The Jones Girls

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!!

My babysitter and now dear family friend, Christine, and her friend, Nicole went with us to a carnival yesterday.  We went to the 23rd annual Summerfest in Brea.  It is a gigantic carnival.  They host top notch free entertainment.    Terry Fador  performed at the carnival last night.  Hhe won Grand Prize Winner as the most talented for America’s Got Talent on NBC.  He is a ventriloquist, singer, comedian and celebrity impressionist.  A true genius and an overnight sensation who now has his own Las Vegas show at the Mirage.   This man is a brilliant entertainer and he brought the house down last night.

The girls got hungry for dinner, it was 7:30pm,so I grabbed some hotdogs and we had dinner while watching the show.  It was so much fun!!  I can’t believe it was free!!

By the end of the show, the girls were ready to venture over to the vibrant twinkling lights where all of the fun games and rides were.    There were so many fun little toddler rides for the girls to ride on.  Each ride was $12 for all of the girls to go on.   I let them go on 2 rides.   I received a discount from the administration of the carnival.  They saw my 4 girls and just knew it was going to cost me a fortune and donated $36 worth of tickets so the girls could go on 3 rides.   Then a man overheard me telling the girls we ran out of tickets and he gave me 24 tickets so the girls could go on more rides!!   It was just amazing!!  God was shining down on us and showering us with so many blessings!!

We stayed till the carnival closed which was till about 10pm.   The people that run the rides let our girls go on the rides for free.    Again, I was amazed by such generosity.    

The man who gave us the free tickets is a DJ for a local radio station.  I met his wife and we hit it off.   We agreed to exchange email addresses and plan a Disneyland play date.  I emailed them today to see when they would like to go and to thank them for the tickets.

Last night just felt my heart with the Holy Spirit.  I felt God’s Love all around me.     Even in the tough times we are having right now, God gives me special gifts like what I received from such generous people yesterday!!