What do we do Mother's Day weekend? For the last 20+ years it's been spent at the Dixon May Fair because my kids have been showing livestock. My youngest is a senior and this is his last year (or maybe next to last) showing his dairy goats. This is Trista, who was State Fair Champion last year.

Chris had help showing his kids--they would have had the Cute Award if there was one.

Chris has won Dairy Goat Showmanship every year that he has showed. That means that he enters Supreme Showmanship in which the winners in all the other species compete. They show beef cattle, dairy cattle, meat goats, dairy goats, swine, and sheep. Here is Chris showing a dairy cow. Chris has won Supreme Showmanship in the past but was 2nd behind one of his Dixon FFA friends this year.

Now Chris says that he'll need to come back and show next year so that he can win Supreme Showmanship. He is eligible to show in FFA for one year after high school. The trick is to figure out who will be maintaining the goat herd if he is off at a job, school, etc. Hmmm, that would be me.