~As to the Lord~: June 2008

Monday, June 30, 2008

Thunderbirds!!

We didn't get very good pictures or movies that day...so if you want to see good ones go to Aimee's blog...but it was pretty cool...

Unless I find something interesting to post about...this might be my last post for a while...but don't worry it won't become a "ghost blog" =o)

Thursday, June 26, 2008

Chena Lakes!

So the other day we went to Chena Lakes and met Aimee, Jock, Tobi, Mrs. Humphrey and Aaron out there...they brought Caleb's new kayak and it was super fun...

When Teague got in the water he went crazy and was hanging all over everybody...

So...Aaron rode in the kayak first...and then Chord hogged it for almost the whole rest of the time...

But...I did get a chance maybe three times I think...Mom wouldn't let us ride in it till we found out what it felt like to roll it over...so Aaron had to flip Chord and I...but I kind of cheated and didn't flip till after I had rode in it a little while=o)

It was a pretty fun...

Sunday, June 22, 2008

There's a first time for everything...right?

Two weeks ago at my horseback riding lessons, I did three things for the very first time.
1. I rode a different horse at my lesson
2. I got to canter
3. I fell off

So, for number one...the horse I usually ride was at a horse show, so I had to ride my teacher's mare who's a little more lively then Splash....her name is Mystery. She's part Appaloosa and part Morgan, and she is very attached to Splash (you'll understand why I put that part in later on in the story...=o)

For number two...I got to canter...now I know all you people who think I'm obsessed with horses will not believe this and think I'm going crazy or something, but you go from trotting which is like clump clump clump clump to cantering which is like clump.....clump......and this is not an exaggeration, but you feel like you are flying...I know horse people say riding a horse is like flying, but it's true if you're cantering...it's so smooth and fun and graceful...okay enough with that...

Now for point three....falling off...I was riding bareback (and I don't do very well with that anyways) and Splash came home, well Mystery saw him and decided she was going to trot around the arena to get to him...well I wasn't ready for it and so I started slipping, now if it was Splash he would have stopped because that's what he does when he feels you fall off...but Mystery either doesn't or was just so excited that she wasn't paying attention to me...so I started slipping and I was slipping towards the fence...and the teacher says "Don't grab the fence! Don't grab the fence!" Well I was already falling off the horse that way so I just grabbed the fence, because I couldn't regain my balance and fall the other way or I wouldn't have fallen off at all...so I grabbed the fence and the horse walks a few feet and stops...and the teacher tells me that I'm not supposed to grab the fence and why and all the stuff teacher's are supposed to say and then while she was talking she helped me get back on really fast...and I didn't realize till later that she made me get back on so fast so that I wouldn't be scared and not want to ride anymore. Anyway...there's my exciting life story...