Rodeo Day

Yeeee Haw!

Getting ready for the boot race

Go Ryker Go!

Yeah, 2nd place!

That little cowboy in the blue shirt got first.  Adorable!

Great job buddy, now get your horse ready for your next event!

Kya running the barrels.  Technically she wasn't old enough, but they let her in. 

 

She abandon her horse part way though and started checking out the buckets and the crowd.

Good run Kya, maybe next year.  Too bad there is no old video of Grandma and Rainy so you can see how barrels are supposed to be run!

Ryker rounds his second barrel.  He ended up getting first place in his age group.

Watching the other participants

Oh good, he wasn't the only one in shorts!

Barrel Crawl.  It was a good run, but stiff competition.  He didn't place.

 

 

Chow time

 

Ryker Cam

He dropped the camera and ran to the fence when this started happening. 

Kya's first snow cone

Such a ham

 

Kya was too little to jump so she checked out the tractors.

A bucket of donuts yesterday and now this?!  The Fair is awesome!

I'll take that Ryker.

 

Let er' Buck - hands down their favorite event was the bareback horse riding.

Rodeo grounds and parking lot as we headed home around 9:30.

And played a couple jokes on the "big kids" before we hit the hay.

One in Ty and Nikki's bed.

And one in Kara and Brian's.

Oh, how Ryker and Kya laughed that night.  So easily amused, but it is no secret where they get that....

It was a good thing that Ryker actually won a couple trophy's in the stick horse rodeo because he would have been one upset cowboy.  He was pretty obsessed/excited about winning a trophy after seeing this bad boy.  Yes folks, it is a 1st place Sheep Riding trophy, circa 1982 or 1984 if I remember correctly, won by none other than Uncle Cam.  There are more, but this dusty old one was packed around and awed at for weeks.

 

Of course, we pulled some pictures out of old albums so they could see how you win a trophy that big.  Ride em' Cowboy!

 

 

 Ryker and his trusty steed Chocky.  It's short for Chocolate.  Registered name:  Chocolate Frosting Pudding Stick.  There was a lot of naming discussion that day.  Our stick horse Buttercup couldn't make the trip with us so we aquired Chocky from Pat Feldmann.  He turned out to be quite the speed demon.

Fair Time

Kara, Brian, Ty, and Nikki came to Wibaux every weekend we were there so we always had some extra excitement to look forward to.  Thank you for making the trips.  The kids love hanging out with you all and really looked forward to it each time you were coming!

Ty being attacked

Looks like the tables have turned

Kya just can't stop attacking

Right before we were headed to the parade, Kara dropped her wedding ring down the vent in the upstairs bathroom.  We took the house apart and finally saw it after using a video camera to look around in there with our hands where our eyes couldn't go.  Brian spotted it and Ty was able to reach it.  I recorded some good footage and showed it to the guys because I thought I may have found it earlier.  Nope, just a mint lifesaver.  Good thing it wasn't just Kara and I there or it would have been lost forever. 

After we found it we all had good laugh.  It was pretty comical.

 

Lined up for the parade

 

Doesn't she just look hot.  Sweaty, sticky, dusty messes pretty much describes us this summer. 

Fair time....again.

Ryker wanted to do this.  Remember what happened at the park in Medora, buddy.  You might get up, but you'll have issues getting down.

Showing 4-H steers

It seemed in college that there was always a beer/liquor of the summer.  I haven't had one in years, but if there was a drink for my summer of 2012, this was it.

 

Oh yeah, I found these babies that used to belong to my Grandma Marj.  They were probably made by my Uncle Snooze.  Kya loved them and wore them around the house a little but I wouldn't let her have them.  I put them in a safe place until she's old enough not to lose such precious jewels.  She can wear them to the Bucking Horse Sale with one of Grandma Patti's All Around Cowgirl belt buckles when she's in college.

How to know when you've had too much Bump and Run.

"Ryker, we're going back to the fairgrounds.  Wake up Ryker."

"Ryker, we're going to get mini donuts without you if you don't get up."

"We're going to jump in the bounce house.  Waaaaaake up."

 "Yooooohooooo....Ryker....."

 

Okay, we're leaving you here with Grandma.