July - you exhaust me!

OK so summer went into hyper drive when it came to July!

Let me recap...

The first Friday found me, La-La, RTC & his buddy BB at Andy Alligator's to celebrate the boys' straight A's!

A fun time was had by all!!

On July 4th while visiting Mimi & Grandpa,
La lost her first tooth!!!

Then the kids went to Kansas for their week with Aunt P & Grammie. They were treated to seeing the DCI competition, their 3rd year! Their favorite corps is the Blue Devils from Concord, CA. They found out where the corps practiced and they watched them there too! This netted RTC a pair of drumsticks & La a lanyard! They were so excited! At the competition, the  Blue Devils won so their experience was complete!

We planned one final surprise for the kids this summer and we were able to pull it off! Back in April we decided to take the kids to Walt DisneyWorld and we didn't tell them until the day before! I was able to not say a word, to them, about it for over 60 days! That's amazing for me because I love DisneyWorld!!!!!!  Anyway...I am so grateful we were able to go and enjoy it as a family this time. We stayed at the Boardwalk Villas because we could walk into Epcot & Hollywood Studios and I highly recommend it!!! Seeing their faces so bright and cheerful, being kind to one another, and all the other stuff that goes along with Disney magic was priceless.  I'll try not to go overboard with photos, but...

Yep! Matching shirts for traveling!

Downtown Disney our first night. Tired from traveling but I think they were getting into it!

On the way to Magic Kingdom!

Could he be any cooler?

First thing we did was ride the new Seven Dwarfs Mine Train! 

Other than Space Mountain being closed 

it was a great 1st day!

Our second day! After a Princess breakfast
of course!

Hollywood Studios - family favorite!

Just so fun!!!!

I promise - this was this boy's favorite ride of our trip!

Look who they found!

I have soooo many more - but I'll stop.

for now....

June [joon] 1. the sixth month of the year, containing 30 days. Abbreviation: Jun.

How can it be past the 6th month of the year? Yikes! I guess I better get the cleaning I was planning on doing over the summer done!

Here's the highlights from us!

The biggest thing that happened in June was Cub Scout Resident camp! Camping with Dad, shooting bb guns, archery, swimming, flag ceremonies, oh the list goes on and on!! They both had a great time!

While the boys went camping - we girls went swimming! It was a lot of fun!

Here's the boy fooling around at Lowe's.

Just love those green & yellow yard tractors!

Hope your summer is going well. Until we meet again....

More than just May flowers

So May happened. There was a piano recital, a dance recital, last days of school, etc. I think you get the idea. Here are the pictures because they speak with more detail than I typically do...

 We took video on a camera instead of our phone, so I have no idea where that is as I don't think it's been downloaded yet, so just imagine a 3rd year pianist playing. He sounds pretty good actually and earned a I at State this year!

This is Miss Ursula & him. We love

her so much!!!

 Here's our ballerina. She LOVES to dance and be on stage. I got to be a backstage mom so I only got to see 3 dances of the 2 1/2 hour recital...you can decide for yourself if I was the lucky one or not!

 Our school has a reading program each year and if the kids read so many books and all different genres and award winners they receive a gold, silver or bronze medal. Both the kids earned a gold medal. He really was thrilled.

This was the last day of school - he was a bit sad as he loved his teacher so much he didn't want to move on to the 4th grade. Fortunately for us, she's one of our neighbors so he thought he'd give 4th grade a chance.

On Memorial Day we tend to gravitate to the Wichita Mountains and their Refuge for some hiking. This year was no different. The kids love climbing on the rocks at Mount Scott. We also took a hike so we could enjoy nature a bit as well!

One of the kids took this lovely photo of the 2 of us.  

If you look - there's a bird in flight in this photo above.

We were a little closer to this guy than we planned!

Just love the Indian Paint Brush with the rest of nature

in this shot.

Well, that was the month of May in our neck of the woods. Hope everyone is having a safe and fun summer!

April...

So my plan to do a post a month almost was foiled! I don't know what's wrong with me. Hopefully soon I can get back on track.

In the mean time if you wanted to know what the Copeland's were up to in April...feast your eyes on this...

My Cub Scout is now a Webelo Scout. That means his blue shirt is retired and he now wears a tan one. That's hard for me to believe that he's old enough to do that. This is him & his best friend. Below is the whole pack of 221!

This was his soccer team this year - lots of good friends

and good times for him.

This was the 3rd grade play! He was a towns person
so he got to sing an extra song. All the kids did a fabulous job!

So this year was our 25th Wedding Anniversary. We decided in between my semesters to see if we could find a little getaway. Well I happened to find a 4 day cruise out of Galveston, TX that fit the days we could be gone. He arranged for his parents to take care of the kids and off we went! It was a fun adventure for us! 

Above is what Galveston looked like as we departed. Pretty cold and dreary - we were happy to escape further south!

This is the place we snorkeled! It was his first time and he really enjoyed it. We swam, touched, posed with and fed some stingrays too! It was 90* the day we were in Cozumel so it was perfect to get into the water!

It was Easter while we were away so the

kids got to spend Easter with the Grandparents!

They had a wonderful time & were spoiled rotten!

When we got back my sweet friend

from Australia paid me a visit so we

celebrated that at The Mont! 

Their queso is to die for!!!

Shannan's sweet baby turned 1 in April so she had a pool party! Notice zero adults in the water - but the kids sure enjoyed the hot tub!!!

We ended the month by participating in a church wide activity at the Oklahoma City Temple. It was so neat to see so many kids from all over the state come to the temple. 

That was our month...we're just working on memories in May that I can share in June. Hopefully I can figure out this whole schedule thing and do a little better. 

Hope you enjoy!