The very merry month of May

Well, I have been putting this off because May was just so, busy, no that's not the word I was looking for, it was wet, that's as good a word as any. My town experienced a tornado, earthquake, hail storms, and a possible wild animal outbreak in one day. When we do something in Oklahoma we do it well!

In any event, here's what happened per my perspective.

May the 4th be with you - yes Eskimo Sno gives a Star Wars flavored snocone away on May 4th. Yes we had to have ours!!!

In order to get him ready for Cub Scout camp & just because she needs them, the kids took semi-private swim lessons. It paid off because he was able to pass his swimming tests at camp and she has more confidence in the water. I couldn't be happier!

 May 6th brought a little EF1 tornado to my side of town. It caused my fence to lean, a leak in my master bathroom, and other roof damage. It was crazy...this storm hit a wild animal sanctuary and for a time the authorities were not sure if any animals had gotten out.













This is the 7-11 not far from my house. What you can't see is that the telephone poles all down this street were snapped off.

We had an invitation to ride out the storm in a friend's tornado shelter. So we did. Love all these guys so much and yes there are 3 kids, 2 dogs and 1 adult in the photo...the other adult was taking the picture & looking for the funnel cloud! :)

On May 8, 2 days after the small tornado, we had a hail/straight line wind storm which knocked out my dining room window, caused damage to my flooring, and beat the sides of the house to the point of denting. I can't express my gratitude for my roofer/contractor who came and had a tarp on my roof and window boarded up before more damage could happen!

 So while La & I were sweeping up broken glass and water, these two were celebrating my hubby's birthday at a RUSH concert in Tulsa. Yep, they totally missed all the excitement! This was RTC's first concert and he had an incredible time!!!

 

Birthday Pancakes at Jimmy's Egg!!! The birthday boy was happy about that!

 This guy played at state piano contest and came away with a I.

I'm so glad he enjoys music!

These are the kid's awards for finishing the Read Y'all program at school. I'm glad they helped each other reach this goal!

This is his patient piano teacher. 

She is another blessing to us! 

With my friend Liz - I completed my first 5K. Nope, 

didn't run a step, but we really enjoyed walking it! Not 

sure if the organizers liked that, but we had a great time!

This is our last day of school photo.

As you can see from the background...it

was raining.

If it's May that means the Cub Scouts are launching rockets. This was our last year to participate in the rocket launch, so he was excited to do it. Eskimo Sno was there with their yummy snocones and there were even a few rockets destroyed. Everyone had a great time!

We literally ended our month with this one a hospital in Kansas. She had difficulty breathing so we took her to the ER.

 

ER team admitted her to the PICU so we got to ride across town in an ambulance.

It was such a helpless feeling...

After 24 hours in PICU, she was moved and able to sleep.

After another 24 hours we could return to Oklahoma.

I was very glad to flip the calendar to June. I think the total rainfall total for May for my town was something like13.84 inches. When one has clay as the main ingredient in its dirt, 13" of rain has no where to go. Saturation does not happen. Just glad the drought is over and we can have fun in the sun for the next couple of months. Bring on summer!

September...

Yes, it's fall once again in Oklahoma...that means the leaves are turning, mornings are becoming more crisp, and Football is everywhere!

Here's what the Copeland's were up to in September...warning....if you don't like photos you might as well stop now!

Labor Day was on September 1st. This would be the last day our neighborhood pool would be open until May 2015 so we took full advantage of it! Both kids grew physically and confidence wise over the summer and are just amazing. We even got Uncle Barry in on the action!

Swimming gives way to our fall sports which centers around OU Football.  Here they are on the second game of the season! Usually Scott doesn't sit down, but it was halftime.

It's also time to order your Cub Scout Popcorn!

If you need/want some, we're still taking orders!

This cutie started soccer with some friends.

I don't know how good her game is, but she sure is cute!

Since February he had a dental appliance

in his mouth - it was removed and he

was ridiculously happy about it!

These are photos from Spirit Week. They participated in

Crazy sock day (no photos oops!), Favorite Team Day,

PJ Day, & Crazy Hair/Hat Day. They did enjoy it!

Spirit Week ends up with our Roosevelt Run. Most schools call it a jog-a-thon, here at Roosevelt, it's our Run. It's the only PTA fundraiser of the year. I'm sure it's a crazy day for the teachers, but the kids sure have fun!

The last activity we had was a birthday party for a friend of La's. Her party was at Elevation Trampoline in Edmond.  They had a great time bouncing!!

I'm tired just reliving it! Only 3 more months of this year and that's amazing for me to realize. 

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....

Indiana Copeland!

Do you know what happens when you have "old" parents? The things they think are cool you think are cool therefore you have an "Indiana Jones" birthday party for your 8th birthday not really realizing that "Indiana Jones" is soooo 1980's!!!!

So what's a mom to do since you can't find any toys (with the exception of a Lego DS game) or party supplies still in stores? Well thank goodness for Amazon.com! And my wonderful friend who can make a cake look like anything!!!!

So here are just a few of our recent Indiana Jones birthday party for the 8 year old!

(taken by the 4 year old sister who couldn't swim)

 

 

 

7 and 8 year old boys + swimming + cake and ice cream = fun for all no matter what the theme!!! So glad they all had such a good time!