Oldie, but Goodie

Doing some cleaning in CJ's room today, we came across this beautiful picture CJ drew last month.

Ta Da

Not a great picture, but wanted to capture CJ in her last gymnastics class for the year.  She's working on cartwheels, amongst other things.

Interstate Rivalry

Saw this sign on our way to gymnastics today.  Wonder how CA feels about people from OR?

Top Hat

CJ's class has been working on a play and they have been dreaming up costumes.  

They were supposed to keep them simple, mostly from things they already owned.

CJ mentioned wanting a top hat.  We didn't have one, but hit a thrift store and found this beauty.

We also found a great scarf that she's going to wear like a skirt.  

It looks great with the hat.

Can't wait to see the performance next week.

Mama's Solo Journey

After a late night, Mama got up extra early for a quick trip down south to check out some houses.

She also saw lots of palm trees:

Some views:

Beautiful wood and glass:

Orange trees (lemon, too!):

Banana trees (unfortunately this one was in the flight path of the airport):

And several different hibiscus plants:

Monday Getaway

Here was the early morning weather in PDX when Mama left:

Surprisingly not much better when arriving in SAN: 

The difference is that an hour after she touched down, the clouds all went away and the sun came out.

Nice.

That Thing in the Sky

When Mama was picking CJ up from school, she was chatting with someone about the weather and pointed to the sun in the sky.  There was an amazing ring around the sun.  It was a few days before the expected eclipse, so must have been a weather phenomenon.  Unfortunately Mama couldn't capture the whole thing with her camera.