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!