The Jones Girls

I planned and organized a fun day for the La Habra Moms Club at  the Montebello Barnyard.   It is located adjacent to a park.  I picked up a pizza at Little Ceasars Pizza for the girls to eat for lunch in the park after we visited the Montebello Barnyard.

The girls each got to take a long pony ride.  They really had a great time.  The ponies actually walked on a path and had a team leader guiding the ponies.    I was so impressed!!

Then we got to have a fun train ride and get a tour of the property and see all of the beautiful animals.

Afterwards we all got to meet, greet and pet all of the animals.  There was even a bull there!!   They had huge pens for peacocks and even had a white albino peacock!!     They had a bunny pen and the girls just loved looking at the bunnies.

They had a really nice water hold for turtles and fish.  It was so clean and crystal clear.   This place really kept the animals quarters clean and tidy.  

It was so much fun!!

We ventured over to the adjacent park and playground where we had our pizza and I also brought Christmas cookies and candy canes as a surprise for the girls.   They played on the playground for a long time.

It was so much fun!!

One of the most beautiful and festive things to go do during Christmas time is go to Disneyland. 

I took the girls to Disneyland this afternoon.   It was a little chilly and we were all bundled up warm sweaters and it felt like something out of Norman Rockwell.

We started off at California Adventure and we saw Mickey Mouse Club House Live!  Afterwards we had some lunch that I had brought with us and then we ventured over to see Crush which is an interactive Nemo show.  Then we saw the Pixar Parade and the girls went crazy over all of their favorite cartoon characters such as Nemo, Buzz Light Year and Woody, etc.  

We left California Adventure and went into Disneyland Park.   We saw the beautiful Christmas Parade.  It was so beautiful!!      We all ate marshmallows and drank Hot Chocolate that I had brought with us.    It was lovely.  We took a stroll through the crowds and saw the beautifully decorated It’s a Small World.   It was a 2+ hour wait so we decided not to go on the ride.  We had something else more important to see!!  We will go back and see it after Christmas when the crowds are shorter.

After the parade, we went back to California Adventure, bought some Gingerbread Cookies and enjoyed them with hot chocolate and sat down to watch the Electric Light Parade.    This is the most magical parade ever!!     They don’t have this parade often, only during limited engagements so we were delighted to watch it.

It was so crowded that day that I parked on the very last lane of the uppermost level of the parking structure.  We had arrived at about 1:00pm.   Shortly after we arrived, they said Disneyland was sold out and the parking lot was full.  They were not accepting anymore patrons. We got there just in time.    Thankfully when we got on the tram it wasn’t too busy because pretty much everyone was already in the park.     Even though it was a little crowded at Disneyland park, California Adventure was only half as crowded so I am glad we spent a lot of our time there. 

This day really got all of us excited for Christmas!!  Yippee!!

Today was the girls Christmas Holiday Ballet Recital.   They wore their pretty Christmas dresses that I got for them for our Family Holiday Portraits.   They all looked so pretty.

I baked and decorated 4 dozen Christmas cupcakes.  I also brought dip with crackers and a tin of different flavored popcorns.  When we arrived in the auditorium, I was so surprised to see so many people. The ballet teacher mentioned there would be about 48 people…I would say there was about 150 people!!  There were 5 tables full of all kinds of food and lots of hungry people since it was noon lunch time.     There was not enough food to feed everyone.

Anyway, the recital was beautiful.    Miranda didn’t listen to the teacher and wandered off…the little stinker.  This is exactly why I have her in ballet lessons…to listen to instructions from a teach!!   Savannah did really well and Maryssa and Amanda followed the dance pretty well too.

I am so proud of my little princesses!!

We had our La Habra Moms Children’s Christmas party at Oeste Park.    We were a bit worried that the weather would be unpredictable, but we lucked out and it was 70 degrees – a beautiful day!!

Valentina’s husband, Morris, was Santa Claus.  He made the PERECT Santa.    All of us moms brought wrapped presents for our kids.   I brought the girls Mickey Mouse back pack purses for their present from Santa.   Inside the back pack was playing cards.     Each child got to sit on Santa’s lap and receive their present and tell Santa what they wanted for Christmas.  We got some great pictures of the kids with Santa!

We also had pizza, I brought rice crispy treats and Angie brought the most delicious 7 layer dip.     I also brought candy canes with an attached story about the candy cane.  It read:

Many years ago a candy maker
wanted to make a candy that would
symbolize the true meaning of
Christmas-Jesus.   

The hard candy was shaped like a “J”
to represent that Jesus 
is our rock of all ages.  

The candy was made of white
to stand for the pureness of Jesus. 
The red stripe represents the blood
that Jesus shed to save us from our sins.

So the next time you see a candy cane
take a minute to remember
the real meaning of Christmas.

Today the triplets and I wanted to get a preview of their preschool @ La Habra Hills Preschool.   They invited us to join their Christmas party today.   

I dressed the girls in Grandma’s (my mom) Christmas dresses and added cute velvet black pants.  It was another new and pretty look that the girls enjoyed from Grandma’s presents!!

I brought some homemade baked banana nut bread and Chocolate Chip Bars for the Preschool teachers to enjoy..

We spent the morning at the school getting acquainted with the preschool curriculum, the playground, the classroom, the teacher and the kids.    They had Christmas tree cutouts and the kids got to paint the trees on art easels and also cut out Christmas bows and color Christmas pages.  It was so much fun!

The triplets really enjoyed themselves and I think they are going to be very happy at this preschool.  They will go for a few hours a week.

Grandma (my mom) got the girls the CUTEST Christmas dresses for Christmas.  I dressed the girls up in their dresses from Grandma and they looked beautiful!! 

I had purchased Potato Heads for the triplets and Hungry Hippo Game for Savannah for presents that Santa would give them at the party. 

We drove down to Tustin – to my friend Mary Stechman’s house, who is a member of my Multiple Moms Club.  She hosted this year’s Children’s Christmas party at her house. 

Santa was out on the patio meeting and greeting all of the children.   Each of my girls sat on Santa’s lap and Santa gave them their wrapped present.   Then each girl told Santa what they wanted…each of them wanted a Reindeer!!  LOL!!

Mary has a chicken coupe in her backyard and she has 4 beautiful chickens.  I have never seen such a clean chicken coupe!!   The girls LOVED seeing and watching the chickens.

There was all sorts of yummy Christmas cookies, hot cocoa and gourmet coffees for all of us.

Mary’s house had a really neat Safari themed bathroom and my girls were just enthralled with it.    It was quite the bathroom!!

We stayed a few hours and really had a wonderful time playing with all of the kids (many sets of twins, we had the only triplets there) and I enjoyed chatting with the moms.

Tonight Cliff picked up Nanny Feli to watch the girls and she spent the night.  Cliff and I have a date night!!   It was Numatic Engineering’s Christmas party in Van Nuys.

It was pouring tonight and made it stressful for our drive up to Van Nuys.    We were greeted by all of Cliff’s colleagues.  There was a professional photographer there and we got a nice portait done for Cliff and I.

They served us Filet Minon for dinner.    Cliff was presented with his 20th anniversary gift with Numatic – a very nice Army Swiss watch.   He was so proud and I am so proud of him too.     Congradulations honey!!