The Jones Girls

Today was the triplets preschool end of year party.  I brought cute little treat boxes filled with the what me and the girls made yesterday -cupcakes and cookie sandwich as well as a souvenir cup with a crazy straw.

I wasn’t able to go to the party because I was at Savannah’s award ceremony.  When I picked the triplets up at 12pm noon, they were so excited about their party and showed me all of the fun goodies they got.   I received huge bags of all of the crafts as well as the Father’s Day craft project that they made for Daddy.

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!!

Today Cliff had to visit one of his customers who owns an airport in Perris.    This customer built an indoor skydiving simulator.   Cliff wanted all of us to go with him to see the airport and check out the sky diving simulator.

So we headed out at 8am and it took about an hour to get there.  The weather was chilly and the clouds were getting dark and the wind gusty.   Cliff met with his customer for about an hour while I took the girls and we ventured around the airport.    There were all sorts of private planes and jets.  There were many Sky Diving shops.  We saw a lot of sky divers with their equipment getting ready to take a flight up that morning. 

We rain into an 85 year old WWII veteran who flew planes during the war.  He was fascinating to talk to.  He lives in La Puente.  I got a picture of him with the girls.  He said he hoped to fly another 15 years and then retire.    I really enjoyed his zest for life!!

We met some skydivers and the girls ran around on the grass and kicked a socker ball around with some boys.  Then raindrops started coming down then a huge downpour.  We headed into the restaurant where Cliff was having his meeting.  He was wrapping up his meeting just as we arrived.

We had a bite to eat.  Dave, the manager, and Bob, the owner invited Savannah to try out the Sky diving simulator.  She was beyond excited.     They had a slot for her at 12:30pm!!    So we ventured over to this 4 story building that contained the flight simulator.   There were loud engine noises to pump the huge amounts of air into the simulator.  It looked just like a rocket ship!!

We watched with fascination at the instructors teaching people who signed up to try out the skydiving simulation.   Savannah was called in to take a class on what to do and learn certain hand signals.  Then she got to put on a really cool flight suit, goggles and a flight helmet.  She looked so cute!!

She was so brave as she walked confidently into the flight simulator.  She laid on the ground and followed the instructions on what to do.   She floated and flew around.   I was in amazement and so proud of my baby!!   I couldn’t believe how good Savannah did!   When she finished, the first thing out of her mouth was….when can I go again!!

Today I took all of the girls to a Mother & Daughter Tea that I organized with both of my moms clubs.   The girls wore beautiful and adorable dresses with Pet shop material, made by Grandma.   We had 26 people there.   I made cute Pet shop packages for the kids.   I made hair bows that sported Pet shop characters and were very time consuming to make.   But well worth it..the girls loved them!!

It was the first Tea for the triplets and for the most part they behaved.   We had some challenging moments for THREE 3 year old triplets!!    They munched on their lunch of chicken nuggets, fishie crackers, tea sandwiches and a blueberry scone.  They had lemonade as their tea in little porcelain tea cups.

We had some a fun game of pulling numbers….everyone one a prize.    I had made beautiful decorated sugar cookies in the shape of teapots and teacups. I had gotten the cookie cutters at East Poultney General Store last summer with the intention of using them for the Mother & Daughter Tea.  I also gave out beautiful gift baskets to each mom with baked goods and chocolates inside.   Then I gave each girl a rice crispy treat. 

Everyone had a wonderful time.  I can’t believe this was the 3rd annual tea!!     We look forward to doing it again next year…

Today we went on a tour of Armstrong Garden Center that I organized with my La Habra Moms Club.   At first, they forgot about our tour, but then a really nice man came to give us the tour.

There were beautiful zen-like koi ponds with water fountains, bamboo and banzai trees.   He showed the kids lemon trees with little flowers and budding lemons.    Then we went over to the flowers and vegetable plants.    He then surprised the kids and let them each pick out a 4 inch flowering pot!!    What a pleasant surprise.  The girls picked out the most beautiful flowers that we will plant in our front yard garden.  We also picked out a strawberry plant and , a cherry tomato plant, and a squash plant.  Savannah wanted to pick out some seeds and she got sunflower seeds and I got some cucmber and eggplant seeds.

It was a beautiful sunny day and perfect for our tour!!

The triplets preschool had their open house tonight.   They had a bake sale fundraiser and I donated rice crispy treats with cute Nemo rings on them.   They were also serving tacos and quesadillas for dinner as a fundraiser.

We visited the classroom at about 7pm.   The room was decorated with all of the kids’ artwork in the theme of a carnival.   It was so fun to see the triplets crafts and artwork all around the room.  There were 2 other sets of twins, their mothers are friends of mine.   One of the twins’ mommies gave birth to her twins the day before I gave birth to the triplets and her room was next door to my room in the hospital.   So her twins birthday is August 10th.  She remembers me giving birth on August 11th because her dr., Dr. Rocca could not release her because he was in the OR doing my C-Section!!

I bought some yummy goodies from the bake sale and some tacos and quesedillas for all of us.   It was a cold night and perfect for the baked goods to comfort everyone.

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…