Summer Beef Expo

this past weekend, my fam and i, along with bahlmanns, went down to des moines for the summer beef expo.

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dustin and i did most of the fitting on the calves- which is something i am SO EXCITED about!!! =) we have been working for a very, very long time to get to the point that we can do this. in the past, we've had to have mom, dad, robyn, grandpa, anybody that can hold a clippers and a can of "goop" to help us or do it for us when we were littler. now, we can do it ALL BY OURSELVES!! =D i'm so proud of us =)

bahlmanns took their camper down so we wouldn't have to stay in a hotel. it was really fun- except for the thunder storm last night. but even that wasn't bad.

one of the coolest things was that today i got to talk to the gal taking the photos. she did the pics at winter expo, too, and she was soooo nice! it gave me the idea that maybe this is something i wanna do, if the NG thing doesn't work........or maybe i don't wanna do the NG thing......i dunno. i've got plenty of time to figure it out. anyway, the photographer- diane hamilton- told me about this girl out in ohio that might be willing to let me do an internship with her (SWEEEEEEET!!!- summer internship, of course. ya know, with that little thing called college in the way the rest of the time....heeheee) AND she told me about the place that she got her nikon d90 (coughBETHPAULSENcough) in DSM- they have AWESOME customer service and they let you try as many cameras as you want!!!! i'm definitely gonna check it out! =)

hope you all have a great week!

erica

ps- pics to come!! promise!