{"id":1691,"date":"2013-01-15T09:54:43","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T14:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/?p=1691"},"modified":"2013-01-15T09:54:44","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T14:54:44","slug":"getting-excited-about-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2013\/01\/getting-excited-about-colorado.html","title":{"rendered":"Getting Excited about Colorado!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The boys and I are getting really excited about the mountain life! This is a view of Pike’s Peak from the Garden fo the Gods, courtesy of Wikipedia.<\/p><\/div>\n

I’m back from Nebraska, the trip was pretty good. Uneventful…I feel relatively caught up on my Air Force Reserve life now. I’m looking forward to investigating some full-time AF work opportunities while I’m living in Colorado Springs. I learned through the grapevine that there’s quite a bit to do, I can’t wait to learn more and toss my name in the hat for the occasional odd job. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

While I was in Nebraska, I had the time to really start investigating the layout of the community and how the schools are. Jacob will be going to middle school (yikes!) while we’re living there, so it’s time to take things up a notch and really get smart on this stuff.<\/p>\n

We’re getting excited about it!<\/p>\n

For now I don’t have that much to do — we haven’t even decided if Dave is going to try to fly out earlier to find us a house. We figured we could take a couple weeks right when we get there and take our time looking…we simply don’t know. \u00a0And for now, we aren’t stressing about it. Don’t worry, there will be plenty of stress to go around in about 8 weeks.<\/p>\n

Have you ever lived in Colorado Springs? What advice can you give to our family? I’ve never set foot in the area, Dave had spent 4 days there in early 2010.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m back from Nebraska, the trip was pretty good. Uneventful…I feel relatively caught up on my Air Force Reserve life now. I’m looking forward to investigating some full-time AF work opportunities while I’m living in Colorado Springs. 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