Rodeo.....DONE.........

Just checking in. Random stuff.

WE are officially through with Rodeo. It is over. Finished. Done. I'm glad. We are tired. It was fun. BUT, it is a lot of work and 2 days out of every 3 for 3 weeks will wear on you big time.

I really love volunteering for such a worthy organization. For the past 76 years the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo has given over $235 million dollars in scholarships to students in Texas. It is wonderful to read stories and testimonies from the students. Check out the HLSR website http://www.hlsr.com/

My favorite shows were Rascal Flatts, Trace Adkins, Brad Paisley tonight, Josh Turner, Keith Urban and Gary Allan. Gary Allan was probably my top. He put on an awesome performance! My parents were in town all last week for Spring Break. They joined us Tuesday night for the Keith Urban show. It was fun.

Shannon was home for Spring Break the week of the 9th. She went with us to several shows and it was great having her home though didn't get to spend much time with her! Matt was off last week and spent most of the week at our house which was awesome!

On the 15th Stephanie and Jimmy were in the 31st St. Patrick's Day parage on 1960. Shan took Kenzie and JD, along with my folks, Matt and my nephew Justin. They had a blast. Tim and I were working rodeo that day. Anyway, a photographer from the Chronicle was there and ended up taking a pic of Shan and Kenzie which ended up in the paper last week. Cuties!

Now, we are full gear into our cook-off this Friday and Saturday. It will be a crazy week but looking forward to it. Tim and a few guys here at work built a new pit which will feed about 1,500 people in one cooking. It is massive. Tim has been wanting one for some time and he finally got it. It should make this cook-off easier on the cooks. This year our theme is a Toga Party - should be fun. I'm sure I'll have lots of pics to post next week.

Well, mainly just checking in and letting you know we survived RODEO. Hopefully, we'll get through this week too!!!! I'm hangin' on for dear life!!!!!

Weekend Wrap Up.................

We had a blast just like I knew we would. Vegas is definitely the "city that never sleeps". Gambling is neither Tim nor my cup of tea so we didn't really even do that. We each put 20.00 in a slot machine to say we did it but we would much rather do something more interesting with our time and money. The race was awesome though I didn't like the outcome - it was a great race.

We packed as much in the weekend as we could. Saw some of the hotels/casinos.....boy, it's amazing the extravagance of some of those hotels. Some are so beautiful.

We went to Bouchon, a French Restaurant in the Venetcian that was nice. A little classy for my taste but it was nice. Then, Dr. Rick wanted us to go to the LAX which is the Numero Uno club in Las Vegas. We had a VIP table and it was all ok, definitely premiere peep watching which is at the top of favorite hobbies!

Saturday we chilled, went and ate steaks then Tim and I walked around for a bit. We went to the Bellagio so I could see the fountains. That was at the top of things I wanted to see while I was there.

Sunday was the race..............it was AWESOME. One of the best races I have been to in some time. Junior ended up with a 10th place finish so I was happy. Dr. Rick is a big time Kyle Busch fan (and loves to throw it in my face) so he was happy with Kyle's win. Not me. Nope. Not me.

We're home. Life revs up a huge notch as my team opens rodeo tonight. Oh, what a month ahead!!!! Why do I do this to myself every March? I know if I didn't, I would miss it!!!! I'll just hang on for the RIDE!!!