Utter happiness

I'm so excited that it's been hard to sleep! I got accepted to the therapeutic horsemanship program that I interviewed at last week!!!!! I start my ground work and lessons on Wednesday! I won't be riding this season, but driving. :) I can't start driving until the weather cools down because my horse, Cayanna, has laminitis and it can flare up in the heat, so I'll be driving when the weather cools down into the 80s. It did cool down to that this week, but only because a huge storm rolled through the valley, and I don't think it will stick and it's going to be hard waiting until it does cool down. I go tomorrow to a tack shop in Scottsdale to get my riding/driving helmet and a pair of riding boots!!!! I'm not sure I can express how happy I am - they had just one spot left and I managed to slip in there! I'm greatly looking forward to doing this and am just beaming with the opportunity!

In other news, during that storm that rolled through this week, a lightning bolt struck down just down the street from us literally. It woke us up in the middle of the night - 12:03 am and scared me half to death. It was so close you could smell the ozone from it. Poor Bennett's afraid of thunder and he seemed pretty shaken up. A few minutes after the one on our street, another struck the park by our house, with almost equally loud thunder, although it was far enough away that we couldn't smell the ozone. The storm cloud was moving very fast and in about 15 min it had passed over us and we slept though the night with no other interruption. Crazy.

Well, I finally have my computer back to working order. Last night, Laurie and I took both our computers in to the Genius bar at the Apple store to make sure it was the battery that was the problem and to buy new ones. To our great surprise and delight, the woman who helped us gave us the batteries free. We couldn't believe it. $200 worth of new Mac batteries just given to us - God works in mysterious ways because we were able then to get a time capsule that we wouldn't otherwise been able to afford. Both our computers are at maximum for the amount of space left on them and being able to store pictures and movies on an external drive will be wonderful. I also got a new Ipod shuffle (in pink) for the bus rides to Laurie's work on Wednesdays (which are my horsemanship days, I'm taking the bus to Laurie's work and then she's going to use her lunch hour to drive me out to Camelot, so I'll be on the bus a lot in the coming months - the horsemanship season lasts until May 26), hopefully it will work better than Laurie's shuffle, which is pretty finicky.

In bunny news, I clipped toenails for the first time by myself (instead of the Brambley Hedge people doing it). We had been planning on doing for awhile, Bennett's nails have been getting really long and sharp, we finally had to sit down and do it because Ella broke a nail yesterday, pretty badly - lots of blood, and we just needed to do it before more nails got broken. It was very successful :) no clipped quick and Bennett was reasonably patient with us. They both look so cute wrapped up in towels like babies!

That's the happy news! I'm practically bouncing off of the walls I'm so excited!