The Jones Girls

Today is the last day of the school year for Maryssa’s speech class.  She will continue again in September and will go Monday and Fridays.

Today we brought her Speech teacher, Miss Shelly Marker, the baked cupcakes and cookies that we had decorated the night before when I babysat Corrie’s kids.    We also brought her a little vegetable garden that we had planted with seedlings with a little note that says “Thank you for helping me grow”.   We gave her a Thank you card with a $5 Panera Bread gift certificate in it.

Maryssa got to pick a prize from the treasure box.  She had a fun day today at speech.

 When we got home, my brother, Rob, showed up to help me prepare the Arabic food for tomorrow’s party.  He was such a huge help!

Feli, previously our nanny who now comes once a week to tidy the house for a few hours, came over to tidy things up for me in preparation for tomorrow’s party.

Then Rob and I went out to dinner and had sushi and went for a nice walk in the neighborhood.   

It was a nice day!!

Last week at Savannah’s Kindy class the kids and her teacher’s fiance, surprised the teacher with a wedding engagement proposal. Here is the video link. Savannah is holding the letter “O” for the word “YOU” in WILL YOU MARRY ME? So cute!!   Congradulations Miss Chrissy Tarbell!!  When the triplets have her in Kindy, she will have a new last name!!

Check it out  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1Om-NDOuQg

Tonight Cliff and I took the girls to Summerfest in Brea.   It is the world’s largest Catholic private school carnival.    It is an annual event going on over 25 years now and it is organized by the student’s parents.   They have top notch entertainment such as Peter Frampton and all sorts of different and awesome performers. 

Tonight Pat Benatar was performing!!   It is a free concert so I wanted to go and see her.  So when we arrived there, it was 6:30pm.  She was scheduled to appear at 7:30pm.    After many ice creams later, no Pat Benatar. It was past 7:30pm by now.  Our poor girls were having melt downs.

So we left our wonderful point of view spot and headed over to the rides.   We got some tickets and the girls did a really fun roller coaster ride. They screamed so loud and it was hilarious!  Then we went on the horse carousel.   It was now 8:15pm and Cliff was about done.  He wanted to go home.

So we went over to my friend, Wendy Rice, booth. She was volunteering to do the 50/50 raffle.    I asked if I could stay with her at the booth and watch Pat Benatar and if she would drive me home afterwards so that Cliff could come home with the girls.  She said sure…and then she suprised me with a wristband…on the wristband it said “VIP”.    Hmmmm….what was this?  So she walked me over to where Cliff and I had originally been to watch Pat Benatar which was adequate enought to watch.   She kept walking past that spot and then walked over to the VIP section.  We showed our wrist bands and they let us in.   She escorted me to where she has reserved two seats that morning…in the SIXTH ISLE,,,,FRONT AND CENTER!!   OMG!!    

So we chatted for a bit as we sat excitedly waiting for Pat Benatar to make her appearance.   Finally, at 9:30pm, Pat entered the stage.   I tell you, we were so close I could see every detail.    It was so amazing.    Wendy and I sang all of the songs along with Pat Benatar.    Her husband, the guitarist, would through out his guitar pick every 15 minutes to the audience for someone to get.  It was so neat!!

She performed beautifully.  She explained some of the songs and what they were about.   Then she got a standing ovation and performed a few more songs.  Things wrapped up at about 11pm.   

Wendy, thank you so much for giving me such a wonderful gift!!     I had the most incredible time with you my dear friend!!