I had in my 1st semester nursing kit, and then wrapped it with some vetwrap and teal duck tape. yes, teal! :) All I had.

Day 2: August 1

Lamina is seen behind the broken part...

I unwrapped it, washed it scrubbed it, globbed it, and wrapped it back up.

Nice and pink, no infection, so far we are golden.

Took pictures to my vet this same day and he told me I was doing everything that I could and to continue to use Furazone. Pshew. Cause that's all I had.

Day 4: August 3

By this day, I got my shipment from Jeffers and was ready to do some serious wrapping!! I also obtained a whole 'rectangle' of 4X4s from my vet. I scrubbed, dabbed the furazone on, put a 4x4 gauze over the furazon, wrapped with a gauze wrap, then vet wrap and then duck tape. This is what it looked like everyday. I kept pressure off the coronet band and made sure that it would stay on with pressure on the heels. And if you don't know jack about horse hooves, I found this awesome website so that you can study up on their parts! :)

Actually, the duck tape is a little extreme in this picture because I started not going up so high, but you get the picture!

Day 5: August 4

Lamina isn't as pink, but still no injection. unwrap, clean, wrap!

Day 7: August 8

A really good picture of the crack, and how the coronet band is releasing the hoof that is going to fall off.

Day 14: August 15

I got a little brave and cut the broken piece back with my nippers... Tried to take the weight off of it so it wouldn't press into the coronet band.

Day 21: August 22

On this day I got REALLY brave and cut the whole entire piece back. She had gotten use to me messing with her hoof so much and she wasn't tender anymore. I exposed the lamina, but left the heel. The heel is 'floating' so that the hoof can grow back at a faster rate. You can see the new growth already starting at the coronet band (the orange at the top that looks like the rest of her 'normal' hoof). The piece I cut off was pushing up against the coronet band and making the new growth grow funny, so I had to get rid of that. I wrapped it one more time, stalled her, and then turned her out. The next day I unwrapped it and left it unwrapped.

The lamina hardened up and her sole did as well. The sole that had built up over the past few months is finally shedding off. She will have a trim very soon!! :) Now that she can be caught!

I am still very angry that this happened, because she will have problems with this hoof for the rest of her life... when the coronet band is injured like hers was, it never grows back the same. Oh well, things happen I guess!

I'm Cursed.

2011-08-18T16:24:00.000-07:00

I have been having a bad streak of luck lately (except with nursing school... wooo!!)

I'm ROCKING nursing school right now! :)

Now for my bad streak of luck.

1. Flint stepped on my toe. He didn't just step on my toe and go "oh I'm sorry let me pick up my foot". It was more like, "I'm sorry I stepped on your foot let me slowly SLIDE my foot off of your toe as slow as I can and scrap your skin off"

Needless to say, my toenail is in the process of falling off.

2. Lizzie almost broke my nose the other day after I accidentally poked her in the eye. I was SO excited she let me catch her without any trouble that I just wanted to give her a hug but... bang into my nose.

It started bleeding and it was really sore for about 2 days, now it's ok though.

3. SoBe is out to get my I'm quite sure of it. I fell off of her about 2 months ago and kind of caught myself and didn't get hurt.

I fell off of her again yesterday at a canter, going up a hill, in huge gravel. Something jumped in the woods to our right (I heard it, never saw it) and I went off the right as she went to the left.

It was my fault cause I was bareback and I shouldn't have ridden her bareback by myself, I'm just glad I had my phone with me because Josh was at my house and he came and got me!

I hit on my right hip towards my lower back. I immediately had a huge knot and when I stood up my legs were shaking like I have never seen them shake. I sat down back down and called Josh. I knew he was going to be so upset because before I even left the house he told me now to go because he knew I was going to get hurt. I hadn't been gone 5 minutes when I called him.

Hopefully my bad luck streak is over. Don't they usually come in 3's?!? I hope so. Cause this is making me feel like I don't even know how to ride a horse!!!

and because I never go without a picture... Me and Coal Kitty :)

Horses, Food Trucks, Six Flags, and.. Josh! :)

2011-08-15T14:47:00.000-07:00

I would have never though that my two weeks off of school would be two of the busiest weeks of my life!!!

I took two ATI tests today for nursing school and passed them both so now I can move onward to the next classes!! (Which start tomorrow).

As I think back to what my last two weeks have contained the things that stick out the most are:
1) Hang out with Joshua (that's my favorite part!)
2) Take care of Lizzie, clean out her stall 2X a day, and re-bandage her foot 1X day.
3) Being a part of Brittany and Patrick's wedding. It is so special to share those days with friends. :)
4) Hang out with Joshua (told you!! It's my favorite!!!)
5) Finding out one of my friends is getting a miniature pig for her birthday this week! Eee! So cute!
6) Canceling my and Josh's yearly camping trip, but making it up with a trip to ATL to visit with my friend Becky and going to six flags! :)

Last Wednesday Josh and I decided to make a trip to the ATL and visit Becky. We had already talked about it at Brittany's wedding, since Becky was a bridesmaid too, so we were ready and all planned out! She lives in the Virginia Highlands area of ATL and I LOVE that area. It is SO nice.

Wednesday night we decided to go to 'the food trucks'. I was so excited when Becky told me about them, because we eat 'taco truck' at the watermelon farm and I could just imagine it being just like that! I pictured some trucks that look like the taco trucks driving through the neighborhoods selling food... but what I actually saw was SO much cooler!!!

The coolest trucks ever all lined up in a circle.... with TONS of people and dogs!

We at Texas Tacos! And of course little Oliver came with us! Oliver is Becky's little dog!

We all had the Chicken Fresca and Lime fries. Those fries are DELICIOUS!

Gelato truck. Yum.

But, I didn't get gelato because I decided I want to get some yogurt from the Yoforia. Have you ever been to one of those?! It's awesome. You serve yourself and they charge you by weight. It was amazing. I need to open one up in my town.

Me and Becky!

And a cupcake truck!

aren't these the coolest?!?!

I wish I lived in Atlanta sometimes. I just would have to have my horses up there, especially right now because lizzie just can't go without her bandage being changed.

and to top things off...

Oliver.

Thanks for letting us sleep under your roof Beckster! :)

Josh and I had a wonderful time at six flags! We liked watching all the people get shot with the water shooters on the thunder river ride. It was hilarious! I swear this one guy spent at least $10 on tokens.... 25 cents a toke. Ridiculous!

We rode almost all the rides. We got to the Georgia Cyclone and it about killed us. We were holding each other down trying to keep each other from shaking and bouncing around. The worst feeling that I've ever had was when I was on that ride "ok, I'm really ready to get off right now!" but, you can't get off and it just seems like the ride keeps going and going and going. Miserable.

But the Goliath was awesome! and the Mindbender too. Always loved that one.

And the best news! We only spent 13 dollars inside the park! Awesome I know.

I must go help Josh feed his pigs now!

I hope everyone has had an awesome Monday!

And was it just me... or did it feel like Fall was trying to come around this morning?! It was gorgeous outside!