I GOT BACK ON A HORSE!!!

O. MY. GOSH.  

It was beyond fantastic, amazing, and all the brilliant words that could describe a totally fun and uplifting day!  This past Saturday I went back to the barn, hung out with some awesome people and ponies, and rode my favorite pony of all!

I probably kissed Mr. T about 1,000,000,000 times and gave him about 1,000,000,000 carrots (not really).  It was awesome! I CANT HANDLE IT!
Ok, ok... so we all got our ponies and started grooming and Toby was beginning to remember who that crazy girl hugging him was...

I was so emotionally overwhelmed, that I did my little kick of excitement LOTS of times!  Toby kept turning his head to check on how I was doing back there as I repeatedly squealed with delight!  I oo-ed and aa-ed so many times on the inside at just about everything my pony did... because everything he did was, "Duh, just about the cutest thing ever!".

After I felt that I was covered with enough hair to protect me from the coldness, I made my trip to the door.  My heart was beating (1% anxiety and 99% excitement)!  I lead Noble Victory to the mounting block, tightened that girth, pulled the sturrups down, climbed the mounting block, put my foot in the stirrup, swung my leg over, and s.a.t.   d.o.w.n.   i.n.   t.h.e.   s.a.d.d.l.e.!!!!!!!!!!  WOOHOOOOO!
IT WAS SO SUPER DUPER POOPER SCOOPER ROCK YOUR SOCKS OFF AWESOME!

We had a really fun and helpful lesson...and surprisingly, I'm not that sore!

Thank you, thank you, thank you everyone for the rides, the laughs, the joyful squeals and kicks, the hay, the kisses, and for my wonderful teachers and friends Dorothy and Toby <3 (and all of you)