The Jones Girls

We rented a bounce house as a surprise for the girls for Easter.  Our friends, Eva, who was the night nanny for the triplets, and her daughter and grandson came over.  Also, our friend Cyn, who is a foster parent for 4 boys, came over.    My brother Ron came over too.

We had a fun Easter Egg Hunt and the kids played in the bouncy house.    We had a nice lunch of ham and the fixings.

I totally forgot to put the Easter baskets out.  They had fun bubble blowing stuff in them.  I will have to figure out a way to surprise them with the baskets…oops!!

I did make some yummy fudge Easter Eggs for everyone.   It was a fun and relaxing day.

I organized a fun day at Oeste Park for the La Habra Moms Club to celebrate Easter for our kiddos.   We all brought picnic lunches.   We had an Egg hunt and I brought some goodies for all of the kids and cupcakes for everyone.  The kids had a blast and also spend a lot of time on the playground.  

The weather was gorgeous today and it was so much fun for all of us!!

Up until now it has been an intimidating thought to attempt the difficult task for me to get the girls ready to go to church.    Morning services are just too hard to get to on a timely manner.

Our church, Morningstar Christian Chapel, which is a non denominational affiliate Calvary Christian church, offers Wednesday evening services at 7:00pm and Sunday services at 6:00pm.   

Today our church offered a 6:00pm Good Friday evening service.   So I got the girls ready and we all went to church tonight.  

Cliff and I took the triplets to their classroom and then we took Savannah to their classroom.    It was all of the girls very first time attending their classrooms at church.    They were all excited.  There was a fun playground, they had lots of toys, art projects and a lesson taught about Good Friday representing the day Jesus died.

Cliff and I attended the church service and the sermon ministered by Pastor Jack Abaleen was so inspiring!!  I teared up and felt the Spirit the whole time we were there.  The songs we sang were beautiful and I felt the love of Jesus our Lord in me and all around us.  It was His amazing Grace.

We are going to try to attend church weekly now.   The girls are old enough now to learn about the teachings of Jesus and Christianity.  I am so excited for them!!   It will also be good for Cliff and I to attend services and get involved in the ministry as well.

There is a library right next to the YMCA.  The Whittier Libarary.   So I took the girls for their very first time to visit a public library.  I had to go over with them about being very quiet and using their “inside” voices.

They were amazed at all of the books in the kids section!    We went to the Easy reading area for Savannah.  She chose a really cute book about animals and I will have her read it to me.  She is becoming quite the little reader.

They also rent out DVD movies for $1.  We picked out Bambi II and we are going to watch it tonight.  Miranda didn’t want to let go of the DVD and she said it was hers.  She fell in love with the movie.

We will go to the library every Tuesday and Thursday to check out books and once a week we will check out a DVD.     I am going t look into the summer reading program for Savannah.

I arranged to have the kiddos and moms of the La Habra Moms club to enjoy a tour of the restaurant, kitchen and make their own tacos.

The manager John, was very accomodating!!    He explained the history of the restaurant.  It was originally a house and part of the restaurant was actually party of the house and he pointed certain characteristics to prove it.    I was so impressed when we toured their kitchen!!   Hands down, their kitchen is the CLEANEST kitchen I have ever seen at any restaurant, and I will tell you, this past year we have done at least 6 restaurant tours of their kitchens.    You could eat off of their kitchen floor!!    

The kids made their tacos in the kitchen and then we were all guided to our party room on the patio.  It looked so festive!!  Their were balloons tied with cute yellow duckies all over the place!!   The kids were give cute sippy cups with their choice of beverage.   The moms ordered off of the menu.  I had a coupon which was great!!   

The kids got ice cream for dessert.   The final suprise was each kid got to pick out a prize from the restaurant’s special toy chest!!

We all had a wonderful time.

Today was Savannah’s birthday party. The theme was My Littlest Pet shop gone Wild in a Carnival!! 

 Her closest friends from Kindergarten. a lot of her friends from the moms club, some friends from her old preschool, and her long time neighbor friend were there along with all of the mommies.

All of the kids got to paint bobble head ceramics, make personalized name bracelets or necklaces, paint and decorate their nails.    The big hit was a bouncy house and a huge popcorn machine and snow cone machine!!   

We had loads of pizza and snacks to eat.   I have to say I made the most beautiful “My Littlest Pet Shop” birthday cake and matching cupcakes.  

Balloons were everywhere.   I would say the moms had just as much fun as the kids did!!   The weather was beautiful and it was truly a very special day. 

Savannah got many wonderful presents.  She loved all of them!!

Today was a gorgeous day!!   Sunny blue warm skies.  A great day for a Valentine’s party!!  I baked heart shaped Valentines cookies for the kids to decorate in the afternoon.

I arranged to surprise the girls and have a bouncy house delivered for them to play in today.    When the bouncy house was set up, the girls freaked and screamed with joy.   They all ran out and immediately dove into the jumper!!   

I also invited my friend Corrie and her kids too. Her kids didn’t know about the bouncy house so when they arrived, they were totally surprised!!

I had pizza delivered and we had ice cream sundaes for dessert.

What a great Valentine’s Day!!