We went for a girls' trip to Colorado a few weeks ago and had a GREAT time!  Thank you so much to my cousin Amber and Dom for hosting us and taking such good care of us!  I love my family because we excel at hanging out and visiting with each other.  I have almost all girl cousins and all but one of them were there for my cousin Maile's baby shower!  We are SO excited for her and her little peanut that is coming soon!  What will his name be??  That's a good question!

 We had beautiful weather in Denver for Maile's outdoor shower!

 Here's the guest of honor with some of her husband's family

 The theme was "Maile's little Peanut" and so we had peanuts and circus stuff everywhere:)

 You know what's funny:  I have so many blonde friends and when I get together with all of my cousins I feel like I actually blend in!  Here I am with all my cousins and my aunt Marcia and my niece (cousin's daughter) Rylie.  So fun to be with all of them!

Of course we were able to do all sorts of fun things while we were there!

 Tiegan did her Tahitian dance for us and was awesome!

 Teya did the Hula and was the best ever!

 We managed to get a family picture with everyone in it!  Thanks so much to Dom's friend who was there to take the photo!

Malia got lots of loving from her aunties and cousins (Hi Auntie Luann!)

 Malia bonded with her cousin who is 3 months younger, Kiyoshi.  They had a blast together!

 We celebrated my Uncle Marcus' birthday while we were there.  Lucky guy huh?  All these dark haired beauties and just him!  Tee hee!

 Malia played with her cousins and they took such good care of her!  She needs some siblings I think...

Malia went on a ride with a cute boy to the park

 There is still snow on the mountains in Colorado!  Crazy!  And it was so nice and hot there too while we were there!

My beautiful cousin Lori and the kids and me:)

 Malia with her poi ball. Yeah, she's a funny one this Malia.  She gets so fixated on certain things and won't let them out of her site (or grip) for hours and hours..  This day it was the poi ball.

 Malia with her Nana xoxo

 Fun at the local park

 Fun park day

Weird camera.  We're fuzzy and the background is clear.  I didn't bring my nicer camera with me.  Bummer dude.

 Dining out in Denver at this awesome restaurant that served bison and had a moose on the wall.

 Going to the Chalk Festival in downtown Denver

 

 It was hot and crowded but fun to see all the artwork and cruise the shops

 Just some of the neat stuff!

 Malia says, "I'm hot!  Let's find a place to cool off!"

And then we had to go home.  We were gone for 4 days and 3 nights.  We all shared one room with Malia.  We had a blast, but I am a light sleeper and Malia is noisy.  She did sleep right next to me one night and we cuddled which was the best thing ever.  It was good too since I missed Kirk. We are glad to be home.  We have been on the move a lot.  Malia had her first ear infection (the flying probably didn't help), AND she is going through her wonder week (s) where her schedule, sleeping, eating and temperament are off.  She is growing by leaps and bounds though!  I guess I'll have to blog about that another day.  Sorry, I'm tired and this post was kind of lame.  It'll be better next time!