I See You

Today my family and I got ready to go and drove to the Fillmores'. They were really incredibly nice and allowed us to drive one of their cars and we filled two large cars with kids and moms from ours, the Fillmores', and the Laws' families. We drove to a ranch where we met up with Megan, Derek, Morgan and Heath for horse riding. They were already riding and we took turns riding the four or five horses there and eating a picnic on the grass. Brenten managed to get jelly on his shirt so that his white shirt, as we teased, was purple. I rode a horse for probably the first time, aside from simply sitting on one, on which occasion I had only been taking a picture with my aunt's Flat Stanley. Under threat of being carried over and forced onto the poor creature, I got on the horse. Afterwards I tiredly laid the blanket, employing the laps of the nearest people for my pillow. This consisted of Katlyn, Abigail and Bradley, who very tolerantly allowed me to lay with my head on their legs! We changed into bathing suits and after much trouble with sunscreen they tried to force me in. I wouldn't be forced in however of course! I pushed Lexie and Megan in a few times each and even Morgan and Kate, when the four of them and Brenten tried to get me in. Brenten wasn't so keen on force once I'd gotten the others all in and backed off roflol! Anyways the moment they stopped I allowed Kate to lead me up to the highest ledge and jumped off willingly. We played a lot of Marco Polo (or Marco "Polio" as Taylor kept saying!) and I mostly managed to keep on the opposite side of the pool and avoid being caught (Or maybe they just got sick of me wandering around the pool maddeningly with no sense of direction whenever I was it!). Although once when swimming across the pool with Kate on my back and making coughing drowning noises Brenten found me quite easily! I swam with little Lily, who absolutely loved it and was squealing, splashing and jumping excitedly, let me tell you she was much easier to swim across the pool with on my back!! I eventually got out and joined Taylor sitting at a metal table with metal chairs. Needless to say, thanks to the wonderfully bright and beautiful sun these metal chairs were HOT! Especially on my wet back! Brenten joined us too, bouncing up and down on the burning metal and Derek, still in dry clothes and having managed to stay out of the water, joined us as well. The time flew by, although it seemed like nothing! Soon we were gathering things up and getting back in the car. I got in shoeless, sockless, and with a quickly wettening backside! But it was a fun car ride back, although my right leg became soaked due to the fact that Brenten hadn't changed out of his swim shorts and wet the side of my leg! Andrew, on his other side, hadn't even been able to swim and yet faced the wetness of his jeans due to Brenten's wet shorts, creating the expression "I wet your pants". Taylor seemed safe enough from this, sitting in the middle row next to Lily, Bradley safely on the other side of the car seat. And I'm sure Lexie was safest of all in our car having sat in the front seat. Even so I wouldn't have given up my seat, it was a very fun, funny and lively ride! What a great day! And made all the better by the fact I got home and made hay stacks, I adore hay stacks, they rock!