Taylor family visits

My Mom, Dad, and Libby came to visit us. We had a great time with them. BSU played on a Wednesday night and they got up early on Thursday and started the drive to Colorado. They stopped and had lunch with my Grandpa and Uncle and Aunt. My parents were going to stay the night along the way, but they decided to drive all the way. The arrived late Thursday night, but Brayden was so excited when he woke and realized Libby was on the couch. As Grandma came down the stairs we was beginning to realize that Grandpa must be here too. He climbed the stairs and knocked on the door until he opened it. He was attached to Grandpa the rest of the trip. On Friday we were able to relax and spend some time together until that evening we headed down to the CU campus and watched Ralphie run. Of course Brayden wanted to be right by Grandpa, until he saw Max Helfrich.Brayden and Max loved watching Ralphie.
They got right up to rail to watch him run by. It was so cute to see how much much fun they were having.

Run, Ralphie Run! We have a new Ralphie this year, and she is so fast.

After we watched Ralphie we headed down to Pearl St. to the CU Parade. Brayden of course loved giving high fives and pounds to the football team. He even gave high five to Coach Hawkins.
On Sunday we celebrated Libby's birthday. We had just gotten back from a walk, and Brayden started having a reaction, so he got to have some cake right before bed.
Monday we drove to Denver and toured the US Mint. Brayden liked to find all the flags and started saying money. After the tour we drove up to Fort Collins to check out the campus. Brayden carried his CU football all over the campus.

On Tuesday we drove up to Estes Park. It was a beautiful drive with all the leaves changing colors. We stopped at the Stanley Hotel; which is where The Shining was filmed. It was an awesome view from the hotel.
We were on our way out of town and decided to take the Peak to Peak highway home. It was awesome and right as we were leaving there were two big elk right on the side of the road. We pulled over and made sure Brayden got a good look at them.
Brayden took a nap as we headed back down to Boulder. It was an amazing drive, it was beautiful. We walked up to Boulder Falls. Brayden loved to watch the water, we could hardly get him to look at the camera for a picture. We had a great week with my family and we are excited to see them in a few weeks in California.