With the speed of our life, I thought doing a blog might be the easiest way keep our families up to date. This summer has been a wild and crazy ride.
Chris - On May 25th Chris had an emergency appendectomy. After several complications, he finally got back to normal about a month later. While he was down, he was able to complete a unit of his Excel computer class. Since the doctor released him, he has been to 4 cattle shows an has won 2 of them with his heifer, Sadie. The picture of her is from the first weekend of June. Jesse showed her for Chris that weekend as he was just about a week post op then.
I think I'll do a person by person update to kick us off.
Mike and Melinda - It's been a busy summer for us. We AI'ed between 60 an 75 cows this spring with probably 1/2 of them neeing to be bred around midnight. All of the first cuttings of hay are done. Unfortunately, with the dry weather, we don't have as much as usual. We have also done some embryo transplant work this summer. We have about 6 heifer calves broke for sale for this fall and have gotten up 
about 7 steers to work with. This definately puts us ahead of schedule for the fall. In late June we took a weekend off and went to OK. It was nice to have some time away an just enjoy ourselves. We went to a cattle sale and ended up buying a cow/calf pair. Thankfully we had a friend who hauled her home for us. We told people we bought her as an anniversary gift. Yes, we got some strange looks over that. LOL. On the 4th of July we installed a new floor in our kitchen. We actually finished it on the 5th and have been enjoying it ever since.
about 7 steers to work with. This definately puts us ahead of schedule for the fall. In late June we took a weekend off and went to OK. It was nice to have some time away an just enjoy ourselves. We went to a cattle sale and ended up buying a cow/calf pair. Thankfully we had a friend who hauled her home for us. We told people we bought her as an anniversary gift. Yes, we got some strange looks over that. LOL. On the 4th of July we installed a new floor in our kitchen. We actually finished it on the 5th and have been enjoying it ever since. Chris - On May 25th Chris had an emergency appendectomy. After several complications, he finally got back to normal about a month later. While he was down, he was able to complete a unit of his Excel computer class. Since the doctor released him, he has been to 4 cattle shows an has won 2 of them with his heifer, Sadie. The picture of her is from the first weekend of June. Jesse showed her for Chris that weekend as he was just about a week post op then.
Jesse has been a busy young man this summer. Jesse spent the time while Chris was in the hospital helping Mike's dad put up silage. After that, he spent the next month helping one grandpa or the other in the hay fields. While he has a thicker wallet, he was a busy young man. Now he's showing his own little heifer, Sage, along with his yearling heifer, Pattie. Jesse did all the work to break Sage for showing. He's quite proud of her and rightly so.
And lastly, here's the newest pictures of our baby girl, Abby. We got her in March and she has quickly learned that she goes with us anytime we have the trailer hooked onto the truck. 
I think that's about it for this opening post. Will update this more next week.
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