An Ode to Smalltown Things

Well as you can see from the blog's facelift, we are gearing up for the stockshow and rodeo coming up next week! This is just one thing that I have learned to enjoy since moving here and teaching at such a small school and my brother-in-law being involved in FFA. At our high school, there was not time for you to raise an animal and get it "show ready" if you were involved in sports, but out here, if you have the ability to do it, then you do! I have really grown to love seeing the pigs (our family's specialty) from when they are so little to when they are trucked off. I mean, it is amazing that those pigs have been around since a little after Berk was born which is kind of a cool thing. I hope that someday Berk will attend a small school and be able to raise an animal and then show it. I think it teaches the kids more about themselves than anything and definitely instills a sense of pride and responsibility. (The winning is definitely an added bonus!) But I think that is it...not a big poster this week, just counting down the days until Spring Break! The weather has been so nice up to this point and now all of a sudden we are having a cold spell! I wish Mother Nature would make up her mind and just let it be nice from here on out! But I am sure that besides the weather we will thoroughly enjoy ourselves; we are planning an outing to the zoo on Monday! Well, unless I get some cute pictures of Berk tonight, this will probably be my last post until after Spring Break and then I will probably need to make multiple posts because there will be so many pictures! Well hope everyone stays warm and have a great rest of the week!

Meadows

Here piggy piggy! Hopefully the one on the right (much bigger now) will bring home more than just the bacon for my brother-in-law!