Labor Day in Salem

The Van Dyk family spent the holiday weekend at the Oregon State fair in Salem. Van Dyk-S Holsteins had three animals showing in the Western National Show. We were happy with how the cows did and very proud of Kohl's high placement in the junior competition!

We were excited to be able to see some SPU friends while in Salem. We visited with Dan and his family on Sunday - and they even came to support us at the fair on Monday. Another wonderful surprise: Megan was home from NYC. It was so fun to see her and catch up!

Here are the guys in the barn. It was pretty late at night when I took this picture, and the picture above. I was a little worried about Hale missing sleep, but he is happy anywhere as long as he's with his dad.

This made me laugh: the girls were bleaching the cows tails...look how pretty it turned out!