CA Trip - SLO, CA

San Luis Obispo, CA...what a great place. This was the vacation part of the trip and also the work part of the trip. We stayed at the Spyglass Inn on the cliffs of Shell Beach where we could take in the ocean a little each day. We could see a couple of the old surf spots we used to go to when we were in school at Cal Poly. No swell the days we were there though...it was pretty flat. But, the view was beautiful nontheless.

While in town we went to lunch with some clients and got to see several friends that we hadn't seen for a while. Had a tri-tip sandwich at Firestones (i highly recommend you have one sometime if you never have) and enjoyed an evening at Farmer's Market. We made it over to Cal Poly and got to tour the campus some and see everything that has changed since we graduated. And the weather was beautiful. Sure was nice to visit.

More pics from our CA trip: http://picasaweb.google.com/jasen.bankson/CATrip

CA Trip - L.A. & Ventura

We headed down to L.A. to visit some more family down there and have another open house where we got to catch up with some family there that we hadn't seen in quite a while. It was great to see everyone and we really enjoyed seeing and catching up with everybody. Aunt Mollie (in the picture above) is Blake's Great Aunt. Doesn't she look great for being 92? Wow, hope we got some of those genes :-)

After the couple days we were in L.A. we headed up the coast to Ventura. On the way there we stopped in Santa Monica and a couple beaches up the coast to visit the ocean. That's one thing that we don't see much of in CO. We had a nice time walking around, feeling the sea breeze and smelling the salty air. The weather was good (no marine layer) and it was warm. It was great. We had lunch at our old workplace (while we were living in Kona, HI), Bubba Gumps. It was good...reminiscent...

In Ventura we caught up to some friends from college and got to meet their little girl. We hadn't seen them in quite a while...it was fun to hear how things are going and what they are up to these days.

On to SLO, CA...tri-tip sandwich here we come...

For more pictures from the trip go here: http://picasaweb.google.com/jasen.bankson/CATrip

CA Trip - Hesperia, CA

Next we made a stop to see the Bankson family in the desert and Blake had a chance to see grammy and grampy, Auntie M and Auntie Rae, Uncle Kasey and his great grandparents. It was great. Sure was nice to see everybody and we had a great time visiting.

We had an open house and had a bunch of friends over, some that we hadn't seen for quite a while, and it was great to catch up with everyone. Thanks to everyone that came we really enjoyed seeing and hearing how all of you are doing.

Kona (Rhodesian Ridgeback) and Pearl (Puggle) had a great time playing together. Check out this great pictures we got of them playing :-) This really was friendly. They had a great time playing together and it was funny to watch since Pearl could run under Kona. It made it really hard for Kona to catch Pearl.

CA Trip Pics...
http://picasaweb.google.com/jasen.bankson/CATrip

CA Trip - St. George, Utah

Well, the trip started with our first stop in St. George, UT visiting Abby's grandparents. We had a nice time visiting with them and Abby's aunt, cousin and their new baby boy. The two babies seemed to like each other a lot and would look at each other and smile. I think they liked seeing another baby that was the same size :-)

While in Utah we had a chance to make a trip up to Zion National Park for a day and do a little exploring and hiking. What a beautiful place. Sure was fun to get to see that.

We had a really nice time visiting them and look forward to seeing them again soon, later in the trip.



CA trip pictures...
http://picasaweb.google.com/jasen.bankson/CATrip

More Smiles

Blake is slowly starting to perfect the art of smiling and continues to get cuter every day as he learns. He seems to be the most smiley when we change his diaper (not sure why that is, but he sure is happy). Just this last week he started trying to copy us too...so if we make a noise at him then he tries to copy it sometimes and then will giggle and smile when he can do it. Pretty funny to watch.

We also discovered that if we hold him up to a mirror that he'll look at himself and if he starts smiling he can entertain himself by smiling and seeing it in the mirror. It was hilarious.

Check out some new pics...

http://picasaweb.google.com/jasen.bankson/11012008