Well, the Harris family is well into the junior rodeo season. It seems like we’ve been going nonstop since March. I guess we’ve been going enough that a weekend at home is a much welcomed treat!Pryce and Jake, ages 15 and 13, are determined to go to every calf roping feasibly possible, in addition to High Plains junior rodeos. Addi, age 7, has finally decided that if she’s going to go along every weekend she may as well be competitive. It’s been fun watching her set goals for herself and then achieve them.
The whole family just returned from a week in Gonzales, Texas where Jake competed in the Wrangler Division Junior High State Finals. If you haven’t ventured far enough into south Texas to stop by Gonzales, you’ve missed out. The birth place of Texas independence and hot, hot, hot! We had a great time! There was lots of great calf roping, team roping, barrel racing, pole bending, chute dogging, goat tying and bull riding. Of course, we tried to do some other fun stuff while we were there. The arena was located along side the Guadalupe River. The kids all thought that was great! There’s just nothing like swimming in the river.
Another big treat was a trip to Port Lavaca. Pryce, Jake and Addi had never seen the ocean. Every summer Matt and I vow we are going to take them to the beach. But as summer always does, it flies by and it’s time for school to start. This year we had several free hours one day while in Gonzales and decided to take a quick trip to the beach. Combing the map, it looked like Port Lavaca was the closet beach being just 80 miles from Gonzales. Along with another family we jetted to the beach for a few hours. What fun! The waves were huge and all the kids got to experience a mouth full of salt water. We can check that off our list!It’s good to be home….for a while any way.
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