Please help me make my photo look normal

Hi I have quite a few pictures like this one. For some reason they are darker than normal, and the colours are less bright. - I think its to do with how the light was on the lens when I took them. I want to do something to them in Photoshop Elements to make them look normal. I have tried altering the levels slider (by pulling the far right slider to the left a bit) but it makes the clouds disappear, and although it makes the picture lighter it doesn't look right still
here is the pic - you can see my face looks dark and the colours aren't good in general - it was actually quite a bright day.
http://i468.photobucket.com/albums/rr45/RimShot69/SNV83039bb.jpg
I appreciate any help. Thank you
Rich

Rich,
There are various ways to improve this picture. One can spend a long time on this one, but here is what I did quickly in order to get you started with the original.
http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1MBjrjRMh9kwlGlueC1ECDnMDxfPH0
Select the person (you) with magnetic lasso tool, or any other selection tool of your choice
Create levels adjustment layer #1
Press CTRL+right white rectangular box in levels adj. layer #1
Select original image
Go to Select>Inverse
Create levels adjustment layer #2
By double clicking the control box in each of the adjustment layers you can drag the sliders.for improvement of foreground and background
I merged the visible layers. The sky needs attention.
I opened a new, blank file and utilized blue color C7D7EA. This is a nice light blue. I selected a patch of this, copy/pasted this over the sky in the original picture. It will be on its own layer. Alternately you can select a nice sky from another picture in order to get a source. Set blend mode to darken for this layer.
Set foreground color to white
Access foreground to transparent, linear gradient , drag from below up to about ther top of the tree line
I have some cloud brushes from the Adobe Studio Exchange (free), and added a few clouds.
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