More catch up

The weekend before our anniversary we went to Pendleton, OR for the Pendleton Round up, one of the ten biggest rodeos in the country. Its 111 years old this year and in a really small town about 4 hours east of Portland. The whole thing was a pretty cool piece of history.

We drove out early Saturday, went to the rodeo and camped that night:

Fun cars and carriages driving to the Round up.

The arena. Kinda reminded me of the old Lambeau Field!

The cowboys are insane. "Let er Buck" is the rodeo catch phrase.

Check out those chaps!

Lots of cowboy hats. This is the event where a cowboy jumps off his horse while at full speed and tackles and ropes a calf. So crazy.

In the stands.

Ashley cooked up pulled pork in the dutch oven for dinner at the campsite.

Last weekend (our anniversary weekend) and this weekend have been spent working on the yard. The stone wall is coming along.

Sean, Ashley's friend, has been chipping away (pun intended) on the wall all summer. Here's him and his nifty old truck.

Working on the wall and digging fence post holes.

And last weekend we ate our one year old cake on the china with silver from Fritz and Susanne, and used our cutter from Heather, Matt and girls. We added another knot to the ribbons from our ceremony :)

Yesterday we poured concrete footings for the new fence, cut the posts and today hope to get the posts bolted in. We then went to Claudia's, the sports bar down the street to watch the Badger game with neighbors from Nebraska.

I'm off on a training run now and hopefully won't be too wiped to help with the fence afterwards (I have a feeling I won't be off the hook :)

All of you are probably heading off to Greg and Jenny's shower now. Have tons of fun and wish I could be there. Say hi to everyone for me and Go Packers!