Fall Foliage Drive

Since this will be our last fall in Colorado, I was begging for Mike to take me on a drive through the mountains to see the beautiful foliage. 

 

He finally gave in and we headed north about 3 1/2 hours to Estes Park.  Then we turned south onto Colorado's oldest scenic byway--established in 1918.  This was taken just south of Estes Park.

 

 

We ate a picnic lunch at Lily Lake with a great view of Longs Peak (the one with snow on it).

 

This was the best (sadly enough...)  of many attempts to get a decent picture of the kids.  You can clearly tell that my 5, 4 and 2 year old were not cooperating. 

 

We had to get back for game night with our small group (which I did not want to miss of course),  so there wasn't much time to stop.  Mike was gracious enough to allow me several quick photo ops when he pulled over to the side of the road along with dozens of other cars.

 

These are a couple of pictures from the weekend before.  We saw Curious George at Toy Station.

 

Ezra and Jonas with some Star Wars storm troopers at an Austim Speaks walk we participated in.