The Hurd Family

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

2008 World Pork Expo

2008 World Pork Expo in Des Moines

Ashley and Ryan got to show pigs for the 1st time. Even Honey got to go for a couple of days. Ashley got 2nd, 5th and 8th place. Ryan got 9th place. Daddy got Grand Champion Spot Boar and Reserve Champ Duroc. His boar sold for $9000 to a boar stud and another boar stud followed him home on Saturday and bought 3 more. Daddy was pretty happy.

Here's Ryan with his pig. He got pretty attached to him. He didn't want his pig to have to go to the truck and be taken away.

Ashley showing her Duroc

I took the kids to the Machine Shed for dinner one night. We had a great meal!

Ashley & Honey in front of her Duroc gilt.

Ryan Baseball Pictures

This is Ryan's 1st year of baseball. Daddy is the coach and mommy helps in the dugout. We have found that the boys are a little more challenging to coach than the girls. They have a lot of energy.

Here's Ryan before his 1st game.

And here's the team. Did I mention they are full of energy...

Ready for the ball.

Miles Christopher Simonsen

Meet my new nephew! Miles Christopher Simonsen was born on Thursday, June 5th at 7:55 a.m. He was 7 lbs 6 oz and was 20" long. He looks like an angel and Becky said he is sleeping like Sophia did for them (they have to wake the baby up instead of the other way around). We can't wait to meet you Miles!!

Congratulations Becky, Chris and Sophia

Sunday, May 25, 2008

Happy 10th Birthday Ashley!!

Look what Ashley got for her birthday - a golden retriever puppy she named "Honey". Isn't she beautiful!

Look what we got!

The puppy really liked Jacob and chased him around. Jacob would shake his finger and say No no puppy to him.

Ryan got to go to Wisner, NE to pick out the puppy with Daddy. He called to say we should "Keep her forever" when he called me to tell me he got one.

Here are the cakes Grandma Terry made. Aren't they great! The kids said she is the best cooker in the entire world. I would have to agree.

And as always here's Jacob enjoying the cake :-)

It was a great birthday. Grandma Jackie and Grandpa Bill, Grandma Ruth, Aunt Debbie, Grandma Shirley, Gramma Ginny and Grandpa Mike, Grandma Terry and Bappa and Rachael drove all the way from Sheffield just for the party. Thank you everyone for coming. It was a great day.

Last Day of School

Friday was the last day of school. They had a track meet until 11:30 then got the rest of the day off. The weather was terrible and Jacob and I would run down to watch their event then run back to the Trailblazer to get out of the wind. It was freezing. They did pretty good and had a lot of fun.

Here's Ryan in the sack race.

Here's Ashley getting ready for her sack race.

Ryan and Gretchen competing in the 3-legged race.

Kindergarten 50 meter dash. There's Ryan on the end in the yellow pants.

Ryan gets 3rd place - Good job Ryan.

Sunday, May 18, 2008

Weekend at Rachael and Lon's

On Saturday morning we left to go stay at Rachael & Lon's house in Sheffield, IA. Here we had just arrived and were greeted by Tonka and Kaiser, their 2 St. Bernard dogs. Rachael had to pen them up so we could get out of the vehicle. After that they settled down and were able to be loose. Ashley had so much fun playing with the dogs.

Sure enough we weren't there more than 10 minutes when Jacob found the closet her vacuum was in. She had a door sized mirror on that closet and I thought he was looking at himself but he somehow knew that was were the vacuum was. He had it out the entire time.

We went to a lake and had a picnic. Here are Ash & Ryan finding snails and snail shells.

Picture with Rachael

The lake had a really cool dam. The kids just loved it.

We had a really fun time - thanks Rachael and Lon!! And if you ever need to break into a vehicle, just ask Lon. (the keys got locked in my vehicle and he got us unlocked) :-)