Trip to Missouri!

After our trip to Arkansas to watch Hanna graduate, Kiana and I took a trip up to stay with my dad in Missouri for the rest of the week. We were so grateful that my dad and Maxine were willing to drive the six or so hours to come pick us up. We figured since we were at least in that part of the country why not make a bigger trip out of it. Grant had to get back to work so her pretty much flew in and flew out for the weekend. Below are a bunch of pictures that were taking during the week we were there.

Here is Kiana with her Grandma Maxine, she seemed awfully tired the next day after the long drive. This was odd since she slept most the way. Kiana took a little while to get used to the humidity in MO and AR. In Colorado there's no humidity so whether it's 50 degrees or 90 degrees it all kind of feels the same when the sun's shinning. So the humidity was an odd shock, she was extra thirsty and it took me a couple days to catch up to her needs.

Kiana got to meet a lot more Aunt's and Uncle's this week. My brother Mike, his wife Mary, Maxine's brother Robert and his wife Deanna all live in Jefferson City.

Here she is having fun with her Uncle Mike!

Just hanging out at Uncle Mike and Aunt Mary's!

We went to the local nature center one day, Kiana slept the first time we walked through so we had to go back and show her all the cool animals. I guess this Mountain Lion was hit by a car just 15 miles from Jefferson City! Odd, he must have really been lost!

She knew she was going to meet some fish friends, so she wore her fish outfit especially for the occasion.

Maxine's parents Ralph and Marie also live in Jefferson City, so she got to spend time and meet more Great-Grandparents!

Just another picture of her standing on her own!

She's just about the exact same size as the doll that was sitting in the chair!

The last couple days the humidity dropped so we went for an evening stroll around one of the lakes. There was a part there so Kiana got to take her first ride down a slide!

They didn't have any baby swings so she got to swing with me! She seemed to have a good time!

We were flying out of Kansas City on the way home and Grammy Cindy just happened to be flying into the airport earlier that day. She had just spent the week with Will, Erin and Colin in D.C. She she flew in earlier then I had to take off we went to the airport a few hours earlier so she could spend a little bit of time with Kiana.

Here she is just wondering, "Grammy how do you see through those?"

Kiana was such a good little traveler, the flight home was two hours long and she slept the whole time!!!