Cowboy wannabe.

All of us live in ranch country,
where everyone learns to ride.
Where every boy is a cowboy...
every girl a cowboy's bride.

A friend of Beth's had box seats to the Parker County Sheriff's Possee Rodeo and so we got to go. CJ, me, Tanner, Grace, Brian and Lily.

The kids had a GREAT time. Grace loved seeing all the animals. Not only did she want to pet one goat she wanted to pet them all! It was hard to tear her away.

At one point they invited all children ages 6 and under into the arena for a goat scramble. For those of you who have never experienced this before I will tell you that those were a couple of terrified goats! They let the kids chase the goats around the arena trying to get a tag off the goat. The kids who recover the tags win a prize. Tanner in his usual fashion wanted to go, then cried because he was scared and wouldn't let CJ put him down, then cried some more when the event was over because he didn't get to chase the goat. SO typical! Lily on the other hand - not scared and had a blast running around after the goat!

There was a really neat father/son team who made several appearances during the night. It was so cool. The little boy was maybe 6 years old. He was so at ease on his horse. You could tell he had probably been riding since he was old enough to sit up and hang on. He rode around the arena, waved at the fans, and even tried ropin' a coupld of calves. It was awesome. CJ sat in his chair, shook his head, and said, "Lucky sucker." The look, the words, the sigh said it all. How he wishes that was him and Tanner on those horses, livin' that life. In his mind there couldn't be anything more perfect. For now, we're just cowboy wannabes.