Spring Show

Last Saturday was the Spring Show when 4-H kids with steers, goats or lambs show their animals.  It's like a mini-fair.  The pigs aren't included because pigs are so prone to disease.  It's better not to expose them to lots of other pigs prior to the fair.  We never used to do the spring show back when our kids all took pigs.

But now we have a kid who's all about the lambs.  (Check out how much whiter his bath made him!)

She did great showing her lamb after only having him for one week.

She was in the top two from her class and came back for the final grand championship round in fitting and showing.  Good job, kiddo!

Lawn Boy

The lawn boy forgot his pants.

But he sure does get his back into his work.

And his belly!

Ellea and Her Boys

Ellea and I had the honor of hanging out with some of our Kaufman cousins this week.

Ben loves his Ellea.

Will's a fan, too.  The feeling is quite mutual.    

Horses

Nicole and I were thrilled that our dear friend, Candi, brought her horse to Keuterville to go for a ride with us last weekend.

Glenn was feeling very artistic and wanted to snap pictures from different angles.  It's nice that I'm not the only crazy photographer person in the family!

Field Day

We are officially done with school!!  The last day of school was last Friday and the elementary school had a Field Day to start the  morning with lots of fun outside games.

This game was called the Fireline.  There was a long line of kids and they poured water into the next person's cup and at the end of the line filled up a milk jug.

Morgan's poor partner got more water on him than in his cup, I think!

This game required you to put a balloon between your legs and hop or waddle down to this chair.  Then you were supposed to sit on the balloon and pop it.

Bouncing.  Waiting.  Is it gonna pop?

Yup.  There it goes!

Kids and Lambs and Pigs, Oh My!

Yesterday Nicole picked out her sheep.  This is not it.

After she picked this one, she found another one she also liked. They were both great, but the second one was already weaned, so she decided to go with him.

This is her lamb.  We're not planning on letting him out again to run wild like last year!

We've also have had pigs for a few weeks.  This will be Morgan's first year of taking a pig.

Ellea has named her piggy "Carly" and she's done a good job beginning to tame her.  She holds out her hands like she has food in it, and Carly comes to check it out!

Morgan's pig is a little more suspicious of us humans.  We've still got a couple months to get him and Morgan to bond.  And then he'll sell him and be sad to see him go.  Isn't 4-H fun?!