Fair Pictures(Hopefully)

Merritt showing his steer.

  

RJ showing his first steer in a fair.

Merritt's poster for his pig. It says: Beefy the Next Best Thing to Beef

  

RJ and his steer.

Daniel 'driving' Grandma to JCPenney. That is where he
kept saying they were going.

Custer County Fair 2012

Last weekend, we went up to Mackay for the Custer County where Merritt and RJ both had animals this year. Merritt's steer did not gain enough weight, so he was not able to sell it. He did, however, have a pig this year. We were not able to see the hog show, but he did very well. He placed 8th overall out of 60 pigs. That is a lot of bacon. RJ showed a steer for his first time ever. He did really well. Merritt had a cow/calf pair again and made it to Round Robin, where he showed all the animals. Like all the other years, he did not win, but came very close to winning. Pictures will come another day as Blogger doesn't download pictures well on most days.

July 2013

July was a very hot month in Utah. There were over 10 days were the temperature was in the triple digits! We did not do too much this month. We did not attend the KSL Pioneer Day parade like we normally do. We did attend the Bountiful Handcart Days where were able to see 2200 young men march as part of the Army of Helaman exhibit. This comes from one of my favorite stories in the Book of Mormon about 200 stripling warriors who fought bravely and did not doubt because their mothers had taught them to believe in God. "Now they never had fought, yet they did not fear death; and they did think more upon the ^aliberty of their ^bfathers than they did upon their lives; yea, they had been taught by their ^cmothers, that if they did not doubt, God would deliver them.

 48 And they rehearsed unto me the words of their ^amothers, saying: We ^bdo not doubt our mothers knew it."

Daniel also really started loving the show WordWorld which is shown on PBS. It teaches kids to problem solve and sounds and letters. Once a word is 'built' it turns into what it describes. For example, 'pie' turns into an actual pie. From watching this show, Daniel can now spell duck, big, pig, sheep, radio, pie, dog, ant, and bug. He has stopped watching Sesame Street, which we hope he will start up again soon. 

He has also taken a break in the potty training. I guess he wants to wait until he a little older. Sadly, it looks like we may have two kids in diapers.