Rodeo Time

February 20, 2013

 BUSY, BUSY week!! Birthdays, rodeo, Thursday school, birthday campout!!

Bryan was blessed with 5 tickets to the rodeo from work so we were so excited to be able to take the kids! They love the rodeo!! This is the one day this whole week that the weather was yucky - cold, windy, and rainy :( but we did not let that put a damper on our fun!

The kids did a good job of finishing their school  early in the morning and we headed to town a little before lunch. I surprised them and took them to  Pizza Hut so they could use their Book It Reading coupons!! I love it when we get to do that - it just cost a little over $5 for all four of us to eat! I get the lunch buffet - Seth shares with me - they get their pizzas - we all get water - and we are all happy, happy, happy! :))

After a few errands to make sure we had everything for a birthday campout this weekend, we headed to the fairgrounds so we would have time to look at everything before Bryan meet us a little before rodeo time. I thought it was funny - someone asked my kids while we were running errands if they had their boots on for the rodeo - Caden answered - "Well we just wear our boots everyday"

I was very impressed with the petting zoo this year! Most of the animals were out instead of caged so we could walk around with them and pet them.  We stayed in the petting zoo for 45 minutes and most of that time we had it to ourselves! I guess because of the rain there was hardly anyone in the petting zoo or walking around the fairgrounds so it was very nice to not have to be in a big crowd. 

  

For a little while we could not figure out why the animals kept chasing Cambry and trying to eat her - then we remembered we had stashed some hamburgers in her purse so they could eat those for supper. 

They were literally chewing on her jacket and even got a hold of her purse!

I loved how being around animals was not something new for my kids but they still loved being with the animals and enjoyed loving on them. I kind of thought they may be bored with the petting zoo but they loved it just like they love caring for our animals at home!

Zakry really wanted to do the Muttin' Bustin' this year. Since he did not get picked for the homeschool drawing, we thought we would go to the rodeo early to see if we could get his name in. They changed things up a little this year. Instead of just putting your name down and them drawing, you can let your kids do the Muttin' Bustin' down on the fairgrounds for $10. If they do well there, they will let them also do it in the rodeo. We were pretty bummed though because they did not have the outside Muttin' Bustin' going because of the rain so that was Zak's last chance to try to do it this year! Caden had prayed for a year that he would get to do it when he was younger so we will start praying now that Zak will get to do it next year :))!!

We had told the kids they could each ride one ride. Zak chose the train. I was a little surprised that Cambry and Caden chose to play a game instead of a ride but I was not surprised that they both chose a game that involved shooting a gun. Caden of course lost his - I say of course because who can ever really win those games!!! Cambry and Bryan played against each other and Bryan won but Cambry did really really well! I didn't take any pictures of the rodeo but it was very fun to watch even though most of the cowboys had a hard night. The kids really enjoyed it - Zak especially - I don't think his eyes moved from the arena!