Kenny Chesney, Rodeos and Fireworks

Cousin Carter, Sister Abby, and Braxon waiting for the fireworks to start

My cousin Maquel (far right) was one of the rodeo princesses. She's only 12 and is an excellent rider.

Cousin Spencer entered the Saddle Bronc competition. He got 3rd out of 20 guys.

Ok I really need to get better at posting. I did this whole post backwards but oh well. And sorry for the never ending post and crappy pictures. I need a new camera. So we went to Oakley, ID for the 24-25. They have 3 days of activities and of course, rodeos! The rodeos there are so much fun because they're outside and they do BBQ's and Chris's family is in them so they're fun to watch. We got to Oakley just in time for the rodeo to start. Chris's cousin Spencer (who's only 18) rode in the saddle bronc competition. That's when the cowboys get on the buckin horses and just basically have to stay on for 8 seconds. 20 cowboys got to ride and then they took the 6 best scoring ones. Spencer tied for 3rd on the first go around. Then they took those best 6 and auctioned them off to people in the stands. If the cowboy you bought won, you'd get the pot. Someone bought Spence for like $150, and the most someone spent was $200 something. Then they rode again and Spence took 3rd this time cause his horse didn't buck hard enough. It was way fun to watch and I'm impressed Spencer is that good. After the rodeo there was a dance that the city put on. (Oakley's population is just over 600) so it was fun to see how a small town celebrates. The next day they had a 10K run which Chris ran in. He got 5th in his age division. We went to the pool and then got ready for the parade which Chris's other cousin Maquel was in since she was the rodeo princess. Then off to the second rodeo! We watched Nels (chris's uncle) Maquel, and Spencer do the cattle sort and then Chris decided he wanted to go work in the cook shack. I still don't know why he wanted to work in the grease pit all night but that's why there aren't any pictures of him. At the end of the rodeo Maquel gave her crown away and we watched a SPECTACULAR fireworks show!

Mandie, Me, Morgan (my cousins)

Lady Antebellum signing autographs. The one on the right called me a sweetheart :-)

Kenny Chesney! On Thursday the 23, I went with my cousins and their friends to his concert. If any of you have a chance to go to one of his concerts you should because he makes them so fun to watch and he is AMAZING live. He sung nonstop and got so sweaty we were all yelling for him to take his shirt off and he never did :( haha. We didn't have that great of seats as you can tell but I'm so glad I went. Lady Antebellum (who I absolutely LOVE) opened for them. Miranda Lambert did too but she wasn't as good. Anyway, Lady A. came out to sign autographs after they performed so I bought their CD and had them sign it. There's nothing like a good country concert in the summer!