Memories

I really need to work on my elbows/shoulders, but this week’s training was super fun! We did some combination/distance work and jumped up to 105cm. Elias tries so hard, bless him.

My airplane’s successful lift off~ 

I’ll never get enough of his little pink nose and puppy dog eyes. I swear to god Elias knows he’s cute and he uses that against me.

I finally got the Veredus Save the Sheep boots and I am in love

Nothing quite like this feeling ♥

This is me crying into my horse’s neck like three strides after clearing the finishing jump of Elias’ first ever official competition course. I say it often and I will continue to do so, but this horse (and Ors too) is literally fulfilling every single dream I have when it comes to these animals and I could not be any prouder.  

I took Elias to his first ever official competition trip and the big baby did so good. We jumped way lower than what we’re currently at in training (and it shows, he jumps so extra it’s actually hilarious. No touchy the pole. I must fly.) but he did fantastic! He ended up 8th out of 30 horses and I damn near bawled my eyes out. So proud ♥ 

Elias’ first ever competition trip! ♥

This is why I love summer ♥

I wanted to make him look like a princess and received the worst stink-eye for it.

Elias is starting to look SO GOOD! He’s really putting muscle into all the right places and he no longer looks like the weird, leggy teenager of a horse he looked like when I brought him home. ♥ 

You can actually see his lil rabicano hairs in these pictures!

Elias says NAH to letting his legs touch those poles. He’s getting really strong and I’m obviously not keeping up with him LOL

I was gonna take Ors to an event that was close by, but he would have to travel with a mare in heat and I’m not putting a testosterone high stallion next to that. He was already all pimped up though so we took a couple pictures at least!

these tall as hell cross jumps are honestly worse than normal oxers.

And finally! We entered a mini-maxi (I believe it’s called Chase Me Charlie?) competition and Elias flew right over 120cm! He ended up getting third place, the horses ahead of him jumped 125 and 130. So proud!