It Ain't My First Rodeo

It wasn't my first rodeo.  But it was the kids. 

The running of the horses!

AMERICA!

 

I liked the bucking broncos.

 Bye, bye hat!

 

That can't feel good.

They enjoyed everything except the calf roping.  Owen especially was mortified.  "How could they do that to a poor little calf?"

Lots of people try to be the class clown.  This guy really is.  :p

The kids got to go down and try and get the flag off of the calf's tail.  Go Shane and Owen!  Shane is in the cowboy hat and Mt. Dew shirt...lol and Owen is in his Clemson jersey.

The calves with red ribbons.  :)

 As mortified as Owen was with the calf roping, Joan was even more so with the jr. "bullriders".

The team roping is amazing to see two riders working together.  When they do it right, it's really cool.  You can tell the teams who had been together for a while.

Ladies barrel racing...always fun to watch.

This cowgirl impressed me the most.  Instead of beating her horse with a whip to get them to go faster, she was patting his neck the entire way back to the chute.  :)

Peewee division of the barrel racing.  So.  Freaking.  Cute.  :)

Her time.  :)  (As a point of reference, the ladies fastest time was around 17 seconds.)

The youngest contestant in the rodeo.  Her pony was doing double time to keep up with her mama's horse.  :)

There was also bull riding, which I will do in a separate blog post because it deserves it's own.  :)