Friday, December 25, 2009

Christmas 2009 in Laguna

This year, we celebrated Christmas at my parents home- it was nice not having to travel anywhere! We arrived to my parents just in time for a meatless lunch (Czech tradition is that you can't eat meat on Christmas Eve.. don't understand why not but we observe!)

We then went to Mariner's Church for a Christmas Eve service, we got to Christmas Carol sing our hearts out!

We came back home and my mom started putting together our traditional Christmas Eve dinner- mushroom soup, breaded white fish, and potato salad. We literally wait in anticipation for this meal all year! Every bite was delicious.

After dinner, we opened our gifts. Santa was very generous and we all received practical things that we needed!

What a relaxing Christmas and Christmas season, our wish was to take it easy and to enjoy each day- I think our wish came true!

Monday, December 21, 2009

My Company Holiday Party at Montage!

I was asked to plan our company's Holiday Party this year and after weeks of planning and preparing, we finally got to celebrate my company's success with a night at the Montage for each of our employees and an amazing dinner at Studio... definitely a special night to remember!

Ry and I arrived at the Montage late Saturday afternoon and were greeted with flutes of Schramsberg Champagne upon check-in, the perfect touch! I ran around making sure everything was perfect in the dining room and we quickly got ready for our cocktail hour before dinner.

Dinner was stunning, 5 courses- each one better than the next! Definitely a treat, our boss is beyond generous.


It was so fun hanging out with my co-workers outside of work, we all had a great time laughing, drinking, talking, drinking, eating, drinking... you get the idea.

We definitely didn't hold back one bit, we partied ourselves out for the rest of the year... haha!

I'm so grateful for my company, I hope we can have another great year.