Today I took the children to a rodeo!!
We headed back to Birch Bay Ranch, where they go to Summer Camp each year, and we watched the 2011 North American Indian Rodeo Associations Pro Rodeo :)
It was a gorgeous sunny day for it! It was really exciting to watch the steer riding - kids hanging on tight to steers until the buzzer went! Some of the kids were so tiny!!
There was wild horse riding, barrel racing...all kinds of events that I have no idea of the names of :)
We enjoyed the barbecue there, and Abigail and Sam also took part in a contest to try and win a $50 gift card for gas. They had to go in to the arena, and a steer was let loose in the arena with a ribbon tied to it's tail!! All the kids had to race after it and try and pull the ribbon from its tail!! The person to get the ribbon won!
Abby and I wore our cowboy hats :) Mine is all roughed up now - or getting there - I just love it!! Thank you Nigel!!! It's perfect and will be completely perfect for Brave Girl camp :)
By the end of the afternoon the heat was starting to get to Abigail - she doesn't do well with heat with her Tourettes, and she was getting upset. Luckily the others were happy to leave once the barrel racing was over, so we headed home to cool down!!
We have had so many new experiences this Summer - tried so many new things. I feel so fortunate to have made so many memories with the children - it has truly been a wonderful Summer :)
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