It’s always a busy time of the year when the kids pick out their fair lambs in April. The next 4 1/2 months are busy spent training, walking, washing, shearing, their lambs. This year they went to a 3 day camp in Bozeman to learn more about showmanship, lamb care, shearing with a jackpot on the last day. 
Kids walking their lambs…
Garrett shearing his own lamb…
Garrett helping some kids with showmanship…
Getting ready for fair…
Thank goodness for grandmas who will stop and feed the starving kids on her way home from work. The first couple days of fair are extremely busy and we generally eat really late but grammy had pity on us and fed us.
Practicing with his lamb…
Then show day!
Waiting for his turn to show…
This year at fair they worked very hard and Garrett and Hayden ended up being in the final round for showmanship
Even, Teigen did very well in showmanship for his first year.
Waiting for the “market” portion of fair.
Hayden even won a purple ribbon in market placing in the top 8 out of 60 lambs for market. 🙂
Then comes the last day of fair, the last day of the project. They have sold their lambs to local businesses and they have to load their lambs up on the trailer that is headed to the processor. There are generally lots of tears and sadness but the kids understand where their food comes from and have a deeper appreciation because of it. Something that is lacking in todays culture..
The consensus was that Lake McDonald was very cold! All that freshly melted mountain snow made hands and feet tingle and turn white. Brrrr… The little kids didn’t play too long in the water but had fun finding and skipping rocks. The big kids surprised me at how long they swam, double brrrr….
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