Relationship underway

So since i've moved my bella to her new home, I was expecting catching issues Like I had before when my friend owned her and I worked with her sometimes.
I think with the new place she was nervous and I was the only familar thing to her and we had a bit of a relationship started.
We started off with no catching issues as she was often around the barn so I didnt have to go get her and she was curious to what I was doing.
But Today when I was walking home I was talking to the dog to get it to stop barking, and Bella was in field eating when she heard me she ran to the gate neighing at me. :/
So apparently now she happy when I come and doesnt want me to leave even if I work her for 3 and 1/2 hours...

Our trip

Leslies was interesting and fun all at the same time. And yes she did a lil rear and bucked once, but she was better then Indy... who was bucking trying to take off jumping over things.. Which is NOT the horse he was before.
I was so proud of her, she went over the bridge, big mud puddles, throught open feilds into little trails. She went first, middle and last. We went ahead of the ground, and way behind the group, walk, trot, lope. She experianced SSOO MUCH that she has never even seen before and she took it all instride. She checked EVERYTHING out and was totally left brain about it! she only jumped once!
My one problem with bella, is I dont trust my relationship with her to just let her go sometimes. I know I've held her back when I shouldnt have because I just dont trust that shes not going to take off or try and buck me off or something like that. It's lack of confidence in myself that I have and I bring it into our relationship. It happened with Indy to and it took me quite awhile to trust him to think about going bridleless and I worked alot of building that confidence in myself that I could feel safe doing it. But I just dont have it with her and I feel bad because I know I do things wrong when I hold her back. Sometimes I ask her to go and stop at the same time and i correct it when I realize but i dont always realize quickly.

I really appriciate what parelli has taught me, everytime bella blows my mind away or even does something little like check something out, I thank parelli! I've build a partnership with a horse to beable to get on its back and ask it to do things, where she could easily kill me. But instead she lets me know when I do things wrong so I can correct them and she trys to do the right thing all the time. I havent killed the curiousity out of her, and I let her think for herself.. and when I look at her and i look at a show horse.. Im disgusted that all those other people havent realized what they are doing!
Im so happy that I was brought into the parelli world at such a young age, sure it wasnt the easiest thing to understand at times, but Its WAY more then worth it. Which makes me want to become an instructor more then anything and to use this knowledge and gain so much more to share it with anyone is a dream.

I got help measuring her as it's not the easiest thing to do with those stupid tapes, and shes so curious to what you are doing and if she can stick it in her mouth she will. She happens to be 16.1 at her wither area and her butts at 16.2 I wonder when shes going to stop growing... Shes too tall as it is! haha
I laughed when I went and stood beside Indy I was like your this SHORT! haha He didn't feel that short when I worked with him at all.. but after working with bella and getting used to her, he's deffinatly just a little boy!

The thinkers..

The other day I asked her to sidepass using the rail, which had electric wire on the other side.. and bella figured out that yes the wire was hot when she didnt want to go sideways and went forward even though she was pushing through my pressure. So yesterday we went by that spot and she scared herself half to death and went flying so many directions I cannot remember them all, so I jumped off and let her calm down and let her figure out that she wasnt going to die everytime she went by that part of the rail.
I was really proud of myself for getting off and working things through on the ground, I thought I was confident but that made me feel even more confident that in a sticky situation I can get off without thinking about it.
Today i did abunch of things in the ring really worked on our circling game, and I got her to do a full trotting lap without having to get her going again, and I got it both directions.
I saddled her up and rode around and got a REALLY nice lope from her. Everything was going well so we went for a ride on a trail and then I was going to bring the saddle and such to my house(another story) So she was a bit worried at first, but I always walk the first bit untill shes nice a relaxed and confident. So after a bit I got on and I seen a trail so I went down it to see where it led, and she started wanting to head back but I got her to take a few steps and stand still and kept going like that well it lead to behind kims place and we I went to turn around she was NOPE, so I out persisted her and we turned around and then fonzie started calling to her and she got a bit anxious. So I asked her to stop so she could relax but instead she starts rearing... I took my feet out of the stirrups incase I need to get off now, and I got her to stand for one second then we went forward again. And I kept repeating getting her to stand for a bit longer each time. we were almost back on the road and she started rearing again and she was getting pretty high with them and cranky about it. I got a bit nervous so I got off and worked with her. She was even doing it on the ground.
So then I decided to just walk and work on things as they came about walking to my house. I got to the corner and she squeeled and threw herself in the air half rearing half bucking. She did this about 2 times and I went into a driveway of a cabin and let her figure this out and just protected my space. Then I decided screw this were going back. I checked her feet nothing was in them thinking maybe she got a rock in them but nope. So I headed down and she did it again and after that she was fine...
Ugh she keeps my brain going thats for sure! Its not one thing its another, and shes NEVER done this in the past almost 2 years I've known and worked with her.. so I dont know what it was

I got bored of playing in the ring, I wanted something differnt and My dad got home today so i decided I'd saddle bella up play with her a bit to warm up and walk her to my house! Our first obstacle was that the road wasnts a black hole that was going to eat her, Did a bunch of playing around and in no time she was on it and comfortable even with cars passing so we started to journey down the road.
We passed by scary large rocks, guard rails, bright yelloe signs, puddles, snowbanks before we go to my house. I played with all the items, with a fun game called Touch It!
She was awesome, never jumped once just observed, snorted and was aware but not on edge. When we go to my house my dog was very nerous and protective with this BIG thing in the yard! But Bella was totally fine with my dog and was interested in the lake and the people that were on it, oh and FOOD, she thought she deserved more oats!
On our way home we played more with some objects, and when we got around the big corner I went a bit down another road and got on and road back the rest of the way and everything was perfectly fine, she was even coming off of the adreniline that she had, level headed and nicely relaxed.

She never fails to make me so proud of her each and everytime! This was a big step for her, shes never been on a trail ride before and never taken away like she was from another horse to go somewhere else! She handled it awesomely!