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12/24/2023

Happy Holidays! Hope everyone enjoys time with family and celebrate many of Gods blessings. 🎄

12/18/2023

🎄. What every kiddo needs under the tree.

12/14/2023

Celebrating Sophia with her Rider of the Quarter awards. We love recognizing our riders that go above and beyond in their weekly lessons. Sophia has stepped it up this past quarter and has really become such an amazing rider and equestrian as a whole. We are so proud of you Sophia, keep up the great work!!!!!!

12/01/2023

Congrats to our Quarter 4 Rider, Sophia Schilmiller. Sophia is such a hard worker and loves the horses fiercely. Sophia keep up there awesome work girlie!!!!

11/23/2023

Happy Thanksgiving from our farm and family to yours! Enjoy the day with loved ones relaxing and all the wonderful food!

11/13/2023

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CELEBRATE YOUR OWN WINS.

It’s important to run your own race, ride your own class, lope your own warm up and celebrate your own wins. Whether there are 60 or 600 entries, everyone wants to win, but ultimately, everyone has to show up to even be one step closer to winning.

And winning doesn’t look the same for everyone and that is OKAY.

Some days winning is that your horse is sound after months of time off.
Some days winning is that your sick horse perked up and whinnied at you when you walked in the barn.
Some days winning is that you drove yourself to the horse show.
Some days winning is that your horse walked into warm up.
Some days winning is that you left three barrels standing or didn’t go off course.

Rarely ever is “winning” actually WINNING and a lot of wins happen outside of the arena.

Celebrate all of those wins because you worked your tail off and you earned them!

When you treat and rehab a horse for a year and you finally get to haul them to a show, that’s a win, an hard-earned one.

When you finally hit one lead change out of four, that’s a win.

When you make it through the trail course without a DQ, that’s a win.

When your ulcer prone, anxiety ridden SELF, keeps lunch down at the show, that’s a win.

Don’t compare your win to the person who took home the blue ribbon, because you never know, that may be just what they needed to not sell out on their dreams. Congratulate them after you congratulate yourself.

It is so easy to get caught up in the idea of “winning” that we lose sight of our own goals, how far we have come, what we have conquered, and the wins that we let slip by us because they weren’t a declared WIN on paper.

Easier said than done, I know. So in case you haven’t heard it or in case you haven’t told yourself lately,
CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR WIN!!! ❤️

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11/02/2023

We had some awesome pumpkins turned in for our barn pumpkin contest.
The top 3 voted for are:
1st place- Witch by Nora J.
2nd place-Sheep by Nathan P.
3rd place- Starbucks by Joshua P.
Great job everyone. Look forward to next years pumpkins. Prizes will be handed out next week at lessons.

10/31/2023

Happy Halloween!!!!

10/17/2023

Another brothers week just this time with a different brother 🤣. Nathan is such a fast learner and worked so hard to show big bro Joshua what all he can do. Watch out mom and dad. 3 boys riding you may end up with a horse 😍😍😚

10/09/2023

Learning to jump with Kimber ❤️. Great job Sarah.

10/09/2023

Had fun with two of the cutest brothers today. Way to work hard Kyle and Joshua ❤️

10/03/2023

Recent studies conducted by the Institute of Heart-Math provide a clue to explain the two-way ′′healing′′ that occurs when we're close to horses.
According to researchers, the heart has an electromagnetic field larger than the brain: a magnetometer can measure the energy field of the heart that radiates from 2.4 meters to 3 meters around the human body.
While this is certainly significant, perhaps more impressive than the electromagnetic field projected by the heart of a horse is five times larger than that of a human being (imagine an electromagnetic sphere around the horse) and it can influence straight into our own heart rate.
Horses are also likely to have what science has identified as a "coherent′′ heart rate (heart rate pattern) that explains why we can feel better when we're close to them. Studies have found a coherent heart pattern or HRV to be a solid measure of well-being and consistent with emotional states of calm and joy-that is, we exhibit such patterns when we feel positive emotions.
A coherent heart pattern is indicative of a system that can recover and adapt to stressful situations very efficiently. Many times, we just need to be in the presence of horses to feel a sense of well-being and peace.
In fact, research shows that people experience many physiological benefits by interacting with horses, including lower blood pressure and heart rate, higher beta-endorphins (neurotransmitters acting as pain suppressors), decreased stress levels, decreased feelings of anger, hostility, tension and anxiety, better social working; and greater feelings of empowerment, confidence, patience and self-efficacy.

10/01/2023

Rider of the Quarter goes to Ms Lillian! Lillian has been working so hard on her own riding and helping others in the process. Learning never stops when it comes to horseback riding whether you ride for fun, help with lessons or you are even a professional. They too even take lessons. Way to go girl keep it up!

09/12/2023

The cutest brothers. ❤️