Rodeos, Concerts, and Grandparents

 This time of year, everyone here gets excited for the big Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo.  We were no exception!   We decided to splurge and get tickets to go to it this year.  (Last year we just went to the carnival part.) As an added bonus, there is a concert every night after the rodeo, with a different singer each night, (most of them country singers). Yay!  

Well after we got tickets, Grandpa and Grandma Pocock called us up and said they want to make a quick little weekend trip and go to the rodeo and livestock show too!  Wahoo!  So they got tickets to come with us and we went two days in a row!  It was super fun and I was so excited to watch a real rodeo for the first time.  Friday night we got a babysitter and went out with just John and Melissa.  While we love taking the munchkins with us places, it was so relaxing and enjoyable to not have them with us for once.

After the rodeo, we got all nestled in our seats because the singer that night was....

Timmy boy McGraw! 

 I love him.  

I have been dying to see a Tim and Faith concert, but I will gladly take seeing just him in concert any day.  It was awesome!  And I don't have any good pics.  Boo!  :(

Saturday we took the kids with us and went there all day long!  It was fun and the kids loved seeing everything!  I think Grandpa loved teaching them about all the different kinds of cows and animals, and they sure ate up all the attention they were getting.  

They got to do a little farming.

We all loved the mutton busting.  We thought we were gonna finally convince Jete to do it this year, but nope.  He's still a little too scared.

(Look closely and that's a kid flipping off the back of the sheep.)

"Piiink!"

Jerzi and her pink obsession.

After walkin around and seeing everything, we headed to our seats for the rodeo.  The kids thoroughly enjoyed it. Plus, the grandparents bought each of them a big ol thing of ice cream.  What's not to love, right?  But seriously, they LOVED the rodeo.  Jete was keeping us all informed of which cowboy was in the lead and who was 2nd, 3rd, etc. in every event.  That boy loves any kind of competition I tell ya!   Makes us so proud! :) 

 Jerzi also loved it and was obsessed with all the horses.  She is already telling us that she wants one for her birthday.  Yikes!  Had better start makin some money if those are the kinds of presents she's after.

Jete and Jerz definitely took advantage of having Grandma and Grandpa there.  They were sure to get in all the lap time they could.  There was so much fun and excitement that Jerzi didn't have time to think about being tired, but as soon as the lights went down for the concert, she crashed too. 

The concert Saturday night was The Band Perry.  Two concerts in two days.  

Yep, pretty spoiled! 

The kids did so good; walked all over the place, at John's speed no less, didn't take naps, didn't ride any of the rides, and sat through a whole rodeo and concert, and were happy all throughout.  It made me so happy, along with this picture.  It's not very often that our kids get to see any family, so I love seeing my little munchkins bonding with their grandparents.

Such a good weekend!