Gone Country

This weekend we visited family in Arkansas. Cody is at the age where family means a lot to him, and he loves the opportunity to see them. Several times before we ever left this weekend Cody said to us, “I want Nanna and Pap. Then I can give them a great big hug, and they can love on me!” While in Arkansas Cody and Anna got to go to their first rodeo. Yeehaw! Shawn insisted I was going to see what a “real” rodeo was like, referring back to a rodeo we went to in Ohio where the cowboys wore hockey masks to protect their faces (apparently, that is not the macho cowboy thing to do.) To Shawn’s credit, though, he humbly pointed out when we got there that he saw several of the Southern boys also wearing face masks. I guess broken facial bones is nationally undesirable!