New Pictures and More Progress

We had a great day yesterday, hanging out and playing with savvy. With Sundance, I concentrated on what would be best with handling the tasks according to his horsenality and how he likes it... I got a very obedient and motivated horse in turn. With Bebe, I kept it slow because he was in the RBI mood today. He did very very well with what I asked him and for the first time he offered figure 8's at liberty, so I was very happy about that. We also played with cantering stick 2 me and it was a lot of fun, he is very good with that. We ended the session laying on the ground together, how perfect?

Email Address Change

Mariahhelms@hotmail.com is my new email address.

Thanks!

Mariah Helms

Is your horse happy? Take the Parelli Happy Horse Quiz!

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Sundance was a 126, "Very Happy", 4 points away from the the happiest.

Bebe was a 129, "Very Happy", 1 point away from the happiest!

Now I'm real happy!

XOXO

Mariah

Update, of course...

Duh, Mariah! You have a blog to obtain! So life goes on, Love, Language and Leadership in equal doses, and so many unstable doses of everything else. Life is good though, I have a lot going on family wise, school wise, horse wise, work wise and socially too. As for the horses, I am very very happy with the progress we have made and the relationships we have formed. I am hypothesizing that Sundance and I will be done with Level 3 by June/July of 2009,which is only about 6 months away... and leaving plenty of time there for oopsies, I am getting done as soon as I can, maybe I can get done before then, that's how it's looking. I am almost done with my website, I am just having a friend Alain Martignier and Parelli Tour Team Manager look it over and consult the legal website manager for Parelli about it and make sure we have everything legally perfect, and see if there is anything I need to add to make it perfect before he sends it to Pat & Linda... I am very excited about this. I will present my website to the public when Alain and I are sure everything is legal, so be crossing your fingers! Please keep on praying that Sundance and I will be able to perform at the TN Celebration... being able to do that will make a HUGE difference and I do think it is possible. Here's one of my favorite pictures of Sundance, I LOVE his ears...

Where are you in your journey? I would love to hear where all of you are and when you want to finish the level you are on.

What's Up?

What's Up, you ask? LIFE! And it's good. Been very busy, been to the beach, air shows, teaching, preparing for play days, school, website designing, answering 10 million emails... all that good stuff. My website is almost done, almost ready to present to the public, only a choice few have seen it at the moment! Including a man that will be sending it to Pat and Linda Parelli,  so I am very excited. I have gotten the blankets for the horses, they look quite cute together with their matching yet different colored blankets. We're getting more and more meat on the seniors and hard keepers, in hopes they won't look like skin bags by February! Sundance and Bebe have taken leaps and bounds since the private lesson, here's what I am working on individually in the recent sessions -

Sundance

Respect and YES MAM! on long back ups.

Canter when I ask please.

Zone 5, 1 rein driving - Stop, Back, Walk, Sideways and Trot.

Bareback, bridle-less and carrot stick-less riding.

 

Bebe

Cantering within 6 ft diameter

Stick 2 me - walk, trot and very nice canter!

Zone 5, 1 rein driving - Stop, Back, Walk, Sideways and Trot.

 

Both horses are doing very well, and I am very proud of them. I have hope with Bebe now, I feel like we can reach the stars now... and that feels really good.

Here's a laugh-box tickler for you, it is a video of my favorite stand up comic.. Known as Ricky Mokel (The character he plays, not his real name) This is at the Alabama Theatre, he plays as a back ground employee filling in and taking up time for the show... funniest darn comic I've ever had a pleasure to see.