"For where your heart is, there will be your Treasure also"

I blogged this once and it got erased so here is the story of my "Treasure". We saw an ad on the Utah classifieds from a lady in Utah named Denise. She was looking for someone between 12 to 18 years of age to give a horse to. We started writing to her and found out she was going to make the decision of whom to give the horse to on July 30th-one day before my 12th birthday! We kept writing to her back and forth and finally she said she had gotten about 200 letters from girls but it had come down to me and one other autistic girl. She decided that the autistic girl was the one who was going to get her horse-"Saraphin". Then they found out that the horse was pregnant and going to have a baby in March. When Denise tried to contact the people with the autistic girl, they never answered back so Denise said we could get her. My Mom and I drove down to Salt Lake, actually South Jordan, and met Denise and Saraphin. She is a beautiful horse with dark brown eyes. We changed her name because I kept calling her Saffron. One day my mom said "I hope Denise knows how much we treasure this horse that she gave us." and that is where the name came from and has since stuck. She is a funny horse. Denise told us when we go to bridle her that she will run from us. She does until she has decided that she is ready to let you put it on, then she stops in her tracks, looks at you like "come on now, what's taking you so long?!" She has corrupted Teton into being as aloof and snooty as she is, but we love her to pieces. She is getting used to me now and will let me crawl under her, put the halter on her, pet her face, and come to me when I want to put her blanket on-if I have a treat! She will always be "the lady" to me. Thanks so much Denise for such a great horse!