I Won't Ever Forget . . .

Some moments I won't ever forget:

1. The day my braces were taken off, April 22, 2003. I had them for exactly six weeks short of three years. I got them on June 2, 2000. I really don't remember the process or actually being at the Orthodonist's or any of that, but I remember those dates for some reason.

2. The day Shyne came back to the barn. She had been in the lesson program, then got sold, and then she came back to the barn as a sale horse. I saw her in the little paddock and I immediately knew it was Shyne. She hadn't been off the trailer long, and was pacing back and forth and talking up a storm. I don't think I got to ride her that night, but not long after we bought her.

3. The first time I rode in the snow on Faroawn. Riding in the snow is special. Fro picked up his feet, and bounced around the ring in the cold snow. I loved the smell of the chilled air, the beauty of the white fields around me, and Faroawn moving underneath me, carrying me over the snow covered ground.

4. My trip to New Zealand for the Summer of 2007. It was a tough couple months, winter in New Zealand. I got to see places I will probably never see again, and people I won't speak to again till heaven.

5. The trip Sara and I took to Italy in January of 2009. Just the two of us, neither of us speak Italian, and neither of us knew how to understand a train schedule. The trip was amazing, fairytale-like. We traveled from Milan down to Agrigento in Sicily and back, stopping at different cities along the way. We got separated for three hours at night at the train station, a horror.

6. The last night I said goodnight to Daddy before I moved to the apartment in White Marsh with Steph. He told me goodnight, and then added four words I'll never forget, "You're a good daughter." It meant the world. Still does.

7. The afternoon Rachel gave her life to Jesus at camp. I watched her learn and grow and the light go off in her head and her heart through the beginning of the week. On Wednesday, as I met with her one-on-one, she knew she was ready to confess Jesus as her Lord.

Unforgettable moments.