Daddy Remembered, Horses' break your heart, and a New Name.

       Its been a really long time since I've blogged. To be honest, after my last post I just lost all desire to want to communicate what was going on in my life with or without my horses. Very soon after losing my faithful long time partner, Troll, I lost a huge part of the Rockin' Shamrock Team. My father was a huge part of our team and it was hard to continue on without him. I did not event through the fall, I had no desire to and the one jumper show I did was just ok. I don't know what I would have done without the backing of my incredible family, my best friends (Meaghan, Emma, Emily, Kim and a lot of other people), Ty, and of course O'Malley.
      So now fast forward to Spring/Summer '13, another changed major (graduation this time) and a wedding.
      I found my calling in life, Ag Leadership is where my heart belonged all along and I have met some incredible people/friends/new family. I am completing an internship with Airborne Stables, LLC and will graduate in December.
      O'Malley and I had one, mediocre outing this spring at Mill Creek, once again being shafted in the dressage, was having a great ride across the country when O'Malley decided that there were man (I mean horse) eating tadpoles in the water jump, and ending with a great show jumping ride. Cue the beginning of what was going to be a long summer of mysteries. After returning home, Meg noticed that O'Malley wasn't traveling right behind. His LH was twisting while he was going, however being my super hero of a horse, he once again wasn't letting me know of top of him that something was wrong, he just kept going and getting better. Then about a month ago, even though he is still very willing to compete all the Advanced level dressage movements, he could no longer hold himself uphill. *Call in back-up* I mean, Dr. Bullock and Dr. Hague. After a month of testing it was decided that O'Malley has EPM... great another one. However, this time is much different than Shorty's case and will likely have a completely different outcome. Time will tell, and I will keep you posted.
      7-6-13 is a date that I will for the rest of my life celebrate. Ty and I finally tied the knot! The day was incredible and went off without any issues and I could not be any happier.
     Hopefully, I will be able to announce soon, that my mare Swain's Song is in foal to Flagmount's Freedom :) :) :) Again, I will let y'all know as soon as I know something. So we will eventually have to come up with a name for the adorable foal (everyone cross your fingers and pray for a bay colt) :)

Until then,

*Keep Kicking*