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Oklahoma Tornadoes - May 10, 2010

One of the many tornados on May 10

May Adventures

Since I haven't posted for the entire month of May I will catch everyone up right now.

Tornados, Hail and Wind, Oh My!!!

I wouldn't normally blog about the weather, that's typically a subject that you bring up with the OB/GYN or someone you once dated, but you have to see what kind of May that we have had. We started with breaking a state record for the number of tornados in one day. Yes folks, 37 tornados touched down in our state on May 10, 22 of those in the OKC metro area. I even had the pleasure of being blown off the road by a smaller tornado. That day was a little frightening but if that is the worst I have to deal with I will be happy. At the end there is a video of another tornado (or three) forming that day.
Less than a week later....we experienced a hail storm like I have never seen. Hail ranging from quarter size to softball size rained down on Oklahoma City. We were fortunate to be spared but there are entire neighborhood where house and car windows were completely smashed through. Some cars have even been scrapped because of the damage done to them internally. Driving around town you will still see cars that look like golf balls because of all of the little divets caused by hail. Ps - hail video below, turn down the volume because there are some expletives but this is my favorite video showing the hail.
Then, finally last night we had a bad enough thunderstorm that the tornado sirens were going off I think simply due to the extreme weather. We got little hails and I would imagine if I didn't live near the top of a hill I would have worried about flash flooding. It has been the CRAZIEST May for weather.

Church

May has not only been crazy, but crazy busy! The biggest news of the month is that The Man was called and set apart as the Elder's Quorum President. David Anderson, you called it my friend. If we lived even remotely close I would get you a lollipop. The calling has only begun and I can see that managing our schedules is going to get pretty difficult.

I have seen my own fair share of packed nights with Visiting teaching, mutual and planning for girls camp, which i leave for in 2 days. I must say that going on the ward level is a 1000 times easier than on the stake level. It's even easier when you are in the YW Presidency and not the camp director. :) I keep telling myself that life will slow down after major events like this but it doesn't. Who knows, maybe after camp it will.

Gman is a total stud at church. After a very stressful first month of nursery the kid is now a ROCKSTAR! He now asks to "go" at the end of Sacrament, meaning he wants to go to nursery. It is so nice for me to not have to worry about him crying and it lets us enjoy class.

Milestones

While Gman is totally awesome and had developed TONS this year, I don't remember what is May and what is not so I will do my best.

Talks - so much more than before. My favorite are still "bye" and "hiiiiii" (imagine a sing song voice). He also says "guck" for stuck and "shide" for outside. His always developing vocab is lowering his frustration levels and makes for a much happier family. We will continue to work on improving beause the "Ma" still doesn't entirely speak "GMan"

Runs - Everywhere. He's getting pretty fast too which is a shame for the mommy.

Climbs - can now climb on the couch by himself. I know some people (aka Lindsay Flemming) are thinking shoot my kids have been doing that since they could walk but you have to understand that I probably have the most cautious kid ever. He doesn't climb, take risks, or anything that might cause injury. you might be thinking lucky me, and I would agree with you.

He would also live outside if he could. I am a mean mommy and make him return indoors for dinner and bed time where a fit is then thrown but that's why I get paid the big bucks. Plus even though I know he would go without food if that meant being outdoors I know that he would be more sad than happy about that decision and I would get thrown in jail which would make me more sad than happy too.

One last thing, and this is entirely to get the priase of every one on the world wide web. For my birthday The Man got me a gym membership (good man) and since then I have been getting up at 4:30 in the am most morning to go. Can I get a woot woot!?! Okay that's it. I will try and post better after camp when my life magically gets slower or maybe I will just have something to actually post about.

Watch out ladies!

We pulled out GMan's summer clothes the other day and ran across this shirt. Even though it was a little snug, it was too funny to not have him wear it. All of you with young girls watch out, GMan is no respector of age, race or hair style. If it is female and breathing my child will flirt his way into their hearts. So females of the world, watch out, Gman is on the prowl!

Happy Day

One day Gman and I took some photos to help a friend be happy.

Here one that we hope makes today a happy day for you!

Little Reader

When every mom captures a moment like this does the thought of, "I hope he loves reading forever," go through her head?

Well, here's for hoping...

Markers are the best!

Who knew that when you gave a 1 and 1/2 year old a marker he no longer becomes content to simply color on paper. There must be something about pens and pencils that limits the creative mind, or maybe they simply don't work on plastic or metal objects. Whatever the case, when you want to get the creative juices flowing simply bust out a marker.

ps - What you can't see is that there is even marker in his ear! Who doesn't want an artistic earlobe? Van Gogh anyone?