Teri McCormick:  

Life Well, I've wanted to write this forever, but just couldn't seem to get the time before now. So here goes......After graduation, I went to Pepperdine University, keeping the tradition in the family, thanks to Dad and all his years spent there. I graduated from there in 84, and spent time working as a professional photographer in the Los Angeles area, before getting into the banking/mortgage industry on a whim. (That turned into a about a 10 yr. career, by accident, lol, but it was a great decade for that industry, so I kept at it). As most of you know, I had a horse throughout school here, and that continued to be a big passion for me. Although I didn't own one during college, I had always ridden intermittenly, so a year after college, I couldn't stand it any longer and bought another horse. By 1985 I had moved up to Valencia, CA to be more rural, and hang with the crowd where I kept my horse, which was at a ranch in the shadow of Magic Mountain, down on the river. In 86, I met my husband through my horse activities, (I had 2 horses by then), and as he was from a Nebraska ranching family, our plans to always have horses was mutual. In the meantime, our horses grew by several, and we entered the Quarter horse showing and breeding business as a hobby to our regular jobs. Eventually our breed changed from Quarter horses to Paint horses, and that's been our passion ever since. In 1991 our son Justin was born, and we moved the family and horses back to Yucca Valley to get out of "the city" and be near my parents who were quite elderly by now. We have just started our 17th year back here in YV, which I had thought to never return to back in 1980, lol. I won't describe the entire 17 years, but here are some of basic highlights. We've continued with horses, even boarding for others for many years, in addition to the b...Expand for more