Jenson family reunion 2013

From July 4-7 this year we had our biannual Jenson family reunion. SO much fun! This time it was in Lompoc, CA where my dad and his siblings grew up. I was pretty darn excited to see his hometown and just for a road trip in general. Also I don't get to see our family too much since everyone is so spread out, and I love getting together and enjoying everyone's sense of humor. 

Thursday night-HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!-we all went out to dinner and then to a spectacular fireworks show. I was interested to see what Colban would do...he watched them, fascinated, for about half the show, and then buried his head into my chest and went to sleep. So sweet! I'm sad I didn't think to take pictures of his little face, but I was too mesmerized by the fireworks myself.

Colban madly wanted to eat the KFC container and fought desperately to get it in his mouth

Friday was a BLAST! We all got onto a tour bus and rode around Lompoc hearing about the neat landmarks that were meaningful to my dad's family. My favorite was the story of my grandpa becoming the "pieman" to help pay for the building of their church, which we got to see.

I call the back seat! Finally Colban got his wish of riding around NOT in a car seat

we ended our tour at Jalama beach, where we picnicked and played for most of the afternoon. I even got to dig for sand crabs with Miles...one of my favorite parts of the beach!

Melissa wins the photo bomb contest on this one!

Sadly I didn't get any pictures of our family game night that night. We were lame and left early to get Colban to bed. Boo. Also I always forget to use the camera!

Saturday we went up to Nojoqui Falls for a BBQ and hike. The falls didn't have much water this year(see the moss below?) but the area was gorgeously pretty. We had a great time walking up there and managed to escape the crazy biting flies! Most of all I just liked hearing everyone talk and catch up during the BBQ.

That night my Mom babysat Colban so we could go to Solvang and see an outdoor performance of "Fiddler on the Roof." I definitely want to go back there for a day trip sometime! Plus the play was amazing! They had some really talented singers, a REAL violin player(yay!) and the dancing seemed professional to me--I was so impressed! My only beef was that they went to the effort of making Russian signs for things but didn't use real Russian. Why do people DO that?!

Can you find me? I'm the one with my head facing backwards.

aaaaand...bonus! We of course forgot our pack'n'play, so Colban slept in the bed between us at night. He loved it! I loved him snuggling up to me, but didn't get much sleep, since I didn't want to roll on him and he kept getting closer and closer! :) 

You can see his little smile here. So satisfied.