The Jones Girls

This morning I got up at 8am and had to rush around to get the triplets ready for preschool and Savannah ready to take with me to the La Habra Moms  Club meeting at 9:15am.    

Also, today I had planned a really fun snack for the kids.  They are going to make their own pizzas!!  I brought in English muffins, pizza sauce, shredded mozzarella and pepperoni.   The kids were totally ecstatic about the whole fun activity!!

I made it to the meeting a little late and very exhausted.  I forgot to bring the activities calendar for May, but I figured they would understand with the idea that I had just gotten out of the hospital.    I felt like I was running on 2 valves.

Then I took the girls to swimming lessons at 3:30pm.  Lots of work changing them into their bathing suits and then afterwards helping them get dressed in their clothes.

I was supposed to go to a Multiple Moms Night out tonight, but there is no possible way I can do it.  I am too wiped out.  Feel a little sore in the lower back today.  I hope I don’t have anymore attacks….

This morning the girls and I began cleaning out the front yard garden.   I am ashamed to say that I had fake flowers in our garden.    Even worse, they were faded and really ugly.    It took over an hour to clean up the garden.

This was the girls first time gardening and planting flowers in our front yard.  I showed them how to dig a hole in the ground, then place the flower in the hold, then cover the hold with dirt.   We planted about 12 flowers.  It looks so pretty!!

Then a few hours later, my right abdomen and right rear back was hurting,,,really bad.   It became waves of unbearable pain…worse than child labor pains.    I threw up, the pain was so bad.  I worked through it for about 5 hours and then it subsided.   Ugh…this was a horrible kidney stone causing me ugly pain…

This afternoon I took Savannah to her friend, Brooklyn’s 6th birthday.  It was a really fun carnival theme.   

Then, Savannah and I met Cliff and the triplets at Home Depot. The girls picked out flowers to plant in our front yard garden for tomorrow which is my Mother’s Day present.   Savannah picked out some pretty pink trumpet flowers.   Amanda picked out pretty little red flowers, Maryssa picked out pretty white lace flowers, and Miranda picket out pretty little pink flowers.

I drove the triplets home and Cliff took Savvy on an errand.    

After we got home, Cliff and Savvy showed up a while later with a HUGE flower arrangement and a really nice Mother’s Day card.  What a nice suprise!!

Today our neighbors, Amy and Rob, came over for dinner.    I told them that today was the last day the Electric Parade would be at Disneyland.    We decided that we would go see it tonight. 

So, we left 3 hours early to make sure we got a good place to watch the parade.   Could you believe there was no room to sit!!  We lucked out and found a handicap area, since Amanda has club radian hand and she loses balance, she qualifies to be in the handicap area.   We got an upfront and great spot.  We had to wait over 2 hours for the parade.   I brought lots of dessert snacks and drinks for the girls.    Finally about 30 minutes before the parade which happens to be their bedtime, at 8:30pm they all crashed out.  I had brought their warm jackets and thick, warm blankets.  They were all bundled up with full bellies and crashed out.

They woke up right before the parade and loved watching it.  I am so glad Amy came with us.  We had such a wonderful time.

This weekend is the last weekend for the Electric Parade at Disneyland.  It will be moving to Disneyworld in Florida.

With this in mind, we decided to go to Disneyland today.  Our friend Britney went with us.  We had a total blast. We went on every ride in Fantasy Land.    The girls had a blast driving cars and a nice cast member gave us fast passes to go on a couple of rides without waiting in line.

So, Britney took the triplets to the Rocket Ship ride and I took Savannah on Star Tours and then we went on Space Mountain.  Space Mountain was the biggest ride Savannah has ever been on and this was a huge and big deal!    She was scared and loved it all at the same time.  When we coasted in after the ride, she asked, mommy, can we go again!!    It was so much fun!!

At about 8pm, we ventured over to California to watch the Electric Parade.    It was really crowded and we couldn’t find a spot to park and view.   The girls were crashing out and exhausted.   So we grabbed a quick dinner and then went home.   Hopefully we can see it this weekend before it ends.

Today after our La Habra Moms Club meeting,we took my friend, Liz, out to lunch for her birthday.    She brought her son and I brought all of the girls.  We went to our favorite sushi spot, Higo Sushi.    We ate a lot and had a blast!  Our friend and owner of the restaurant, Junko, surprised Liz with a birthday green tea ice cream dessert – yummo!!   It was a lot of fun!!

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!!