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Sunday, June 29, 2008

Father's Day 2008

A few scenic pictures.


The mining treasures.




For Father’s Day this year Ken decided that he wanted to drive up to the summit of Pikes Peak Mountain. At the summit of the mountain you are at 14,110 above sea level! The drive is only about 18 miles, but it took about an hour up and more coming down! It was beautiful at the top, but the air is very thin and it didn’t feel the greatest. We didn't stay at the top long and I swear on the way down I passed out from a low oxygen level. When I came too, we were at a much better altitude and felt back to normal. At a check point on the way down a Fish and Game guy checks the temperature of your brakes. If they are over 300° you have to pull over and allow them to cool down since you are about to start the steepest decent. (They have “strategically” placed a gift shop at this very location!) Of course, the Fish and Game guy zaps our brakes and they are a smoldering 318 degrees! So while we sat with the hood up to help the cooling process the girls noticed a mining stream set up outside the gift shop. Apparently you can buy a bad of dirt of $10 in the gift shop but the girls just “re-panned” the left over dirt and found lots of treasures. After watching the girls pull out treasure after treasure I went and tried my hand at it!

You will notice in the pictures that the girls are dressed in warm clothes and jackets. When we started out to the top the temperature was 87° by the time we got to the top the temperature had dropped to 47°!

Friday, June 27, 2008

Announcing Princess Meghan....




Grandma Kerns sent a treasure box full of Disney Princess Costumes! The girl is in heaven playing dress-up! She can finally wear some earrings without "devastating" her Dad! These pictures speak for themselves.

My baby is 3!!!

On June 16, my little baby turned three! I can not believe how fast Meghan has grown up! She had a great birthday dinner at Johnny Carino's and then we had a birthday BBQ for her at the house on Saturday. She loved playing in the pool with all of her friends.






Educational woes...

After doing some serious soul searching I have decided to change my major in school. I was in the Surgical Tech program and am now going to go into Medical Coding and Billing. I spoke to my advisor today and I’m going to the school to fill out my “Change of Major” form, change my schedule and exchange my books. I really feel good about this and feel like it’s the right thing to do for me and my family. I’m thankful that I realized this before I had taken a bunch of classes that I didn’t need! So now I can enjoy my time off of school and get ready to hit the books again on July 7th!