A Cowgirls First Love

For my sixteenth birthday my dad was going to get me my first horse. I was so excited about it I started coming up with all these rare breeds of horses or horses that were only found over seas and everything. On my sixteenth birthday as everyone else would be getting there picture taken for there drivers license, I was putting on my cowboy boots and a T-shirt and headed out trailer in tow on my way to get my first horse. We pulled up to one of my dads best friends ranch and he told me to chose which ever one I wanted. Well in the car on the way there my dad told me "You dont chose an animal, the animal chooses you." I walked around and petted each horse. I feel in LOVE with this one year old black stallion. So beautiful when he ran he had a long black mane and tail oh just so stunning. but this horse didnt want anything to do with me. He would let me pet him and then would just walk on and mind his own business. 

While I was walking around to all these horses, this one bay horse followed me around, I didnt give it much thought because for some reason I thought she wasnt for sale. At the end of the trip when we had no luck I got in the truck (kinda upset) and waited for my dad while he talked to his friend (Steve White). All of a sudden my dad called me out of the truck and said "did you look at that bay horse standing at the fence looking at us?" and I said "No its already sold" come to find out she was for sale. I got back out of the truck and walked over to her. It was love at first sight. She was so beautiful, young,free, loved to run, and eager to learn. I jumped the fence and started playing with her.  

The next day we went out there to work with her because she was a green horse (meaning not broke or been worked with) we haltered her and put her on a lead rope.

 All of a sudden this other horse jumps the fence just to be with my horse. I was like WTF is going on? come to find out these two horses have been inseperable since day one. There only one month apart in age. So my dads friend just gave us this other horse along with my horse like a 2 in 1 sorta deal. 

My grandmother named my horse Charlotte but I didnt like the spelling of it cause i can never spell that name right so i made it easier and made it SHARLIT and my mom named her new horse SHELLIE (ending in -ie because every girl in our familys name ends in -ie) 

(this is POCO hes both of there fathers)

(This is Shellies mother)

(weird enough this is Sharlits mother)

these are my babies! Theres no way i can describe how much i love both of these horses. Id do anything like run across a busy road when one of them get out (which ive done), rush out in my pajamas when one of them gets stuck in the fence (which has happened), fall into a disgusting pond when they kick there ball in it (been there done that), and even have them get me SOAKING wet when its 30 degrees and below outside to help them when they get seperated (which sucked) but none of this bothers me because there like my kids and I would give up anything in the world for them