Altitude Sickness and a Hike

Yep - I got it!! I had a headache, a bloody nose, fatigue (duh - a hike will do that to you), loss of appetite & some minor swelling. I put our hike into sparkpeople and it said I burned 3045 calories. Yeah - that's not a typo - it was over 3,000 calories burned!! WAHOOOO - Ummm, hello - then why didn't I lose any weight... that was until today. I think the swelling and all my symptoms finally left. I dropped 2lbs!!

The headache stayed with me the rest of camping and for a couple days afterwards. In fact it was finally gone today. I took it easy and didn't workout yesterday morning, rather had a leisure day and just hung out with Glenn, went to the pool and grocery shopped.

So while camping, we decided to go on a hike with everyone. According to an app on my phone, Brainard Lake is at 10,300' in elevation and we hiked to Blue Lake which is 11,500' in elevation. So 3 miles uphill and a 1,200' gain.

Here are some photos of our hike:

The trail
Us at Mitchell Lake - 1 mile into the hike

The kids at Mitchell Lake

Glenn & I

Cool lakes - awesome sceneryThe trail - wait - you dont see it?? Oh - look hard - see those rocks?? Yeah - that's the trail. My inner thighs and hips hurt so bad from side stepping those boogers.

The BEST part of the trail!!

Blue Lake - we made it!! Well - I should say 'I' made it!! :) Glenn told me the hike was easy - I then told him to add 80 extra pounds to his frame and then see what he says!! :))

Waterfall at Blue Lake

We watched a skier skiing at Blue Lake.

Hi-Ho the Derry-O

A camping we wil go!! We took our annual camping trip to Pawnee Campground @ Brainard Lake Recreation Area. It's Colorado beauty at it's finest!! We were worried this year, since we were robbed last year while we were camping, but all turned out peachy keen this year!! :)

Brainard Lake - Picture Perfect

All the cousins together. (From l-r: Hailey, Makenna, Sophie, Kaitlin, Abby, Glenn, Sam and Ben)
Our camp spot.... we manage to get it every year. Love it!!

My family at Brianard Lake

Glenn & I at Brainard Lake

Gotta dutch oven cook at camp - right??

Ham, Egg, Hasbrown and Cheese Casserole - YUM!! We only have this dish twice, camping and Christmas morning.

Holy Marshmallow!!

Gotta roast starbursts when you go camping, they are DIVINE!!

Holy Hail!!

Check out the video's and photo's in this cool scrapbook I made.

This photo album made with Smilebox

My couple minutes of fame

So we had a MASSIVE hailstorm here. It was quite exciting. Being the storm chaser that I am (well on the inside at least) I was upstairs taking photos while the sirens were going off. I got some good photos and sent them into our local news station. They called me and had a 'live' interview with me over the phone. It was SO cool. Check it out.

A Kaitlin Brag

Kaitlin is taking a digital photography class in school. One of her assignments was a landscape photo. She just got a letter from her teacher yesterday telling her her photo was selected to be in the art show!! YAY for Kaitlin!!

Check out the photo

Spring Break

I had some window washers and painters come to my house for Spring Break. It is such a good thing that workers are hard up for money now a days. I got some pretty cheap labor - $20 a person in fact. The boy even threw in a free paint job!! Man... that's what I call a screamin' deal!! :)

Here's the window washer dude... look at that concentration - even his tongue is stickin' out!! LOL (he actually looks a tad bit buff too) ;-]

Now the other half of the window washers is this girl here. She looks like she got attacked by Freddy Krueger in the middle of the night tho - check out that Freddy Kreuger shirt - I'd hate to have her nightmares.
So - yeah - I got my blinds dusted and windows cleaned on the inside by Kreuger's sidekick there and that ripped dude who likes to stick his tongue out cleaned the windows on the outside and my screens too. Sweetness... Need to hire these two more often!! They did an AWESOME job...maybe next time they'll even get paid more too. So if any one out there needs their windows done... call me - I can set you up with Kreuger girl and ripped/tongue dude!! :)


Now onto the 3 days worth of a painting project!! I've had Glenn's comforter for a few years. I am ashamed to say - I have NEVER in his 16.5 yrs on this earth - ever painted a room for him. Now he seems to be putting his clothes away in his drawers and hanging them up...making his bed every day and opening his blinds... I think to myself... I should have done this YEARS ago!! Maybe all those arguments would have been avoided!!

Glenn(ie) and I painted the tan on, then Glenn and I painted the cream that same evening. We had to let it dry a whole day before we taped over the cream. I had to 'test' the red - to make sure it was gonna work.
So the next evening, we taped over the cream then started with the red and touched up the tan from the ceiling to the stripe and the tan below the stripes. We had to put 4 coats of red on the wall... so finished it up the 3rd day - and wah-la - the end result is quite awesome!!

My olympic athletes

Glenn got a bright idea after watching a commercial on TV for the biggest loser where the olympic athlete jumps into a standing position on an exercise ball.... Check out the videos below.

Here is the biggest loser one to get an idea of what the Glenn's were trying to do. :)

Now here's Glenn's attempts - enjoy a good laugh!!

And here's Glennie's tries

One attempt

And here he sticks it...for the most part!!