CFD

Cheyenne Frontier Days, or CFD as the locals call it, is a 10 day party in Cheyenne.  It is basically a rodeo/carnival/concerts/free activities.  We defiantly capitalized on it this year.
Saturday Evan and Autumn went to the parade.
Tuesday the kids and I went to the parade with Lyndzee and Jackson and checked out Frontier Village.
Wednesday is Cheyenne Day and Evan had the day off so we went to the Thunderbirds air show. [editor note: It was awesome. My first airshow, as cool as it looked, it sounded even better. I thought for sure Maverick was going to be the one crying but he was not. It was Violet.]
Thursday we went to the Indian Village and watched their historical dancing. Then off to the rodeo, which didn't last long as Autumn got bored.
By Friday I was tired, but Autumn went with her grandparents to the pancake breakfast held M,W,F.
Saturday the kids and I went to the parade...again

Evan also had his first night "on call"  he got a call in the middle of making a shake.  As a side note Evan really likes his new job.

Air show with the entire town.  The noise scared Violet, but Maverick seemed to like it alright.

One of their favorite past times

Penelope, Garrett, Sophie, (Dana, Kathryn, Renee)

"Dancing"

Rodeo

Emma and Autumn in her favorite outfit

Uncle Cameron warming up for the parade

First stop on the route

Grandpa marching with the parade as a "water boy"

Second place on the parade route (that is the state Capitol...I drive by it every week on my way to the library)

Maybe Maverick's all time favorite past time... sneaking into uncle Cameron's room and playing with his drums.

The usual

This is a usual occurrence in our household.  Maverick takes something from Violet.  She cries (sometimes) and he looks all innocent.

Luckily, Violet is easily going and usually will settle for another "toy"

I took the kids outside one afternoon to play (which doesn't happen very often since we don't have a fence in the front yard).

She got into Autumn's bowl of black berries before I could stop her and right before "picture time".

I bought these Little Tike cars at a garage sale for $10 each.  I was only going to buy one, but I'm glad I got all three!

Autumn being bossy

Cow Appreciation day at Chick-Fil-A.  The twiners were dressed up too but I didn't get a picture of them.

We've had road construction on our street going on 3 weeks now.  We haven't been able to park in front of our place for 2.5 weeks.  It is SO annoying.  I feel a bit guilty complaining, but hauling 3 kids down the street just to get to the car is a hassle. Plus it always seems like they are extra noisy at nap time.  Although it doesn't seem to affect the babes too much.

But they do like to look out the window at them (and yes that glass is filled with their finger prints).

Getting into things...again

10 months/ the Fourth

This is how the summer has been thus far...I never did finish putting away our winter gear.  So one day Autumn took her snow boots out to jump in some rain puddles...while in her bathing suit.

The babes are 10 months and are getting very hard to photograph.

After the pancake breakfast on the Fourth of July Evan says to me, "I want to start a tradition of taking the kids to the firework store and letting them pick something out."  Well just as I suspected Evan came back with a whole ton of fireworks.  So we spent all evening and into the night setting off fireworks.  Evan thought it would be safer to do them in the back yard on the grass instead of in the front in the big asphalt parking lot.  I quickly figured out by safer he meant...safer from the cops, not fires. [Editor's note: I wet all the surrounding areas including, fence, roof, grass, rooftops, grass on other side of fence for safety. I had the ground really wet...no problems. Autumn said multiple times while lighting fireworks, "This is the best day ever".]

Autumn wears this crown a lot in stead of doing her hair.

We took a break from doing our own fireworks and went to the top of our street to see the city fireworks.  Autumn fell asleep on my lap.  Then Evan did more fireworks.

This is often my view these days.  My children are all mobile, but not all of them know how to entertain themselves in a constructive manner, so the twins often get stuck in their seats.  As long as I continue to get them food they are happy.  They eat a lot.  They like fruit, peanut butter sandwiches, yogurt, Cheerios, Life cereal, pancakes, french toast, oatmeal, black olives (pretty much anything I give them)

They are quick.  They like to make music.  One of Maverick's favorite "toys" is an empty protein powder canister.  It makes a great drum...and it rolls.

Autumn loved this car when she was the twinners' age.  The kids love it too.  I don't often have time to push them around, but they like to play with it when it is on its side too.

Violet is a daddy's girl.  She'll often hold on to his leg during dinner too.

Maverick loves to play peek-a-boo with the curtain.

Maverick loves to get into the toilet, the plunger, the cupboard where I keep the cleaning supplies, and unrolling the toilet paper.  Violet loves outlets and taking all the wipes out of the wipes container.
The babes each only drink 24 oz of formula each day.  They are in size 3 diapers and rapidly growing out of their 9 month clothes.  Maverick now claps, and Violet is a fierce dancer.