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Monday, August 22, 2011

West Yellowstone : July 2011

I'm still not sure how we managed to do so much in such little time....maybe that's why it has taken me almost three weeks to recover from our vacation time :) We went to West Yellowstone with the Jardine's the second to last weekend we were in town. Our last day in Yellowstone we decided to pile into two big cars and drive through Yellowstone...big mistake. After about three hours of driving we finally saw some animals and had to make the most of it. We all climbed out of the car for a photo. (note to slef: next time skip Yellowstone park and go straight to Bear World)

Idaho : July 2011

Backtracking......While visiting Utah the month of July we made our way to Grandma Afton's twice. We love being on the farm!

President Harold B. Lee (12th President of the LDS church) was born in Clifton Idaho. His barn is in the field behind Grandmas house. While I was growing up we would go exploring in the barn and find all sorts of treasures but now the barn is very unstable and too dangerous to climb into.

I was unloading the stroller and all our things out of the car for the parade and I look and see Creed and Tylee waiting patiently like this...precious.

The boys waiting for the parade to start

I don't know what they were looking at but they look pretty zoned

We had such a great vacation from our vacation in Idaho!

Saturday, August 6, 2011

The Famous Preston Night Rodeo

This year at the rodeo Creed was able to participate in the Mutton Bustin’!! Because we were unable to be in person the day of registration I called the man in charge and explained that we would be coming from Kansas City and would love to be on the mutton bustin list Saturday night. He told me families camped out all night long to get on the list but that he would let Creed and I come down behind the gates Saturday night and if there was a no-show or a kid backed out Creed could do it.

Creed and I waited behind the gates until it was mutton bustin’ time. There was one vest and helmet left on the ground and they said he could suit up because of the no-show. As soon as I got him all dressed up the little boy came walking up with his dad. Blast! I took everything off Creed and gave it to them. But luck turned our way once again. The 5 year old boy started crying, kicking and screaming telling his dad he didn't want to do it. Yes! Creed got dressed up again and we found our sheep.

Waiting for his turn Creed was dancing and jumping up and down. All the tough cowboys on the fence were laughing at how enthusiastic he was.

Creed never got scared. He jumped on the sheep and held on! When I walked out to get him after he fell off he said "Mom I’m not old enough for this....I just felled off!" I guess he had higher expectations for himself.