This week is fair week in our town. We started it off by winning free tickets to the Diamond Rio concert! They are an awesome country group with so many hits and they put on a wonderful show. It is so awesome to see a band that has been together for 20 years and still play a show like it was their first show. They seemed very genuine and happy to be in our small town. Then last night our 5 year old daughter wanted to go Mutton Busting before the rodeo. She has never done this before, but as we explained what she would be doing, she was thrilled to try it. For those of you who don't know what Mutton Busting is, you put your innocent, helpless child on the top of a sheep in a pen and then they let the sheep out and it takes off running with your child on its back and the child who hangs on the longest wins the prize. This idea thrilled my daughter, this is like the perfect thing for her. She does this with her dog all the time so she knew she had this one. We paid the 10 bucks and signed the paper saying we wouldn't press charges on them if she got hurt and put her in a long line of anxious kids. Then it was her turn and the one she was to ride was an awnry one and it was already bucking when it came down to me her before she got on it. My daughter saw the chaos and the bucking and the cowboys put her helmet on and placed her on the awnry sheep and then the gate never opened......she chickened out! I really do know she would have done it if it weren't for the sheep bucking and going crazy before she was placed on it. My husband and I were kinda let down that we just lost 10 bucks and had no show of her riding the sheep, because we knew she would give that thing a ride! But, I also look at it as a blessing, I think God was protecting her from getting really hurt because that sheep had already bucked a kid off. We then went to a great rodeo and I got my yearly funnel cake, oh I love those things! Tonight will be carnival rides and if I am lucky, another funnel cake!
This dish is wonderful and easy. It calls for chili powder, but I didn't add that, I just kept mine sweet with salt, pepper, and garlic powder and the brown sugar. I bought chicken tenderloins instead of the chicken breasts, so I didn't have to cut the chicken. I got this wonderful recipe from the cute blog,
Full Bellies, Happy Kids. She has some yummy recipes on that blog! I think next time I make this dish that I will combine my
bacon wrapped green beans with this recipe. Put the chicken then green beans and wrap bacon around the both and then use the green bean sauce to pour over the top, I think the combo would be perfect.
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Brooke waiting in line for the Mutton Bustin!
Brooke at the carnival-Braedon went to the Tractor Pull with grandpa |
1 comment:
Mmmm! I made this one last week too! It is in my file waiting to be blogged. It was SO hot on the day I made mine, so I threw them on the grill. They were great that way and everyone loved them. As a result, I didn't have any sauce though.
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