When I was younger my family would go and feed the ducks at the pond close to Lone Peak High. These times were full of laughter, fun, and pure terror when the ducks or the big white ones would chase us. Anywho my neices love to feed the ducks and it has been a while since I have been there last, so I got some popcorn popped and met up with the wee ones.
Here you can see Addie and Brynlee checking out the ducks or the group of teens playing some kind of game in kayaks. . . the ducks were hiding in the bushes and were not very hungry. BLAST!
After walking around the park we found a family leaving a group of ducks so we quickly snuck in to feed them. The ducks ate a little but they didn't really want the popcorn. The girls had fun trying to feed them. Addie would try and throw the popcorn into the pond with only one or two making it actually in the water. Brynlee helped out by eating the popcorn on the sand, such a great helper!
So the rodeo has always been so much fun to go to. Yes the same clown is there, telling the same jokes, and they let some horses run around the arena with their young to bring tears to the eyes of the audience. BUT this time was different.
One of the traditions that they kept and I love is the Muttin' Bustin! I tried to talk Addie into doing it but her mother was not for it. After sending Addie to her mom to ask and after receiving the answer no, Addie came up with a plan all by herself. She told me that I could take her down there and she could do it and we wouldn't have to tell her mom. . . . sneeky little girl uh. Starting already at the age of 3:) Anywho after Addie watched some of the kids riding the sheep she told me she didn't want to do it anymore.
One of the new things for me was the Cash Cow. This was HILARIOUS! So they put some cash onto two cows and had some kids down in the arena. It didn't take long for other kids in the stadium to jump the fence and to join their comrads. These kids were pretty determined to get the cash and even worked as a team to corner the poor beasts. I thought for sure that some little tyke was going to get run over, but no one did. That was fun to watch!
Here is a picture of my roomie Kristen and I, we are having lots of fun. You can see my dad, sister, uncle, and cousin in the background.
Okay so the main event for my family and I this year was Evan Rude was in the Wild Cow Milking contest with the other pharmacist from his work. The pictures are pretty blurry because I had to zoom in. This first picture is Logan opening the pen for their cow. Okay their cow was crazy, no joke! Before the event even started the big white crazy cow was trying to jump out of the pen. The announcer made some comment about how the guys were going to do this white cow. Logan just threw his arms up at him.
One of the pharmacist being dragged by the beast while Logan and the other guy try to catch up. Logan eventually got a hold of the rope and the cow dragged those guys for a bit.
The cow gave up on that idea then went onto a brilliant plan of trying to knock the guys over by raming them with its head. My family and I screamed and laughed the whole time. It was great fun, way to go team Smith's Drug!!!! (ps Logan is wearing the blue shirt)
