The Jones Girls

After my meeting with Lyn, I went home and packed us all up to go away for the weekend.  Cliff was ready to have some fun after working so much.   We also brought our dog Teddy.

We drove up to Camarillo and I gave them a tour of where I grew up and the homes I lived in..on Merced Drive and on Lemon Street.    

We stopped by Cliff’s customer, Alberto.  What a nice guy.    The girls and I got out, did a bathroom run, then took Teddy out for a walk.  We walked past a building with barrels…it was a winery!!   The lady in the office kept staring at us walking Teddy.  Then she walked out and asked if that was her dog.  I said no.  Then her dog appeard and her dog looked exactly like Teddy!!  Her dog’s name is Lucy.   She invited us in and we had a nice chat,.    I purchased a present for Steven and Reyna’s 25th Wedding anniversary present.    I got them a signature wine from the winery (good bottle of wine..$35) and got them 2 gift certicates for a wine tasting and they can taste fresh from the barrel.   It doesn’t get better for fresher than this!!  I thought this would be a unique gift.

Cliff wrapped up his meeting with Alberto and we continued onto Venture to meet our friend Barbara Hobbins and visit our dog Scottie, who now lives with Barbara.  Our plan was to have dinner with Barbara.  When we got to her house, she didn’t answer the door.  She was gone.  So we went and had dinner at Marie Calendars.

We enjoyed the famous cornbread @ Marie Calendars.  After eating 3/4 of it Savannah started freaking out saying aunts.  There were ants crawling in her cornbread!!   By this time we were already eating our dinner.   The manager comped our dinner and gave us a whole pie.   Barbara was home so we took her the Razzleberry Pie to her house and had a very nice visit.

At about 9pm went drove to Oxnard to Steve & Reyna’s house.    We gave them their present and they really like it.  We partied and had so much fun.   At about midnight we all went to bed.

The next morning we all got up and got ready for Steve & Reyna’s big 25th wedding anniversary brunch.  We all dressed up.     We drove to Five Points Sheraton off of Harbor Blvd.    What a beautiful reception it was!!   Reyna was dressed in a beautiful white gown that looked similar to a wedding gown.     I was suprised to see some old friends there, Janet and Mike.   We had so much fun!!   Steve & Reyna’s son played the piano beautifully and entertained us all.

We left at about 2pm and drove by our old house on “M” Street.  Then we drove home and got ready to go to Disneyland.

We arrived at Disneyland at about 7pm.  We wanted to see the show Fantasmic and it started at 9pm.  They have a new dragon in the show and we wanted to see it before the show goes on hiatus till May.  Tonight was the last night it was running and it was very crowded.  It is a good thing we got there at 7pm to get a decent spot.  It was a wonderful show and the girls really enjoyed it.   We also got to enjoy the fireworks too.   We got home at 11:30pm.

What a fantastic weekend!!

If I wasn’t busy enough, I have taken on the position of co-leader for Savannah’s Daisy Girl Scout Troop #7274.   I will be working with Lyn, the mother of  Tess, who is Savannah’s classmate and friend in Kindy.    The beneft with being a leader is that I can bring the triplets with me and I won’t need a babysitter – yay!!

We had a meeting today to familiarize ourselves with starting the troop and get things under way.   I really like Lyn.  She is an event planner for the city of Whittier and I really appreciate her organizational and planning skills.   She and I are very similar…very detailed oriented with great imaginations.  I believe we are going to have a blast with our new troop.

The Daisy troop will meet 2 Mondays a month at Savannah’s school, El Portal at 1:30pm right after school in the multi purpose room.   There will be 11 girls in the troop, most of them Kindy and a couple from 1st grade.     We have our agenda all put together and our first meeting with our troop is on Monday January 11th.

All of the girls will be earning petals patches.  Our goal is to earn 10 petals by January to make the daisy on the girls smocks.    The Daisy troop will be for 2 years. Then I will be the leader when the triplets start Kindy and Lyn will be the leader for the Brownie Troop when Savannah becomes a 2nd grader.

Daisies don’t sell cookies and we don’t do fundraising which is really nice.  We have snacks each meeting, sing a themed Girl Scout song and Girl Scout Promise and do our activity.