My Family

Just felt like posting a picture of the wonderful family that God gave me, so here they are!
Steve and Bethanie Hansen, Georgianna and Eric Henderson
Stephen, Kathleen, Michael,
Susanna Kristin, and Abigail Henderson

Deer

Deer are so beautiful! The dogs at the house I am taking care of woke me up early this morning and when I went outside with them there were deer out there! I saw two young bucks with their horns all soft and velvety, three does and one fawn with little spots all over it! They were a little bit scared of me and didn't want me to get too close. One of the bucks was a little bolder than the rest and he kept on eating when I came up to the fence. He was fatter than the rest, he probably bullies the others and is less scared of people. He seemed like such an arrogant deer that he reminded me of a story I read when I was little. In the story there was a buck who was ashamed of his long skinny legs but loved his beautiful horns. eventually a hunter saw him and thought the same about his horns and started tracking him. As he was running away the buck's horns got caught in a tree and he could not get away. So at the end of his life he was cursing the horns that had brought about his ruin and blessing the legs that would have ensured his safety had his horns not gotten caught.

Working Horses

I Love my job! I am not the best at what I do but I am getting better all the time! (by the grace of God!) I worked three horses today. Two of them were old horses that are already well trained, and one was a middle aged horse that no one ever took the time to teach anything to. First I worked Precious in the round pen. We worked on stopping and turning. I put a bridle on her and we worked on flexing to the left and right and backing up correctly (breaking at the poll and lowering the head). That went well although she needs more work on it. I worked with Sarge in the round pen also. I focused on turning to the right with him because he already knows everything but he is stubborn about turning right. Leo is the oldest and I just jumped on him bareback and rode around campus. We trotted a lot and even loped some. He seemed to feel great and enjoy his workout. Now off to another job.

My Experience With Softball

We had a softball game today. I am on a team that Mindy put together. Our guy players are Bryan, Uncle Randy, Bryan, Connor, Jason, and Chip. Our girl players are Alisha, Mindy, Me, Kim, and Heather. Alisha's baby Grace screamed through almost the entire game and she had to stay in because we didn't have any extra players to sub her out! I love playing softball!! It is fun even when we lose, which we did tonight with a final score of 5 to 21 (I think). I didn't make any runs but I hit the ball BOTH times I was up to bat, and it is harder than it looks. I am learning a lot about the game and rules but I still need to practice. I do OK catching and throwing when someone is just tossing it to me; but when it comes into right field falling from way way up in the sky after some big strong left handed batter has hit it I can never tell where it is going to land so I am never there to catch it. But it is still fun to play and fun to practice. I am thoroughly enjoying my first experience with softball!

Great Aransas Sail Camp

Check out this cool trailer my older brother made for a sailing camp my Dad is going to do. It has my Dad and my dog in it. Steve Russel (a neighbor) is reading for it, I love his voice!

http://vimeo.com/12577806

My Day With Mindy

Yesterday I went riding with Mindy, Ellie, and Halie for the first time in probably about a month. Those of you who know how much I love horses and how adorable Halie and Ellie are can imagine how close to torture it is NOT to ride with them once I had gotten in the habit of it. It was a beautiful Saturday afternoon that I called Mindy after spending close to three hours doing homework and she wanted me to go riding. Of course I said yes! I would have said yes even if I had not done my homework; but since I had, I was able to go riding and feel good about the homework! Anyway, we went down to Uncle Larry's land, through cypress creek, over a field, through the creek again, and over another field. Then we went over the creek and through a field; through the creek one last time and down a trail that winds through cypress, oak, and cedar trees onto the lease land. And all the while I have Ellie on in front of me happily crying "watch out tree!", "hi moon!", "Sanna do it!" or my favorite because it sounds soooo cute: "no Sanna!" On the lease land Mindy showed me the prettiest place in the creek bed(which I am not attempting to describe)!. Then we went all the way back over all the fields, through the creek one, two, three, four times and back home. Then I fed the horses with Ellie, who loves to help by carrying a bucket half her size and following me around. After that we went to Mindy's house where we all took a warm bath, ate pizza, and drank hot tea while we reminisced about riding excursions of days gone by.

Just Info About My Life

Im at the Dukes new house! My first week of school went pretty well, I like all my proffesors and everything. I am really getting into seriously training Laramie lately. She is doin pretty good, I just have to lope (or buck) circles for about and hour and a half before she is compliant enough to lope the barrel pattern, so its slow goin. I think she really understands what I want her to do though, so thats encouraging, she's just kinda stubborn. Im also teaching Abby on her, she is doing good too.

Me and Laramie

My 18th Birthday

Yesterday (June 10th) was my 18th birthday! Momma, Daddy, Michael, and Abby brought me breakfast in bed, and Daddy gave me a gold James Avery cross ring. Then I went to work and at lunch we (daddy and me) went out to eat. When I got back to work I went out on the floor and started helping a customer that was standing right by the table in the store; and I heard somebody say "Oh, she found it!" I thought "found what?" then I looked at the table and it had presents, flowers and a cake on it!! and I was standing right by it for a full five minutes before I even saw it!

About Me, January 16, 2006

One my favorite things to do is to ride/train my horse Laramie, she is four years old and I am going to ride her in a trail ride in a couple of weeks. I just gave her baby to my sister to start training for barrel racing. I am 17 and I support my horse myself (which means I have to buy hay, feed, wormer and pay for the vaccinations I dont give them myself) it gets VERY expensive, and hay is going up, yikes! I also live by the beach and since my Dad is a sailor/surfer I can do both and enjoy them, but my favorite thing to do at the beach is swim the horses, they rear up when the big waves come, or try to jump over them. well I have to go catch up on sleep for the trail ride (cattle call is sometimes as early as 5:00!! and the music they play is a terrible old western song from the 60's or somthing). I have 2 brothers and 4 sisters to say somthing of the environment I live in. This is probably going to be a terribly unorgonised and boring blog.