Here I am, snagging some WIFI in the rodeo office to update everyone! We are now in the tiny town of Baker, Montana, where we have captured the Ladies Breakaway Roping, a full slack, and Steer Roping over the last two and a half days. We are gearing up for Extreme Bulls and some jousting tonight, should be an interesting combo! Updates to follow!
We started out our trek in Onida, South Dakota with the Sutton Family at the Catfish Stampede Rodeo. It was such a fun time catching up with this great family at their hometown rodeo! Thanks for the hospitality Brent and Roz, we truly appreciate it! Before the first perf we snuck in a family session with Amy and Steven and the kids. If you didn’t see the preview you’re missing out. This was our first family session of 4 on the weekend and of course none of them disappointed. It was a beautiful morning that turned to rain and ended our weekend in a muddy mess.Clay and I headed to Faulkton on Saturday morning to meet up with the Smith family for another family photo session. It was a touch wet and muddy, but no one seemed to mind! We managed to get some smiles from dad and wrangled 4 kids! So glad we could have them all in one place before their dad deploys in a few short weeks. Performance 2 of the Catfish Stampede wasn’t as sticking and had some great local cowboys show up. 4 family sessions and 2 rodeo performances in 48 was a WORKOUT! Although great company makes up for muddy conditions for sure!
Sam, me and Roz holding down the panels at the rodeo. Thanks for doing a duet with me during the anthem Roz, maybe we can do it again sometime!
Thanks to the Muller Family, the Smith Family, Vanessa and Family and the Holt Family for snatching us up to capture your families while we were in your area. It is so great to have reoccurring and new families get in touch with us! On top of it, we get to catch up with great people, see how long we can hold their children’s attention spans, lose cowboy hats off bridges, and laugh at all the memories we get to capture for said families. We are so thankful fo each and everyone one of them that come into our lives.
If Clay doesn’t watch out I think Zane might just steal the show on taking photos!
It was onto Aberdeen for the Dacotah Bank Stampede Rodeo where we connected and crashed at a good friend’s home. We are so lucky for the people that open their homes to us when we are on the road; wish there was more time in the day as we are mostly coming and going! Their furry friend Hank was happy to be hosting and check out their view!
We enjoyed the crowd and welcomed more rain in Aberdeen (such is the rodeo road!) We met more new personnel (shoutout to Kory Keeth, Dakota Riggin, Ezra Coleman and Tate Rhoads) and had two great nights of rodeo. They had Ranch Saddle Bronc riding where Clay captured some GREAT shots of some upcoming horses, will be fun to watch as they travel and buck more.
Already here in Baker has been some great entertainment! I personally have enjoyed watching the Ladies Breakaway Roping; such a great event that the crowd is totally loving as well. There will be two rodeo performances both Saturday and Sunday and then we will hit the road home to repack, say hello to our pups and head out again Wednesday for the Central States Fair in Rapid and all their PRCA entertainment! We are really looking forward to the Extreme Broncs Championship! So hang on, here comes fall and it doesn’t look like we are slowing down anytime soon!
-Ty (& Clay)