Giddy-Up

What a weekend!  Thursday evening I took the boys to see the Newton Community Theater's production of "The Wizard of Oz."  It was Levi's first live musical experience and we had a wonderful time.  As we walked out, Levi asked how the Wicked Witch of the West came back to life?  He believed she had melted on the stage and then didn't understand how she could appear on stage to bow at the end of the performance.  :-)

Friday night was rodeo night!  We were pretty excited to take in the Canton Rodeo for the second year.

There was quite a crew of boys taking in the action.

Besides for horses and bulls, the best part of the rodeo for the boys is getting to play with their friends!

Team roping - the guy on the right is our friend Kirby.

They got the calf!  That team roping happens so fast, it would take me at least a day to actually rope a calf.

All the boys got a streak of pink hair paint sprayed on their heads by the rodeo clown.

At one point during the evening, they invite all the kids out into the arena and then they let four chickens loose.  I had trouble keeping track of where the boys were out there in the mob of children.  So when Levi came back, I asked him if he caught one of the chickens and with the most innocent and slightly confused look on his face with his hands up and shrugging his shoulders he said, "They never let them out!"  The poor kid was out there just running around following the mob of children and never actually saw a chicken - he must have been so confused.

The bull riding was fast and furious and crazy.  We ended up going back the next night so we could watch our friend Joni (Kirby's wife) do barrel racing.  Kirby and Joni both took the time to let our boys ride on their horses and we are so thankful that they're patient enough to do that with our horseless boys.

Needless to say, Friday and Saturday nights were late nights.  Rodeo's start at 8, which is just about the time we start putting our kids to bed usually.  Sunday was a late night too with a church swimming party that went until 9 in Hillsboro.  And wouldn't you know, the pool is right next to the fair grounds in Hillsboro and there were steers and bulls out there in preparation for tomorrow nights rodeo!  Yes, yes in fact within one week, the boys and I will attend 3 rodeos.  Giddy-up.