Brooklyn turned 9! She wanted to have a lot of friends over to Grandma Mac's house to swim! So, we invited them and at the end of the day all but two were able to come! I think it was a little overwhelming for her because there were a couple of times that she cried. I think it wasn't quite turning out how she thought it would. The pool was crowded and some of her friends weren't getting along with each other. Oh well. In the end it worked out great. It just took them awhile to remember that they were all friends. So they swam and we had pizza and cake and ice cream. But one thing that we learned about Brooklyn's friends and Grandma really know her! She received 15 stuffed animals! Which meant she hit her goal! She had 100+ in her collection. As everyone was headed out there was a tornado warning. *Crazy.* It rained hard for about 15 minutes and when we got home, we realize that we had missed out on a major hail storm that had struck on the east side of town. The h...
This year at the fair, we gorged ourselves on good food and made sure to do all the things we wanted, because the farm is slated to be sold in December. The kids have worked so hard to help break the heifers to lead. We drove out to the farm twice a day for weeks and weeks to teach Mel B, Hazelnut, Cocoa, Paige Turner, Red Pepper, Dancer, and Lil Red to lead to water. We had extra help at the fair, too. Alex Chandler, a return missionary who served here in Idaho Falls, came back to the area to go to school but she had exactly two weeks where she we never was free to help us on the dairy and at the fair.