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  Hey all!  Just wanted to share some adorable photos with you of Dot’s Christmas photo shoot from yesterday! I HIGHLY recommend you try with your horse, it was so much fun and the results are perfect!! I gotta say, it made me love Dot even more!!! (If that’s even possible) Look at the end for the products used for the shoot and how I pulled it off! Obviously, these are only my favorites from the shoot! It required a lot of rapid-fire thumb work and plenty of sorting through to find my favorites! There were quite a few that look like this..  I basically just put her bridle on (over the Santa hat), put on the rein covers and noseband cover, and spot groomed her. Then I found somewhere with good lighting and a background I didn’t mind and threw the reins over her head!  She did try to follow me, but I found that if I got someone to yell, clap, or kiss at her, she would look in their direction long enough for me to snap some rapid fire pictures!  I also found that I liked the position fro

Hi everyone! If you are a horse lover like me, I bet you often come up with random breed mixes in your head and say “I need to find a horse like this right now” lol Anyway, that happened recently to me and I went straight to google, then Dream Horse. The breeds? Welsh+Arabian!! And I gotta say, I’m in love.. It’s like an Arabian, but cuter!! Then, on Dream Horse, I found Hi Ho Sylvia! She’s a gorgeous little bay mare, and omg she’s adorable!   https://www.dreamhorse.com/ad/2203559.html Like.. look at her!  Anywho, that’s my sharing about this adorable pon pon 😍

  TEEN GIFT GUIDE 2021! Hey, guys! Christmas is coming up soon, and, if you are like me you are having some trouble with:  What to put on your own wishlist What to get your friends for Christmas  But my parents, aunts, uncles, friends, etc. are asking what I want. This post is for everyone out there who is struggling with gift ideas for yourself and others!  (Thanks to: Teen Vouge , Target Gift Guides , Buzzfeed and my brain for the ideas!) **THIS LIST IS NOT SORTED BY PRICE! YOU MIGHT NEED TO DO A LITTLE LOOKING FOR THINGS WITHIN YOUR BUDGET!!** Gift Cards! These are the perfect gift - super simple and it lets them pick out what they want AND you can make it the exact amount you want to spend. Some ideas are Target , Glossier , Starbucks , Chick-fil-a, Ulta , Vans or Converse , Champion , Hollister , Tilly’s , Bath and Body Works , you name it! Pick which brand based on the person. If they love makeup, Ulta or Glossier is perfect! If they love coffee, go for the Starbucks one. 

 So I was gone for basically two weeks, and I only rode like twice in between. The two rides in between were AMAZING and I felt so good, I jumped 2’3 easy peasy, it was great. I got back and rode and for the most part it was super good.  But then all the sudden, on my lesson on Saturday the 4th, I completely was confidence-less. It felt like I hadn’t rode in forever (in reality I had rode twice that week), and I could barely jump. I also was making Dot duck out of jumps because of this. We ducked out of like three or four jumps, even though if I had rode with Dot, she could have easily jumped them. Granted, the jumps we ducked out of were 2 foot, but we have jumped 2 foot with no issues multiple times. So we ducked out, but overall it was decent. Then, yesterday, I was horrible! There was a huge storm rolling in, and I was not jumping anything! Dot would canter up and I would practically ASK her to stop in front of the jump. She didn’t care at all about the storm or anything, but I was

 Griz weighs a whopping 30 pounds!! He grew 5 pounds in the week my family was gone for thanksgiving! So here are a bunch of pictures of my big boy!! Sleepy baby ❤️ He looks so concerned 😂 😴😴😴 So pretty 🤩  His toy! Roar! 🐻 His little ear 🙈 Right after his second bath ever! So stinky! His tongue is so loooonnngggg 👅  “Heyyy 🐣” “Why’d you stop running?” I got him some jingle bells for around his collar 🦌🦌🦌—— 🎅 

  Well, it seems that Dot has discovered the internet. She is very proud of herself. She wants to have a guest post here on LLR, so I decided I’d let her tell you all about the blog :) ———————————————— Helo deer frends. My naem is Dot, but editor says she alredy telled you that. I used to bee a sooper grate therapy horse, but then I became a even sooperer jomper. My editor is Amelia and she is my human. I has a boyfrend namd Beau, he is verry purfect.  I am a beutiful horse, and it will be an honor for all of you reeders to go and see my blog. Yoo will heer lots of amazing cool stuf abowt me and get exklusiv info. I is verry exsited to tell you ‘bout my WHOLE life with my editor. I will tell yoo allll the skary things, and the fun things, and the skary things! Anyway, I has to go do verry important things rite now. Like eat. And make angry faces. And eat. Goodbie :) ——————— Like she said, she has lots of VERY important things to do. So when she’s done, she’ll update her blog, Trotty Do

  Hi everyone, as you all likely know, I just went to a horse show this past weekend on November 6th. Today I’m going to give you some things I did to make my horse show go well, and what I would change in the future to make it go even smoother! The specific tips are all in  bold  for convenient reading! This was Dot’s third-ever show, and before she had just done walk/trot. I had only ever been to one other show, Western, on a 23 year old school master! So it was completely new for both of us! Afternoon/Night Before: First things first,  I created a master packing list ! I added everything I need for going to a day-long horse show with my trainer. I didn’t include things that she already has, like hay, lunging equipment, etc. You can take a look at it here:  My Master Packing List Then, I went to the barn Friday, I curried Dot and basically  show groomed her , combing a bit of  Cowboy Magic  through her mane and tail, then using a soft brush to spread a little over her hindquarters, n

  Hi everyone! Just a quick random update on Dot! I don’t know if you all remember a while ago when I said that I had no idea what Dot was? Anywho, with some expert Googling (lol), I have found what I think she is!  I mean, we know she is a paint/quarter horse something or another, but I believe that she has a patterning that makes her a Sabino Horse! Here is the best picture I have of her patterns ⬆️ And here is a photo of a classic Sabino Chestnut ⬇️ Here’s some interesting information about this new marking I just learned about!! (hahaha) “  Sabino  describes a distinct pattern of white spotting in  horses . In general, Sabino patterning is visually recognized by roaning or irregular edges of  white markings , belly spots, white extending past the eyes or onto the chin, white above the knees or hocks, and "splash" or "lacy" marks anywhere on the body.” “  The term “sabino” was in use prior to the mapping of the  horse genome  to describe a wide range of  pinto  s