Fall outing?? Feels more like winter!

For the up coming weekend (10/08) we planned to spend a nice fall Saturday at RMNP, watching the elk and viewing the colors. The weather was not as accommodating as we had hoped. We woak to grey drizzly skies and reports of snow in Estes Park. We thought about staying home and dong nothing but figured why not? Lets go! 

It was kind of a magical winter world with all the colors of fall. I miss living in the mountains sometimes. We had fun, ate our picnic lunch in the van, watched & listened to the elk, tried not to get stuck in the muddy ditch, and Justin even did a little fly fishing along a very snowy river! So glad we made the trip.  

I was hoping to get a good family portrait on this trip... We'll have to try again later. 

 

 Here we are at Bear Lake, elevation 9450. Not a very long trail to hike up from the parking lot. But in the slippery snow it was interesting. The kids basically slid their way back to the car. (not really sure why I included the elevation!)

 

 That would be 3 wild turkeys! What a surprise, didn't realize they lived in the park.

October Blizzard but we still went out for Halloween

Our first blizzard of the winter hit on 10/28 by the next day we had 18 inches of snow. That seemed to be a little much for Corbin but the others loved it the fact that got two snowdays(no school). This is actually when we got all our pumpkin carving done. It was good wet snow and Coltin discovered the skull face that was created by the drifts.

Here are our little trick-or-treaters. This year Corbin joined in and kept up just fine. He would say "Raaarrr, tiker teet". He even said thank you more often than the others.

Our little lion and fairy princess all bundled up. It turned out it was not as cold as we thought, and well over half of the snow was melted. I just love that about the front range.

Everitt was a mighty hunter supposed to protect the princess from Coltin, the wild dragon.

Coltin had made this mask for fun and liked it so much he wanted to turn it into a costume. So this year we had simple but creative costumes, and cheep!

Can you see the spikes and tail?

Alayna loved helping hand out candy, after she got home from trick or treating.

2009 Blizzard - March 26th

At least that is what this last storm is being called by the news. It was great to finally get dumped on. Our winter was so dry. At the house I think we got almost 12 inches. (Last I measured it was just about 10" and that was probably 12 hrs before the storm ended. It did lighten up over night.) Anyway the kids totally loved it. Coltin even got to start his spring break a day early due to a snow day.