Houston Rodeo - March 2010

With the new year I am AGAIN setting the goal to update my blog more regularly.
We'll see how I do in 2010! I should have blogged our trip to the Rodeo last month just to keep things in order, but better late than never, right?

Over spring break my sister Angie and her kiddos came to visit us. One of the things we did was to go to the Houston Rodeo. By far the highlight of the Rodeo this year was that Andrew took part in the Mutton Bustin' competition. YES! He actually rode on a sheep, cowboy boots, vest and all!

Though you can't really see him, this picture is of him in the stall with the cowboys getting him all saddled up on the sheep. My camera isn't quick enough to have caught him actually on the sheep, but he stayed on for about 6 seconds. :)

They all got to march out into the arena after the competition and he was SO proud of himself and SO SO SO cute.

The kids loved the petting zoo - so much in fact that the only one I could keep near me was Andrew because I had him on a monkey leash. There were tons of animals and people in a very small fenced in area, so I didn't get many photos.

The kids remembered the Fun on the Farm exhibit from last year. They get to walk through a "farm" and feed chickens, plant seeds, sheer a sheep, pick oranges, and milk a cow (all pretend - but they love it!) Then at the end they go to market and sell their egg, vegetable, wool, orange and milk for a dollar, which they get to use to "buy" a snack at the county store.

Andrew and his cousin, David holding the "dollar" they earned at the market.

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All in all, it was a great day and tons of Texas style fun!