Western Festival

Last weekend in between all the Halloween parties we also went to one of our favorite festivals of the year, the Western Festival. Or sheep parade as we like to call it. The morning starts with a parade down Main street with tractors, horses and sheep. All of my boys (all three of them) favorite things. I mean sheep running right in front of you down Main street, how cool is that?

For those of you that have met Dewey you know he LOVES tractors. A tractor has now moved up his wish list past a gasp Harley. That in itself should tell you something :) When His dad (grandpa) bought a new tractor Dew got his old one. (I probably should know some details but I don't other then its way older then me) The plan is for both of them to fix them up for the parade next year. With this much tractor lovin going on you can imagine that the boys have caught on to the craze.

After the sheep parade was the tractor pulls. Once we got there we saw they were also holding tractor pulls for kids. Luke and Kolby jumped right in. They were both in the same weight class Kolby was the youngest participant.
He went first, so cute to watch. Dew was the coach

It was quite the little setup, the trailer they pulled was just like the big tractor pulls in mini version. The farther they pulled the heavy it got. The object was to pull it (peddle) as far as they could. Then the officials measured the distance.

Like everything he does Luke was very serious about it.

Drum roll please....... Luke took first place in his weight class!

Kolby came in second so they both got a ribbon. We were lucky to have Grandpa there to share the day with us.

The boys showing off their ribbons at home.

Such a fun day. Its amazing to me to watch the boys follow so closely to their dads footsteps. When I first heard this song "Watching you" I cried because it reminded me so much of Dew and the boys. I thought it was perfect for this occasion.
Luke was his class's "Happy camper" this week at school. We filled out a questionnaire and sent treats and pictures of him to show at school. Two of the questions on the questionnaire were "what do you want to be when you grow up?" Luke's answer was "A cowboy" (like dad) and "what do you like to do for fun?" Luke said "work outside with dad". It just warms my heart to hear this.