Our anniversary was on Tuesday and Mark sent me these GORGEOUS roses! They still look beautiful nearly a week later. The two white roses symbolize our two year anniversary. Isn't he sweet and thoughtful??
On Saturday night, we attended the annual Hospitality and Toursim Management department's Black Tie Dinner at the Purdue Memorial Union. Each year, the students from this department hold this dinner as a fundraiser to raise money to travel to professional development events. As a staff member in the College, Mark and I have been able to attend this FABULOUS dinner each of my three years at Purdue (a perk of the job). This is a photo of the dessert. It's a five course meal and each is paired with a delicious wine. The servers surround your table and serve each dish synchronized. The students practice for months. It was a very fun and glamorous evening!
Here's a photo of Mark and I all dressed up for the dinner. Mark doesn't have a tux but unbeknownst to us, one of the theme colors for the dinner was a shade of purple so his lavendar tie fit right in!
The speaker for this year's dinner owns a restaurant equipment company and a mobile restaurant in Seattle (picture a silver airstream trailer that travels around the city!) The restaurant is called Skillet so each couple received an iron skillet at the end of the dinner. Of course, we had some fun with it, thus the photos below.
Our friends Josh and Christina gave it a try too! We're both happily married couples ... just playing around with the stereotypical wife hitting the husband with a frying pan motif. Notice that Josh doesn't look all that frightened of Christina's swing. : )
Christina and I all dressed up for the occasion. A running joke is how much Christina tilts her head in photos, as evidenced here:
So Mark and I had to try the classic "Christina pose." Of course, we just look dorky when we do it!
And finally, what better way to spend a rainy, yucky Sunday afternoon than to make lasagnas! Evidence that Wendi can help in the kitchen!
Here's a photo of Mark and I all dressed up for the dinner. Mark doesn't have a tux but unbeknownst to us, one of the theme colors for the dinner was a shade of purple so his lavendar tie fit right in!
The speaker for this year's dinner owns a restaurant equipment company and a mobile restaurant in Seattle (picture a silver airstream trailer that travels around the city!) The restaurant is called Skillet so each couple received an iron skillet at the end of the dinner. Of course, we had some fun with it, thus the photos below.
Our friends Josh and Christina gave it a try too! We're both happily married couples ... just playing around with the stereotypical wife hitting the husband with a frying pan motif. Notice that Josh doesn't look all that frightened of Christina's swing. : )
Christina and I all dressed up for the occasion. A running joke is how much Christina tilts her head in photos, as evidenced here:
So Mark and I had to try the classic "Christina pose." Of course, we just look dorky when we do it!
And finally, what better way to spend a rainy, yucky Sunday afternoon than to make lasagnas! Evidence that Wendi can help in the kitchen!
Probably the highlight of the week for us was following the blog of our friends the Whipple's. They arrived home from Ethiopia last night with their adorable little boy, Isaac. Go here to read more about their trip and to see photos of sweet little Isaac. Can't wait to meet him!
That's it from the Ailors. We're gearing up for a very busy month ahead of us. This week our niece Emily will be staying with us for a few days during her spring break. She and Mark will be working on her 4H photography project. We're going to celebrate Easter in North Manchester for church and then with Mark's family afterwards. I've got lots of events at work and Mark is preparing to photograph a prom, 300 little dancers at a local community center and getting ready to welcome the Lafayette Jeff High School seniors this summer. Lots of fun times ahead!
1 comment:
The head tilting cracks me up!! When I was at college in FL, way back in the day! There was a guy on Campus that tilted his head ALL THE TIME!! He even ran with it tilted!! We called him tilty head.. I think Christina may have a new nickname!! :)
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