Laguna Beach~Holiday Party 2009 at the Montage Resort

Joseph and I had a great trip to Southern California. My mom came and took care of the kids, I forgot to download all of her pictures, but they had such a great time together! She even made gingerbread houses with them with homemade gingerbread. She always does things with all of the kids that I would never attempt to do on my own. I need to get the pictures she took with her camera while we were gone. I think they had as much fun as we did.

Joe and I packed it in this trip. We tried to take it all in. We stayed up until 1:00 a.m. and were up by 6:00 working out, and swimming in the pools and the ocean, enjoying good food and we even took a trip to Disneyland/California Adventure. Next time I think we'll opt to stay and enjoy the Montage a little longer, but it was fun to go just together. We were exhausted by the time we came home.

I love the Montage. They have the best guest services. They treat you like royalty, but I must admit, sometimes I feel a little out of place. When they stop for me to walk past in the hallway and call me Mrs. Lee, I want to say, "Hey listen, you can call me Amy, I'm just a normal girl, who drives a mini-van, you will usually find me in a pair of old $9.97 clearance Gap jeans and a t-shirt with 4 small children in tow, nothing about my life is fancy, but my life is good and happy!" I know it is just part of their job, and they probably already know we're not like most guests that stay there, but I still would like to set things straight sometime.

This is so funny, but this is the only picture we got while we were at Disneyland/California Adventure. We were so busy talking and going on rides that we forgot. We walked past Mater and Lightning and said, "Ohhh! Aaron would love that!"