We got to go the Ute Stampede again this year with our good friends, Joe and Ricci Cook who were good enough to get our tickets. Ricci and I went early with the kids because Matt and Joe had to go to a priesthood ordination but got to the rodeo just in time. They had a guy parachute out of a plane and he dropped this huge American flag as he came down. I couldn't believe how high up he was and that he was able to land right in the arena. The National Guard was waiting to pick up the flag as soon as he hit. As he was coming down God Bless the USA was playing.
Jolene was in Nephi for meetings so I invited her to come with us. Dusty and his family was also sitting close by so we got to meet some more of his family. We had such a fun night and it was a really great rodeo. One of the acts that performed was some free style motor cross riders. They were doing some incredible jumps and right before the grand finale Haddy had to go to the bathroom. She absolutely couldn't wait, so I missed the best jumps. At least there wasn't a line for the bathroom.
Jolene, Ricci, and me. Ricci is having a little girl in about three weeks.
P.J., Jabin, Dallas, Hadden, Joe, and Cash
Haddy, Carly Pay and Dallas
These girls were dying for a Carmel apple. I'm sure these apples didn't have any flies sitting on them all day in the hot sun like all the rest of the carnival Carmel apples. he he.
Poor Haddy takes after her mother and gets sooooo motion sick. She only did a little kiddie ride and went down the giant slide and she was a sick little girl. She paced from lying on the table to the garbage can while Dallas, Matt and Jabin waited for probably an hour for the Ferris Wheel.
I don't know this little guy that shared the ride with Jabes but they were cute little cowboys.
Jabin asked me to take a picture of him doing this.
There was huge lines for everything and Haddy and Jabin wanted to ride this little kiddie ride. We had to get rid of tickets, so I made Dallas do it. I couldn't help but laugh she was so embarrassed and said she really hoped none of her friends saw her getting on this ride. She hid her face so I didn't get a picture of her in her humiliation.
They finally got on the ride. They actually were the last ones to ride for the night because they shut the carnival down. It was 1:00 in the morning! I was pretty tired to go to work the next day but we had a great time.