Happy First Birthday!

Happy Birthday!  This post is a day late but I was way too tired last night to write it.  I can't believe it's been a year since I got the phone call telling me about the new addition to my family.  If you could ask any of my friends or family they would tell you that I was more excited for her birthday than my own (we're both April babies!).  It's just so exciting for me that she's a yearling now!

I'm not usually a crazy horse birthday person, I tend to bring them a treat and use it as an excuse to buy them a new halter or something, but nothing more than that.  I decided to throw that out the window this year and be as crazy as I wanted.  Which, as you can see, invovled a pink crown that says Birthday Princess and a pink ribbon to fit on her halter that says Birthday Girl.  She wore the ribbon all night and the crown for most of it, until it got too itchy.  She was great for it, she didn't mind having it over her ears.

Everyone came over to say happy birthday to her and E was the only one who shook his head at me.  He doesn't know how I can expect her to be good when she looks so ridiculous.  I brought her muffins as her treat, and she hated them.  I shouldn't be surprised, Socks is one of the pickiest horses alive and Cas was too.  Jimmy ate most of them.

She also got her feet done which she wasn't very good for, but to be far she'd been standing in the barn for a really long time by that point, since Jimmy took a while.  She was getting tired and grumpy by the end of it.

Here's the little monster the day she was born. 

Here she is on her first birthday.  At the risk of sounding like a mother, I can't believe how much she's grown!  I'm very proud of her too, she's been such an amazing horse to work with!  I'm looking forward to working with her over the next year and getting her ready for her first ride!