I started riding when I was 3 yrs.old.  I rode a white bodied mare with brown legs and mane & tail.  She was a  quarter/appy cross  named Tasha.  My mom had horses since I was born.  So I was very fortunate to have grown up with them.

I've always had a strong LOVE for horses and animals!  It's also an inherited gene too!  My mom always had alot of cats and dogs around so I always have been surrounded by animals and the love for animals!

I started showing horses at a young age and when I was 7, my mom and I started taking lessons from an Olympic level dressage trainer/instructor who now resides in California, Rikki Levine.  I took lessons and worked 2 summers for her until I was 17.  That's were I learned my basics in dressage and how to be neat & picky with my horses and the care for my horses!  Growing up we never had much money, so I made the best out of the horses I had and I showed and competed in Open and 4-H shows. I did about all of the 4-H events.  I went to various clinics for horsemanship and barrels and team roping/break away calf roping.  I got to go audit alot of clinics too, like a Sally Swift Clinic .  I got to ride in a Charlie Hill clinic. I've also participated in a  Roy Durfy (calf/break away calf roping) and a Carol Goosetree Barrel Clinic also.  A lady who judges all over the US for Quarters, Paints & Palamino Shows who is from Nebraska, Vicki Radtke, gave me alot of showmanship & horsemanship lessons growing up also and took me along to a few shows she judged and to a few clinics to watch.  She was a great inspiration to me!  I've worked for various trainers and horse people through out my life, from western pleasure to cutting.  When I graduated high school back in 1991 I went to college for one semmester at Colby Community College at Colby, Kansas.  I was going to major in and took about one week of Vet Tech.  But decided that's not really what I wanted to do and since they had a horse breeding program that I switched my major to finish out the semmester.   I got to learn about artificial insemenation and reproduction.  But that's not what I really wanted to do either.  I wanted to go to a horse training college in Oklahoma.  They excepted me the next semmester and started at Connors State College at Warner, Oklahoma, in winter of 1992.  That's where I specialized my training in Cutting Horses, my second semester there.  Our assistant trainer, Connie Klug, worked for Bill Freeman for 2 years and at the Atwood Rach.  I learned a bit about cutting horses!   We got to start 4 or 5 colts a year at college and I got to be on the Horse Judging team back in 92'. We competed at the Solid Gold Furturity in Illinois, at the Congress and at the World Quarter Horse Show.  We also got to take a Texas trip and got to visit Bill Freemans, Dick Peeper and a few other places.  It was a great experience!  I got to help a few local cutting horse trainers while I was going to college at Connors also.  When I moved back home there just wasn't alot of cutting around the south eastern part of Nebraska so I got back into team roping and break away calf roping.  When I got married back in '96, I wasn't any where where I could rope consistantly so I went back to showing at open shows and taking dressage lessons and messing around with reining on my little cutting bred horse I owned at the time.   Then I sold him and bought my first pleasure bred filly.  That's when I got into showing at the bred shows in the pleasure and showed a paint filly one year for a friend.  People started noticing me and likeing the horses I rode and wanted to bring me thier horses.  I never did advertise "word of mouth" and did well by just that.  But I am always still learning and improving!  I think I am always learning something new!   I enjoy helping people and have always wanted tohelp someone improve with thier horse since I was real young!  I thoroughly enjoy starting colts and being the first one to teach them something.  I have put everything that I have learned from each disipline and put it into my training program.  I like to treat each horse like they are my own!  Someday I hope to have a name in the training world!   I've learned alot and enjoy watching some of the "Big Boys" working thier horses in the practice pens.  You can learn alot by watching a person!  If someone is really wanting to learn, I am more than happy to take my time to help someone! 

In July of 2004 I filed for divorce and moved a mile from my mom and step-dad's place.  It's a NICE change of scenery!  I have decided to work on getting my amature status back for now (since July of 2004) and am just riding my own horses and working for my step-dad in his shop with his equine dental business, full time.  There we make equine dental floats and insturments.  I am now what you would call a "machinest".  I work majority of the time in the polishing room, polishing the metal for various pieces.  This job gives new meaning to the word "DIRTY"!  lol!  It is nice having a consistant paycheck even though I do miss training horses full time......  My divorce was final on June 28th of 2005.  Which is a milestone in my life I am very thankful for and never wish to return there again! lol!

I have been concentrating with my 4yr.old gelding, Muddy, in dressage and it is a great challenge and wounderful outlook for training and it's meaning of why you train this way "the correct & only way!".   After really studying dressage and learning more and more about it..... I deffinately will not and can not train the way most quarter horse (western disipline) train.....  Most is un-moral and so incorrect words can not even begin....  I'm enjoying seeing Muddy change for the good and watch how his muscle definition changes (for the better).....

I just have gotten into the miniatures horses, in September 2005 and am deffinately "hooked" on them!  I just LOVE these little guys!  I am very excited and ansious to beable to have the chance to hopefully raise some nice babies and show them!