The Jones Girls

We had our La Habra Moms Children’s Christmas party at Oeste Park.    We were a bit worried that the weather would be unpredictable, but we lucked out and it was 70 degrees – a beautiful day!!

Valentina’s husband, Morris, was Santa Claus.  He made the PERECT Santa.    All of us moms brought wrapped presents for our kids.   I brought the girls Mickey Mouse back pack purses for their present from Santa.   Inside the back pack was playing cards.     Each child got to sit on Santa’s lap and receive their present and tell Santa what they wanted for Christmas.  We got some great pictures of the kids with Santa!

We also had pizza, I brought rice crispy treats and Angie brought the most delicious 7 layer dip.     I also brought candy canes with an attached story about the candy cane.  It read:

Many years ago a candy maker
wanted to make a candy that would
symbolize the true meaning of
Christmas-Jesus.   

The hard candy was shaped like a “J”
to represent that Jesus 
is our rock of all ages.  

The candy was made of white
to stand for the pureness of Jesus. 
The red stripe represents the blood
that Jesus shed to save us from our sins.

So the next time you see a candy cane
take a minute to remember
the real meaning of Christmas.

Grandma (my mom) got the girls the CUTEST Christmas dresses for Christmas.  I dressed the girls up in their dresses from Grandma and they looked beautiful!! 

I had purchased Potato Heads for the triplets and Hungry Hippo Game for Savannah for presents that Santa would give them at the party. 

We drove down to Tustin – to my friend Mary Stechman’s house, who is a member of my Multiple Moms Club.  She hosted this year’s Children’s Christmas party at her house. 

Santa was out on the patio meeting and greeting all of the children.   Each of my girls sat on Santa’s lap and Santa gave them their wrapped present.   Then each girl told Santa what they wanted…each of them wanted a Reindeer!!  LOL!!

Mary has a chicken coupe in her backyard and she has 4 beautiful chickens.  I have never seen such a clean chicken coupe!!   The girls LOVED seeing and watching the chickens.

There was all sorts of yummy Christmas cookies, hot cocoa and gourmet coffees for all of us.

Mary’s house had a really neat Safari themed bathroom and my girls were just enthralled with it.    It was quite the bathroom!!

We stayed a few hours and really had a wonderful time playing with all of the kids (many sets of twins, we had the only triplets there) and I enjoyed chatting with the moms.

Tonight Cliff picked up Nanny Feli to watch the girls and she spent the night.  Cliff and I have a date night!!   It was Numatic Engineering’s Christmas party in Van Nuys.

It was pouring tonight and made it stressful for our drive up to Van Nuys.    We were greeted by all of Cliff’s colleagues.  There was a professional photographer there and we got a nice portait done for Cliff and I.

They served us Filet Minon for dinner.    Cliff was presented with his 20th anniversary gift with Numatic – a very nice Army Swiss watch.   He was so proud and I am so proud of him too.     Congradulations honey!!

I organized a fun cupcake decorating event at Michelle’s Bakery for La Habra Moms club.  We had a huge turnout and about 45 showed up!!    My sister Rosanne came with us to join in the fun. 

Michelle’s Bakery was so gracious to us.  They had a private room set up with tables full of all kinds of decorations, icings, chocolates, etc.   We each got a cupcake kit and all of us had a blast decorating our cupcakes.   Each table had an attendant to help us.  There were candy canes and chocolates for us to enjoy while we were decorating at each table.

They had cocoa and coffee for all of us as well.  What a wonderful experience!!

Today I took the girls to get Christmas Holiday portraits done.   Our appointment was at 3:00pm at JCPenney’s Photography studio.    It took me over 2 hours to get the girls ready…hair up in pin curls and dressed in their beautiful Christmas dresses with tights and new dressy shoes.

I made this appointment almost 2 weeks ago and the photographers have called me twice this week to verify we wanted the Christmas Holiday background and to confirm our appointment.    I reserved an hour appointment for photography.

We arrive and the photographer said she wasn’t ready for us.   She did not have the background put together yet and could I please turn their TV on and play a Disney movie for the girls while she sets up the studio.    So I did that.  She asked if I could come help her put the background together.  She had no idea how it was supposed to be put together.   So I helped as best as I could.   In the meantime, my girls have been intently watching the Disney movie for over 20 minutes.

We finished doing the background and then I had to get the girls unglued from the TV.  That was difficult.  Of course they didn’t want to go get pictures now because I interrupted them watching their Disney movie. 

Needless to say, the girls didn’t cooperate with the photo shoot.  It went horrible.   Not one good shot!!   Everyone was crying and protesting.  I was frustrated.  The photographer didn’t know what to do, so she pulled out a baby rattle to try to appease them.  Ummm, a baby rattle?   Give me  a break!!   She didn’t know how to position the girls and asked me to give her some ideas.   I was not impressed and very annoyed.

I cut the photo shoot short and told her this was going really bad.  We didn’t get one good shot.    I packed up the girls and headed out.  The photographer took me to the register and offered me a free photo sheet and appologized saying that she wasn’t ready for us.   I told her I was frustrated because it took me over 2 hours to get the girls ready and now I would have to reschedule and do it all over again.    I asked to speak to her manager.  Then the bomb drop…she said she was the manager!!    My mouth hung open in disbelief.    Not good at all.

When I got home, I called the manager at JCPenney’s and she had the district manager of photography call me.  I spoke to Nicole Medina and she apologized for the whole experience.  She said the photographer was very good and had 3 years experience being a photographer for JCPenney’s and that she became manager of photography for our JCPenney’s just a couple of weeks ago.    She offered me a few free photo sheets.

I had to reschedule our photo shoot for this Saturday.  We will also do a family portrait also.   Hopefully it will go much better than today…

I have to say the city of La Habra had the cutest bugs for Halloween!!  Savannah was the queen bee, Amanda was a butterfly, Miranda was a bumble bee and Maryssa was a lady bug.  I made all of their costumes.  They had cute too too’s.   They looked so cute!!

We took them trick or treating in the neighborhood at about 6:00pm.    I went with them for about 20 minutes than I ran home to give out candy.  They were with daddy and got back at about 7:30.   They came back with boat loads of candy!!

I would say we had about 120 trick or treaters visit our house.    There were some awesome costumes.  Some teenagers came to the door and one of the girls was a pick and was holding a shot.  She said she was “Swine Flu”.  I cracked up and had to take a picture of her.  Too funny!!

Today was Savannah’s costume parade at school. She was so excited to wear her costume to school.   The school parade started at 10:30am, just 20 minutes after I dropped her off to school.  

I didn’t have time to dress up the triplets so I dressed them up in the car the 20 minutes before the costume parade started.

The Farina’s parked beside us.  They were their to see their 2nd grade twins in the costume parade, they were Fairy and the Frog characters.

I think the triplets got more attention than the costume parade did.   No one at our school have seen triplets before so it was fun!!   Thanksfully everyone moved their attention to their kids in their costumes.    Savannah’s Kindy class was the first class in the parade.  All of us waived and said Hi to Savannah.  She had so much fun.  I took lots of pictures of the parade and  of  Savannah with her classmates.   I also took pictures of my girls with the Farina girls in their costumes. 

It was a lot of fun!!