The Jones Girls

Today we went to my friend, Chrissy’s daughter, Samantha’s 6 birthday party.  Chrissy and I were pregnant at the same time and our due dates were on the same day.   She wound up going over a week overdue and I wound up giving birthday a few weeks early.  So that is why Savannah’s birthday is 4 weeks different than Samantha’s.  Also, did you notice how close their names are.  Cute, huh!!

Anyway, Samantha’s birthday party was at Chuck E. Cheese.   I took all of the girls and we had a blast!!    It was so nice to see everyone and Samantha is so adorable.  The girls got kites as a party favor – how neat!!

Today I went to Jennifer & Stefano’s engagement party.    Jennifer is a dear friend of ours. We met her when she was my nurse and took care of me when I was giving birth to Savannah.  She also helped me deliver the triplets.  She has gone to VT with us a few times.

Anyway, Jennifer and Stafano met on eHarmony.com     They have been dated for almost 2 years.    He popped the question a few months ago.    So today is their engagement party at her parents house.

I stopped by Claro’s Italian market and picked up a dozen different fancy Italian pastries since I knew Stefano was Italian.    I also got his mom some fancy Italian chocolates as well as Jennifer’s mom some too.    We gave them $50 and a cute bride and groom Teddy bear set.  

The party was really nice and it was so much fun meeting her friends and extended family.  I had a wonderful time.

Jennifer and Stefano will be getting married in Italy.  I wish I could go, it sounds so fun and romantic.

This morning we drove Cliff to the Long Beach Airport to catch a flight on Jet Blue.  He will be in Chicago on business till Friday.

Savannah had a dentist appt at Uncle Ned’s in Manhattan Beach. He is a Pediatric Dentist.  Savannah has four cavities.   2 are very minor but the other 2 we have been watching for a year and it really has grown. 

So today she got 2 cavities taken care of.  She was a real stinker when Uncle Ned tried giving her the shot to numb her gums.    Savannah has a huge fear of needles.    She was sore and not a happy camper after the procedure.  I reminded her how important it was to brush her teeth and keep her teeth clean.

Uncle Ned said the next appt would be to take care of the other 2 bigger cavities.  He said she would need to be sedated to relax her and make it easier for him to work on her.

We rented a bounce house as a surprise for the girls for Easter.  Our friends, Eva, who was the night nanny for the triplets, and her daughter and grandson came over.  Also, our friend Cyn, who is a foster parent for 4 boys, came over.    My brother Ron came over too.

We had a fun Easter Egg Hunt and the kids played in the bouncy house.    We had a nice lunch of ham and the fixings.

I totally forgot to put the Easter baskets out.  They had fun bubble blowing stuff in them.  I will have to figure out a way to surprise them with the baskets…oops!!

I did make some yummy fudge Easter Eggs for everyone.   It was a fun and relaxing day.

The medicine has done its trick and Savannah is no longer itching….whew!  We have one more day to give her medicine.   I am so glad she has gotten relief with the medicine! 

The dr. wrote a prescription for Savannah and the triplets to be excused from swimming lessons due to the rash and the chlorine.    I spoke to Jeanette, the director of swimming at the YMCA and she told me that they will give me a 2 week credit towards May swimming lessons-Yay!    The girls will go back to swimming in a couple of weeks.

I organized a fun day at Oeste Park for the La Habra Moms Club to celebrate Easter for our kiddos.   We all brought picnic lunches.   We had an Egg hunt and I brought some goodies for all of the kids and cupcakes for everyone.  The kids had a blast and also spend a lot of time on the playground.  

The weather was gorgeous today and it was so much fun for all of us!!

Up until now it has been an intimidating thought to attempt the difficult task for me to get the girls ready to go to church.    Morning services are just too hard to get to on a timely manner.

Our church, Morningstar Christian Chapel, which is a non denominational affiliate Calvary Christian church, offers Wednesday evening services at 7:00pm and Sunday services at 6:00pm.   

Today our church offered a 6:00pm Good Friday evening service.   So I got the girls ready and we all went to church tonight.  

Cliff and I took the triplets to their classroom and then we took Savannah to their classroom.    It was all of the girls very first time attending their classrooms at church.    They were all excited.  There was a fun playground, they had lots of toys, art projects and a lesson taught about Good Friday representing the day Jesus died.

Cliff and I attended the church service and the sermon ministered by Pastor Jack Abaleen was so inspiring!!  I teared up and felt the Spirit the whole time we were there.  The songs we sang were beautiful and I felt the love of Jesus our Lord in me and all around us.  It was His amazing Grace.

We are going to try to attend church weekly now.   The girls are old enough now to learn about the teachings of Jesus and Christianity.  I am so excited for them!!   It will also be good for Cliff and I to attend services and get involved in the ministry as well.