What a Summer!

Last time I blogged was the end of May; so let me catch you up with highlights and lots of pictures.

June
1. Drove to Wyoming to say good-bye to David and Melissa before they left for Guam.
2. Chris’s Dad came out from Wisconsin for Father’s Day weekend.
3. We attend Kevin Brinkmann’s wedding and it was beautiful.
4. And Chris went on two extraditions to N. Carolina.

July
1. Celebrated Malachi’s first birthday. We happen to find out that we can’t put sunscreen on Malachi’s face that day too. He broke out in a rash, only on his face, and his eyes were very puffy. So he wasn’t having a very good day. And he didn’t like being laughed at after he shoved his hand in the cake.

2. Jodie came out for 10 days that weekend too. It was so nice having her here.

3. Visited the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, no offense, but it was much nicer than the Denver Zoo. Malachi feed a giraffe, above video.

4. The El Paso County Sheriff Office entered the Peak Co Challenge of the first time. There were six team building activities and the teams had to consist of a min of 3 women and 3 men, teams could have more for subbing and incase of injuries. Any company in the Pikes Peak area could enter. EPSO took first place in one of the activities and second place overall out of 40 teams, pretty good for there first appearance.

5. We went swimming at our friends Rich and Kirsten’s house a couple times.

6. Celebrated my mom and little brother’s birthday.

7. Malachi got his first black eye.

7. Chris attended SWAT school while Malachi and I went to Ridge camp for a week. Chris had a lot of fun learning the ins and outs of the tactics and logistics of SWAT. He especially enjoyed the day he was gassed (C/S gas). He said it plays on your fear of suffocating, but he rather have to go through C/S gas again then ever encounter O.C. again.
Malachi and I had a good time in Montana. It was rough at first because Malachi was teething. Yes teething, he now has two teeth. It was also a lot colder then we are use to for the last week of July. Needless to say I didn’t pack enough warm clothes and blankets, but thanks to Chris Lycan, she took care of us. It was really nice to get out of Colo Springs and see everyone at Ridge.

August
1. August started off with a bang, literally. My loving mom was so nice to take Malachi for a day so Chris and I could attend Heaven Fest. This is the second time Heaven Fest has been to Colorado and there were 80 different bands on 8 stages on 70 acres of land. It was awesome. Some of the bands included Matthew West, Kutless, Seventh Day Slumber, Skillet, Third Day, Stellar Kart and Disciple. We sat in traffic for an hour before turning off on a side street and walking a mile to the church that was hosting it. We made it in time to see Kutless, Skillet (the main reason for going), Stellar Kart, and Disciple. It was an amazing show and we are definitely going again next year.

Front of us Behind us.

2. We did a lot more swimming at Rich and Kirsten’s.
3. Chris tested to transfer to the road and B banded, so it will be a little while before he is called over.
4. Finally the end of August ended with a bang too. We went on our family vacation and stayed at The Inn at Silvercreek, just 15 miles outside of Winter Park. The resort was beautiful and the weather was great. There was a veteran’s bike rally in Winter Park the weekend we arrived, so we spent a day doing that. We drove to the very top of Rocky Mountain National Park (gorgeous), went fishing (didn’t catch anything), a bike ride through Winter Park, and spent some time relaxing at the resort. Oh and don’t eat the pink snow.

All in all we had a busy yet very exciting summer. Chris has had extra duty jobs just about very weekend this summer so we are looking forward to the fall and winter months for everything to slow down. I’m looking forward to the Women’s Bible study to start up again the end of September. Thank you all for being so patience we with me for not blogging the last couple months and I promise to keep everyone updated. Love you all.