Thanksgiving Thunder Rough Stock Rodeo

Last night I visited the Thanksgiving Thunder Rough Stock Rodeo at the Benton County Fairgrounds. I had a great time visiting with my queenie friends like Nicole Shrock, Miss NPRA and Karen Hoagland the Benton Co. Fair and Rodeo Queen. She looked fabulous as always carrying our beautiful flag around the arena.
I also go to take my nephew who is 11 months old in the stick horse race. He loved it! I was surprised he gave up his stick horse for another kid. Anyway, I got to see the coronation of the 2011 Benton County Fair and Rodeo Queen, Clara Crocker. I didn't get to really meet the other two that tried out, but I hope to see them in the future :) Congrats Clara! And thanks to Karen for hosting my last rodeo as queen.

2011 OTHER Rodeo Queen Tryouts

I noticed I am getting a lot of hits on my blog about tryouts for other rodeos. So will try to give some info :)

The Eugene Pro Rodeo tryout packets are due in 4 days, Nov. 22nd.

2011 Benton County Fair and Rodeo-
Queen tryouts are November 27th and the packets deadline is already over. Its not too late to go watch the results at their rodeo that night in Corvallis!

2011 Sweet Home Rodeo-

Sweet Home Rodeo queen tryouts. Ages 16-24, single w/o children, live in adjoining county. Applications due Jan 3rd, mtg Jan12, tryouts Jan 22. Contact Missy Santana at mbmsantana@msn.com or Bambi Wells at bambiwells@yahoo.com.

The 2011 Yoncalla Rodeo-
They informed me that they had no date set yet, but were shooting for tryouts in April. I also heard that they renamed Kayla Weeldreyer as the 2011 Queen, so for info, I would get on facebook and try to get a hold of Kayla.

The Cottage Grove Rodeo also named Jenny Conrad as their 2011 Queen this week.

Congrats Jenny and good luck to the contestants for the 2011 Benton County title, I will be there to cheer everyone on :)

And furthermore, good luck to Ashley Zeigler who is traveling to Las Vegas for the Miss Rodeo America pageant!

2011 Eugene Pro Rodeo Queen Tryout Info

The tryout packets to become the 2011 Eugene Pro Rodeo Queen are ready! You can find them on the rodeo's website (http://www.eugeneprorodeo.com/queen.html) The packets are due November 22, since we will need some information in order for the contestants to ride with me in the Springfield Christmas Parade on December 11th. (The parade is required of contestants) If you have questions, feel free to call Oregon Horse Center and ask for Chris 541-689-9700 or find me on facebook and I can help you there also.

Tryouts will be held Saturday, January 8th and the coronation ceremony & dinner will be held Thursday, January 13th.

Veteran's Day Parade in Springfield, OR

Since I live in Springfield, OR, it was hard not to find a reason to attend the 10th annual Veteran's Day Parade! Our exciting Oregon weather cleared up just for our parade today except for a little bit of sprinkling and luckily, Wilco was at the staging area so I ran in at the last minute to purchase a clear plastic hat cover :) I had a great time in my home town waving at some familiar faces and passing by McKenzie-Willamette Hospital because I know how much it means to the patients to see the parade go by. I got a lot of cheers for my clean, white pony and my pooper-scooper, Cody Fulkerson. I had a blast talking to some of our vets and getting to show off the red, white, and blue that they have all fought for. Thank you to all of our soldiers, past, present, and future :)

Me and my nephew, Barrett

P.S. Here is a video from KEZI News about the parade. I am in it briefly :) http://kezi.com/news/local/194
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Walterville Community Fair Parade

Yesterday I traveld right up the road to Walterville, OR for their community fair and parade. I had a great time being in their community and visitng with a few people! We staged before the parade near Herrick's farm and the fire station. It was great to see the community come out and enjoy the great break in the rainy weather we've had! Thanks for having me Walterville :)

NW Youth Rodeo Assoc. in Cottage Grove, OR

While I was in Benton County I got an invite to attend the NW Youth Rodeo Associations rodeo that they were holding at the Cottage Grove Rodeo grounds. So this morning, that is exactly where I was headed!
Since it was a cool morning, I got ready early and headed up to see what was going on. I met with the NYRA Court and they gave me the scoop. Oddly enough, I never attended a NYRA Rodeo before and today made me wish I had! I loved seeing all of the kids get together and compete. I was amazed at how everyone was really tight-knit and were friends, no doubt from traveling to all of the same rodeos together throughout the northwest.

I particularily enjoyed watching the bareback event, with a very small boy on a very small bucking pony which literally launched him a good five feet into the air. It's not that him being airborne was exciting, but the exciting part was seeing that these little coyboys are just as tough or more-so than grown-up cowboys. Im so glad I was able to get to meet the NYRA girls again; Queen Cheyenne Phillips, Princess Macy Sullenger, and Princess Madison Wyant. I was also glad that I could help out the little bit that I did.

Benton County Fair and Rodeo

August 6th and 7th, I was in Corvallis, OR for the Benton County Fair and Rodeo! I had a wonderful time each night and really enjoyed going to rodeo that was combined with the fair. I also enjoyed the good fair-food :)
Queen Karen Hoagland made us right at home with her Queen's luncheon where she fed us some real food and some amazing cupcakes. It was a great time to relax and hang out with the other visiting royalty like Miss NPRA, the Sweet Home Queen, the Salem Fairgrounds Queen and the Philomath Frolic Queen.

I really enjoyed the rodeo and all of the other fair festivities. Especially the Donkey Races that Karen won again this year! It was hilarious. I also enjoyed helping with the stick-horse race with all of the kids that came to watch the rodeo.