Yesterday Eileen and I attended the annual Taylor Woodrow Holiday shin dig. This year’s festivities were held at the Balboa Bay Club and Resort. This place is amazing. It was nice to see all the TW employee's decked out and having a great time drinking and dancing. The dinner served included: lobster bisque (soup) "surf and turf" (filet minion and salmon), and a variety of delicious deserts. The filet minion was perfectly cooked and so tender (makes my mouth water just thinking about it). Eileen and I both highly recommend all the food we ate there. We had a great time talking and dancing.

One thing that happens each year at the party is a whole slew of raffled prizes are given out. They range from tools to plasma TV’s. It has been over 5 years now that I have been with TW and have never won a single prize. But Eileen and I had a secret weapon this year (Peanut - our lucky charm!). You'll never guess what happened? Eileen and I both won a prize. Woooo Whoooo! Eileen's number was called first and she won a Nintendo Game Boy Advanced which is worth about $110 bucks! This was awesome to finally win something! But wait it's not over yet! My number was called about 10 minutes later where I won a Burton Cruzer snow board! This thing is awesome looking and worth a whopping $650 dollars! Thank you Taylor Woodrow! Peanut helped us win as we had rubbed our ticket stubs on Eileen’s tummy for good luck earlier that evening. Even one of our co-workers rubbed her ticket on peanut and she won an HP iPod! Thanks Peanut!

Happy Holidays to everyone!