Outlaw Day 2010

Outlaw Days this year was very eventful!!!

Mason & I entered a 5k walk that morning that ended up being more of a 10k! It was a lot of fun...Mason rode his bike & I walked. I was able to walk 6.5 miles in 1 hour & 17 minutes!!! I was really proud of myself, but I was hurting & barely able to walk for almost a week!!!

Mason then rode in the parade with my dad on the wagon while I took pictures of everyone! Jose was able to watch the parade with me, but spent most of the day hauling water to the arena for the mud bog pits. We were both not very happy because he didn't get to enjoy any of the festivities! Down at the arena Mason rode a calf & entered the Barrel Racing. I ended up having to run in front of him & his horse because Ridge didn't want to go! He would chase me if I was running in front but if I stopped then he wouldn't move!!! I told Mason that I didn't know that I was entering the Barrels too! Mason had a lot of fun because he was able to spend most of the day in the arena with his Papa on his horse!

My birthday was the day after Outlaw Day and so Outlaw Day night Jose took me out to dinner at Jaker's in Twin. Mason stayed at with my mom & dad for the night.

On the day of my birthday we had a family bbq at my mom & dad's. My brother smoked a couple of roasts in his big smoker, plus we had a ton of other food! It was great to be able to spend time with my family!!

Here are some pictures from Mason's Outlaw Day adventures!! :-)

Outlaw Days

The Richfield Outlaw Days was held on Saturday and it was definitely a very wet and interesting day!! I have never in all of my life seen it so wet at Outlaw Days! Usually we are dying of heat stroke!! We actually cancelled most of the arena events because it was raining too hard and the arena was just too muddy! Although the events that we did do were quite comical because of all of the mud! The kids had a blast during the calf riding falling of into the mud.

Mason decided that morning that he wanted to run the barrels, something that he has never done before! My mom and showed him the pattern on a piece of paper and then had him show us a couple of times how he would run it and then that afternoon for the first time Mason ran the barrels on my brother's horse! He had an absolute blast and can't wait to do it again! It was raining so hard while he was running them, but he didn't care he was having fun! I was so proud of him, he handle the horse so well and acted like he had done it a million times instead of it being his first time ever!!

Jose and I stayed busy helping make sure that everything ran smoothly. Jose helped time the events and I helped take entries, plus then we both went out into the muddy arena to run the kids events. Jose and I didn't even go out for the night festivites though. We were way too tired both Friday night and Saturday night.

Saturday was also my 30th birthday. I can't believe that I have turned 30!! It doesn't seem like it should be real, but yet I don't think that I should have a son that is going to be 7 and going into 1st grade either!!! I am getting really old and I don't like it!!!

Mason heading for the first barrel!

Rounding the first barrel

Rounding the second barrel

Rounding the third barrel and heading home!

Crossing the finish line!!!

My brother Brandon throwing his heel loop

My friend's son Nathaniel riding his calf!

I didn't realize just how close I was until I almost got ran over!!