Lesson learned

A few days ago we had the privilege of having a few horses join us here in lovely Inkom. We've been out there everyday with them loving them, brushing them, riding them, and just trying to become friends with them. One of the horses Jon and I just purchased and is the "new" horse that we're still mulling over a name for. She's a beautiful sorrow (sp?) quarter horse and has a sweet disposition about her.
Yesterday Jon decided it was time to try to saddle her. We lead her out of the coral and with some team work were able to get the saddle on her just fine. She was nervous...as were we...which is probably why what happened....happened. As Jon was buckling one of the straps under her belly, I was holding on to the lead rope. Suddenly she got spooked and reared up on her hind legs just towering over me. I instinctively pulled down on the lead rope, but she was not settled one bit and came towards me too quickly. I backed up as fast as my little feet could until I tripped and she went bucking over me. I hit pretty hard on the ground and she stepped on me on my hip but that thank goodness was all. My hip is a beautiful pallet of colors now and my tail bone and lower left side of my back are very sore. I never realized how I took for granted how easy it usually is to put on my socks. We still are very excited to have the horses here, but learned just how powerful those beautiful animals are and how easily accidents can happen. Hopefully the next story about our horses will be one that talks about what adventures we had riding them!