Rodeo

You may have be thinking, sweet, the Halls live by Beverley Hills and we're going to hear about Rodeo Drive. Not quite. Yesterday we drove beyond the regions of the 909 to Hesperia where our niece and nephew Sage and Colton were in a rodeo. This may be a shocker, but their dad is Tamara's brother Rob in the post before this one (see pic). For the regular readers, Rob's ranch is where I went branding and enjoyed my first Rocky Mountain oysters.
Anyway, we drove on up to the park and made pretty decent time. We looked for Rob's white pickup and the trailer. That tactic would have worked if every truck didn't have a trailer and half of them weren't white. Once we found them, we settled in and tried to get the boys changed and fed. With all the horses and goats around, Will's dirty diaper actually improved the scent in the area. To give this perspective, a couple weeks ago one of Will's bombs made my mom leave the apartment and Ben cry. Sage and Colton performed well but given it was their first rodeo on the California circuit they didn't perform as well as they hoped. They both did pole bending and goat tying and Sage did the barrel race as well. They chalked it up to a learning experience. I don't know if Rob was happy with the price of learning, but what are you going to do?
Some other notable things from the trip. Will might have slept for over 22 hours yesterday. And today. We hope he's going through a growth spurt, though if he does he'll be about 33% bigger than Ben. Ben started making clicking sounds with his tongue and spends the majority of his waking hours doing that. Speaking of, Ben developed a serious aversion to sleeping. We're hoping it's just a phase but it's one of our least favorite of his phases. Tamara promises she'll post pics and videos shortly.