Houston Stock Show and Rodeo

Spring in Texas means one thing...rodeo time. We have got quite accustomed to this tradition and usually spend a few days wearing our boots and hats and acting like real Texans. This year was no different.

Happily for me, Gary Allan made an appearance, again, so I bought 4 tickets the day they went on sale and Ben escorted my sisters and me to the show. We had a great time singing every word to every song while eating junk food and staying out way later than our normal bedtime. Thankfully, Grammie stayed with the girls while Grandpa stayed with Leo so everyone was happy and had a great night.

The second trip we took downtown to mingle with the cow-folk was the last day of Isabelle's Spring Break. The four of us went and spent ALL DAY at the arena and in true Texas style, sweated our brains out. The girls rode ride after ride at the carnival, played game after game until they won a prize, walked around the Stock Show and saw some huge longhorns, ate snowcones, popcorn, giant pretzels, fries, soda, corndogs, nachos and bought light up wands...and that was all outside the arena. Inside we watched bronc riding, steer wrestling, barrel racing and so on and stayed as long as we could until little Olivia could not sit still any longer. It was either throw her in with the calfs or head home, so home we went.

My girls really love the outdoors and western life so it is fun to escape the burbs every once in a while and pretend that we fit in...oh wait, we have two native Texans in our house. Yeehaw!