Kylee rides Dandy ~ one time only

Grooming Dandy

Walking Dandy

Riding Dandy

Kylee decided today that she was ready to try riding a bigger horse and wanted to ride Dandy. She had a really good lesson with her, until the very last round.

Kylee was trotting when Dandy got spooked and took off running. As Dandy turned the corner, Kylee fell off right into the metal arena fence. It was so scary...mom ran to her and Kylee's face was instantly swollen and bruising right under her eye. We had to take her to the ER where they did a CT scan - luckily everything came out negative and she had no broken bones! She was pretty beaten up though and had a lot of trauma to her face. The eye continued to bruise and change colors over the next few days and they white of her eye turned red (the whole outside half).

Kylee did so well during the entire incident - mom & dad are extremely proud of her! The other important thing is that she does want to continue riding. She just loves it too much, she is such a trooper and an amazing little girl!!

Immediately after the fall - still at the stables

In the ER (the swelling looked worse in person,

and this is before all the darker bruising and eye turning red)

Taking a ride on the CT Scan

(she still has her boots on!)