Blazin' Saddles

Blazin' Saddles Blazin' Saddles is a non-profit 501C3 organization. For more information visit our website www.blazinsaddles.org.

We love to share Jesus and horses with others and do this through Horse and Bible Camps, Women's Events and other events at the ranch.

Happy New Year from your friends at Blazin' Saddles! "The Lord bless you and keep you;The Lord make His face shine upon ...
01/01/2026

Happy New Year from your friends at Blazin' Saddles!

"The Lord bless you and keep you;
The Lord make His face shine upon you
and be gracious to you;
the Lord turn His face toward you
and give you peace." Numbers 6:24-26

May you feel His peace and presence and be blessed in the new year!

12/31/2025

We've had leaps and bounds of improvement with Big Girl in the last week!

On Saturday, she walked all the way to the barn! About 300 yards. We were able to get her moved out of the shed that had been her hospital room for the past month and moved to the main barn.

Now we are going for a couple of little walks each day and she gets better at using her front leg every day. The way God designed our bodies to heal absolutely amazes me!

Its so cute how the twins watch and cheer her on when she goes for her walks around the barn. ❤️

Here is an easy way to support the ministry at Blazin' Saddles. We greatly appreciate the continued support of our Horse...
12/29/2025

Here is an easy way to support the ministry at Blazin' Saddles.
We greatly appreciate the continued support of our Horse and Bible Camps and Women's Ministry!

Brothers - Spirit, Ryder and Rerun.We love these boys we raised out of our late Peppy San Badger, Docs Hickory Stud. He ...
12/27/2025

Brothers - Spirit, Ryder and Rerun.
We love these boys we raised out of our late Peppy San Badger, Docs Hickory Stud. He produced great minded offspring that we are blessed to use for our riders at Blazin' Saddles.

Blazin' Saddles twins are eight months old today!They love attention and playing in the snow. BSR Shady Lil Secret & BSR...
12/27/2025

Blazin' Saddles twins are eight months old today!
They love attention and playing in the snow.
BSR Shady Lil Secret & BSR Docs Steel C**t.
Our little miracles ❤️💙

Merry Christmas from all of us at Blazin' Saddles! 🎄
12/24/2025

Merry Christmas from all of us at Blazin' Saddles! 🎄

As I was cleaning a stall this morning, I stopped and looked at something with new eyes. Something I've seen hundreds of...
12/24/2025

As I was cleaning a stall this morning, I stopped and looked at something with new eyes. Something I've seen hundreds of times, but it caught my eye in a different way this Christmas Eve morning.
The manger in one of our horse stalls.
To think that Jesus, King of Kings and Lord of Lords, came as a tiny baby and was laid in of all places - a dirty animal's manger.
I thought of when I had my children and how clean I wanted everything to be for them. I wanted then to have perfect beds and bedding. I would never have put them in a manger.
But that was God's perfect plan for Jesus to come to us. Not to come in some grand way, but humbly in a lowly manger.
"And she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn." Luke 2:7
It is overwhelming to think of the love Jesus has for us - that he would come down from heaven as a baby to live a simple life as a carpenters son. Then to be rejected by so many during His ministry and to face constant persecution. Eventually to die a brutal death on a cross for us. Its a love I cannot comprehend.
As I looked at the manger this morning, I thought of the gift of Jesus. I am so thankful for the day that I accepted His gift of salvation. The day I surrendered my life to Him. He took my messy, broken life and changed me. He gave me a new heart and a new life. Ezekiel 36:26 says, "I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh."
He wants to do that for every single one of us, all we have to do is accept the gift - its the greatest one we will ever receive! 🎁 ✝️ ❤️
Merry Christmas!

On Thanksgiving morning, I was doing chores early in the morning like every ordinary morning. I love the peacefulness of...
12/23/2025

On Thanksgiving morning, I was doing chores early in the morning like every ordinary morning. I love the peacefulness of the cold mornings when its dark out, quiet and still.
The peacefulness of that morning was was shattered when Big Girl didn't come running for her morning grain along with the rest of the mares.
I waited a minute or so and she still didn't come so I started walking out in the pasture to look for her. It was so dark I couldn't see anything...of all days to forget to wear my lighted hat! My heart sank when I heard the faint groaning of a horse in distress.
I moved toward the sound and I'll never forget the sight I saw. It has haunted me for the past 3.5 weeks.
Big Girl had gotten into a bale ring and was stuck - mangled. She laid on the ground in a pool of blood and looked like she had been struggling most of the cold night.
Josh had not gotten home for the week yet, so thankfully my dad and our neighbor came to help cut her loose and drag the bale ring out from underneath her with a pickup.
The wounds were severe and so deep, I never thought she would get up. I was prepared to say goodbye. Every limb was torn and bleeding. Her cheek and eye were bleeding and swollen.
I cried and I prayed for God to do a miracle that day. I also prayed that if she died that day, I could still be thankful. Thankful for the awesome filly he had blessed me with and the memories we made over the summer talking so many kids and women on trail rides. Thankful for all the blessings I still had.
There are too many details to tell the whole story, but God did answer my prayer that day. When she was first cut lose with legs free, she just laid flat. She was too exhausted from struggling for so long trying to free herself. I think it took every last bit of strength she had but somehow she got up. That is a miracle in itself!
The vet came and sutured what he could, but most of the wounds were left open.
She couldn't walk, but could sort of shuffle backward. So, we backed her to the mare's shelter about 50 yards away. It took over an hour, one slow step back at a time. One step. Stop. Pet. Offer a drink of water. Encouraging words. One more step. Repeat - until we reached the shed that we turned into her hospital room.
Her face and jaw were so swollen, she couldn't eat. She couldn't walk, so she just stood in one place.

Its been one day at a time. There is no water in the shelter she is in, so we carry water to her every four hours and make sure she has hay right in front of her. I've seen a lot of injuries over the years owning horses all of my life and working for a vet for a few years. Nothing quite this severe though.
We see little improvements every day and are so thankful she is still with us. She can take a few steps now and move around her shed, but because of a huge tear in her armpit, she really struggles to bring the leg forward.
Her eye is still cloudy, but she seems to be able to see out of it a little.
We saw the biggest improvement yet over the weekend, when Josh found her lying down. His heart sank at first thinking she had died because she has not been able to lay down for three weeks, but she was just sleeping.
We are so thankful for every baby step we see on her road to recovery. Our Big Girl has heart and the will to live. She knows how much she is loved and she keeps fighting.

Some might think its crazy how much time I spend caring for our animals, especially if there is a sick or injured one, but they aren't just animals to me.
Horses are not just my business; they are my life. They are my friends. They are my family. If they are sick or injured, I doctor their wounds, I sit with them, I sing to them, I pray over them. Just like I do for my children.
I've spent many hours with Big Girl over the past 3 1/2 weeks doctoring her wounds. I've shed many tears while praying for her healing. Sang a lot of praise songs over her. There have been days when I'm so hopeful remembering the miracle God did with the twins and being expectant of His healing again. There have also been days when I look at the wounds and think there is no way she is going to ever going to get through this. Those days, I have to remind myself - no matter the outcome, God is still God and He is still good and I will still be thankful.
I'm going to keep on fighting for this filly and caring for her the best I can. And I'm going to keep praying for another miracle. 🙏

*I won't be posting any photos of her wounds because they are too hard to look at.*

One of the first things I do at camp after a beginner group gets on their horse is talk about how to cue the horse and w...
12/08/2025

One of the first things I do at camp after a beginner group gets on their horse is talk about how to cue the horse and what voice commands to use. I also talk about how horses pay attention to body language and how we need to pay attention to what our body is doing while riding so we don’t confuse the horse.

Then I have the kids look at me while I stand facing straight ahead. I tell them to watch my knees. When I am looking straight forward, my knees also face forward. Then I turn my head to the right and then the left and ask if they notice how my knees move in the direction my head turns. I explain to them how the horse moves away from pressure, so when I turn my head and my knee presses on his side, the horse will move away from the pressure.

Then we talk about how important it is to stay focused on where you want your horse to go. I explain to them that if they want their horse to go straight ahead and follow the rail, they need to look straight ahead. If they are watching their friend riding across the arena from them, their horse will start to veer to the middle because it can feel the pressure from their leg pushing them in the direction they are looking. If they want to stay on the right course, they need to keep their eyes fixed on where they want to go.

When I explain this to the kids at camp, it reminds me of a verse in Hebrews 12, “Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.”

Just like we need to keep our eyes on the goal when we are riding, it is crucial to keep our eyes fixed on Jesus if we want to follow Him. There are so many distractions in the world that can begin to pull us away from following Jesus. We can get sidetracked and make decisions that we later regret when we take our eyes off Him. Just like the horse starts to wander from a little bit of pressure in the wrong place.

Sometimes, we find we have wandered off the path we want to be on as we look at the mess in our lives. It may seem like we’ve traveled so far off, that we could never get back on track. It seems like we take one step forward and then 10 steps back. We think, God couldn’t possibly love me after this. I’m too far gone to be forgiven. I’m not worthy. I’ll always feel shame.

The truth is, just like a simple adjustment in your body position will get your horse back on track, a simple cry out to God with a repentant heart is all He asks of us. He doesn’t hold it against us and He doesn’t want us to be so hard on ourselves either.
When we ask for forgiveness, God says in His word He forgives us as far as the east is from the west – He doesn’t hold our sin against us.

Ponder the love and forgiveness of Jesus as you begin your day today, Friends!

“For as high as the heavens are above the earth,
so great is his love for those who fear him;
as far as the east is from the west,
so far has he removed our transgressions from us.”
Psalm 103:11&12

Happy Thanksgiving from the gang at Blazin' Saddles! We pray you have joy, peace and much to be thankful for today.We ar...
11/27/2025

Happy Thanksgiving from the gang at Blazin' Saddles! We pray you have joy, peace and much to be thankful for today.

We are especially thankful for the health of the twins who are seven months old today! They saw their first snow this week and are sporting their fuzzy, warm winter coats.

Training Tip Tuesday:Did you know the tone of your voice matters when you want to encourage or discourage a behavior in ...
11/26/2025

Training Tip Tuesday:

Did you know the tone of your voice matters when you want to encourage or discourage a behavior in your horse?

If your horse gets scared of something and you start petting it and saying “It’s okay” in your praise tone of voice, guess what? The horse will associate that with doing the right thing and you will have taught your horse that it’s a good thing to get scared of something. Next time the horse will spook or do the same thing it did to get the positive voice and petted.

So, the next time you are riding in the woods and a deer jumps up and spooks your horse, DO NOT pet the horse and say, “It’s okay.” If you do, the next time that deer jumps up, the horse will repeat that behavior because it was encouraged. Instead, when the deer jumps and spooks the horse, give a quick correction by circling the horse or whatever your horse knows is a correction. Along with a firm tone and your correction word (mine is quit). Correction + Correction Word in a firm tone. The next time you see that deer jump up, the horse remembers that he received a sharp correction and hopefully will just stop and look at it. This is your chance to PRAISE the horse. Let him know he did the right thing by not spooking or shying.

Remember: whenever you use a praise voice with your horse, they think they are doing the right thing. Don’t reinforce negative behavior with a praise voice, use your corrective voice.

*Make sure you clearly differentiate your praise voice from your corrective voice. Just like kids, horses thrive when they know what is expected of them. Most horses want to do the right thing; they just need clear commands from their rider.

11/24/2025

"But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings line eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not grow faint." Isaiah 40:31

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At Blazin’ Saddles we have a passion for horses and a desire to help people. We believe that our horses can help build trust and self esteem, give hope and promote well being, aid in freeing people of bondages and change people’s lives. We give all the glory to God for his special creation, the horse.