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Monring with Aunt Delly's Horse

One of the highlights of our Seattle trip was going with Aunt Delly and Uncle Jason to see Adele's horse Rocket. Jack was very excited and had no fear at all. For Ethan, it took a bit longer to warm up to the animals. He clung tight for quite sometime, while Jack got right to work feeding Rocket an apple and then helping Aunt Delly to get him ready to ride!












Jack jumped right on Rocket with Aunt Delly and before long, was riding by himself!



























We finally got Ethan to warm up to Rocket, which is a great relief, as I really want him to do Hippa Therapy (OT and PT while on a horse) in a couple years and it would be awful if we waited until then to introduce him to horses only to have him be scared and not try it at all. At least now he has been introduced and we can get him more familiar over time.













Jack LOVED every minute of this day and when we left, Rocket gave him a little kiss goodbye (or so I like to think!).







Later that evening I got together with my girls and had a fun afternoon/evening catching up with everyone. I'm looking forward to going back in September for our 20 year HS reunion. Do we really look like we graduated from HS 20 years ago? I'm so lucky to have these gals in my life. Can't wait for our next girls trip somewhere fun!

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