Frontier Days

 "Daddy of 'em All"

 Jake the Bullrider

 Walker the Bullrider

 Anderson the Bullrider

 Want popcorn?

 Anderson kept pointing at the bulls and saying "moooooo!"

 Bareback riding

 Steer wrestling- my personal favorite event

 The cowboys had to jump of the horse, wrestle the steer to the ground, and turn it up on all fours in the quickest amount of time.

 This bullrider almost died two years ago- I was a nervous wreck watching him.  He got bucked off right before 8 seconds.

 A display tepee in Indian Village.  Crazy thing was that there was a section of tepees that were roped off where real Indians live! 

 This was the closest my boys got to riding anything all day.  Hahaha!

There was a carnival outside of the rodeo, but a storm was rolling in so we didn't have long to spend there.  I gave the boys one shot at one of the games, and they both came back with these things.  They chose a basketball game and both nailed it.  Hahaha!  We were "those people" leaving the carnival with big ole stuffed animals.

The cutest cowboy I ever did see.

 

This was Tyson's last weekend before going into "lockdown" for football season, so we went out with a bang at Frontier Days in Cheyenne, Wyoming.  For those of you familiar with the movie "8 Seconds," this is the rodeo where Lane Frost died.  Luckily, no one was injured when we were there, though, but it was still hard not to get emotional thinking about it.

 

This was my first rodeo as well as the kids, and I loved every second of it.  The boys started getting bored after the first round of events, so we beat the crowd out and walked around Frontier Park.  We did a little shopping, visited Indian Village, bought a lot of carnival food, and played a carnival game.  The Friends and the Bobos also went, so we enjoyed our time with them as well. 

 

This was such a cool experience!  I'm so sad to see our adventures come to an end as Tyson starts back to work.  :(