Elvis Update #1

 Well, just like his namesake, Elvis is the most popular pig at the Ham Palace (yes, that's the name of their pig barn).  Everyone is in love with Elvis, and he's by far the favorite and the cutest.  

He's also the smallest little nugget of the bunch, but the way he loves to eat he should be putting on weight fast!

He weighed in at 27 pounds yesterday and is doing great. 

He is definitely getting used to Kyle who has him eating out of the palm of his hand (literally). 

Elvis has figured out that he gets fed after his walk, so he high tails it back to his pen for feeding time!

Same here, Elvis.  Same.

Goodbye Hammy

 Well, Hammy has graduated on to that big exercise wheel in the sky.  He seemed to be doing just fine, he was even hanging out in the living room during his last cage cleaning.

RIP Hammy. 

2 More

 Reed has had 2 more cross country meets.  He only has one more left, which will be the district meet.  Both of these have been evening meets, which has been a change from all the early mornings.

Last week he finished 7th.  He didn't love his time (it was a hard course, so everyone's times were slower) but I love this picture I snapped of him as he was about to finish. 

Not only did he finish 7th, but he did it with his shoes untied.

This week he was on the track.  He wanted to finish under 12 minutes, but we'll take 12:03. and a 4th place finish.

Blow Ups 2022

 And because homecoming and pig day and all of the other excitement wasn't enough, Saturday was October 1st, so you know what that means.

Kyle and Reed were up bright and early setting up their Halloween blow up display.  

They added a new little ghost pumpkin this year, which I think looks super cute. 

And all our neighbors are copying us, by putting out more and more blowups, but none of theirs look as good as ours...obviously. 

Meet Elvis

 Kyle was supposed to raise chickens for FFA (because we thought that would be easiest and we told him that's what he was doing) but Kyle wanted to raise a pig, and so, of course, now he's raising a pig. 

Yesterday was pig selection day.  

He had 11th pick, and his little pig might seem upset, but he didn't squeal nearly as loudly as some others! 

Kyle named his pig Elvis, and little Elvis got all moved in to his new home at the ag barn.

Elvis was a little nervous, but he seemed to settle in pretty well.  And by the time Kyle left him he was taking a nap.

And so it begins! 

HOCO 2022- Day 2

 I would up making 4 nosegays for homecoming.  2 for mine, and 2 for friends.  And I definitely feel like these deserve some tooting of my own horn!

Here's Reed's Saturday night

And Reed's afterparty included a mechanical bull in the front yard, because, of course it did. 

Kyle's Saturday night looked like this

I didn't get any pictures of Kyle's afterparty sent to me, but I have a picture of the cookies.

HOCO 22 Day 1

 I am flat worn out from homecoming weekend.  

2 groups of 2 days of 2 full lists of activities and nobody that can drive a car. 

I will say that Reed's group won the Friday night decorations, while Kyle's group won Saturday night.

Here's Kyle's Friday night

And Reed's Friday night

And then there was an actual football game, but yeah, we don't have any pictures of the reason they got all dressed up in the first place.