Happy Easter my friends! Hope you all have a wonderful day surrounded by friends, family, and your critters too of course. :)

"Mustangs have taught me more about horses and myself than anything else I have ever done- patience, prayer, body language, understanding, not taking things personal, creative thinking, different perspectives. If more people understood the true reward and could grasp the real meaning, no mustang would ever want for a home."

-Fred Woehl

If you see a picture of a clown fish and instantly think, "NEMO!" you maybe obsessed with the movie. When I came across this tank I saw Nemo and immediately looked for Dory. Yes. I am obsessed lol

I drug Mom and Dad to the aquarium in Duluth, MN and we got to check out all the fish, birds, sting rays and otters. The aquarium wasn't as big as the one in Denver, CO and I was pretty disappointed.

We still got to pet on a sting ray but in Denver you also get to hand feed them. Denver even has a tunnel part of the aquarium that you walk through and it's like walking into a fish tank. No matter which direction you look (left, right, up) you are looking into the tank and you have sharks, sting rays, sea turtles and many other things swimming over you. It's pretty neat.

Hopefully we'll be making a trip back to CO this summer and I can post more pictures then.

PS- If you ever get the chance to feed or pet a sting ray (safely) you should definitely do it. It's one of the coolest things I've experienced and I absolutely adore sting rays now.

I've recently caught the crochet bug and bought a book at the store and have been teaching myself how to crochet. So far I've made gloves and hats. Then I discovered amigurumi, which is bascially crochet stuffed animals.

I found a bunch of patterns and have been trying to crochet a little dragon and a pony. The easiest one so far (and the only ones I've finished) are the octopus above. The pattern can be found here it's all in spanish so I used google translate to get it in English. There's also a video so you can see how she makes them.

Hopefully I'll be able to figure out the other patterns soon and be able to post those as well. :)

It's been nice and windy lately so not much new going on with the horses.

The vet came out a week ago so they all got their Spring shots and Tabasco and Shoni got their coggins done so they can go to the trainer.

Shoni was being a brat with the vet and refused to stand still. After a good 20 minutes or more of fighting with her the vet decided to grab a twitch... yeah. Turns out Shoni and twitches don't mix. As soon as he tightened it she reared up on us. She didn't strike out at anyone and I think it was more to get away from the twitch but yeah. She's pretty tall lol

I wonder if it would help desensitize Shoni to the vet if I try and get her around "strangers" frequently to pet around her neck and feel around like the vet does.

Anywho, I hope you are all doing well and getting in some fun horse time. I know I can't wait to ride mine! Hopefully soon I'll be able to post some riding pictures :D

"There on the tips of fair fresh flowers feedeth he; How joyous his neigh... there in the midst of sacred pollen hidden, all hidden he; how joyous his neigh.

-Navajo Song

"You can say any fool thing to a dog, and the dog will give you this look that says, 'My God, you're RIGHT! I NEVER would've thought of that!'

- Dave Barry