One of Our Favorite Days of the Year!!

As soon as we got off work today we headed out to Kyle & Julie Smithwick's to buy our show lambs for the next year. We look forward to this day every year. Ron loves looking through all the lambs, Karli & Nolan love dreaming of what the next show season could hold, Whitni enjoys going and remembering when she was showing, and I enjoy being with my family doing what we love to do.

When we got home to unload the lambs Lexi was waiting patiently for her new lambs. Don't be fooled she'd love to chase them. That is her job in this operation. She runs and chases them to exercise them and build up their muscles.
Look at the rumps on these babies. That is what the judge will be looking at.

Here are their faces. We ended up with 3 finewools and 4 crosses.

We even got a "new" kind....one without ears! Isn't this the funniest thing to be seen. We are going to give this a whirl and see what happens. I can just imagine what everyone is going to be saying about our earless lamb.

No...Really this lamb ate something in the pasture that made his ears swell up and fall off. Karli and Nolan are already arguing over who's going to get to show him.

Here's what they have to say about the next show season.

Dads

Sunday was Father's Day. The fathers I have in my life are speical in many ways. There is Ron. The Daddy to my children. The one who could burp them all like a pro. The one who can be tough yet gentle at the same time. He loves his kids fiercely. Then there is my Dad. A quiet, but strong man. He loves his family, especially his grandchildren. He can also be a goof. And for Father's Day I got him his very own cell phone. I've pushed him into the 21st Century.

I'm fortunate to have my PawPaw still living. Sunday was not only Father's Day, but it was his 91st birthday. He's the sweetest man. I can remember how he would take me to McDonald's for a"snack" and then tell me not to tell my mother where we had been. He would also take me to parks around town and let me play forever.

Here's he is with his cake.

I am richly blessed!!!

2010 Show Season Begins!!

It's that time of year AGAIN!! Back in March Karli & Nolan were ready to finish the show season and now they are rearing to buy next year's lambs. We went out to Minzenmayer's last week to take a look at what he had. Here's Karli, Bri, Ron & Bris trying to "steal" some feed from Rick and act/look cool at the same time.

Karli got the one on the left and Bri got the other. Sauer Show Lambs are off to a great start. We will go to Smithwick's next Tuesday to buy the rest of show stock. With a little hope and a LOT of $$$ we hope bring home at least 3 more and hopefully 5. I'll let you know.

The "Eye" Has Had IT!!!

The week before school was out Nolan was playing basketball in PE and took an elbow to the eye. He ended up with a HUGE black eye as you can see in this picture below. Please ignore the goofy face he is making. Ron had asked him to hug his sister at their FFA banquet and this is the face he made.

Yesterday afternoon he came running in the house saying that he had been stung by a wasp on his hand and somewhere near his eye. I could see the sting on his hand, but couldn't find any evidence of a sting around his eye. Ron finally found a small sting in his eyebrow. After a dose of benedryl and ice his eye finished swelling, or so we thought.

This is what it looked like this morning when he woke me up saying that his eye hurt. To say I was scared, is an understatement. We took him into our pediatrician this afternoon and he said that it was a matter of the location of the sting. Gave us some medicine and said that it could get even bigger for 48 hour after the sting. I don't think it can get any bigger.

Leave it to Nolan to do something weird!! Poor baby.