Two weeks ago we made our second trip of the year to Wyoming. The first three days we spent in Cheyenne visiting with Aunt Tonia, Uncle Kent, Shaunelle and her new little baby AJ, cousin Kathy and cousin Destin. We arrived just in time to attend the Cheyenne Frontier Days Parade and Carnival. Lucas loved taking pictures with my camera at the parade and captured most of the floats and trucks that went by and Landon enjoyed polishing off the candy as soon as it was handed to him. He also got to see his first clown and received a token for being such a good sport. Even though the weather was rather blah we still went to the carnival where Lucas rode most of the kiddie rides and even dared to ride the Scrambler with cousin Kathy. While they were on the ride he told her he hoped he didn't fall asleep or throw up. :) Poor Landon was too little to ride anything so I persuaded one of the carney guys to let me go with him and promised to hold on to him. Then it was me who was hoping not to throw up. :)
The next three days we spent with Grandma Janice in Laramie where we also got to spend time with Aunt Terri, Aunt Tina and lots of other extended family members. We always go shopping in historic downtown Laramie and catch up on watching movies while staying at grandmas. The boys took their bikes on vacation with us so they spent a lot of time outside and at the park playing and riding bikes. They also love playing with the dogs in the family. Grandma said her dog Taby goes from room to room whining and looking for the boys when we leave. Very cute but kinda sad.
Steve got into town on Thursday and as always the boys were ecstatic to see daddy - and so was I. We spent the last three nights of vacation at Uncle Roberts. We went swimming Friday and then on Saturday we had a picnic and went hiking in Vedeuwoo which is just outside of Laramie and a couple of miles away from where Steve was finishing up his bike race. Lucas loved climbing & crawling up the rocks, scooting down the rocks on his bum and squeezing through the crevices. The cool thing is I grew up climbing the exact same rocks and they look pretty much the same (except they seemed even bigger when I was younger.) Lucas says every time we go to Wyoming he wants to go back to Heevawho (how he says Vedeuwoo - really pronounced Veedavoo). 
After hiking we drove the short distance to Happy Jack where Steve was to be finishing his 70 mile bike race - The Laramie Enduro. Sometimes it is hard to tell which rider is Steve and so the number of pictures each year are few and far between - plus he usually flies by us. :) He had a great race and said he felt really good the whole time (8 + hours) but his bike gave him trouble and that slowed him down a bit. I am still just amazed he can sit on a bike for that long and can't wait to do it again next year. 
After hiking we drove the short distance to Happy Jack where Steve was to be finishing his 70 mile bike race - The Laramie Enduro. Sometimes it is hard to tell which rider is Steve and so the number of pictures each year are few and far between - plus he usually flies by us. :) He had a great race and said he felt really good the whole time (8 + hours) but his bike gave him trouble and that slowed him down a bit. I am still just amazed he can sit on a bike for that long and can't wait to do it again next year. 
Saturday after the bike race we had to hurry back to town to get showered and ready to head to Grandma Janice's for a birthday barbecue extravaganza. We had a wonderful visit with family but come Sunday we were all ready to head for home. I was surprised when Uncle Robert's downstairs neighbors were not helping us load up the truck come Sunday morning. It is hard to teach two little wild and rambunctious boys not to run and jump around in such a short period of time.
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