The Jones Girls

This was our end of school year celebration!!

I organized a fun tour of John’s Pizza in Buena Park.  It is like Chuck E. Cheese on steroids.  They have an all you can eat buffet and indoor rides such as the scrambler, bumper cars, airplane ride and indoor playground, plus lots of fun games to earn points to get prizes.

Liz and her son Daniel, and Corrie and her 5 kids met us at John’s Pizza at 2pm.   We got a private room and we were surprised when they told us that we got to make our own pizzas!!   So we all made our pizzas and while they baking, we went to the buffet tables to get salads, pastas, etc.  We were all starving as none of us moms had breakfast or lunch yet.  

We were given cards that had points on them and the kids could redeem them on the rides and games.  After we ate, we  ventured out to the game room and rides.   All of the kids rode on the airplane.   The triplets were not tall enough to do the bumper cars, so Savannah did that.  She was not tall enough to do the scrambler ride. 

Then the girls played in the indoor playground for quite a while.  Savannah and I went to play some games to earn points to win some toys.

After 3 hours since we arrived, we cashed in our points and the girls got dinosaurs, heart necklaces and Dracula teeth.

Tonight I attended our La Habra Moms Club annual end of year banquet at El Cholo restaurant.    We played fun games and I won a gift certificate to Pink Berry!!   We had a delicious meal, I got soft grilled chicken tacos.

We presented our current president, Liz, with a nice gift thanking her for being our president this year.   She did an amazing job.   We gave her personalized engraved chopsticks. 4 bottles of wine in a basket full of flowers, and a $110 gift certificate to her favorite sushi restaurant, Higo Sushi, which is located here in La Habra.

Then Liz presented me with the prettiest flower crown and announced that I had accepted the nomination as President of the La Habra Moms Club.      I felt very proud and honored to serve as president to this wonderful club full of the most wonderful friends and sister moms.   I look forward to an amazing year as President!!

After the Mother & Daughter Tea, we drove home to change and then we went to the La Habra Heights Avocado Festival.   Savannah wanted to stay and play at her friend Madeline’s house and Madeline’s sister, Analiese, wanted to come with us to the Festival.  We sort of did a kid swap thing…LOL!

We saw so many cute little animals, watched a weaver make homemade wool, petted little critters.  We visited a Dog Greyhound rescue booth.  I am going to have her be a guest speaker this summer for our La Habra Moms club and she will bring the dogs for the kids to meet and pet.  

We then went over to the Bee Keeper.  That was so neat!   They had a live exhibit of bees in a bee hive making honey.   I purchased some honey sticks filled with different flavored honeys.  They girls LOVED them.   I am going to ask Lynne the Bee Keeper to be a guest speaker this summer for La Habra Moms club also.  I referred the Bee Keeper to the school principal, Kim Likert, at Savannah’s school.   She really liked the idea and they are going to incorporate an event next year at school.  How cool is that?

Then we went over to the bouncy houses and the girls spent what seemed to be forever having a blast there.   Afterwards we did a little shopping and I got the girls beautiful butterflies. 

It was a fun day…and tiring too!!

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!!

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….

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!!