Rodeo Season {Cache Valley Rodeo Queen Photographer}

Rodeo season is in full swing and so are the Queen contest. Queen Contest you say? Yup!! Growing up I practically lived on my horses. My dad was a rancher for quite a few years before they ended up settling in Eastern Idaho. One year at my local hometown Rodeo for the 24th of July Celebration I was watching grand entry and saw these pretty girls come out on horse... The Queens.. I asked my mom about them and she told me. Right then and there I told her I wanted to be a queen. From that point on my parents supported, and encouraged me to live my dreams. I loved to Rodeo Queen. My summers were field with Queen Contests, horse training and working. Looking back I wouldn't change a thing! Now I get the opportunity to help the local girls with Queening and I get to integrate my once loved passion to my new passion now. Photography it is!! Taking pictures of these beautiful girls and coaching them are just the icing on the cake!!

Congratulations to all the girls this year on their wins! Have fun at your Rodeo's and be safe!!! Thank you to Kristan Jo Earl for the Lewiston 4th of July Rodeo & Races Contest and Patti Andrae for the Hyrum Star Spangled Rodeo, for having me take pictures of their beautiful queens!! I have been busy these last few days getting their Autograph sheets put together and to the printers for their big days.

Here are a few from this year.

Home of the Free, because of the Brave

I'm kind of excessively patriotic. I don't know if its because I'm an Army wife or just because I LOVE America and everything she stands for. My husband has been in the army for 9 years and has served in Iraq and Afganistan. Since coming back he hasn't been able to be around fireworks anymore because of the sound, smells, and color reminds him of the roadside bombs he was in... (unfortuant reality of war)  Needless to say for the past 6 years fireworks haven't been a priority for the 4th of July. But I have missed them so much.  Watching a great firework display with a beautiful choreographed soundtrack strikes a chord in me that brings tears to my eyes. It has been 6 years since I have got to watch a display close enough to hear and smell it. I was fortuant so to say my husband was gone for training this year(not so fortuant for that part), and the kids and I got to enjoy two marvelous firework displays!! Yay!! I think this should hold me over for another 6 years :)

Happy Birthday America!!! I hope everyones 4th was filled with friends and family as well!!!

Logan Utah firework display July 3, 2012

Lewiston, Utah July 4, 2012 Fireworks

Yeah I'm pretty sure I will be good to go for another 6 years after these pictures. I loved every second of it!! I still have the 24th of July celebration fireworks left this year. I can't wait to get more pictures!