The Jones Girls

Today is the last day of swimming lessons for the girls.  They will resume again in September when they get back in school.

Today they got to play with the floaties…this is their favorite time of the whole class and they only get to do it on the last day of the 4 week swim class.

They were presented with certificates of what they have completed.    See you back in September!!

After I dropped Savannah off for school at 8:30am, I went with the triplets to their preschool to help their preschool teacher, Mrs. Drilling, with preparations for closing up her classroom and for the year end party for the preschool kids.

We shared some tears and laughter.   The festivities began!!   The kids were given fun beach buckets full of goodies such as bubbles, water guns and little flash lights and lollipops – totally fun stuff!!

There was a huge bouncy house and all kinds of fun little activity areas.  The kids were divided in groups according to classrooms.    We first got to watch the kids get face painting done.  Then the kids got to draw on the ground with chalk.   Then we got to go “fishing” for goodies.  That was so fun!   Then the kids went bowling.  Then we got to play with the parachute and bounce balls with the parachute.  The kids enjoyed running under the parachute.  Then the kids went to throw balls in the hanging hula hoops.   They were having a blast!!

It was approaching 9:45am and I had to leave to go volunteer at Savannah’s party at school.  I needed to bring the 75 “summertime” cupcakes to her party.   Cliff will pick them up at 11am while I am volunteering at Savannah’s school.

I made the most adorable cupcakes last night for Savannah’s party today!!   I frosted the cupcakes with chocolate frosting, then sprinkled them with brown sugar to resemble sand.  Then I took sticks of gum (kept them in the wrapper) and bent them into the shape of a lounge chair.  Then I put a little piece of candy next to the lounge chair to resemble a beach ball.  Then I put a little umbrella over the lounge chair. Those cupcakes came out adorable.

When I brought the cupcakes to the party, they were a huge hit!!  All of the moms were taking pictures of the cupcakes.   

All of the kids were playing at different stations.   There were water balloon toss.  There was a funny game where the kids had to put a balloon between their legs and run back and forth without dropping the balloon and then when they reached the final destination they had to sit on the balloon to pop it.   Then the kids did a fun game of transferring water from one bucket to the other by soaking a sponge and wringing it out int he empty bucket.   The first team to fill the empty bucket won.     The bean bag toss was a huge hit.  The last station was a water gun game.   The kids had to spray a water gun and move a table tennis ball across the table and the first team won.

After the games, everyone was served hot dogs, chips, fruit and juice boxes.   After lunch my cupcakes were presented and the kids went wild for the cupcakes!!  The LOVED the umbrellas and did cute things like put it in their hair and one kid even put an umbrella on her hot dog bun!  Lots of fun stuff.

After lunch the kids played on the playground and then we all went home.  The teacher gave Savannah a really cute Beach bucket filled with fun stuff like goggles, a lei and other goodies.