Rodeo

We had big plans to spend the weekend in Hooper. Lincoln and I packed up everything we would need, and when Aaron got home from school we loaded it all in the car and headed out. This picture is of Lincoln "helping", I guess you could say he was supervising. Haha! On the way to Hooper we got a flat tire. :( Aaron pulled off the freeway into a gas station. I feel bad for him, he's probably never had as much car trouble in his whole pre-married life combined as he has since he's been married to me. What can I say, I'm a car trouble magnet. But he got the spare on pretty quickly and we were off again in no time.

My mom's friend had free tickets to the rodeo at Weber County Fair Grounds, and she invited my mom, Kerry, Tanner, Tanner's friend Raysh, and Aaron and Lincoln and I to go with her and her family. Niether Lincoln nor Aaron had ever been to a rodeo before. We had seats on the front row, it was awesome. It was also indoors, so it wasn't cold out, which we were really grateful for.

Lincoln loved all the animals and all the action. Every time a horse would ride by us he would say "horse! horse! hehehe! (that's his horse noise)" It was so funny. It was also really nice to have Kerry sitting next to us to explain all about the different events. I think we would have been a little lost with out him.

This video gives you a better idea of how close we were. My favorite events were the bare back and the saddle bronc riding, barrel riding, the muttin' bustin', and the chicken chase. I didn't really care too much for the cattle roping in all of it's various differentiations, I thought it was kind of boring.

For bare back and saddle bronc riding, the cowboy has to stay on a bucking horse for 8 seconds without falling off. For barrel racing, the cowgirl rides a horse as fast as she can around three barrels. Fastest time wins. In muttin' bustin', little kids (like not all that much older than Lincoln kids, up to probably like 10 yr old kids) sit on the back of a sheep and see how long they can stay on. The sheep don't buck or anything, but it's pretty funny to watch. I told Aaron we should sign Lincoln up in a few years, he didn't seem too keen on idea. :) And as for the chicken chase, well...you can see for yourself:

I don't know whose idea it was to stick a hundred kids under the age of 12 in an arena and have them chase 6 chickens around, but what a hoot! We laughed hysterically the entire time. No, we didn't send Lincoln out there, although I thought Aaron should have taken him down, but maybe when he's a little older.

Here's Tanner's friend Raysh, with his chicken. Yup, the prize for catching the chicken, was in fact that chicken itself. I thought that was really funny. Lincoln liked the chicken. Raysh gave him on of the feathers and Lincoln held on to it all night. Needless to say, my mom was very happy that is was Raysh and not Tanner who caught the chicken.

Anyways, a good time was had by all. Thanks Carrols for the fun evening!