Life Update Part 1 - Summer 2010

So here's a sampling of what we've been up to since May:

The kids had fun at Cougar Day in May

 On May 8th, we picked up 2 calves and brought them to a farm close to our house to work with and train for the 4-H Fair. We had no idea what we were getting into!

We had a visit from family in May – Burt’s parents and 3 of our nephews. They had a lot of fun at the farm with all the different animals. There are horses, newborn chicks and newborn kittens in addition to our calves.

Uriah played little league and Burt ended up coaching his team and Tori & I assisted. We had a lot of fun!

Tori & Jersey

Uriah & Maurice

 We practiced walking the calves down to our house and back to get them used to being led. In addition to going down 2x a day to feed and water them.

In addition to all this fun, Burt took Memorial Day weekend off and the 4 of us went to Wisconsin Dells for the weekend.  We stayed at Hotel Rome and went to Mt. Olympus, Pirates Cove and rode the Ducks.  It was a nice, relaxing family weekend.

We took the calves to Dairy Day in June.  They walked in the morning parade and got 60 tickets each for the rides later.

After the parade they showed the calves in the dairy show.  It was a great warm up for what the fair would be like.  They learned a lot!

A fun nerf fight turned into an all out water fight outside on a hot summer day!

We had a great time at Vacation Bible School in June :)

July was fair time!

The club project was taking care of the Butterfly Garden at Mattke Park.  They took pictures through the whole process and wrote up the project.  They ended up being selected for the State Fair!  Way to go S-F Lucky Clovers!

The big day finally arrived - bucket/bottle calf judging!

The kids did excellent and both received blue ribbons!

My sister, grandmother and niece came for a quick visit so they could see the kids show their calves.  It was great to have them here for a few days!

Did I mention that the weekend before the fair (4th of July weekend) we went camping in Wisconsin with Burt's family?  It was a great time!  Could have done without 2 days of rain, but it was still good to see everyone again.