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Karaoke Night

Jan 31, 2025swankivy2025, Gatheringsarthur, dare, friends, ivy, jeaux, yasmin

My friends and I did karaoke in our own room at Tampa Karaoke. Included nerds were Yasmin, Arthur, Dare, Jeaux, and me. Jeaux didn’t sing in the mic but sang along and assumed control of the song list and it was awesome.

Yasmin & Arthur at karaoke

Dare & Ivy at karaoke

Dare & Ivy at karaoke

Dare & Ivy at karaoke

Dare at karaoke

Yasmin “BE A MAN”

Ivy & Arthur at karaoke

Ivy & Dare at karaoke

Dare & Ivy at karaoke

Dare at karaoke

Yasmin at karaoke

Dare & Ivy at karaoke

Ivy at karaoke

Ben’s party

Jan 12, 2025swankivy2025, Cooking & Baking, Gatheringsben b, food

Ben was kind enough to invite his friends over to feed us his cooking and let us meet his daughter! Fun.

Ben cooking

Cookie Party!

Dec 28, 2024swankivy2024, Cooking & Baking, Gatherings, Holidaysadam, ben b, christmas, dare, food, friends, ivy, jeaux, meghan, yasmin

Had 9 friends over for a small cookie-eating gathering! Great time and we played games too.

Ben with party food

Meghan & Adam

My hot chocolate

Yasmin’s famous plate

Dare and Yasmin

Friends playing Joking Hazard

Hot Chocolate

Family Christmas Dinner

Dec 26, 2024swankivy2024, Cooking & Baking, Gatherings, Holidayscake, christmas, connie, cookies, dad, family, friends, gifts, ivy, jeaux, lindsay, mike

Family came over for a day-after-Christmas dinner! We had a great meal cooked by me and Jeaux and a gift-giving extravaganza.

Family dinner!

Dinner food!

My dinner plate at Christmas Dinner

All holiday desserts–6 cookies and a cake!

Dad opening presents

Lindsay & Mike opening presents

Dad’s new More Cowbell shirt

Lindsay & Mike opening gifts

Dad with his Rat Race shirt

Thanksgiving 2024

Nov 28, 2024swankivy2024, Cooking & Baking, Gatherings, Holidaysbread, cake, connie, dad, family, food, friends, ivy, jeaux, jimmy, john _, pie, thanksgiving

Got invited to spend Thanksgiving with my dad in Sarasota with family and friends. Brought Jeaux and lots of food.

Lentil Casserole for Thanksgiving

Chocolate Silk Pie for Thanksgiving

Rolls for Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Group

Thanksgiving Group

My Thanksgiving Dinner Plate

Jeaux with beautiful pumpkin roll

Inside of chocolate silk pie

Inside of pumpkin roll

Dessert Spread

My Thanksgiving Dessert Plate

Halloween Party

Oct 26, 2024swankivy2024, Cooking & Baking, Cosplay, Gatherings, Holidaysadam, arthur, ben b, cake, candy, dare, dorian, food, friends, halloween, ivy, jeaux, meghan, michael, muffins, rachael, scott c, steven universe, yasmin

I had my usual Halloween party again! This time I dressed as baby Garnet with her cotton candy outfit! Lots of friends came and ate all my homemade food. Fun times!

My Cotton Candy Garnet costume

Even got a red contact lens!

Stylish Garnet

Candy Corn Fudge!

Dare as the emcee from Cabaret

Scott enjoying a first helping

Adam as a drunken Scotsman and Meghan as a pirate

Jeaux as GIR in the dog suit

Jeaux’s robot head poking out

Adam, Meghan

Yasmin plating

Ben, Scott, Dare

Garnet selfie

Yasmin’s plate is done

Business Clown with plate

Rachael and Michael

Yasmin YES ON 4 sign

Dorian, Scott, Ben

Room of friends

Room of friends

Dad’s 70th Birthday

Apr 4, 2024swankivy2024, Cooking & Baking, Gatheringsbirthday, connie, dad, family, food, friends, ivy, jeaux, jimmy

Dad is 70! I put some finishing touches on the cake.

Dad’s cake, finished!

We ate at P.F. Chang’s and then had cake at Dad’s house after.

Dad rocks

Group at P.F. Chang’s

Dad at P.F. Chang’s with a birthday candle

Dad with his 70th birthday cake

Inside Dad’s cake

Cookie Party

Dec 26, 2023swankivy2023, Cooking & Baking, Gatherings, Holidays, Selfiescookies, dare, food, friends, ivy, yasmin

I invited a bunch of friends over to help eat the extra cookies 🙂

Cookie Platter!

Yasmin & Dare matching

One of each cookie

Largest cookie

Christmas Eve Dinner

Dec 24, 2023swankivy2023, Cooking & Baking, Gatherings, Holidaysbread, christmas, connie, cookies, dad, family, food, friends, gifts, ivy, jeaux

Jeaux and I invited Dad and Connie over for Christmas Eve dinner! We made white bean pot pies, homemade dinner rolls, vegan scalloped potatoes, green bean casserole, whipped cauliflower, and homemade gravy. We had a gift exchange after dinner. And then there was a gingerbread roll and five kinds of homemade cookies!

Jeaux making scalloped potatoes

Homemade Lion House Rolls

Christmas Eve Dinner

White Bean Pot Pie

Jeaux trolling my dad

Present for Dad from Patricia

Present for Connie from Patricia

Abbreviated Dessert

Dessert Crew

Jeaux’s wrapping paper trolling

Jeaux slices pumpkin roll at Thanksgiving

Nov 23, 2023swankivy2023, Gatherings, Holidayscake, food, friends, jeaux, thanksgiving

We brought our pumpkin roll to my dad’s house for Thanksgiving. Jeaux did the “carving.” Haha.

Jeaux presenting sliced pumpkin roll