Marlee's Rodeo Finals - Saturday and Sunday added!

What a day!!! It started out looking quite bleak! Dusty - Marlee's barrel horse (retired barrel horse as of today and my horse now) was not feeling well and we almost decided not to take him. But then Marlee said he was was acting fine and we watched him a little while and he was fine. So we loaded up the tack and and him and headed to the Barrel Race. Sorry I will have to finish this later! Going to sleep now!
Ok I am back to write some more. I am so sleepy though I may not make it all the way through both days. Back to yesterday (Sat.)
We went to finals and Dusty did not run well, but the timers messed up - :)!!! That gave Marlee and Dusty another run! He did a little better, but he was just not up to it. After all the barrel racers had their runs - about 2 hours of Barrel racing, the bulls took over the arena. There was bull riding and bull fighting. SO much fun and excitement. After that we had the Awards Banquet. We seriously did not expect Marlee to get anything, I mean she started the season a few months after the other girls, her horse is a Morgan - not built for speed - But she kept going and working hard. She had already won a buckle in the clinic! Then Mechelle, the director, points at the saddle that everyone had been chatting about wondering what it was for and who was getting it. The saddle was for the "exceptional youth rider". It was to go the person who has true GRIT, passion, good personality, attitude and really exemplifies what Alamo Saddlery and really anyone would expect to see in an exceptional young person. Then she called the name of the person named Exceptional Youth 2007 - This came from Alamo in Texas, so the fact that it was given here in North Carolina and in our circuit was pretty awesome! Anyway the name called was : MARLANA REEVES!!! We were so shocked and all of us in tears. Many of the other riders were in tears especially the adult women who have just fell in love with Marlee and the other girls were very happy for her as well! It was incredible!
So now for today, we went to church, to eat and then home. The weather was Beautiful! Marlee and I rode for a while. Craig and Kourtnee were here for a little while and Craig got on Dusty for a little while and then Drae rode him a little. Marlee was riding Checotah the whole afternoon. Then I played foot ball with Drae and TJ for a little while. when it started getting dark we came inside and watched borrowed movies from Craig and Kourtnee - Rise of the Silver Surfer and then after the kids went to bed Vicky, Robert, Larry , Marlee and I watched Chuck and Larry. Both movies were great! Silver Surfer was good - love the fantastic 4 and Chuck and Larry was hilarious! Well usually I would give a really good review of the movies, but sorry too sleepy tonight! Hope everyone enjoyed this beautiful weekend (if it was nice where you live), I know we did!!!!! Here is a picture of my daughter and her new saddle and Mechelle the director of EZ RUN PBR! we are so proud of her!!!