Show Day

Friday was the state show at Ogden. I was debating all week whether or not I should go on show day since that's a good hour drive and I would be going by myself with two kids.

Trust me, it wasn't the drive that I was worried about, it was spending the whole day with two little ones away from home with no one to help me. At a cow show.☺

I decided to make it a game day decision, and on Friday morning after much debate with myself I decided it would be fun to see the people that would be there and I knew Aidan would enjoy it, so we headed to Ogden.

It helped that the weather was nice that day, if it had been crappy weather there would have been no need to make a decision.

Aidan was happy to see everyone and he really enjoyed helping Christian out all day,

and playing on Christians ipod.

Dad, Ben and Crystal brought the animals in, Chandra and Christian came in later to help with show day.

Christian babying his heifer

and Crystal hard at work.

Since I had no one with me to watch the kids I didn't take many photos of the actual show, i.e. cows. I usually do that for dad and Ben to look at later since show day is so crazy and you don't remember everything.

I did get pictures of her as usual. ☺

I know it doesn't look like Christian was working, but he was on poop duty, so he really was doing something even though we did our best to distract him.

Group class, last class of the day!

We did end up having a good day, the kids were good, and since Cary works up around that area he was able to stop by too. (I can't believe he drives that every day!)

State Fair (photo overload)

Yesterday was the Holstein show at the state fair.

Christian "watching the cows"

You know, sometimes I'm glad that I get to show up on show day and take pictures instead of being in the barn for 4-5 days with little sleep and lots of hard work.

Thank heavens Kenneth came in to watch my kids for me!

Chandra and Ben hard at work

I have LOTS of pictures of cows, I'm guessing no one wants to see all of them except for dad and Ben? ;-)

Someone's little boy found a puddle and was stomping in it.

It was even made MORE fun when he found his reflection in the window.

But he always made sure to stop and clap when everyone else was. "Yay!"

Cows behinds, I have lots more of those pictures too.

The motley crew :-)

It was cold right then. In typical Utah weather fashion, it was really hot and sunny earlier in the day, rainy, windy and freezing by the end.

Crystal was tired. :-) I remember those days and thinking that the wood chips looked so soft and comfy to lay in, or if I could just go lay on a cow.

After the show is over, they have an ice cream social and all the dairy people can get in free. Considering we had to run in the wind and rain to get there, ice cream wasn't sounding all that great. Jesse still stocked up on Creamies and Fat Boy's to take for snacks at work. :-) (He took a break from work to come to the ice cream social with us) ha.

After an extremely long day, we went out to eat.

and Cary came too.

Unfortunately, for Ben, Dad, and Crystal, they had to go back to the show, load up the truck and trailer at 9:00 (they don't let you enter the fairgrounds to pack up until 9:00 PM) and then they had a 4-5 hr drive back home.

Thanks Ken!

Couldn't have done it without you.....I probably would have tried, given up around noon, packed up, and gone home.