Dixie National

Mrs. Delma & Mr. Roger took me, Terry & Natalee to the Dixie National Rodeo this past Saturday (well a week ago now...) for our Valentine's Day. Terry got off work that morning & came home to change clothes. We met up with the Mitchell's in Winona about 10:30ish, stopped & got a "snack" to hold us over until lunch then headed to Jackson. We got to Applebee's around 12:30 for lunch. The food was pretty good, not as good as the one in Starkville, but it was good. We then headed for the Coliseum. When we got there, we ran into Terry's cousin & his wife, William & Julie. We walked with them & met up with Aunt Pat, Uncle John, John, Jennifer and the kids. They were loading up the cows, getting ready to head back home. We walked over to the livestock barns. We saw calves, bulls and horses. We were looking for the pigs, goats & stuff but never found any. We enjoyed a funnel cake with chocolate on top & some things I never in my life thought I would ever try...fried oreos! They were the best! I want some now! Hmm...guess I'll have to find a recipe! Anyways, back to the story. Mrs. Delma bought Natalee a cowboy hat. She. Loves. It. We then saw some belts & they bought her one of those too. She needed one but I never could find one in her size. Now she has one. We proceeded to head inside the coliseum as show time was approaching. Boy was it crowded! Not too bad though. They finally got on with the show. I love rodeos and it was a great show. Natalee slept through most of it...until the band started playing at intermission. The singer for that day was Chris Young. He. was. awesome.! Natalee immediately woke! She was kind of scared at first but then she started dancing & clapping & having a great time. For the rest of the show, she kept getting excited. Everytime a cowboy would do something, she would yell "Yay!" and start clapping. It was too cute! We bought her this sword thing that lights up. She kept trying to hit the people in front of us with it so we had to take it away from her. We try to hide it at home sometimes so she can't hit us with it, but most of the time she points it at you and laughs! The show was over about 6:30. We waited in line in the parking lot sitting in the car, for about 30 minutes or so just to get to the main road. We stopped in Canton & ate at Arbys for supper. Natalee slept all the way home. We had a great day that day! It's great to get out of the house every once in a while & do something fun! I don't have pics uploaded onto the computer yet, but I'll try to this weekend!