The Rodriguez Family: 2007

Saturday, December 1, 2007

Meredith's Surprise 40th!

Mariana and I threw Meredith a surprise 40th birthday party. We started the day with lunch then took Meredith to Sephora where Mariana gave her a make-over. Then we forced her to buy a new shirt (she settled on a cute black shirt at Ann Taylor). =) If it's your birthday you must have a new outfit and a make-over. It's just required.

Co-workers came over to our house and we surprised her! Tons of fun!

Christmas!

We spent Thanksgiving with my family and the next day went to Target and bought a wonderful white FAKE tree! I've never bought a fake tree before and I doubt my mom will approve - but it's PERFECT! It's full, won't die and we can reuse for years to come. Oh, it came pre-lite too! Gotta love that.

Mendocino, CA

Felipe and I flew up to San Francisco at the end of October to attend Colleen and Kris's wedding. We hung out with Allison, Justin, Rachel and Kevin while in SF and then drove up to the beautiful hippy town of Mendocino. We really enjoyed ourselves - such a perfect place to have a wedding. Small enough town to walk around with great shopping (cute shoe store, bookstore overlooking the pacific and art). We stayed at the Hill House Inn where the reception was held (AND it's where Murder She Wrote was filmed years ago!). LOVE staying where receptions are help because there is NO driving and easy to get to bed!

Colleen looked amazing! I am so happy for her. She married the perfect guy for her and I know they will have a happy life together. I look forward to watching them together! I just wish all my San Francisco friends were closer - or that I was closer to them. This was my first time to go back in 7 years that I actually truly miss living there. I guess after the years you forget the reasons WHY you left. But it would be so fun to live there now that I'm more settled and married. BUT Houston is where I will be for a while. =)

For our honeymoon, Felipe and I spent 9 days in Maui. We traveled to 3 parts of the island - Lahina, Lanai (smaller island that is a 45 min ferry ride from the main island of Maui) and Wailea. We stayed at the Four Seasons in Lanai and Wailea - worth every penny (or dollar!). We did NOTHING, except one night we did go to a traditional luau which was fun. I highly recommend doing nothing on ones honeymoon. It's a time to relax and reflect on the wedding (and to panic about the pictures you forgot to take during the reception). However, by the 7th day I started feeling guilty for being out of the office for 2 weeks. I thought I would be forgotten. That is why I went back to work the day after we got back - I needed to throw myself back into the ad world fire. Overall, perfect wedding and perfect honeymoon! One week after we got back Peru had a 8.0 earthquake and a hurricane was heading towards Hawaii so we were lucky to miss all natural disasters during our celebration.