Lexy on Photography...

Lexy was trying to take a picture of her sister to enter into the fair. It just turned out to be a fun time of trying to get "the shot" she thought she wanted.

Pig at the Fair

Lexy worked so hard this summer! We are so proud of her, we really did not have much of an idea as to what we had gotten ourselves into but she stuck it out and we all had a great time. Originally we had thought that Amanda would help, but she was a little overwhelmed and decided that she would wait another year. After seeing the start (picking out the pig) to finish (sale of the pig) she is very excited to try next year.

Here are some photos of this years events, pig pen and sale of Blue.

 293 pound pig and Lexy!

Ready in her white 4-H shirt (really white around animals- bad joke!)

 The weigh in........(this is a big deal, everyone stands around and watches to see if their animal made the cut. If they are under 240 pound you can not show them)

 Lexy during showmanship, the men with the red bucking boards break up the pig fights and believe me, we saw a few!

Saturday morning auction... and he sold for $3.00 a pound. Not too bad for her 1st year. The all around show winner received $12/ pound!!!

Fair entries...other than the pig

Here are some of the entries the kids made for the fair.

 Amanda's Chocolate cake

 Lexy's Apple Pie

 The Teal Crochet Bag, made by Lexy

 Lexy's "Nanny K's Apple Pie" won blue and state invite

 Amanda's Cake

 Curly Parsley

 Hudson's watercolor painting

 Mandy's Cowgirl Crayon Art

 Mandy's Flower and Butterfly painting

Load up Mr. Pig

So when we had to get Blue tagged (they put an earing type number in his ear to prove you have owned him for 90 days) it took almost and hour to get him loaded into the trailer... that was with Craig, Papa Rick, Hunter, Lexy and I trying to get pig to walk up the ramp.

This time around it was only Hunter, Lexy and I. At this point we did not know how much he weighted but we knew it was a lot.

We tried nicely for about 5 minutes, then I grabbed him by the ear and Hunter pushed while Lexy stood in the trailer and called him by name. Within 2 minutes he was in!!!! Amazing.

 Thank you to the Zwahlen family for letting us use their wonderful horse trailer. 

 The Kool-Aid man is Hunter, our bucking board = a lid to a large rubbermaid!!

Thinking of changing his mind!!! This was before Lexy and I switched places.

Training the pig...

Lexy has been getting the pig out 2 times a day for 30 minutes to train and exercise him. He is starting to get the hang of it!

Only one week to go.....

Preparing Pig for the fair

We have never owned a 4 legged hooved animal, Blue and spot have been our first adventure, into farm life. So we have been flying by the seat of our pants and now have come to the 2 week mark prior to the fair. And it was brought to our attention that you have to SHAVE the pig!!!! How do you shave a pig....uuuummmm, we don't know!

So after doing a little research, stealing dad's hair clippers (don't tell him, please). You get to work and well kind of wing it! Here are the pictures to prove it...

After a while we realized that the little pig spot was trying to eat the electrical cord. So we then let Blue out into the yard and finished cutting him there.

Dixie time....

We were able to head to Dixie, Idaho....Silver Spur Lodge, ( www.silverspurlodge.com ) home to Nanny and Papa Koesel, the week after the 4th of July this year. Hunter had been staying at the Lodge since the 8th of May and we were headed up to bring him home. We were also able to bring along Lauren Brody, Lexy's friend from Colorado. As well as meet up with the Mack Family.

Our time included swimming, hiking, horseback riding and lots of laughing....

Lauren

 Best Friends

 Craig on a horse... this is a first in all 18 years of marriage!!!

 Hudson got to ride by himself

 all of us on the front porch

 Mandy on Penny, her favorite horse.

"Face Rock" as we head home.