Texas

No More Procrastinating….

So as you’ve seen in previous posts, I’m engaged and planning a wedding. Plans are coming together fairly well, but my biggest fear, finding “the” dress. Unfortunately, like most women, I wish I could drop some weight, or think I’m fat, ugly, etc… it’s a curse!!! So I have dreaded going wedding dress shopping. We’d go out on weekends and my mom would say, let’s go here and try on dresses, I always came up with an excuse because really it was just usually me and her. I wanted the experience with lots of people, I guess or so I told myself. Plus she’d also promised that we’d go to Dallas area and go with my aunt, etc plus my matron of honor lives in Dallas. We finally picked this weekend to head that way. April drove over to our first stop in Grapevine Mills, TX, Aunt Connie drove over from Ft. Worth where she was with Brad at a horse show and mom, Evelyn (my bridesmaid), and I headed down from Missouri.

On the Road Again!
(yes that Willie Nelson song has been playing in my head all weekend, I just got home from Kentucky last weekend….)

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Ft. Worth or Bust!!

I was so excited about this last weekend. Finally, I took some vacation, and the family headed to Ft. Worth, Texas. I so needed the time off!! I think I’m starting to get antsy. To much time indoors because of cold weather. I hate cold weather. I really should move to Arizona or Hawaii or someplace warm! Anyway another story another time. Friday morning we headed for Ft. Worth to go watch the NCHA Championship Futurity. This is a yearly occurrence. Every couple of years my dad shows down there and usually, my uncle has a colt or 2, plus people that we show with on a consistent basis at the local shows participate. All 3-year-old babies who have never been shown in front of a judge compete. It usually starts around the week/weekend of Thanksgiving and lasts through around the second weekend in December. These babies go hardcore all the way through. Some have good moments and some have flaws, that’s just the name of the game. 2 1/2 minutes can make you or break you. Unfortunately, this year Squirt got sick in July/August and was on “bed rest” for almost a month so she got behind. Dad still worked her and trained her up until it got really cold outside in November and she just got better and better but we weren’t able to take her down to compete this year. He’s planning on working her this next spring and showing her at the local weekend shows. If she gets better, we may take her to some aged events. My uncle had 2 horses that he exhibited down there. He made it to the semi-finals of the Non-Pro with one and made it to the second go-round of the Non-Pro with the other. Aunt Connie and Brad were a little sad/disappointed but that’s the name of it all. You go, pay the judge for their opinion. You can like it or you can’t but in the end, they have the final say. This was Prince Charming’s first futurity to attend. He was like every other person at the end, gung-ho ready to go home and work work work.
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