The Jones Girls

Today Cliff, me and the girls ventured to Hollywood and Griffith Park.  We took off at about 10am.

We parked at Hollywood Blvd & La Brea Blvd.    Get this, these rip off tour operators want to charge $39pp adults and $29pp kids 3-11.  Hmmm, I smell a RIP OFF.    The tour consists of taking you to walk along the stars, driving around a bit and hear about interesting facts of Hollywood history and then go on a tour to view movie stars homes.    We could choose from an A/C bus, a double decker bus or a van that has an open canopy.    The offered us a discount of $30pp adults and $19pp child 3-11.  Triplets would be free.  Adding that up, it was about $120 bucks for us!!  Ummm, I don’t think so buddy, we will do our own tour.

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I spoke to my Uncle Ned on Friday and he invited us to spend Saturday at his beach house in Manhattan Beach.      He was spending the weekend in Orange.

So Saturday after our morning visit with Uncle Ron, who brought some yummy donuts for all of the kiddos, at about 10:30am we headed out and I took all of the girls and our dog Teddy down to Manhattan Beach.  It is about a 45 minute drive.

This was the first time my girls have been to his house.  I was so scared of them going up and down the stairs and also concerned they might break something valuable.   They thought his house was so beautiful – especially Mindy.  She said it was her very first time being in a 3 story house, plus a house on the beach too!!

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The next morning, Friday, our friends, Corrie and her kiddos, and Silvia and her kiddos came over for a water slide play date.

It also happened to be Corrie’s girl, Madeline, 5th birthday that day.  So we celebrated and had lunch which were corn dogs with fishie crackers followed by cupcakes.  The kids got to decorate their own cupcakes – putting on their own frosting and sprinkles.    We put a candle on Madeline’s cake and all sang happy birthday to her.

Mindy made a really neat birthday banner for Madeline and we had it hung in the house for her.  It made Madeline so excited.    Then all 5 girls colored and made pretty birthday cards for Madeline and we gave her $5 for her birthday present.   Madeline was going to Disneyland that afternoon and we wanted Madeline to buy something special for herself at Disneyland.

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That same day, last Thursday, I took all of the girls and our dog Teddy out for a walk in the neighborhood.    I made Shepard’s Pie and it was baking in the oven while we took our walk.   We were gone for about an hour.

When we got back, I heard Daddy Cliff’s voice coming from the backyard.   He said “Hey girls, I have something for you to see”.   Everyone squealed with delight and ran to the backyard.

They all stopped screamed and jumped up and down!!   Cliff had surprised them and put up their water slide!!  Mindy had not ever seen a huge water slide before, let alone in some one’s backyard!!    They threw their bathing suits on and had some fun on the water slide while I got dinner ready.

Thank you so much for doing this for us Daddy Cliff!!

Last Thursday 7/16, I took the girls and Mindy to Coldstone Ice Cream.   It was all of the girls first time.   What makes Coldstone so special is you can choose from about 15 different flavors and then they have over 100 different toppings and you make your own creation.    So you tell them what kind of concoction to make and they mix it all together on a frozen slap right in front of you.

The girls had a blast picking out their own ice creams – especially Mindy.  She was so excited.

It has been so hot here, like 95 – 100 degrees so the ice cream outing was perfect.  Some friends of ours joined us – Corrie and her kiddos.