As summer is coming to a close

Fair is finally over, (only three weeks ago...I'm not behind or anything)

Mikaela did really well. She placed 5th with her pig and 3ed in showmanship. Which for her first year is wonderful. She placed higher in showmanship than some kids that have been doing this for several years. As far as her pigs went we were so happy to have two out of three make wight after everything that placing at all was icing on the cake.

Mikaela and Daddy in the 3ed place holding pen

Doesn't she look so professional

In decorate your duds she took third over all the juniors woohoo!

Her outfit turned out so cute...she took denim shorts and a hot pink shirt and added lime green and hot pink bangle trim to the legs, made a spotted belt, and used puff paint to finish it off.

As part of any sewing project the kids can choose to participate in a fashion review...Mikeala didn't like this at alllll.

She got reserved grand-champion for modeling.

All of this wonderful stuff and the thing she seemed to like the very best is that she was escorted by a boy...an older boy onto stage and he gave her a flower (she told everyone all about it for the rest of the weekend)

This picture is from the fashion show.

After fair we had tank inventory.

Dad had his motorcycle here and gave Cole his first ride around the yard.

After they left Cole showed us all how to wear a helmet (notice he has a bandanna on under the helmet just like papa)

Then came my birthday, I got a cute little chihuahua puppy (until he came home we thought our dachshund was little.)

We named him Gus after the little fat mouse in Cinderella, you know the one who always thinks he can whoop the cat...same personality type. He is now the dominate dog, explain this to me he is younger and smaller than Rego, but whatever. He sure is fun though and our dachshund's attitude has really improved since we brought him home (maybe we should have done this a year and a half ago)

Isn't he cute

This last weekend our church threw us a housewarming party. It was so nice to have everyone over. As you can see we had a pretty good turn out.

stuffing our faces with all the good food

Stacy made us the cutest cake (she is so talented)

This is our new guest bed/shelf. Lee made us a Murphy bed so that we can have a spare bedroom and an office without sacrificing any space...pretty neat we thought. He came up with the design all on his own...another one of those oh sooo talented people (I keep hoping that some of these talents might wear off on me but no such luck).

I think I need to check in a little more often ha ha! but I will try to send more pictures soon. Love you all!!!