Stampede 2012

In the past Mark and I haven't done much Stampede-wise. But this year we seem to have really gotten into the spirit of things. We kicked off the week with an awesome pancake breakfast at the Museum of the Regiments (thank you Randell Hahn and the Investor's Group). Everyone enjoyed the food immensely.

Chatting with the clown over breakfast.

We found Randell over at the cotton candy station where he gave Katie the LARGEST cotton candy and one major sugar high! 

Logan enjoyed playing the games...

... while Katie got her face painted.

And then on Saturday morning we joined Robyn at the Bowness Stampede Parade.

The kids had a riot and enjoyed all the free candy that was chucked their way.

Then that afternoon we headed down to the Stampede grounds for the first time in almost 10 years. For Christmas my parents had given us tickets to the rodeo and chuck wagons/grandstand show. It was HOT during the rodeo! 

The bulls were getting their fair share of payback today! One trapped a rodeo clown in the barrel and proceeded to knock him around the entire field.

In between the rodeo and the chucks we walked around the Stampede grounds. We played a few games of wack-a-mole on the midway and filled up on traditional stampede food.

We had a lot of fun at the chucks trying to predict winners. Robyn and I's theory of selecting wagon's by their driver's good looks didn't quite pan out though.

For me though, the highlight of the day was seeing Paul Brandt perform in the grandstand show. Actually, the entire grandstand show was just amazing. The fireworks this year rival the ones at Disney. I would DEFINITELY recommend trying to get tickets to see it!

Thank you so so so much to Mom and Dad Wiens for watching Carson for us, and to Louis and Niki for watching the other two hooligans!