Deschutes County Fair 2021

 

Trying to take 4h pix w a very interested buck in the between the 2 does 🙈😄

EARL

OPAL

PRINCESS 

After his rabbits passed inspection Jax volunteered to be an inspector  to help get everyone checked in 

 

We camped at the fairgrounds again, in a different, larger, more spread out location. It was a pretty good hike into the fairgrounds or if your timing was good you could catch a ride on  the 'people mover' - a trailer being pulled by a tractor. 

The views were pretty from our spot, the weather cooperated, giving us some rain a couple mornings to help break up the high 90 temps

Jaxon in Showmanship working w his favorite judge Lana

Group members 

Winning a Blue and a callback

Being asked to represent the Small Animal Barn and talk about 4H and his projects w the local news - 

EARLY one morning (5AM!)

He did a great job, being in the spotlight and talking about himself is not something he loves, but he did well and had fun

Jaxon and his French Lops did very well this year! Winning Champion and Reserve Champion

Opal Was Overall Reserve Champion

Walking through the Nelly concert on our way to the Rodeo

Of course he needs to dunk the cheerleaders every year!

All of his club members had a really good year on the show table - lots of hard work paid off! 

Alexis showing Gilbert -

 I'm pretty sure she's talked Jax into showing goats next year!

Keeping cool

  It was a very warm summer, I've heard many say it was "too hot to do anything", how dare they 😉?! It just allows you to spend as much time as possible in the lakes and rivers! There are so many to explore and play in.

This is the Deschutes going through Bend. Kylee, Morgan and I paddling on down .

Took a little evening hike along a stretch of the Deschutes that runs through Tumalo, 

Jax swimming in the Crooked River w Maggie and Huck

Jumping into the Crooked River

Keeping cool

camping along

 We headed up the road to enjoy our remaining time off. We headed over Santiam Pass and camped, hiked and fly fished along the McKenzie River for a couple nights, and then floated Clear Lake.

Paddling w Huck

Jax and Maggie

Enjoying a very Clear and cold Lake!

〜Next Stop〜 

View from HooDoo looking at Mt. Washington

Then we headed to the top Santiam Pass for more camping, lake time and to get some riding in.

We dropped the trailer off on the pass at HooDoo, headed to town and home to restock and pick up the motorcycles and 4wheeler.

This is the view from HooDoo where we snowboard in the winter. We didn't realize this Big Lake was up there. When looking from this view in the winter it's frozen over and covered over in snow.

We camped just down the road from Big Lake, making it easy to access either the lake or the trails

Mitch's 4th of July Birthday

This Guy, for the longest time, has been wanting to change his birthday from an after Christmas birthday to a warm summer birthday. So, w the help of Morgan we made it 'official'. We asked family and friends to hold off on January cards and wishes until July. We celebrated his birthday all 4th of July weekend. 

 

We spent a whole day in one of his favorite places along the Deschutes River in Sunriver playing river volleyball, kayaking, paddling, and swimming.

River Volleyball - looks like Levi just saw his life flash before his eyes

Jumping in from the rope swing

Nathan

Kylee

Jaxon

I never could have guessed how many hours of entertainment jump roping would provide! It was so fun watching those jump that hadn't in years and then those that had never jumped rope. Once proficient 😄 in the single rope out came double dutch!

Golfing on the 4th of July is a yearly tradition. 

We had a nice big group and to Jax's happiness we used carts!

While out golfing the others headed to the swimming pool to cool off.

We even happened upon a concert in the canyon w great music! 

This girl is our drink maker extraordinaire 😁 and for the parties (and golf) her patriotic jello shots were a hit!

A little fireworks show

More volleyball in the backyard after a water balloon fight