~ the pollard's ~

Fairs

Kale & I have been able to go to 3 different fairs so far this summer. We headed to the Shelby County Fair on July 9th to watch the sheep show and got to watch Callie, JT, Kelly, Alicia, Corbin, & Preston show. They all did a great job and Corby won Reserve Grand Champion Market Lamb.

Kale at his first sheep show

Kelly showing one of her lambs

Callie showing

Market Lamb class with JT & Corby showing

Corby showing one of his lambs

Corbin with his plaque and reserve champion lamb...I didn't get a good picture of the lamb

On July 13th we headed to our second show of the season and the first one where Kyle showed. Kyle had a good night and ended up with Supreme Champion Ram with Bubba and Supreme Champion Ewe. I didn't get many pictures that night...I picked a bad spot in the stands.

Kale slept the entire time...he has been great at the shows so far

Cooper hanging out before the show started

Kyle with Bubba

Crossbred Yearling Ewe

The show ended about 9:30 and Pizza Hut was already closed so we got Casey's pizza and ate in the bleachers at the fair...yummy!

This past Saturday we headed to Troy for the Lincoln County Show. It was a really nice day- what a change from the heat we are used to at the shows!

Kyle & Elisa showing weather dam ewe lambs

Jason & Kale watching the show

Andi helping Kyle show...looking to see if she is doing it right

Lunchtime

After the show we took a number of pictures in front of the fair backdrop

Andi with Jaleigh

Cooper, TJ, Kale, & Andi

Pollard Family

Kyle & Kale

Cooper & Kale

Kyle with his niece & nephews

lil farmer TJ

Jessi, Kyle & me

Happy Birthday Quin!

It is so nice to be closer to northeast Missouri! We were able to attend Quin's birthday party a few weekends back (I'm slow to post things). It was Kale's first birthday party and he slept through the entire thing and woke up as we were getting ready to leave. Everyone had a great time- Katie sure does throw a mean party :)!!

Kale with his Great Uncle Heath

The birthday boy opening his presents

Quin hitting the piñata

Conner taking his turn

Eating candy from the piñata

Getting ready to blow out the candles

Great Grandma Barb

All the kids at the party

Great Grandpa Tom

Eckler Boys Visit

One day when we were at mom & dad's the Eckler boys came up to work with their lambs. They then helped with chores and as Preston would say "had fun".

Finishing up chores

The next pictures are mostly of the "having fun" part...I thought Katie should see what the boys were really doingPreston got out the pogo stick and was pretty goodHe wasn't the only Eckler "boy" to try it out

Uncle Harold had to prove he could jump on it

then Uncle Heath proved he was cool too

Corby trying his hand at it

Quin made friends with Lucky and showed us all his teeth

4th of July weekend

We headed to Missouri for the weekend of the 4th. We had fun hanging out with both sides of the family. We watched fireworks at the Shelbina Lake with Kyle & Stephanie. Kale slept in the Escape- he jumped a little with one of the big "bangs" when I had the door open, but no other reaction from him. We had a good time with all the family as always.

Rhett & Kale