The Chicken Show

Get it?? Catsup ...Catch up...That is definitely what I need to to here.  Unfortunately, I took a picture taking hiatus - inadvertently - but there are things to share, nonetheless.  I think last I posted, we had just come back from our family vacation in Lake of the Ozarks.

We returned back to backyard barbecues and late summer nights celebrating summer, and the 4th of July.  I don't have pictures, but believe me we had fun. We were very hot, and enjoyed lots of laughs.

Then we headed to Wayne, NE (birthplace of Brystal) for a Jones family reunion of sorts for Brystal's parent's 40th anniversary. (The actual big day is coming up on Sunday!) Wayne was having it's annual 'Chicken Days' celebration - which was a great memory growing up there. (Okay, she moved when she was 7, but  Chicken Days are one of the memories she has of living there.) We spent the weekend with cousins and Aunt Brielle and Aunt Brittney.

First up there was the parade...the very, very long parade. Here are a few shots of that: (our shirts were designed by Brystal's brother, to commemorate the anniversary and Chicken Days - they read "A 40 Year L-egg-acy" (that was Brystal's creative contribution to the design) and had little chickens and chicks for each of us, complete with a cracking egg for our soon to be born niece. (She was born two days later!!)

Here comes the chicken!!

Jackpot!

He's having a fabulous time...can you tell?

Then we headed to Bressler Park (right across the street from Brystal's 1st house) for all the chic hen Show contests. First we participated in the 'Chicken Feed' a chicken dinner provided by the local Rotary chapter. The we spent some time playing at the park before heading over to the contest sites.

Thanks for the free ice cream...some company.

Titus and Caden reach perfect balance...with out yoga.

He was having fun, even though this looks as if he is in pain.

Next was the contests.  WE watched chickens begin pushed out of mailboxes with a plunger in the "Chicken Flying Contest"  we watched a girl gag in the "Hard Boiled Egg Eating Contest".  We listened to the fabulous imitations of chickens in the "National Cluck Off" and we screamed our heads of for our favorite, albeit non-traditional, chicken legs in the "Chicken Legs Contest". Tessie, Trace, and Corinne participated in the kids division, and this bad boy won second place in the adult division - second only to the British film star who was there filming a reality movie.

Those are legit!

Proof! What a competitor.

We then headed over to the "Chicken Chuck Contest" where kids got three tries to throw a rubber chicken as far as they could. (You can't make these things up, people):

We might not be centered (thanks - random 4H girl), but we are all here!
MISSING: Michael, Brandon, Emily :(

We headed back to Brystal's Aunt and Uncle's farm for a wonderful meal and celebration of Ron and Karen's Anniversary - complete with 4-wheeler and horse rides. That farm is so stinkin' fun!!

Dave gave lots of rides...including to Brystal.  She did have a moment of
envisioning her death by farm 4-wheeler  -
despite her appearance of enjoying herself, here. ;)

Trent's 1st horse ride

The big Jones clan.

We had a fun time, as always.  And Trent waited to barf only 15 miles from home. So close.