Here are some pictures of Eddie and I

Snow, Snow, Snow SNOW! (random post)

Snow rocks. It's snowing. I LOVE SNOW! It's not exactly staying, it's turning to slush. Bad snow.
The ponies are wet. There's not much to do. The Christmas decorations are all lit up. I love December. My Christmas list is short but sweet. Eddie also blows me away. We have dreams. But we don't let them get in the way. In the way of what's important. I write. I write about a lot of things. Fantasy, inspiried by Narnia. Music, inspiried by August Rush. Prince Caspian comes out on the 2nd. I play the piano. I played today. I learned On Fire by Switchfoot and it's really pretty. I also play guitar. I learned how to play Love Story. It rocks. Well I have to go. If you read this that's kind of weird. Because I'm just talking, talking, talking about nothing..........................................................................................................................................................
Well BYE!

Lea
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I'm dreaming of a white Christmas...

~Sigh~ It's almost December. Where does time go? Oooh... Prince Caspian comes out on the 2nd. I'm excited!
Today I groomed Eddie and we did a de-spooking day. He did so well. We had a bid plastic shavings bag, a camping chair, a Santa hat that he thought was going to eat him and a plank of wood to walk over. He was weary of the Santa hat, and he was fine with everything else. Then we rode, and ate hay. He was so sleepy so we just hung out after that. It was a good lazy nice day!

Savvy on!
Lea & Eddie

How Interesting...

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
Today I rode Eddie and groomed him. Our ride was interesting. He was very, "I have to go do this, then I can do that." It really stretched my savvy, because instead of getting in a fight, I had to say "Ok, me too! But can we do this?" Your idea.... My idea! It was hilarious, we were walking out of the gate, and I saw on his face for an instant, "Let's run!" He jumped up and bucked a few times and then he stopped. I hung on, and just slid off when he was done. Then I got back on and finished on somewhat of a good note. Every day is a learning day!

Lea & Eddie

Look, I'm going to be 'naughty...'

That was Eddie's saying today. We started out playing a little circling game and he was ok for a few laps. Then he would stop, not want to move, then take off bucking for fun. It was hilarious! So I took the hint, and we did lllloooonnnngggg point to point. It was fun, because I was in zone 5 and we would trot, stop, walk, back up and he was so intent on me and the task. Then we did some sideways around barrels and he even sidewaysed towards me. I was so proud of him! He got showered with carrots after that. Here are a few pictures of his cute little face!But before that we went to Edward's Apple Orchard up in Garden Praire and got amazing apple cider donuts. YUM! Then on the way home we passed these adorable ponies and we had to stop. Here's a picture of them:Oh, and also before we left for the apple orchard, I rode. Eddie had major 'druthers' to the gate, so we rode by it A LOT and then he was fine. He He, I wore my jodpurs and it was fun. I can't remember the last time I wore those. But he was great. Every day we're having more and more fun!

Savvy days,

Lea & Eddie

A Huge Turn in the Relationship

Lately our play sessions have been amazing. We've been playing in all the savvies and he's just doing so well. Well I've probably talked about this a million times, but here's the story again...
I read Shy Boy, awesome book. It is so inspiring to hear how a wild horse chooses to be with a human except a herd. Something that really stood out to me was this one statement. Monty Roberts asks this to his students, "If you say a horse loves to jump I won't believe you until you turn the horse out in the pasture and there is a course of jumps set up and the horse goes around and jumps them on his own accord. If he does I'll believe you, if he doesn't he doesn't love to jump." Something to that effect. Reading that and Jerry Williams' article in the Savvy Times Learning to put the Relationship First really helped me. What I got out of them was that if I feel ignored, not asked my opinion, or bossed around, that's exactly how Eddie feels when I do it to him. We're both LBI, and I just now got that! Duh!
So our play sessions have been so light. Some of the highlights were riding without touching the reins (only a few times) while following the rail and doing transitions, another was playing all 7 games at liberty with an obstacle, and it's just amazing!
So our future is: work on leading from zone 5 online, winning the games at liberty, riding bridle-less freestyle, and getting the confidence snaffle (maybe whole bridle or C3 bit) so we can work on finesse.
~SIGH~ Thanks God for getting me so far. I couldn't do it without you.

Faithfully,
Lea & Eddie

Pictures & Snow!

It was so pretty! We rode around and Eddie did excellent! He did sideways without a fence PERFECTLY! I was so proud of him... So here are a few pictures of us riding in the snow...

Parelli ROX!

~Lea

Putting the Relationship First

We are having SO MUCH FUN! Eddie and I have been doing so much. We are working on small but awesome zone 5 stuff. (Online) I asked him today to so sideways, trot and I threw the rope up on his back (like Amy Book did in the Savvy Club DVD) and he took two steps sideways! Big improvement from yesterday. Yesterday he spun around and got really unconfident. So I was so proud of him.
Freestyle - we rode around in the outdoor/pasture and trotted, I was UBER fluid with him and that made him want to go go go. Yesterday we the question box pattern without hardly touching the reins.
So yeah, I know I have to work on Liberty and in Finesse I'm going to get the confidence snaffle soon, so those are the two savvies we are really working on. (online & freestyle) I can't wait to dive into Liberty!
Wish us luck!
Savvy out,

Lea & Eddie
Romans 12.2

Another Great Day!

Today we played in the pasture with a bunch of different stuff. I really thought about what we needed to work on to improve our relationship. I really wanted him to be connected with me and for my ideas to become his ideas. Success! We played with the barrels and he jumped them so willingly! Which is hard for him to do because he does not like jumping. SO I was so proud of him and he got a lot of scratches. Then we did some zone 3, 4, 5 driving and he did great with that. He licked his lips a lot and took lots of sighs. He even offered to trot over the cavaleties! He was such a good boy! Then we went in the outdoor and we rode around for a while. We played with going sideways, impulsion programs, sideways without a fence, tit for tat, transitions along the rail and it was so much fun! He was so warm and the sun was nice!
Savvy out!
Naturally,
Lea & Eddie