Local News cast

For those of you who have followed the Journey with Aztec, please check out the story from the local news. It aired today at 5pm, Brock and Aztec are in the Roy's folks segment. You can see it on their website at www.myfoxwghp.com

October 25th, 2009

Well, Brock and Aztec wound up with an 11th place finish for the Mustang Makeover. We are so proud of Aztec!!! We went to the auction today to sale hi, and somehow we wound up bidding on him, and winning! We are on the way home now, and we know he has a great home! Our daughter wanted to keep him and use him for Rodeo and trailriding. We will continue to update occasionally so our fans can see how Willow and Aztec do together. It was an amazing event, with almost 100 awesome trainers and mustangs. Any one who purchased one from the auction bought themselves a great horse. It was a very fun weekend, and we look forward to entewring the one coming up in the spring in Fl. We think we will take two mustangs this time and do a husband/wife team!

It was an incrediable journey, and we are so happy to have been selected to take part in it. And what a wonderful ending, with Aztec coming home!! It was just to hard to sale him to someone else!

Extreme Mustang Makeover Day 1

We drove all night Wednesday, and arrived at the coliseum just in time for a beautiful Sunrise on Thur morning. We got Aztec settled in his stall, and let him get some rest.

Brock and Aztec competed in the In Hand portion today, and placed 6th overall! Things are looking good for him to make the top 10 Saturday night!!! He will show under saddle Saturday morning, and then we will find out if he will be doing a freestyle in the evening for the top 10.

Aztec has been great, seems like he has seen the bright lights before! Nothing seems to phase him, but that is the way we like it! We are enjoying our time here, there are some great trainers and beautiful mustangs, the bidders are going to be taking home an awesome group of horses. If you have ever thought about getting a mustang, this would be the place to adopt one. They all have a wonderful foundation placed on them!!

Go Team Baby Aztec!!!! Thanks for all the support from our friends, family and clients!!

Time for the big trip!

Well, we are 24 hours away from loading up Aztec and making the long 600 mile journey to Tennessee! We are ready for the competition, and to see all of the other Mustangs and trainers and how they have done. We could not ask for any thing more with Aztec, only time! We really love him, and wish we could bring him back home with us! The time seems to have gone by so fast, seems like yesterday we were unloading him at our barn, and he was a wild man. He is now a gentle and willing partner, to the point of our 6 yr old daughter trail riding him all by herself. I was nervous about her taking him out, but like always he was fabulous!

For those of you following our story, Brock and Aztec will be on Fox 8 Monday night at 5pm, they will be in the Roy's folks segment, They came out yesterday and did a story on him. If you do not get that channel, you can watch it online at www.myfoxwghp.com anytime after next Monday.

We want to again thank our sponsors who have helped make this possible, and all the donations we have received at local events and through our website. Our sponsors include: Purina and Davis Feed, Jackie Forlines, Pixicom, Natures Path hoof care, and Carolina Tack Traders of Ramseur, Nc

I will update the blog during the 3 rounds of competition in Tn so those of you who cannot be there can follow along. Thanks again for all the support, We have great family and friends! Wish us luck!!!

Valley Time

There is a historic place located just outside of the nc mountains, and just about every one who has horses and lives in North Carolina goes there to ride a couple of times each year. There are miles and miles of trails that range from mild to extreme, and a little western town right in the middle of it all.

We took Aztec to Love Valley today along with our other mustang Chico and our daughters pony. We rode all day, u and down the mountains, through some tough crossings and into town. Aztec handled it all like a champ, and never even so much as raised a brow. After several hours of riding, we stopped in town for a snack and something cold to drink and tied them to the hitching post for a while. There were kids, dogs, lots of other horses, mules and buggies, and we even passed 2 men riding cows! It was a beautiful day and good family fun for us.

Aztec is about as ready as he is going to be for the Mustang Makeover, and we are less than 2 weeks away from the competition! We will update again soon. Thanks to everyone who has taken part of our journey with him!

Bar T mustang Festival, Saturday October 3, 09

Today we attended the first ever Mustang Festival at the Bar T Ranch in Pittsboro, nc. Let me be the first to tell you what a great bunch of people the Thomas Family are. They hosted an awesome event for the North Carolina trainers to showcase their EMM horses, raise money for the trips to Tn and allowed local horses to come in and showcase their talents. They had in hand, pleasure and free style classes, as well as many childrens activities throughout the day. They also hosted the Bar T Trail challenge, which was very fun, many trail obstacles, and a race based on time and horsemanship. I would recommend them to anyone, they do Natural Horsemanship and are truly wonderful people. We are so excited to watch the Thomas kids compete in the EMM in TN.

Aztec was truly a crowd pleaser during Brocks freestyle performance. We are ready to go to the EMM, but certainly not ready for the auction ,and to put him on someone else's trailer at the end of all this is heartbreaking to me. Our family has truly fallen in love with him, and he is something very special. He has qualities that you will not find in most horses, and has more heart and try than any other horse we have ever trained. Guess that is all for now, we will update a few more times before the trip, and for those who cannot be at he EMM we will update during the actual show that weekend so you all can follow along.

Thanks to all those who have donated for the Aztec fund, it is greatly appreciated!

All the Pictures features in this post are from the Mustang festival at the Bar T Ranch