Hi! I hope you all had a great Christmas! I sure did.

I'm heading off in a few minutes to go with Darius and Nicole up to see the Jr. Highers. WoohoO!

Rain!!!

Well. I love this weather. It's perrrrfect.
My horses -- Don't. They don't like being stuck in their wet stalls all day. And it's been pretty cool so the blankets have been pulled out and put into use again.
Since there's a nice break in the rain today, I let them out. They were very happy. LOL.

Well just an update. :D

Love Wins,
Hayley

Dog dance!

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Gettin' in the Christmas spirit!

Well now that the weather has turned, it makes it feel a lot more like Christmas. :)
I love it! Here's out Christmasy house...






I just had to throw that one in there ;)

Love Wins and Merry Christmas!
Hayley

My Church

I love my church. EVERYTHING about it. Well, except tear down ;) That's whatchya get when you're part of a 'portable church.' But it's worth it!
Everywhere you go, you receive a friendly smile, good morning (or good night), hello, or a wave. It's like Disneyland. I swear! Happiest place in the world! I mean seriously, I feel at home there. I mean come on, wouldn't you love a church where you could be shoeless, in jeans and a t-shirt and not be stared at or made fun of? But yeah, it's just a GREAT place to be. You feel welcome. It's like one big family.

We are SO unique. The lessons are so simple and straight to the point. The music varies greatly! We put a huge effort into everything. And honestly, it's ranked number 3 on my favorite places in the world. If you wanna know, number 1 is home, number 2 is with my horses. Haha.

Being on the praise band, you get to see a lot of the, I guess you could say, 'behind the scenes' parts of the church. We have people that usually just come to service and then leave right away stay for tear down. Afterwards they say, "Wow. I never could've pictured this room as a drama room. Empty." Or "I never knew how much you guys do!"
It's so cool to be playing and see someone walk in the door who's singing along already. Awesomeness. :) And to see people singing along and clapping with us, getting involved, serving, or just being a friend to a new timer.

And I'm sad, because, even though tear down is a pain the rear, (it's still fun sometimes, and I know I'm doing something good) I'm going to miss it this weekend :( My dad is having back pain, and like 45 minutes after getting done with that, him and my mom and my bro have to go to GO training for 2 hours, and this weekend is the Leader's Meeting right after that. So my dad isn't going to stay for tear down. And my mom doesn't anyways, so there's no hope in helping tear down. :( Oh well..

Here's our church websites if you want to check em out :)Main website and here's the Student Ministry one.

On a side-note, the Music at the Mall was today. It went well, despite the fact that we were like right next to the kids little play area, which was loud! And I didn't like the piano they had..ugh. I felt like I had to pound on the keys to get just a little noise out of it. It just had this weird feeling. I didn't like it...and it was a Yamaha. Icky. Haha anywayz....

Love Wins,
Hayley

Me and Missy

So today I had my mom come out and take some pictures of me on Missy. I wanted to see how big I was on her lol. And also because I don't have any recent pics. Missy looks so thrilled. Goober. Here's my favorites...




We had a great ride. I rode her yesterday, and I think if I ride her the day before it gives her a chance to get the silly willies out lol.

My mom looked at Cat's sore thingy, and was like, "Oh Hayley! The vet needs to see this."
She cleaned it real well, and also noticed that her back is a lot bonier, like I had told her. Hmmm. So since it was too late in the day, she's calling them tomorrow(or more like this morning since you're probably reading this on Saturday, not almost 11 on Friday night lol) to have her come. Ugh.

Well I should go,
Love Wins,
Hayley

Please Read. :D

A friend of mine sent this to me, and I thought I'd post it. I suggest you read it. :D

*Twas the month before Christmas*

*When all through our land,*

*Not a Christian was praying*

*Nor taking a stand.*


*See the PC Police had taken away,*

*The reason for Christmas - no one could say.*

*The children were told by their schools not to sing,*

*About Shepherds and Wise Men and Angels and things.*


*It might hurt people's feelings, the teachers would say*

* December 25th is just a ' Holiday '.*

*Yet the shoppers were ready with cash, checks and credit*

*Pushing folks down to the floor just to get it!*


*CDs from Madonna, an X BOX , an I-pod*

*Something was changing, something quite odd! *

*Retailers promoted Ramadan and Kwanzaa*

*In hopes to sell books by Franken & Fonda.*

*As Targets were hanging their trees upside down*

* At Lowe's the word Christmas - was no where to be found.*

*At K-Mart and Staples and Penny's and Sears*

*You won't hear the word Christmas; it won't touch your ears.*


*Inclusive, sensitive, Di-ver-si-ty*

*Are words that were used to intimidate me.*

*Now Daschle, Now Darden, Now Sharpton, Wolf Blitzen*

*On Boxer, on Rather, on Kerry, on Clinton !*


*At the top of the Senate, there arose such a clatter*

*To eliminate Jesus, in all public matter.*

*And we spoke not a word, as they took away our faith*

* Forbidden to speak of salvation and grace*


*The true Gift of Christmas was exchanged and discarded*

*The reason for the season, stopped before it started.*

*So as you celebrate 'Winter Break' under your 'Dream Tree'*

*Sipping your Starbucks, listen to me.*


*Choose your words carefully, choose what you say*

*Shout MERRY CHRISTMAS ,

not Happy Holiday !*


Please, all Christians join together and

wish everyone you meet during the

holidays a


MERRY CHRISTMAS



It's cool huh?

Love Wins,
Hayley

What have you done?

Got this from my madre. The ones in bold are the things I've done. You can do it too! Woohoo! :D

1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland
8. Climbed a mountain
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang a solo
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown your own vegetables
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an overnight train
21. Had a pillow fight (Pillow of fire, Oh yeah!!)
22. Hitch hiked
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Run a Marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community
36. Taught yourself a new language
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing
40. Seen Michelangelos David
41. Sung karaoke
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had your portrait painted
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theater
55. Been in a movie (Does a small group movie count? ;)
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies
62. Gone whale watching
63. Got flowers for no reason
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma
65. Gone sky diving
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten Caviar
72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
77. Broken a bone (More like...THREE.)
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper
85. Read the entire Bible
86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
88. Had chickenpox
89. Saved someone’s life
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous
92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one
94. Had a baby
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake (seen it but not swam in it)
97. Been involved in a law suit
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee
100. Read an entire book in one day

The Braidy Bunch!!!

Well I started a habit of braiding the horses manes every Sunday afternoon, but that didn't last for very long. So I haven't braided them in like, a month. Yikes. So Wednesday I braided them. I will show you the before and after pics for Missy. Then a few body shots of her. You guys haven't really been able to see all of them have you lol?






I wish my hair was as long as hers... *sigh*

I didn't get a before or after for Cat cause her mane wasn't very bad at all cause it's much shorter than Miss Missy's. Here we goo...




When I was done with Cat, I was going to clean their stalls, but this big sucker was headed in our direction...!!!

I ran and put Missy in her stall, and a minute or so after finishing with Cat, it started pouring. And can you guess what I was wearing? Shorts and a t-shirt. :D Yup. I went back inside and cleaned the stalls later when it wasn't raining. Lol. What a day.
Thanksgiving was fun. Christina and Derek, and Jerald came over. Honey befriended Christina lol.
Well I gotta go,
Love Wins,
Hayley

WOOHOO!

Let me just say...I'm SO EXCITED FOR CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love Christmas. Don't get me wrong, I love Thanksgiving too, and I can't believe it's already gone, but Christmas is my total favorite. I had a very hard time picking the background, cause I had like 5 I loved. This one and the one on my photography blog are the two that made it. :) So go check out the other one too...

Anywayz, I loved all that rain! And did you see those clouds?! I took a ton of pictures of them and of Missy and Cat, so I'll try to get some up today. :D It just takes a while :(

Love Wins,
Hayley

P.S. I'm very upset that the countdown gadget is broken. I wanted a countdown to Christmas!

My Music at the Mall Songs...

I thought I'd share the two songs I'm playing at Music at the Mall next month. They're not perfect yet lol, so this is just to give you an idea of what they're like.
Oh on the second one, please ignore my brother's annoying background noise. Grr.



And since we're talking about videos, here's the video me and Celine were going to enter into the Film Festival. Yeah, you can laugh. :D

Love Wins,
Hayley

WOWA!

These pictures I found are incredible. Enjoy!

My new blog

I have a new blog, if you haven't read my last post. It's for photography only! If you wanna see the rest of the pictures from this shoot, I dare you to check out my Photo-Holic blog. :D Hope to see you there!

Love Wins,
Hayley

Happy Birthday Bailey

Well, yesterday was Bailey's 6th(I think) birthday! She's getting so old...and stinkier. Man she has some killer breath! But I spoiled her for mom. She likes to be blow dried so when I was drying my hair yesterday I blew it on her for a while. She got extra kisses and treats, too.

Missy has got to be the silliest horse I know. I was lunging her yesterday and Cat was on the other side of the round pen grazing. Missy would be trotting around with her ears perked and a content look on her face, but when she would pass Cat, she pinned her ears back and put her head in the air with a devil of a look on her face. I just cracked up! Then, I was working on her picking up the canter from a walk. When she does it going to the left, she gets it but her right hind leg is like all off. It doesn't go with her other legs, like it's following some other pattern! It's so funny! So she has to go to a trot, and pick up the canter again, correctly. Haha, and she only does it to the left. Goober. After I lunge her, I can walk around and she'll follow me. So I started running, and she trots next to me! Then I'll walk, and she'll walk, and I stop, and she'll stop! Haha while I was petting her in the center of the pen, Cat comes over and sticks her head through the fence trying to eat the carrot that's in my grooming box. She didn't succeed though. Hah one time I was picking Missy's feet though, and Missy ate the carrot I had. Sneaky....

Ohhh, a Biggest Loser update!! Vicki's husband Brady got voted off, by Amy. They went to singles this week, but Amy and them were all on 'Bob's Team', the blue team. Vicki says, you're going to pay. And in the commercial for next week, there seems to be a lot of drama with Vicki and Amy, and stupid Heba. Geez Heba and Vicki are terrible. I'm sorry, but they need to get over themselves, lose weight, and go home.
I should probably stop now....


EDIT TO ADD: I've decided that I am going to have another blog. But it will be for specifically photography. So go to my profile and check it out!
Love Wins,
Hayley

Rain! Sweet RAIN!

So yesterday afternoon on our way home from church we went to Walmart. When we went in the sky was a bit cloudy. But when we came out it was very cloudy and there was a huge dark cloud covering alot of the sky. On our way home it started raining. It was great. When we got home it was still lightly raining. How awesome is that?!

Love Wins,
Hayley

This is a long post....

I feel so smart. NOT. So today I went out and took a ton of pictures of flowers. They weren't turning out right, and I couldn't figure out why! I sat there thinking for a bit, then was like, 'OHHH!!! It's not on the flower setting!' After I changed it to that the pictures turned out great. So click here to view them.

This morning, around 4:45, Bailey woke me up. She was standing on me and wanted to go outside. So I reluctantly got up and let her and Honey out. I was standing in the doorway watching them. So I look down, then when I look up I see a hugenormous bird flying over me and the house! Bout made me pee! I was like, 'oh crap! That was a big bird!' It was at least 6 feet tip to tip. I think it was an owl, cause a few seconds after that happened I heard hooting coming from the roof. Oh man, that just really woke me up! Lol.

I want to share something I read in literature today. It's kinda long, just to warn you. But I recommend you read it all. Lol.

The Open Sky by John Ruskin.
It is a strange thing how little in general people know about the sky. It is the part of all creation in which nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man, more, for the sole and evident purpose of talking to him and teaching him, than in any other of her works, and it is just the part in which we least attend to her. There are not many of her other works in which some more material or essential purpose than the mere pleasing of man is not answered by every part of their organization; but every essential purpose of the sky might, as far as we know, be answered, if once in three days, or thereabouts, a great, ugly black rain cloud were brought up over the blue, and everything well watered, and so all left blue again till next time, with perhaps a film of morning and evening mist for dew. And instead of this, there is not a moment of any day of our lives, when nature is not producing scene after scene, picture after picture, glory after glory, and working still upon such exquisite and constant principles of the most perfect beauty, that it is quite certain it is all done for us, and intended for our perpetual pleasure. And every man, wherever placed, however far from other sources of interest or of beauty, has this doing for him constantly. The noblest scenes of the earth can be seen and known but by few; it is not intended that man should live always in the midst of them: he injures them by his presence, he ceases to fell them if he be always with them: but the sky is for all; bright as it is, it is not “too bright, nor good, for human nature’s daily food,” it is fitted in all its functions for the perpetual comfort and exalting of the heart, for the soothing it and purifying it from its dross and dust. Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes awful, never the same for two moments together; almost human in its passions, almost spiritual in its tenderness, almost divine in its infinity, it is surely meant for the chief teacher of what is immortal in us, as it is the chief minister of chastisement or of blessing to what is mortal. And yet we never attend to it, we never make it a subject of thought, but as it has to do with our animal sensations: we look upon all by which it speaks to us more clearly than to brutes, upon all which bears witness to the intention of the Supreme that we are to receive more from the covering vault than the light and the dew which we share with the weed and the worm, only as a succession of meaningless and monotonous accidents, too common and too vain to be worthy of a moment of watchfulness or a glance of admiration. If in our moments of utter idleness and insipidity, we turn to the sky as a last resource, which of its phenomena do we speak of? One says it has been wet, and another, it has been windy; and another, it has been warm. Who, among the whole chattering crowd, can tell me of the forms of precipices of the chain of tall white mountains that filled the horizon at noon yesterday? Who saw the narrow sunbeam that came out of the south, and smote upon their summits until they melted and mouldered away in a dust of blue rain? Who saw the dance of the dead clouds, when the sunlight left them last night, and the west wind blew them before it like withered leaves? All has passed, unregretted as unseen; or if the apathy be ever shaken off, even for an instant, it is only by what is gross, or what is extraordinary; and yet it is not in the broad and fierce manifestations of the elemental energies, not in the clash of the hail, nor the drift of the whirlwind, that the highest characters of the sublime are developed. God is not in the earthquake, nor in the fire, but in the still, small voice. They are but the blunt and the low faculties of our nature, which can only be addressed through lamp-black and lightning. It is in quiet and subdued passages of unobtrusive majesty, the deep, and the calm, and the perpetual; that which must be sought ere it is seen, and loved ere it is understood; things which the angels work out for us daily, and yet vary eternally: which are never wanting, and never repeated; which are to be found always, yet each found but once; it is through these that the lesson of devotion is chiefly taught, and the blessing of beauty given.

Love Wins,
Hayley

I drink thee in honor of a friend!!

Lol well tonight our youth pastors wife, Nicole, took me to Starbucks. We had a great time. And so as I'm there, I immediately think of Lauren. She loves anything pumpkin, so I decided I would have the Pumpkin Spice hot frappucino. Wait, or was it pumpkin spice coffee? I don't remember haha, but it didn't look like the picture. It was in a red cup and just like a coffee.It was hot and YUMMMY!!!!!!!!! So I drank thee in honor of Lauren! I'm praying for you girl!

Love Wins,
Hayley

Pray for a Friend

Hey there,
Could you all pray for a friend of mine- Lauren? She's having surgery on her ankle today. If you go on the sidebar you'll see her name and on her page she has more info about what's going on. Thank you all so much!

Love Wins,
Hayley

Ghost Hunters

Fall Colors...Somewhat.

Weell the other day I went out in the wonderful afternoon light to take some pictures. I just love those pine cones! Haha here's a link to the pics. Yup. Well things are going good. Oh here's a Top Design update for Mom. Eddie went home. The final three have to design a WHOLE townhouse(the interior). I forgot to watch Amazing Race. Sorry. Ghost Hunters was live on Halloween at Fort Delaware. And they showed all seven hours of the investigation. It was cool. And no, I did not stay up for the whole seven stinkin hours. I stayed up for five. It was 11, and I had to get up at 8 to be ready for the church picnic. It was fun. haha. Baptism went for an HOUR or more straight. Awesome. Well, I'll write more later. Goodnight!

Love Wins,
Hayley

Behind my Fear

So if you are someone who isn't afraid of heights, you might want to know why us people who ARE afraid of heights are. The answer? I don't know. It's just the way God made us.
But I can tell you what I think about when I'm faced with heights. Haha the reason I'm talking about this is because tonight we're going rock climbing with our youth group. I've been before, but I mostly just um. What's it called? When you don't climb but you hold the rope for the climber and stuff...Ugh I forgot! Well anyway, that's what I end up doing cause I just can't climb. If I do, it's only half way up. Then I HAVE to go back down. I just can't go any higher or I totally freak out.

So when I'm climbing, this is basically what goes through my head: 'Oh gosh, oh gosh. What if this doesn't hold me? What if my friend can't hold me? Oh no I'm slipping...AAh too far up! What if I fall or something!' Then I quickly look down and tell my partner to let me down. SLOWLY. Then the whole time of that, 'Oh my gosh oh my gosh. Slow! aaah, oh my goodness....!!!'
Yeah. Even when my friends help me by telling me where to put my feet and hands and encourage me, it's hard for me. My hands get clammy, I get dizzy, I can't think straight, and I shake. All over.
So tonight, I am going to try hard to not let my fear get in the way!
Why do I not trust the equipment? I don't know. I always doubt the safety of things. Especially roller coasters, other rides, rock climbing stuff...I think that's one of the main things behind my fear.
So there you have it...

Love Wins,
Hayley

P.S. I am doing a soap everyday like I said I would! Woohoo!

These title things drive me insane cause I never know what to say!

All right...
Here is s SOAP for you. Lather it on and don't rinse.
October 28th, 2008
S: Titus 3:9 But shun foolish controversies and genealogies and strife and disputes about the Law; for they are unprofitable and worthless.
O: Don’t argue or fight over foolish things because it doesn’t get you anywhere. It’s POINTLESS. (But still, we go on and get all worked up about things!)
A: Try not to fight or worry about the little things that in the end are just foolish.
P: Hey God, please give me the will to not argue or worry about things that really are just foolish. They really don’t matter and it is a waste of time to fight over silly things. In Your name I pray, Amen.

And I've decided, that since I don't do a SOAP every day, that I am going to do one every day. No matter what, I must do one! My dad and bro and mom have to do one every day for the GO training, so what the heck! I might as well! lol. If you want to follow along and read what we're reading, here is a link to the reading plans.

I totally lost what I was going to say. Shoot. Don't you just hate when that happens? Well anyways. Since this is 'Life With Horses' I guess I'll update you on Missy and Cat! Missy is fine. I think she's losing weight! Woohoo! I'm finally getting back into working her more than once a week. lol. Cat is good too. She had some swelling on her belly for some reason. The vet did some bloodwork and that was all fine, so she assumed she just got stung by something. She gave us some medicine for her to help the swelling. And also, we got some shampoo for her boot-ay. Hah she's had bad bad bad dry flaky skin on her butt and this shampoo (which on the bottle says it's for DOGS) really helps. But, once again, I'm having to keep an eye on her. It's hard to explain where, but on her belly-ish leg area there's a tumor looking thingy. She has one on her neck that the vet has checked out(when Cat lived with her) and said is fine. So hopefully this one is fine. But if gets bigger then we might have a problem. Ugh. Pray for my dear Cat and her tuma. Lol.

My mom left for Africa this morning. She's gone for three weeks. Woohoo party time! Jk jk jk. She will be missed! And just for her, here is a Biggest Loser update. Phil was voted off, and the show won't come on for two weeks. Just in time! Hah. And, as always, sweet Bailey already misses you. I'll keep her company. Spoil her even more...

Well it's ten til ten. My bedtime. I should go and brush me teethers. Lol well have a blessed day/night!

Love Wins,
Hayley
P.S. I now have a countown til Christmas along with the Thanksgiving one.

Tagged...AGAIN.

So I've been tagged again. But this time it's a different tag, called Silly Tag. I have to tell something silly I've done. Here we go...

I've tripped going up stairs
I was running in the house once and wasn't paying attention and I whacked my toe against the wall.
At church when I was playing one weekend I started singing when it wasn't yet time to
When I was little I wrote on and stuck post it notes all over the living room.
Ok so that was more than one...but I just have a lot of silly things I've done!
I tag Violet, Lauren, Stacey and Amber. :D
Love Wins,
Hayley

Hike Pictures!

Well, as promised, here are some of my fav pics from the hike. And a link to the album with ALL of them. Hah there's 101. So I'd suggest doing the slide show.
Okay, so here's info about the pics.
Pic #11. This is me and Charity. I would not and did not move from that spot. I stood there leaning on the rock and holding onto Charity's arm until she moved for Faith to stand by me. Haha.
Pic #10. Shadows. Heh.
Pic #9. Me and Faith. It's blurry...I know...
Pic #8. A pretty and complicated looking cactus.
Pic #7. Tree...
Pic #6. Mountain
Pic #5. The way up to the so called 'waterfall'.
Pic #4. Part of the waterfall. To the right is the ledge up to that place...You can't really see it though.
Pic #3. A bug. In the water.
Pic #2. That's where I would fall if I fell from up on the ledge.
Pic #1. The waterfall wall. That was to the right of me when I was up there. Those people climbing are a bit crazy eh?! Okay I should prolly stop with the pics huh? So if you wanna see all the other pics go to that link at the beginning! Woo..
Love Wins,
Hayley