Rodeo Week

Hi, Hi!
Well, last night we finished up with the 2014 Utah State High School Rodeo Finals in Heber City and some memories were made for sure! My favorite of the week was this photo of grandson Tee with two of the rodeo royalty, Queen Baylee LaFleur and Miss Congeniality Kortney Backus; kind of a cute thorn between two roses!

Tee's kind of splattered as this performance he seemed to be designated steer pusher - not a particularly clean job! These cowgirls were real good sports though!

The two grandsons competed in team roping and steer wrestling with good and not-so-good results for the three "go's." In the first go or round, they were "no time" on the team roping but both of them got decent times in the steer wrestling. Second round they caught in the team roping with a fairly good time but their average on two steers was not enough to get them to the "short" go or final top 15 performance. However, their second steer wrestling times (grandson Ty won the round with a 4.40 second run) got them into the final performance Saturday evening. 

The final performance then, was an edge-of-the-seat sort of deal . . . turned out pretty good for grandson Tee with a 4th place run, but disappointing for grandson Ty with a "no time." 

At any rate, the four days spent there were good times with alot of the family there to cheer on the boys and all the other really amazing young people competing. Of course, the arena setting is truly beautiful nestled in the lush Heber Valley. Here are a few photos of the rodeo grounds, etc.:

The proud flag leaving the arena

Looking southwest at Mt Timpanogos and Provo Canyon

Grandson Ty on Boomtown getting ready to go in the box for his first steer wrestling run

Grandson Tee and Boomtown waiting for the barrier to be put up for his first steer wrestling run

Pretty team roping run

Up in the stands for Friday night's performance

Cowboy transport

The draft horse wagon with young people representing Primary Children's Hospital

Yep! Another rodeo year ends and we look forward to late summer and fall rodeos now. There'll be some serious trail riding for the summer I think as well as a little bit of practice.

Happy thoughts!