Last Day in CA

Yesterday was our last day in California. It is always sad to leave Linda and Scott and now we had to say good bye to baby Jeremy too! Lily definitely had mixed feelings about leaving. One minute she'd say that she didn't want to leave and the next minute she was dying to get home to see all her toys (especially her "white puppy" that Linda gave us at my baby shower and gets played with on occasion -- it was totally random).

Here is Chip with our rental car. I always like to take a picture of the rental car (not sure why) and Lily wouldn't stand next to it at first, so I made Chip. Normally I love my rentals, but not this one, I hated the way it drove!

Lily was willing to pose once Daddy did.

The palm trees in the back remind me of a story I need to document:

When we first landed in CA last week the first thing Lily noticed was all the "jungle trees." She was obsessed with all the jungle trees!! We taught her that they were called palm trees and she thought they were so cool. After watching an episode of Mickey and Jungle Junction, I realized that they do use palm trees in all the jungle scenes. It was just so funny since I've always taken them for granted and never even realized that we didn't have them in Texas, but Lily noticed right away.

Our plane was scheduled to leave at 2:2o so we had a little time to hang with Jeremy some more before we left. I know the above photo is washed out, but check out that smile!

He is just so cute!

Playing catch with the big ball!

Sorry Mom, but I have to post this picture since it leads to the story about all the rain! When we left for John Wayne airport at 12:30 it was POURING rain! All the streets around Linda and Scott's house were flooded and there was essentially no visibility on the 405! We even got lightning and thunder on the short drive and the wind was SO strong that my Mom and Scott had a hard time getting the car doors open on their side once we got to the airport. It was pretty gnarly, although after a year and a half in Texas I was a little jaded. Our flight was delayed slightly, but once we got there and settled it started to pass. Once we got home to Texas and I checked my facebook, I noticed that multiple friends in the OC were posting tornado warnings at 12:30-1:00 right when we were out driving! So I did some research to find out that when we were out on the 405 there were indeed tornado warnings and moreover there were more than one tornado touched down -- one in Costa Mesa (right as we were driving through) that did damage!! How crazy that as we were in So Cal trying to catch a plane to Texas we drove through a tornado! Good thing we didn't know what was going on or we would have been totally freaked out. :)

Our plane -- straight from the 1950's.

My little woman with her cell phone and purse.

Nice and clear after the storm passed though.

She was SO tired that she passed out coloring as were were in line to take off!! Since flights were grounded during the storm there was some back up on the runway. She fell asleep waiting and didn't wake up until we were making our decent into DFW!

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Lily was so excited to be home. She professed her love for our house and all her toys. She went around hugging all her toys and exclaiming how much she loved and missed them all. It was cute and crazy. She missed the cats a lot too! Of course when I found the "white puppy" that I mentioned earlier that she missed so much when we were gone, she looked at it and said "oh, ya". Crazy kid!!