Pictures of the Ozark Empire Fair

Carlee with Cotton in the show ring.

Allie, Carlee, and Kirsten the top three of the steer show.

Carlee with Rasmus and the judge.

Tanner with Rubic in the show ring.

Tanner with Rubic before he went in the show ring.

Carlee loving on Rasmus.

Carlee with Rasmus in the Sale Ring.

Top 10 Steer Exhibitors.

What a week

Carlee's hard work and dedication has paid off for her. Bert and I are so proud of her, but yet she is still so humble about it all. Carlee won Grand Champion Steer at the Ozark Empire Fair the weekend of July 20th. She was the first one out to sale her animal at the Gold Buckle Gala on Monday night. She shined with her steer in hand. Old Rasmus did an outstanding job and really strutted his stuff. Cotton did well also, he received 1st in his class. After Rasmus won the overall division she had to pull Cotton out of the competition. She was so excited. Incredible Pizza purchased her animal. I can honestly say they are some of the nicest people we have ever met. We went to see them on last Saturday to take them a picture and some flowers and they were still just as nice as could be. I have just been very impressed with the family.
Tanner won 1st in his goat class with Rubic. He was so excited, and he did a very good job. He is excited about taking Rubic to the Lamar Fair and showing him there. The kids will both be showing animals there. Carlee is going to take Cotton to Missouri State Fair on August 12th, so I think she is excited about doing that. It is hard to believe that summer is almost over. It has flown by so fast. We have had a great summer though!!! Tanner had a blast playing baseball, Carlee has had a very successful time with her steers. It has been a really fun summer to watch the kids.

Sharing some pictures

I wanted to share some pictures of all of the good times that we had this summer!! Thanks to Tara and Bob for letting us hang out at their pool. It has been a blast!

Bob and Payton enjoing the sun and pool.

Tanner and Payton together. They are quite the pair.

Payton jumping in to Bob at the pool.

Carlee and Laney swimming together.

All the kids including Bert roasting marshmallows.

Tanner showing off at the pool.

Payton already starting to drive.

Koen is after Tanner's own heart throwing the ball!!

Summer

Well I look around and I see that summer is half over. My goodness how time goes by way to fast!! Tanner finished up with baseball June 21st, his team placed 8th out of 46 teams in the State Tournament in Branson. It was an exciting tournament, the boys played very well!! We are getting ready for Ozark Empire Fair at our house now. Carlee will be taking two steers and Tanner has his loving goat. The kids are getting very excited around the house. Bert has been working in the hay field, and trying to get that caught up after all of the rain that we got. We had a really nice 4th, it was so much fun. We had my family come over and then Bert's sister and parents came over also. We had a bbq, with fireworks and then we had a campfire to roast marshmallows. We bought a slip and slide and the kids had a blast on that throughout the night. I am really glad that we got to do that all together as a family.
I would like to ask each and everyone of you to please remember Doug McKibben in your prayers. Doug is our neighbor, and he has been diagnosed with Burkitt Lymphoma. It is an agressive form of cancer, and he is up at KU Med Center receiving treatment. Doug's children are the kids that were in the mud fight with my kids in the pictures from the June blog. He is around 42, and still has a lot of life to live with his family. Please keep him in your prayers, and his family too.

The baseball team in Branson @ our pool party.

The baseball team at the Branson tournament

Rubic the goat will be traveling to Ozark Empire Fair on Friday, July 18th

Brianna taking in the rays at our house.