Rodeo!

Our friends, the Bailey's, came up from Fillmore yesterday to go to the Ogden Pioneer Days rodeo.  We had them over for dinner before we all headed over.

Kaden LOVED having an older boy around.

Logan is such a good kid and got along really well with Kaden.

Handsome Gaines

Cowboys!

 We ended up parking a little ways away because we were late, but it ended up being awesome because we got a shuttle ride right to the door!  And it took us through the back area and the kids got to see the horses really close.

Shane loves that I always have the camera out.

Ari's face!  LOL

My little princess

Ready to see the show!

There is some of the stuff going in the background, which I thought was fun to watch them set up for the next event.

Lexi and Ari loved watching the princesses help the cowboys.

Around 9:30, Lexi leaned against my legs for a backrest.  Smart girl.

Checking out the bulls

Kenzie and a very wiggly, energetic, cute Brooks

 On our way back to our seats after taking a break to see the bulls, Kaden tripped over a part of the ground that was raised up a bit and scratched up his knee.

He would NOT stop crying.

 He's usually pretty tough with injuries, but for some reason he was traumatized by this one.  Maybe because it was two hours past his bedtime.  After ten minutes, he was still crying, so Kenzie and I took him to find a bandaid.  We asked a very nice policeman for a bandaid and he picked Kaden up (Kaden was dramatically limping) and hauled him over to the first aid station.

Obviously, it was a life or death situation.

The policeman got a couple of firemen/EMT's to come take care of Kaden.  One talked to Kaden and teased him about the ground rising up to bite him while the other struggled to open a bandaid.  They went on and on about how bandaids are magic and sometimes the magic ones are hard for grown-ups to open.  They put a bandaid on it and the crying did magically stop.  ;)

And at the end of the night, 2 out of the 3 kids who were awake said that their favorite part of the rodeo were the dirt bikes that came out at the end and flew through the air (off a ramp).

So glad we paid to see horses and bulls.  hahaha  Next time we're just gonna take them to a demolition derby.