The Jones Girls

One of the most beautiful and festive things to go do during Christmas time is go to Disneyland. 

I took the girls to Disneyland this afternoon.   It was a little chilly and we were all bundled up warm sweaters and it felt like something out of Norman Rockwell.

We started off at California Adventure and we saw Mickey Mouse Club House Live!  Afterwards we had some lunch that I had brought with us and then we ventured over to see Crush which is an interactive Nemo show.  Then we saw the Pixar Parade and the girls went crazy over all of their favorite cartoon characters such as Nemo, Buzz Light Year and Woody, etc.  

We left California Adventure and went into Disneyland Park.   We saw the beautiful Christmas Parade.  It was so beautiful!!      We all ate marshmallows and drank Hot Chocolate that I had brought with us.    It was lovely.  We took a stroll through the crowds and saw the beautifully decorated It’s a Small World.   It was a 2+ hour wait so we decided not to go on the ride.  We had something else more important to see!!  We will go back and see it after Christmas when the crowds are shorter.

After the parade, we went back to California Adventure, bought some Gingerbread Cookies and enjoyed them with hot chocolate and sat down to watch the Electric Light Parade.    This is the most magical parade ever!!     They don’t have this parade often, only during limited engagements so we were delighted to watch it.

It was so crowded that day that I parked on the very last lane of the uppermost level of the parking structure.  We had arrived at about 1:00pm.   Shortly after we arrived, they said Disneyland was sold out and the parking lot was full.  They were not accepting anymore patrons. We got there just in time.    Thankfully when we got on the tram it wasn’t too busy because pretty much everyone was already in the park.     Even though it was a little crowded at Disneyland park, California Adventure was only half as crowded so I am glad we spent a lot of our time there. 

This day really got all of us excited for Christmas!!  Yippee!!

Today was the girls Christmas Holiday Ballet Recital.   They wore their pretty Christmas dresses that I got for them for our Family Holiday Portraits.   They all looked so pretty.

I baked and decorated 4 dozen Christmas cupcakes.  I also brought dip with crackers and a tin of different flavored popcorns.  When we arrived in the auditorium, I was so surprised to see so many people. The ballet teacher mentioned there would be about 48 people…I would say there was about 150 people!!  There were 5 tables full of all kinds of food and lots of hungry people since it was noon lunch time.     There was not enough food to feed everyone.

Anyway, the recital was beautiful.    Miranda didn’t listen to the teacher and wandered off…the little stinker.  This is exactly why I have her in ballet lessons…to listen to instructions from a teach!!   Savannah did really well and Maryssa and Amanda followed the dance pretty well too.

I am so proud of my little princesses!!

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.

After we left Michelle’s Bakery, we ran home to change and get ready for Savannah’s school Christmas performance.  It was a chilly night so we all bundled up.  Rosanne joined us.

I was so excited!  This was our little girl’s first school performance and I could wait.    It was a wonderful performance and production.

The Kindy Kids stole the hearts of everyone and was the favorite hands down.  Savannah and all of the Kindy Kids wore their cute PJ’s and brought a Teddy Bear.  This was the them for what they sang..  “Me and   Bear” and “Santa Clause is coming to town”.

The PTA had a beautiful table of all sorts of delicious goodies along with hot chocolate, coffee and even mistletoe for sale!!    We bought some stuff…of course we wanted to contribute to the PTA.

I am doing flash cards with Savannah to help her learn to spell and sound out letters and words.    Tonight I video taped her reading her flash card words.   This was the first time I presented these word flash cards to her.   She can read 2o words now.   She is also sounding out words and learning how to read words such as my, by, see, etc.  This is what she can read now:

White
Brown
Pink
Red
Purple
Yellow
Orange
Gray
Blue
Black
Green
The
Am
We
Have
Is
Little
I
A
To

This week is Parent Teacher Conference at Savannah’s school.    This means all of the kids get out of school early all week long and they get Friday off.    Savannah’s late bird class has been moved to early bird and that has been a real pain.  Friday I took all of the girls to Disneyland and we had lots of fun!!

I met with Savannah’s teacher today.    Savannah knows all of her alphabet by site and sound.    She knows most of her shapes except for cylinder, rectangle and cone.  I will work with her on those shapes.    She can count to 26 and she will be required to count to 30 by the end of Kindy so I would say she is doing great with her numbers seeing that she has only been in school for a couple of months now.

Savannah knows how to spell and read most “word” colors.     She also knows her colors by sight too.

The teacher says she is doing great in school and to keep up the good work!!  I am so proud of my sweet little Kindergartner!!

I try not to bother too many people about Savannah’s school fundraisers, especially with this terrible economy.

However, our school is doing this really cool fundraiser with See’s Candy.  When I think of See’s Candy, I know of 2 people who are devoted fans of the yummy stuff…my mom and my sister Rosanne.

The fundraiser will raise money for the art program for Savannah’s school.   It enriches their music and choir program as well as liberal arts.    School funding has taken this away from the kids so it is up to PTA and us parents to raise the money.   

The candy orders have to be turned in by Nov. 10th and the candy is delivered to us on November 24th.   I remembered Rosanne is coming down here for a few days to visit during this time and I asked her if she would be interested in purchasing some candy.  She could have it when she arrives down here.

I sent her pamphlet of the list of candy products for sale.   She gave it to mom to look at.    Low and behold, God Bless their hearts, they provided orders from about 8 people and they also ordered themselves.     They purchased about $180 in candy.  Thank you so much Mom and Rosanne for opening up your hearts and helping Savannah’s school.   We truly appreciate it.

Love you xoxoxoxo