I hope everyone had a wonderful and merry Christmas!  Taylor definitely was a good boy as Santa left him a stocking full of treats and not coal!  (I guess he forgave the couple of times he's tried to kick me recently-ha!).  I have spent a lot of time bonding with Taylor...a LOT.  Before I started his training, I spent my time grooming him and sitting with him.  I still love it when we have the chance to just hang out together.  With that said, he can read me.  Somehow he just knows when I have something for him.  Even when I'm trying to eat a snack or drink some water, he thinks I need to share.  And he's not shy about letting me know either!

So when he saw me hanging his stocking on his stall he knew I had something good.  He dug his nose in trying to get the treats and nickered when he caught a whiff of his favorite treat: carrots.  The biggest bag of carrots Santa could find were stuffed in that stocking!  There was also a bag of Nicker Treats.  Taylor kept looking at me and nosing the stocking, willing me to open the bag.  After snapping a few pics, I obliged.

This horse LOVES carrots.  As in can't get enough and goes a little crazy.  He snorts, paces, paws, and nickers when he thinks I still have some that I'm not giving him.  I had already told him he wasn't eating the whole bag in one sitting.  I hid one in my fleece vest and he was so cute trying to find it.  I have been working on loosening him up so I used the carrots as rewards for some stretching exercises.  Is he spoiled?  Maybe a little...  But he's just so darn cute!

He made my Christmas this year.  He brings so much joy into my life and I am very blessed to have been able to adopt him.  He is definitely a treasure.