The Jones Girls

This was our end of school year celebration!!

I organized a fun tour of John’s Pizza in Buena Park.  It is like Chuck E. Cheese on steroids.  They have an all you can eat buffet and indoor rides such as the scrambler, bumper cars, airplane ride and indoor playground, plus lots of fun games to earn points to get prizes.

Liz and her son Daniel, and Corrie and her 5 kids met us at John’s Pizza at 2pm.   We got a private room and we were surprised when they told us that we got to make our own pizzas!!   So we all made our pizzas and while they baking, we went to the buffet tables to get salads, pastas, etc.  We were all starving as none of us moms had breakfast or lunch yet.  

We were given cards that had points on them and the kids could redeem them on the rides and games.  After we ate, we  ventured out to the game room and rides.   All of the kids rode on the airplane.   The triplets were not tall enough to do the bumper cars, so Savannah did that.  She was not tall enough to do the scrambler ride. 

Then the girls played in the indoor playground for quite a while.  Savannah and I went to play some games to earn points to win some toys.

After 3 hours since we arrived, we cashed in our points and the girls got dinosaurs, heart necklaces and Dracula teeth.

Tonight I attended our La Habra Moms Club annual end of year banquet at El Cholo restaurant.    We played fun games and I won a gift certificate to Pink Berry!!   We had a delicious meal, I got soft grilled chicken tacos.

We presented our current president, Liz, with a nice gift thanking her for being our president this year.   She did an amazing job.   We gave her personalized engraved chopsticks. 4 bottles of wine in a basket full of flowers, and a $110 gift certificate to her favorite sushi restaurant, Higo Sushi, which is located here in La Habra.

Then Liz presented me with the prettiest flower crown and announced that I had accepted the nomination as President of the La Habra Moms Club.      I felt very proud and honored to serve as president to this wonderful club full of the most wonderful friends and sister moms.   I look forward to an amazing year as President!!

Today was the triplets preschool end of year party.  I brought cute little treat boxes filled with the what me and the girls made yesterday -cupcakes and cookie sandwich as well as a souvenir cup with a crazy straw.

I wasn’t able to go to the party because I was at Savannah’s award ceremony.  When I picked the triplets up at 12pm noon, they were so excited about their party and showed me all of the fun goodies they got.   I received huge bags of all of the crafts as well as the Father’s Day craft project that they made for Daddy.

A couple of weeks ago I received a note from the school for us to attend Savannah’s school, El Portal’s, award ceremony.

So I dropped Daddy Cliff and Savannah off at school at 8:15am (she is an early bird all week…ugh!) and then I dropped the triplets at early morning day care at 8:30am (they normally begin at 9am but they offer early morning care beforehand for $2.50 per child per half hour – very convenient – YIPEE!!)..

The award ceremony started at 8:45am.  Cliff and I settled in our seats.    They began presenting the awards.   The VIP Student of the Year award for Miss Tarbell Kindergarten class was awarded to Savannah!!     What a huge and proud moment to hear our little daughter got that award.  We tood hundreds of pictures.  She also got the CARE award too.   

I am so proud of you Savannah!!  You have done exceptionally well in Kindy and you have made us so proud of you!!   We love you!! xoxoxo

Today I baked 100 cupcakes – 75 for Savannah’s class which I put in the freezer to decorate on Wednesday evening for her end of year classroom party which is on Thursday. 

The other 25 cupcakes I decorated for the triplet’s preschool party tomorrow.

I had baked a couple of dozen of cute daisy shaped sugar cookies.  I put frosting between the cookies then decorated the outside of them.

Then I put them all together in cute treat boxes for the kids for preschool tomorrow.   This is going to be a very busy week full of end of school year parties and activities..woohoo!!

A few months ago I got the girls the Lion King 2 video.    My friend Corrie called me and said the theatrical show Lion King was having a limited engagement at the Costa Mesa Performing Arts for a short couple of weeks in June.   She asked if Savannah and I would like to join her and her girls.

So I had Savannah go on You Tube and watch the theatrical performance and she was mesmerized with excitement and amazement.   I asked her if she would like to go see it and she said Yes Mommy!!  I was so excited, this will be here very first theatrical performance.

So today at 3:30pm, Corrie picked us up and we went to dinner at Red Lobster.    It was a nice dinner and the girls enjoyed visiting the live lobsters in the aquariums.   

At 5:30pm (the show started at 6:30pm and we wanted plenty of time to get there) we packed up in the car and I reached in my purse for the tickets so we could “GPS” directions.   NO TICKETS were in my purse!  I distinctly remember putting them in my purse before we left the house.  But then I do remember Google directions to get to Costa Mesa Performing Arts…does this mean I LEFT THE TICKETS AT HOME…which will put us almost 45 minutes late!!

I call Cliff and frantically tell him I can’t find the tickets.  He goes through my desk…no tickets!!  EEEK!!  Where are they?  I am so panicked, I am going to through up the expensive lobster dinner that I just ate.  

I run into the restaurant…perhaps the tickets fell out of my purse and landed on the floor under that table?   So I run to the table.  It is sparkling clean and no sigh of the tickets.    NO dice…OMG!!

I quickly seek out our server and have him check with the bus boy to find out if he had seen our tickets when he cleaned our table.  The manager came out and handed me a folded up wad of paper that had been pulled out of the trash.    The tickets were in my hand….granted, they were in the trash, but I had the tickets – WHEW!!   Thank you Precious Lord – and I mean I really prayed and thanked him!!!

So this put us behind only 7 minutes.    Our drive was smooth as well as our parking.  We got to our seats.

Savannah was amazed at how grand the seating was in the theatre.  We had balcony seats with a fantastic view.    The curtains went up and the show began.   The Baby Lion King scene immediately began the performance.  The symphony was excellent the dancers were electrifying to watch.  The costumes were mezmerizing and ingenious!!

We had a 1/2 hour intermission.    It was about a 3 hour performance.  Savannah was getting antzy about 3/4 of the way through..not too bad for a 6 year old watching her first performance being that long!!

We left and I got a little dizzy.   We had to go up and down stairs and then go around and down for many, many flights.   The walls were full of mirrors.  It was very disorienting for me.  At last we reached the bottom-whew!!

We waited in a long line to get the girls a little keepsake present.  The line was obnoxiously long.   We weren’t  about to wait in this cattle call!

So we paced to the exit and we lucked out – there was a guy selling Lion King stuffed memorabilia.   Savannah wanted what she called “The Pig”.  So I got her that.

We got home at about 10:30pm.

Today is our 10th annual Arabic Dinner Family Reunion.    I was up late last night and got up at 6am this morning to get a good head start.     Everyone would start showing up at 3pm.

Our friend, Nadia, has triplets that are turning 2 and today is their birthday party at La Habra Heights Park.   So at 9:00am I began getting the girls ready for the birthday party.  Cliff left at 10am to take the girls to the party.  

This gave me an advantage to get a lot of work done.    My brother, Rob, helped me so much (thank you my dear brother!).

The girls came home at 12pm noon.  They played their video games and I continued to prepare the food and the house for the party.   I took a quick shower.

Everything was ready and my family began coming over at 3pm.    We had lots of good food, wine and most importantly the grandest time catching up with each other.  We took a lovely family group photograph.

What a wonderful evening!!