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Friday, April 30, 2010
Thursday, April 15, 2010
EARTH DAY 2010 - CHINO!!!
Hey everyone...I have been working hard on this upcoming EARTH DAY event at my work on April 22, 2010. So if you have time come out and enjoy a free event with free food and did I mention there will be FREE stuff too.
Event time 3:30pm – 6:30pm
Event time 3:30pm – 6:30pm
Train Ride through the Wetlands- Free
Garden In Every School® Demonstration Garden
Ribbon Cutting Ceremony at 5:00pm
H20 Musical Group – Show times 4:00pm & 5:30pm - Free
Garden In Every School® Demonstration Garden
Ribbon Cutting Ceremony at 5:00pm
H20 Musical Group – Show times 4:00pm & 5:30pm - Free
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Huntington Garden
Wow it has been forever since I have blogged about anything…haha but boy do I have a lot to blog about. So much has been going on all good too!!
This past Sunday I ended up at the Huntington Gardens in San Marino with the ladies from work….let me tell you how great it is to have such great girlfriends around all the time…we have so much fun at work we still get together outside of work as if we haven’t seen enough of each during the week…my poor hubby, I spend more time with the girls from work than I do him. Anyway back to the Huntington…we went out there to celebrate Vivian’s 27th birthday at the Rose Tea Room and spend a day checking out the gardens. It was a few of the girls first time checking it out so we did the whole walk through which I love doing especially since its spring and with all the colors and textures that are going on in the gardens it is just amazing…I was very happy to finally see the Chinese Garden the last time I was there is was still under construction so of course it was one of the first of the gardens we got to check out.
By the way if you ever wanted to know if the Rose Tea Room at the Huntington is worth it let me just say we are planning on going again for the food and of course the TEA!!! It was so good and we had such a fun time, our server was great…super sweet and very on top of it. Side note…it isn’t as tame as most tea rooms have been in the past…small room lots of people but still was great…we didn’t have to tone down our voices since we can get pretty loud. Also be sure to have a reservation when you go for Tea makes for less waiting.
Enjoy the photos!!
This past Sunday I ended up at the Huntington Gardens in San Marino with the ladies from work….let me tell you how great it is to have such great girlfriends around all the time…we have so much fun at work we still get together outside of work as if we haven’t seen enough of each during the week…my poor hubby, I spend more time with the girls from work than I do him. Anyway back to the Huntington…we went out there to celebrate Vivian’s 27th birthday at the Rose Tea Room and spend a day checking out the gardens. It was a few of the girls first time checking it out so we did the whole walk through which I love doing especially since its spring and with all the colors and textures that are going on in the gardens it is just amazing…I was very happy to finally see the Chinese Garden the last time I was there is was still under construction so of course it was one of the first of the gardens we got to check out.
By the way if you ever wanted to know if the Rose Tea Room at the Huntington is worth it let me just say we are planning on going again for the food and of course the TEA!!! It was so good and we had such a fun time, our server was great…super sweet and very on top of it. Side note…it isn’t as tame as most tea rooms have been in the past…small room lots of people but still was great…we didn’t have to tone down our voices since we can get pretty loud. Also be sure to have a reservation when you go for Tea makes for less waiting.
Enjoy the photos!!
Friday, February 19, 2010
The Queen of Hearts...
Okay so I thought it was time for me to post about my mom’s 50th “unbirthday” celebration I hosted with my sisters this past weekend at our place in Corona.
My mom’s birthday lands on Valentines Day so we had to do something big for the 50th birthday and tie in Valentines Day without the party being to much about V-day…so I came up with the idea of doing the Queen of Hearts since she is the Queen in our family and she is a heart baby. My mom did not like the idea of turning 50 so we thought we would continue with the theme of Alice in Wonderland and have an “unbirthday” which was perfect.
My sister Cassie made the invitations and let me know tell you they were a big hit everyone loved them….aren’t they cute, they were postcards…
Anyway we had a great cocktail party; all the drinks were red, everyone was asked to wear either white or black and of course our Mom wore red…lots of red/heart shaped inspired desserts and a pink candy bar. Everyone had a great time and I was so happy when it was over I was exhausted, thank goodness for my sisters who helped out so much with the party. Here are a few photos taken by my sister Cassie the photographer, production artist and designer (http://cleverblue.net/) by the way she is great for parties.
My mom’s birthday lands on Valentines Day so we had to do something big for the 50th birthday and tie in Valentines Day without the party being to much about V-day…so I came up with the idea of doing the Queen of Hearts since she is the Queen in our family and she is a heart baby. My mom did not like the idea of turning 50 so we thought we would continue with the theme of Alice in Wonderland and have an “unbirthday” which was perfect.
My sister Cassie made the invitations and let me know tell you they were a big hit everyone loved them….aren’t they cute, they were postcards…
Anyway we had a great cocktail party; all the drinks were red, everyone was asked to wear either white or black and of course our Mom wore red…lots of red/heart shaped inspired desserts and a pink candy bar. Everyone had a great time and I was so happy when it was over I was exhausted, thank goodness for my sisters who helped out so much with the party. Here are a few photos taken by my sister Cassie the photographer, production artist and designer (http://cleverblue.net/) by the way she is great for parties.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
My mom called with good news….
Its great news for the current situation my family is in…. “The doctor removed everything they had hoped to and the surgery went great… everything is good…”
This past weekend I got call about my Nina/Tia (godmother, my mom’s sister), her doctors had found some breast calcifications…a few clusters. I was told that the clusters found were cancerous and that this Wednesday (Today) she would have surgery to have the clusters removed. Once the clusters have been removed she would start one round radiation therapy to be on the safe side. I was told that she is basically at stage 0 of breast cancer….0??? That means what? Well that they found it in time, any more time that would have past she would be at any one of the 4 stages of breast cancer. When my grandmother was diagnosed in 2000 she was in stage 4, was given a few months to live and started treatment right away and had lived a few more years before she past away in 2003.
Well first thought that came to mind was “What?!?!?…Why?!?!...Another family member within 8 months!!! Mind you it’s scary to have a person in your family die from cancer but to now have two more members of your family with cancer. I have talked about it before in October when I did the Breast Cancer walk in Temecula; my Tia’s who are dealing, living and fighting breast cancer. These women are close to my heart, they are my mom’s sisters, my Tia’s (aunts) and special people with big hearts.
So I am writing this post more as a venting session for myself and for my girlfriends that read this…make sure you get checked out…push the women in your family to get checked and donate to whatever breast cancer cause you feel most comfortable with to help raise awareness and research. October is breast cancer month but women who have breast cancer don’t have it for just one month, and families don’t have breast cancer as a member of their family for a month so don’t just think about it the month of October…think about it every month because I know I do every time I think about my family.
This past weekend I got call about my Nina/Tia (godmother, my mom’s sister), her doctors had found some breast calcifications…a few clusters. I was told that the clusters found were cancerous and that this Wednesday (Today) she would have surgery to have the clusters removed. Once the clusters have been removed she would start one round radiation therapy to be on the safe side. I was told that she is basically at stage 0 of breast cancer….0??? That means what? Well that they found it in time, any more time that would have past she would be at any one of the 4 stages of breast cancer. When my grandmother was diagnosed in 2000 she was in stage 4, was given a few months to live and started treatment right away and had lived a few more years before she past away in 2003.
Well first thought that came to mind was “What?!?!?…Why?!?!...Another family member within 8 months!!! Mind you it’s scary to have a person in your family die from cancer but to now have two more members of your family with cancer. I have talked about it before in October when I did the Breast Cancer walk in Temecula; my Tia’s who are dealing, living and fighting breast cancer. These women are close to my heart, they are my mom’s sisters, my Tia’s (aunts) and special people with big hearts.
So I am writing this post more as a venting session for myself and for my girlfriends that read this…make sure you get checked out…push the women in your family to get checked and donate to whatever breast cancer cause you feel most comfortable with to help raise awareness and research. October is breast cancer month but women who have breast cancer don’t have it for just one month, and families don’t have breast cancer as a member of their family for a month so don’t just think about it the month of October…think about it every month because I know I do every time I think about my family.
Monday, December 14, 2009
Holiday Parties!!!
I love the holidays, Christmas is my favorite time of year. I have the best memories from Thanksgiving and Christmas with my family.
Already into the third week of December and so much has happened…Jose and I celebrated our One Year Wedding Anniversary and we had two Holiday Parties in one weekend. This past Friday we headed to Yucaipa to celebrate with some of my Alpha Phi sisters for the Alumni party. We had a great time chatting and did an ornament exchange, I ended up with a really cute ornament that fits perfect with my Christmas décor at home. Saturday we had my work’s Employee Association’s Holiday Party at Café Sevilla in Riverside. It was so much fun, open bar, great food and music to dance to all night. Next up is the Keromy’s Christmas party…We can’t wait!!!
Here are a few pictures from Café Sevilla.
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Already into the third week of December and so much has happened…Jose and I celebrated our One Year Wedding Anniversary and we had two Holiday Parties in one weekend. This past Friday we headed to Yucaipa to celebrate with some of my Alpha Phi sisters for the Alumni party. We had a great time chatting and did an ornament exchange, I ended up with a really cute ornament that fits perfect with my Christmas décor at home. Saturday we had my work’s Employee Association’s Holiday Party at Café Sevilla in Riverside. It was so much fun, open bar, great food and music to dance to all night. Next up is the Keromy’s Christmas party…We can’t wait!!!
Here are a few pictures from Café Sevilla.
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Monday, December 7, 2009
One Year Wedding Anniversary!!
So this past weekend Jose and I celebrated our One year wedding anniversary. We just can't believe how quickly the year went it feels just like yesterday we got married. I guess that is a good sign to a fun marriage.
Well to celebrate our one year of married bliss Jose planned a night in San Louis Obispo at the Madonna Inn, one of the many places I have wanted to stay at. The down side was that I had to work Saturday morning and I had been sick with a nasty head cold of over a week, we almost cancelled the trip (hasn’t gone away).
We made the trip up the 101 freeway in great time and when we got to the Madonna Inn it was all deck out in Christmas décor, one plus to celebrating during the Holiday’s is all the decorations and cheer…it’s my favorite time of year!!! The people there were so nice and excited for our anniversary, they had a bottle of champagne for us in our room plus our great friends Kerry & Jeromy had another chilled bottle and flutes ready for us in our room. We had dinner at the Gold Rush Steak House which is such a lovely place; everything is pink (I mean pink) and gold plus heavily decorated for Christmas and live music playing all night. We had a great dinner and a night of finally spending time together.
We get so busy and with Jose traveling all the time we really don’t get to spend a lot of quality time together. But we make every effort to enjoy the time we do have together. By the way the Madonna Inn has the best breakfast I have had in a lone time. If you ever get a chance make it up there you should defiantly go. On our way down we stop in Solvang to check out the area and to eat, it is such a lovely place…Jose really enjoyed it. And to end the night I had the cake company who did our wedding cake recreate our topper so we could have our cake and drink the champagne we bought at our honeymoon.
It was a great One year wedding anniversary and we are so excited to celebrate many more to come.
Well to celebrate our one year of married bliss Jose planned a night in San Louis Obispo at the Madonna Inn, one of the many places I have wanted to stay at. The down side was that I had to work Saturday morning and I had been sick with a nasty head cold of over a week, we almost cancelled the trip (hasn’t gone away).
We made the trip up the 101 freeway in great time and when we got to the Madonna Inn it was all deck out in Christmas décor, one plus to celebrating during the Holiday’s is all the decorations and cheer…it’s my favorite time of year!!! The people there were so nice and excited for our anniversary, they had a bottle of champagne for us in our room plus our great friends Kerry & Jeromy had another chilled bottle and flutes ready for us in our room. We had dinner at the Gold Rush Steak House which is such a lovely place; everything is pink (I mean pink) and gold plus heavily decorated for Christmas and live music playing all night. We had a great dinner and a night of finally spending time together.
We get so busy and with Jose traveling all the time we really don’t get to spend a lot of quality time together. But we make every effort to enjoy the time we do have together. By the way the Madonna Inn has the best breakfast I have had in a lone time. If you ever get a chance make it up there you should defiantly go. On our way down we stop in Solvang to check out the area and to eat, it is such a lovely place…Jose really enjoyed it. And to end the night I had the cake company who did our wedding cake recreate our topper so we could have our cake and drink the champagne we bought at our honeymoon.
It was a great One year wedding anniversary and we are so excited to celebrate many more to come.
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We are now Mr. and Mrs. Diaz, our family was established on December 6th 2008. We moved to Corona, CA in October of 2007 and we are enjoying every minute. We have our little one Leo, our dog who we just adore. We hope you enjoy our blog!!
