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 Show

Sorry Gwendy and Crystal, looking back through my pictures I didn't really get any of you guys....that's because you were working or something.....;-)

Dad was in first so I had to take a picture.

And then Ben was in first...


These cows got pulled out for intermediate grand, but the cow dad is leading got reserve.




I took a lot more pictures of cows, but I'm guessing no one here really cares about those. Heh.

Hmmm

.....sitting here flipping channels between horse racing and ice skating, relishing my relaxation time. This week with getting ready for Passover weekend is going to be insane as was last week.


The past three days were spent at the state cow show in Ogden with my dad, Ken, and Ben. First day we were there it was incredibly windy and I will now spend the next 3 days cleaning saw dust and other dirt particles out of my eyes, ears, etc.... It was nice having Ken there, he made me look like a hard worker. A few more weeks of that and I would actually have some muscle. As with all cow shows, there were the miserable moments but all in all it was a lot of fun. If you find yourself fascinated by it all, go ahead and visit http://www.eskdaledairy.com/

I normally wouldn't take pictures of a truck and trailer, but this is a little bit of an upgrade from what we used to take to shows. :o)

Washing the cows. Definitely not the job to have since it was so cold.

Dad and Ben clipping Allie-Sue.

Cary came and visited us the first day, and he's cleaning sawdust out of his eyes. You can't tell by the pictures, but it was extremely windy that day.

The cows relaxing.

Me getting the heifer ready for the show.

Dad in the show ring.

Don't be fooled. It looks sunny and green, but it was FREEZING! I had two shirts and two jackets on the whole time we were there.. Kenneth is going to love that picture.