ASHLEY.HOUSTON.HUNTER: Ah Summer Time

Well with Cowboy Christmas and Calgary behind us you'd think things would start slowing down but it seems like they're just as crazy. Houston and I drove out to our good friends house last night after Hunter roped at Spanish Fork, UT. Clint and Robyn live outside of town and we love to hang out here whenever possible. Hunter and Jerome were supposed to fly out to Salinas, CA this morning but they changed their plans and drove out with Houston Hutto last night. It was a 14 hour drive and they got there about an hour before slack started. Hunter made an awesome run and was 9.4 on his first calf, he's winning the first round right now and ropes his second later tonight. Hopefully it goes as good as the first and he makes the short round on Sunday. Then Monday we're back at Ogden, UT, Deadwood, SD on Wednesday and Thursday and then off to the "Daddy" in Cheyenne, WY on Friday and Saturday and hopefully short round there on Sunday. HOME right after that!! Can't wait, except we are loving this weather we've been in. While in Canada we wore our jackets almost everyday! It was amazing! I know as soon as we get close we're going to be dying though!
So the last time I wrote we were headed to Calgary! Hunter did really good in his set, even though it was a really tough set. He ended up the second highest money winner right behind Shane Hanchey. Hunter won 15,000.00 and Shane won 15,500. Hunter decided not to go back down to the states to a few rodeos in between the second set and Sunday. Since Hunter did so good he went straight to Sunday instead of having to go to the wild card round. Made me breath a little easier. Houston had plenty of friends to play with while we were there. We had huge baseball and dodge ball games every night in between the trailers. It got pretty wild a few times. When the kids weren't playing ball they had all their ropes out roping the dummy. It was the best entertainment! A few days it rained like crazy, the drains actually got clogged up so the water was deep right in the middle of our playing field. But other than that it was a good 10 days. Sunday was the finals for Calgary, and it didn't go as planned but we still got out of there with good money. Just wasn't our year! When we left the arena we were planning on going half ways then finishing off the rest the next day headed to Salt Lake, well....we made in about 5 miles and the truck was kinda running funny and the gauge said to check the fuel filter. Well there just happened to be a station open on Sunday. So we pulled off and got in line. About 45 minutes later they got to us and started pulling stuff out. The color was awful and said the injectors were pretty clogged. So they got us fixed up and we hooked back onto the trailer. Hunter walked back to check Hustler before we pulled off and he noticed a wheel on the trailer was messed up. So we back it up on the block and sure enough we were close to running it off and had ruined the bearings. We were lucky to find a place to change our filter, so we knew it was going to be close to impossible to find someone to fix that. Hunter got a hold of some people and they gave us a man's name that was about 45 miles away and he said he'd fix us up. So we took off on three wheels...crazy I know! We finally made it and they got us in and out and we were on our way. It officially took us 6 hours to drive 60 miles!!! Ugh! After what seemed like forever we finally made it to Salt :Lake the next day an hour before the rodeo started. It didn't go any better than our day before. It was off to Ogden, UT next. We were pretty excited, my best friend Robyn and her new baby Calder were going to be there. This would be the first time I got to meet him and I couldn't hardly wait. And Houston had a much anticipated birthday party for Addie Mass! They had a pink castle bounce house and a unicorn cake. It was really awesome and we were really happy to celebrate with good friends!! After Ogden we headed straight to Nampa, ID. It was hot and it was crappy too. Spanish Fork was bad also, and now Houston and I are hanging out and Hunter is in Salinas, CA. I just got the news that he was 10.4 on his second calf. So as of right now he is winning the average and making the short round on Sunday! Great news, keep your fingers crossed and say a prayer, Hunter has always wanted to win that rodeo. We are back at Ogden Monday, Deadwood, SD Wednesday and Thursday and then down to Cheyenne Friday and Saturday on Hunter's Birthday!!!! The short round on Sunday would be a nice present! Anways until next time God Bless!!