The 100th day of School

The 100th day of School, well techinically it's the 97th because of snow days. Oh well. I'm still counting it. Littlest and I created this poster to celebrate. Littlest's class at school is celebrating on Friday, and they are all displaying posters. Littlest did all of the gluing of the cotton balls. He decorated the cowboy, but didn't glue that down. I mean I couldn't send him to school with his fingers burnt from using my outdated hot glue gun!

Cute uh?

A New Rodeo Year Has Started

It's time boys and girls! Time to dust off the rust of a winter break and jump back into rodeo life. So here we are again packing snack bags, fixing coolers of sodas, water, and Koolaid® pouches. Loading the dog up and hitting the road. (I'll be adding a horse and trailer to the list in a few months.)

We went to the Tri-State Youth Rodeo Association's first rodeo of the year this weekend. Below are the rides for Littlest.

Saturday 1/22/11--Dusting off the Rust



Sunday 1/23/11--Taking what you can get



Sunday 1/23/11--Goat Doggin'


I know...too cute right!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Riding sheep is like Living Life

Riding sheep is like life. You get pumped up in the chute for an exciting ride. You come out (sometimes off kilter). Sometimes you can pull yourself back right, and sometimes you fall off and have to look for the next ride. Isn't it that way in life. Some days you wake up and everything goes just right. Your sheep runs in a straight line like a bullet, you stay in the middle and make the buzzer. Then other days you wake up, your head hurts, you get started, you come out tilted to the side you can't correct yourself, and you hit the ground (sometimes hard), eat a little dirt and think "Wow, I'm glad that one's over!"

Riding sheep is difficult. There is tons of pressure to be good. And the competition is tough. Does that sound like your life? It does mine. Sometimes we put a lot of extra stress on ourselves to be the best at what we do, and we forget that it needs to be fun too.

Life can be stressful, but you just have to breathe through those moments.

Qualified RIDE!!!!!

Really this entire post should be in capital letters!!!!

We made a qualified ride last night! WOOOOO HOOOOOOO!!!!!

This was the ONLY picture I took of the ride...I was jumping up and down way to much!
He showed me how he celebrated after his ride :) cute uh?

After his amazing ride he played with all of his NC friends. I took better pictures of that!

Today we are playing all day in Oklahoma City.

Good luck all of the NC boys!! Ride hard and bring it home!

The Round Night of the Finals

We rode tonight of the first night of the National Junior Bullriders Finals. A total of 22 Mutton Busters rode. And of those 9 made the whistle. We weren't one of those tonight, but tomorrow night is a different story!

Pictures---

lining up for grand entry


It is powerful when you have 100 kids under 20 kneeing a praying for their friend to have a safe ride.


The chute gate opened, and that was the last shot I could take! Sorry.

He did buck off. He did not make the 6 seconds tonight. But we have another shot at it tomorrow!

The Road to the Finals

Warning. This will be tons of pictures!!!

We are in Oklahoma for the National Junior Bullriders Finals!!!!!!!!!!!

We are here to WIN it!


Doesn't he look so ready??!!


We stopped in St Louis MO to see the Gateway to the West. It was Very Very cool!




We then stopped at Bass Pro Shops in Springfield MO. They even have a live alligator inside the store!

The trip to Shawnee was successful. Then yesterday we went to the National Cowboy Museum. It was so past cool!!! I loved it. Below was my best shot of the day!



Infront of the National champion Hall of fame wall. It was such a fun day!!!

And just one more picture. This last one is Littlest infront of the Jim Shoulders Exhibit. He was so excited about seeing all of the buckles, saddles, and Native American items in the museum.

Rodeo Dreams

Last night Jimmy had a dream. Not a bad dream, but as he was asleep I heard him in his room saying "outside boys!"

Cute, I know! He is thinking about rodeo in his sleep. It is the first thing that he thinks about in the morning!