Michael's Birthday Wishes!

The other day i asked Michael what he wanted for his Birthday, and he told me that he wanted a Basketball, To go Fishing for walleye ( I really don't think that he knows what kind of fish it is besides it's got a cool name), a rope to catch cows with and to go and ride horses. So Jeff works with a guy named Jake Geddes and he's always talking about his girls riding horses and doing the rodeo thing so Jeff asked him if he would let Michael come up and ride a horse. Jake told him to come on up! So on Thursday night (May 27,2010) we went to Downey and Jake helped us full fill a couple of Michaels birthday wishes.

Jake brought one of his horses home and let Michael ride it around there yard and field. He was SOOOOO excited that he got to ride a horse all by himself with no help. Jake and his girls were so sweet that they even went in and got Michael a rope so that he could try to rope his goats since he didn't have any cows.

I don't think that i have ever laughed so hard at Michael before.... He was trying so hard to rope but it just wasn't working, so i said to him" Do you want to see how mommy ropes?". He looked at me and said" Ya here you do it", so i walked over to the goat and put the rope around his head. Michael looked at me and started to giggle. So then he wanted to rope the goat and what does he do walks up to the goat and puts it around it's head and then pulls on the rope and plants his feet and yelled...." I got it, I got it!". He did it a couple of different times and then the goat decided that this time it was going to take off and Michael almost face planted it. So the next time he did it he came and held on to my hand and so that he would fall if it took off on him. So after all the fun of roping the goats he wanted to ride the horse one last time before we were done. Shannan his wife was so sweet, she made him cupcakes for his birthday.

Bradley even got to ride the horse while it was out. He didn't really know what to think at first but he had such a big smile on his face when we let him ride the horse.

My Handsome Cowboy!
Look i can do this all by myself!
Smile at mom...
Michael even got to have a rope with him on his horse ride.
Bradley didn't quite know what to think of the horse.
He's all excited he got to sit on the horse....
Let's go!
Michael roped the goat.....
Pull ....
Hold on so he doesn't get away!