Last Week

Our week started out with completing Zeaks science fair project.

Wed was steer weigh ins for the county fair. Zeak's steer was average weight. Jake's steer needs to eat a little more. But they are having fun and I got a little more involved this year. I have been better at taking pictures and last night when they got out I even went and helped Zeak get them back in. Dan was proud of me.

Thursday Zeak presented his science fair project to his class. He did a great job. Usually Zeak is so easy going he doesn't get nervous but he was really nervous. It was funny to see this side of him. You wouldn't think that someone who has no problem talking to anyone at any time would be scared.


Friday after the science fair we checked the boys out of school dropped Kaci off at Grandma Woodlands and headed to Salina. It was our 2nd Little Britches Rodeo for the year. Friday night Zeak had a rough night. He tied his goat pretty good but his roping was way off. So after freezing in the horse trailor all night he regrouped and had a much better day on Saturday. When I say we froze friday night I am not kidding Sat morning the truck themometer read 24 degrees. I told Dan if we are going to do this we need to work on a living quarter trailor. Enough wining and on to the real story. Zeak's first event was breakaway. He caught his time wasn's good enough to place but we caught wich set the pace for the rest of the day. His goats were ok we just need to work on getting off he is not comfortable getting off yet so that is going to be our focus for the next few weeks. Ribbon roping he was going for horns and if their would have been some he would have had a great time. To bad there were no horns. Team roping is our event it is what he lives for. He had a 8.20 +5 it was awesome and they took 2nd. That night we had a Jack Pot roping. Dan and Zeak caught every steer we just had some tuff luck on the heeling end Rachel and Zeak made it to the second round but had some tuff luck. Thanks for all of the fun this weekend. We do love to rodeo. Thanks Grandma & Grandpa for taking Kaci it was to cold and to long for her to be there. Although we really missed her being with us. Thanks to all of Zeaks fans that called to see how he did.

This week started off crazy. We got home from Salina and in bed about 1:30 am Sunday morning at 3:00 am we got a call that there had been a fire in Lake Shore. A building that Dan built for his Uncle Chris's chicken farm had burned down. So Sunday morning at nine Dan had a crew of 4 guys and they went to work. They only had about 48 hours to tear down and rebuild. This building was part of the processing plant and eveyday it was down it cost the Chicken Farm thousands of dollars. Dan was home last night about 6:00 this is the earliest I have seen him in two days but they did it. He said it is a miracle but non the less it was done and yesterday morning they started processing at 5:00 am. It is good to see that in this crazy world miracles still happen and their are still good people who are willing to serve others. Heres to a great week of miracles.