Western Weekend

Saturday morning, we headed to the airport to pick Miss Debra up for a visit. She is here to judge the Paint Horse portion of the National Western Stockshow, but came a few days early to see us. She mentioned when accepting the offer to judge the show, that she had family here and they generously provided us with a parking pass and grounds admission for the next two weeks, food vouchers and great seats at the rodeo yesterday.

We headed right to the rodeo and had a blast. There were fireworks, dancing horses, clowns, a glow-in-the-dark grand entry, and all the typical rodeo fun. By the end, Gracyn and Reagan were both asleep, but Addison watched the whole thing. They also got to see some of the most enormous cows and bulls I have ever seen. Reagan even got to pet one.

I didn't take my camera, because my hands were full, but I did actually remember to take a picture after church on Sunday. Pappy and Miss Debra gave them these precious horse outfits for Christmas. Reagan was on her way to a nap and wasn't really up for all the picture taking! Later that night, the girls had their own rodeo at our house. They got out the stick-horse and "barrel raced" around cups in our living room. I timed them with the handy stop-watch feature on the ITouch. Each girl "won" a belt buckle for their prize barrel-racing. They were having so much fun....the whole time I was thinking, "We just got hundreds of Christmas presents and here are my children, thrilled as can be, racing around cups on a broken down stick-horse we have had forever!". Love those precious times!