Wild Women

This was what I had for them to wear. Oh my aren't they adorable? Dad wanted them to dress up as cowgirls. How original huh?

My little Sheep Buster!

She loves to wear a rodeo contestant number on her back!

Wild Ride

Kyren wanted to ride in the rodeo too. He was ready for a bigger sheep or a calf but he rode what they had. Dad had to pretty much drag him off see the pictures.......

Sheep Rider!

Charleigh really wanted to ride a donkey in the rodeo but they were way too wild for her. She decided a sheep would be fine, that is until they opened the gate. I heard her crying "Mama, Mama." They first tried to put her on a goat that I am pretty sure weighed less than Clementine. I am not sure if it did want to stand or was just too weak to stand with a kid on its back, either way the sheep had to earn his keeep. This was the only sheep they had for all of the kids! The people putting on the rodeo (they didn't even deserve the title of rodeo company) were backwoods to say the least. The Sheep kept trying to go under the fence back to his goat friends. This upset her even more. But, by the time she came over to me she was fine, this week she was begging to ride a sheep again!

The Donkey Rodeo

While we were on vacation in Eminence they had a donkey rodeo. Ben and Dad entered it along with about 20 other riders. Ben had a mule not much bigger than Wittle Buddy! He made to the fence right in front of us and was drug off by the fence rails. His arm was a bit scraped up and he didn't make it to the full eight seconds (how embarrassing. Dad was the first one to make a qualified ride, but not before his donkey bit a chunk in his thigh. Charleigh wanted to ride a donkey too, we had to tell her that they weren't like her Little Buddy, she settled for a sheep. There were a couple of riders that were highly intoxicated, one in paticular (about 300 or more pounds) decided it would be a good idea to continue to hold his beer in his free hand while he nodded for the gate. Yeah, it wasn't pretty. He went a few jumps(maybe 2,) and got slammed on the ground. I think it was more like concrete than dirt. I don't think it had ever been tilled up and I honestly do not think I have ever seen a person hit the ground as hard as he did. His beer went flying across the arena and it took him a good 3 tries before he actually got to his feet. It made it sooooo worth watching. Many more tried, some in shorts and flip flops, some women, some wanting off before they were out the gate, but when the dust settled and all the riders rode the winner was a 57 year old man.

And the Winner is............

.......the oldest contestant! He has still got it! The next 2`weeks he kept teasing Ben, telling him he would teach him how to dismount properly.

Another Daddy's girl

Eating Breakfast at our camp.

Adalyn and her Crazy Aunt

I am sure she already knows that Charity is a bit on the wacky side kids have good intuition.

Clementine wanted to "pet" Adalyn.

Family Pictures

When you are trying to get this many people and this many horses to look good in a picture it is not easy. The kids smiled good , now if only Grandpa and Uncle Al would cooperate.....

Kyren was the first to loose it, I bet you can guess who was next......




....yep it wasn't long before Charleigh's hat was waving through the air.

After a 4 hour ride the girls were exhausted. They both had fallen asleep on the trail and needed more sleep than what they had but too much is going on when we are there. I love, love, love my naps but when we are there I do not like to take one, I feel like I will miss something. So the whole week I got up with Adalyn throughout the night and at times I was so wore out I thought for sure a nap would be nice but I would lay down and could never go to sleep. I would lay there and listen to everything going on and finally just get up.