Last Friday Allan and I attended a work holiday party, with just our department. It was nice to be in the company of people we actually knew, it wasn't as anonymizing (is that a word? It is now ;-) ) as the whole-company party, where we felt lost amongst a sea of faces from other departments we never interact with. It was outdoors at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum, where tents and heaters protected us from the rain and cold. There was no formal set of courses for dinner-- just tons of tasty and filling appetizers and mini-meals, including such delicacies as bacon-wrapped shrimp! Drinks were free, too, so I tried a pomegranate martini (yum) and a regular margarita before washing everything else down with plain water.
The entertainment of the evening consisted of a musical chairs + scavenger hunt combo game with a flip camera prize at stake, a video put together by various members of the department, and a camera that was hooked up to a projector, instantly putting up pics the moment you take them, for all to see. Here are the ones Allan and I snapped when we took our turn:
We were forewarned that Allan standing at his full height would wind up out of the picture, so he scrunched down... wayyy down. It's not often I'm taller than him ;-)
Now that I could actually see over the top of his head, I decided to have some fun with our snapshots:
And finally, we decided to showcase exactly what effect having kids has on the average couple. After a long week, this was how we felt... even though it was barely 8:30pm!
You know I always love accompanying pictures, so awwww!! It's great to see recent pictures of you guys. Your work party sounds pretty sweet. I need not detail the offerings at our sad little non-profit workplace holiday party...
ReplyDeleteI have to ask: why is Allan's shirt so intricately wrinkled?
Hehe, as you can tell from the photos, I'm trying to grow out my bangs. It's been 5 months since I last cut them, and what a trying 5 months it's been!
ReplyDelete!!! Gosh, how I love how photo-hosting sites automatically resize the dang photos. Photobucket and Flickr were a bust. The original (3504 x 2336) shows the shirt in greater detail-- it's basically just a stitched pattern. Which helps camouflage the *real* wrinkles well :-)
Love love love those pictures. You and Allan are basically too cute for words. And I hear ya on being tired so much earlier in the night. Except I DON'T have kids...so does that mean that when I do, I'll be ready for bed at 6? Eek.
ReplyDeleteAh bang grow-outs are always frustrating times. Your hair looks good though!
ReplyDeleteI wondered if it was a pattern. All I could think is that it looked like he'd worn a really tight quilted vest all day beforehand, lol. I'm sure it makes more sense when you can see the details.
Haha, yes... yes it does ;-)
ReplyDeleteOdd thing with me is that I usually get my second wind around 10:30-11pm, which isn't exactly conducive to my attempts to go to bed earlier (i.e. at 11pm!)
Thanks! I could show you some pics where it looks simply awful, though! Parting it to the side seemed to work, though I'd been resistant to it at first, because it unearthed all the gray hairs hidden beneath the top layer! Then I figured, better to have gray hairs showing on a nice hairdo than have an awful hairdo that hides the gray hairs!
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