Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Paradise Horse Trials & Apple Tree combined test
Sorry I have not been in touch Virginia. We have been crazy busy with competitions and horse trying. Paradise started on Friday with Argie kicking off the Angelica crew. He scored a 24 winning the large open training division by 5 points. The kids rode later in the day with all of them competing at the training level. Everyone had good tests with Krisie, Lisa, and Erin just starting to understand the new level. Cross country and show jumping days were Saturday and Sunday and everyone finished happy and healthy. Both courses were quite big and technically difficult for the level and I was thrilled with the riding skill demonstrated by all the kids and horses. Argie ended on his dressage score in his last training and looks more then ready for his big preliminary debut at sporting days in two weeks. Connor ended third and Lisa fifth. Krisie and Erin ended on the top half with beautiful jumping rounds.
The most exciting news was baby Albee's (onyx) first horse show. He rocked the dressage scoring a 30.5 and had the second lowest score of the whole show. He jumped clean over his big "ameba" show jumping and got a big beautiful blue ribbon to bring home and show off to his brothers and sisters. We may have another Argie in the making!
We are thrilled to start the season with Connor being tied for first on the junior training usea leaderboard and Argie being second for the training horses. Good start to the season!
We will be home in 2 weeks and miss you all...
65 degrees and sunny!
Skye
The most exciting news was baby Albee's (onyx) first horse show. He rocked the dressage scoring a 30.5 and had the second lowest score of the whole show. He jumped clean over his big "ameba" show jumping and got a big beautiful blue ribbon to bring home and show off to his brothers and sisters. We may have another Argie in the making!
We are thrilled to start the season with Connor being tied for first on the junior training usea leaderboard and Argie being second for the training horses. Good start to the season!
We will be home in 2 weeks and miss you all...
65 degrees and sunny!
Skye
Monday, February 15, 2010
Sunday, February 14, 2010
"valentines losers"
Ok so yes... Mama icke actually called us Valentine losers. Unfortunatly she was right on point with that but not because of what you may think. Yes you may feel bad for us because while the rest of the world is drowning in roses and chocolates we very well could be sitting in an RV eating pizza hut and watching the wedding channel in nowhereville south Carolina. But no that is actually not why we are "valentines losers." We are losers because we actually were not only prepared for this hallmark holiday we were also spoiled by both of our significant others. Yet we managed to ruin it all....
First we went out and bought ourselves some wine to drink in our romantic RV box. Problem being if you are going to buy wine you may not want to leave it in the Bi-lo parking lot. Second my wonderful fiancé sent me a dozen beautiful roses in a gorgeous vase with a Teddy bear. Well the Teddy bear was for remi and the flowers we thought would be great on our patio to spread the cheer. Well apparently the Aiken winds did not agree with spreading valentine cheer. My beautiful vase was smashed to pieces on the fake lawn outside our RV. I go to throw it away in the trashcan and find Remi chewing the ear off of her Valentine bear from Clay. Last but not least Krisie's mysterious valentine sent her beautiful pandora charms for the pandora bracelet I had bought her awhile ago. Well pandora never told Krisie to avoid dropping show jumping rails on her wrist and breaking the clasp. Don't worry though the horrible life threatening coughs we both have made the holiday complete.
Despite our "loserisms" we have had a beautiful sunny warm Aiken day. The snow was mysteriously gone when we woke up. The horses must have loved us at least because they were fantastic today and continue to remind us of why it is worth living in an RV box for 5 weeks. Krisie and I anxiously await the arrival of our favorite stallmuckers (kids). Paradise horse trials kicks off on Friday and we will be representing with one prelim horse, three training horses, and a novice/training horse.
Time for cold showers and romantic comedys.
Cough cough sneeze sneeze
Skyeler and Krisie
"valentines losers"
First we went out and bought ourselves some wine to drink in our romantic RV box. Problem being if you are going to buy wine you may not want to leave it in the Bi-lo parking lot. Second my wonderful fiancé sent me a dozen beautiful roses in a gorgeous vase with a Teddy bear. Well the Teddy bear was for remi and the flowers we thought would be great on our patio to spread the cheer. Well apparently the Aiken winds did not agree with spreading valentine cheer. My beautiful vase was smashed to pieces on the fake lawn outside our RV. I go to throw it away in the trashcan and find Remi chewing the ear off of her Valentine bear from Clay. Last but not least Krisie's mysterious valentine sent her beautiful pandora charms for the pandora bracelet I had bought her awhile ago. Well pandora never told Krisie to avoid dropping show jumping rails on her wrist and breaking the clasp. Don't worry though the horrible life threatening coughs we both have made the holiday complete.
Despite our "loserisms" we have had a beautiful sunny warm Aiken day. The snow was mysteriously gone when we woke up. The horses must have loved us at least because they were fantastic today and continue to remind us of why it is worth living in an RV box for 5 weeks. Krisie and I anxiously await the arrival of our favorite stallmuckers (kids). Paradise horse trials kicks off on Friday and we will be representing with one prelim horse, three training horses, and a novice/training horse.
Time for cold showers and romantic comedys.
Cough cough sneeze sneeze
Skyeler and Krisie
"valentines losers"
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Friday, February 12, 2010
Blizzin in Aiken
Alright everyone laugh it up...you sent us your blizzard! Come on Aiken...you are letting us down! On the eve of Albie's first show there seems to be many inches of unexplained snow! The snow studs are being geared up with hopes we may still be able to compete Argie, Matti, and Albie sometime this weekend. We are now stuck in our box while Krisie attempts to spread her plague. It is very lonely without the kids as they were so much help and tons of fun. Those kids have very impressive timing as they drive up and down the east coast out running every snow flake.
Short and sweet for now. Be back in touch this weekend.
Cough cough sneeze sneeze says Krisie,
love the snow bunnies
Short and sweet for now. Be back in touch this weekend.
Cough cough sneeze sneeze says Krisie,
love the snow bunnies
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Skyeler and Krisie take flight!
Greetings from Aiken!
So remember when we were bragging about the beautiful weather down south? Well karma got the best of us sending over 20mph winds and freezing cold temperatures. We might as well have been sleeping on a plane. We had the worst turbulence in the RV and it was close to taking flight. It very well could have blasted off if we had awnings on both sides for wings. In other words we might as well be living in Alaska with you all back home as the wind chill was below freezing on horse show day.
With the friged temperatures, dressage became a more challenging sport then it already is. The extra spice helped the usually lazy story secure a 33 in the open training. He and Connor jumped great ending in 5th place in a very competitive division. The wind picked up for Erin, and Moose was a little hyper to say the least. Erin did a nice job getting him through the test and then made up for it with a beautiful SJ and XC! The rest of us quite enjoyed not competing in the hurricane force winds. We watched from our first class seats in the RV plane.
The kids head back tomorrow and Krisie and I head back to reality. We are taking baby Argie for a jump school with Jan today. On Saturday Albie (onyx) will be doing his first dressage show!
Best of luck to everyone who really is experiencing Alaska back home.
Team Angelica
So remember when we were bragging about the beautiful weather down south? Well karma got the best of us sending over 20mph winds and freezing cold temperatures. We might as well have been sleeping on a plane. We had the worst turbulence in the RV and it was close to taking flight. It very well could have blasted off if we had awnings on both sides for wings. In other words we might as well be living in Alaska with you all back home as the wind chill was below freezing on horse show day.
With the friged temperatures, dressage became a more challenging sport then it already is. The extra spice helped the usually lazy story secure a 33 in the open training. He and Connor jumped great ending in 5th place in a very competitive division. The wind picked up for Erin, and Moose was a little hyper to say the least. Erin did a nice job getting him through the test and then made up for it with a beautiful SJ and XC! The rest of us quite enjoyed not competing in the hurricane force winds. We watched from our first class seats in the RV plane.
The kids head back tomorrow and Krisie and I head back to reality. We are taking baby Argie for a jump school with Jan today. On Saturday Albie (onyx) will be doing his first dressage show!
Best of luck to everyone who really is experiencing Alaska back home.
Team Angelica
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