Nana and Great-Grandma and Grandpa Visit

From 2009-03-29

This last week we had the first visitors we have had in a while and Blake was excited! Since he is able to crawl around pretty well now and likes to do a lot of smiling and laughing he can be quite the center of attention. Blake hadn't seen Nana or Great G & G since Thanksgiving so he had quite a few new things he had learned since then to show them.

From 2009-03-29

From 2009-03-29

The girls, and Blake, spent a good part of the days hanging out, shopping and enjoying time together. Then Thursday (when great grandpa was supposed to arrive) we got the biggest snow storm (blizzard) of the season. check out some of these pictures. It was fun! We got to shovel a little snow together, enjoy the 2 feet of snow and then watch it melt...it's almost completely gone now (about 5 days later). It was nice to have a good snow storm since we haven't had any this year.

From 2009-03-29

Great Grandpa arrived Saturday morning and then we all met up at Keystone and did a little skiing/snowboarding. Blake was jealous, but had a good time hanging out with everybody at the lodge.

From 2009-03-29

Blake also got his first experience in a pool. We went over to the hotel one evening and did a little swimming. He really seemed to like it a lot. Makes us excited that he will hopefully really like the water as he gets a little older.

Getting Around

Getting Bigger

From 2009-03-20

It's been a few weeks since I have had a chance to post...things have been pretty busy lately and Blake's been learning how to crawl, so we've been a little busier keeping an eye on where he is off to. It's been pretty amazing to see how quickly he has gone from just barely being able to move to spotting something on the other side of the room and getting there.

Blake made a trip to Costco this week and got to take his first ride in the 'school bus'. Grammy Bankson gave Blake this cool shopping cart protectors that keeps him from sucking on the dirty carts...it worked great! He is really excited and proud to cruise around the store in his bus. He makes for a pretty good looking bus driver too :-)

From 2009-03-20

it's been fun to see him get more interested in some of his toys too. He is starting to play with things a lot more.

From 2009-03-20

Learning to Crawl

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With a lot of our family out in CA we try to do 'video visits' with them as often as we can. Blake gets excited about seeing his grandparents on the screen and is starting to reach for the computer when he's close enough to it....gotta keep an eye on this guy...he's adventurous

We got out and did some hiking this weekend with some friends..the weather has been really nice, so we've been enjoying the outdoors. Blake has moved from the front pack to the backpack and so far he seems to really like it. The only time he didn't like it so much was when we went snowshoeing with him in the back and he was so wrapped up he couldn't move. Every time since he has really liked it...he looks around, kicks me in the back and screams in my ears...glad he enjoys it :-)

From 2009-03-04

From 2009-03-04

More Pictures: 2009-03-04

Ski Loveland

Last weekend we had a chance to go boarding with some friends from Abby's work. It was a lot of fun for all of us...including Blake. We headed up to Loveland (hadn't been there before) and it was great! Conditions were good and the mountain was a lot of fun. Our friends have a little boy that is about the same age as Blake so the boys came along and we traded off watching them in the lodge. It worked out really well. We all got some boarding in, we all got some relaxing in and the two boys got to hang out and try to roll over...who could ask for more :-)

From 2009-02-21

Blake has been working on his sitting up and has been making attempts to get up on all four try some crawling...probably won't be long and he's going to be on the move...

More Pictures: 2009-02-21