We are home! Home sweet, Texas home! Another Jr. National Hereford Expo is behind us and we made memories to last a lifetime again!!
Our Audrey thrilled us all with her Reserve Champion in Jr. Showmanship and loves her belt buckle prize and new halter! Her heifer About Time helped her achieve this huge honor and we couldn't be more proud of her! It's every showman's secret desire to place in showmanship on the national scale!
Our Audrey and her buckle she won for winning Reserve Jr. Showmanship. Showmanship contest in cattle shows judge the showman and how they handle their heifer in the ring.
We are so proud of her!
A special thank you to Live Auction TV for broadcasting this contest so our big sister at home could watch her win! Thank you also to Sullivan's Show Supply for once again sponsoring this great contest!
Also a HUGE than you to the American Hereford Association, National Jr. Hereford Association and Amy Cowan their Youth Director, and the National Hereford Women for once again putting together another great show. To the Delegations from the eastern states and especially Pennsylvania, the Howe and Firestine families, thank you from the bottom of our hearts and stomachs. The meal plans, barn facilities and your beautiful area of the country are forever etched in our memories as a Jr. Nationals and cowcation we will never forget! And to Diane Johnson for manning our HYFA Club! You all deserve a standing ovation!
And last and certainly not least a special thank you to the team at Sure Champ VitaFerm for once again helping sponsor the Jr. National Hereford Expo and therefore enabling our future generations as you do! It's an honor and a privilege to say I get to share recipes on your site, but most importantly the you impact so many families in such a positive way! Rest Team Sure Champ....your summer has been a busy one!
Check out my newest blog recipe entries for Sure Champ VitaFerm at Recipes From The Ranch! You'll find my linked recipes here (just click on colored name link in this sentence) for Sure Champ Pico de Gallo, our new Sure Winner Peach Ice Cream and The Ranch Kitchen's Garden Squash and Zucchini all with a Sure Champ theme!
Enjoy your summer and for those of you now officially off the show road for a small break...rest, and remember the reason we do this show thing is that while spending the quality time and funds that it takes, ultimately raises hard working, self sufficient kids and allow us to continually advocate agriculture.
Its takes a lot of time in the barn and time in the trim shoot to get our heifer 'NH About Time' ready for the show ring! A special thank you to the crew at Rainbow Cattle Company, Mark, Jade, and Chad for their care of our cattle and working so well with especially our Audrey and our family on this long trip to Pennsylvania and our first time to let someone else haul our Hereford cattle! This allowed for some much needed family time and sightseeing!
This final shot was on our last day of showing thanks to my friend and supporter Stephanie Keahey of Texas! She captured a sweet, sweet moment between our daughter and her dad.
A picture I like to think that puts what we do as a family all in perspective!
I will always cherish this photo! Thanks Stephanie!
Alise - The Ranch Kitchen
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