Thanksgiving at Mikey’s

2005, Gatherings, Holidays, , , , , , , , , ,

Lindsay is back, Patricia’s in town, and Mom gets to see all her girls! We invited Jeaux to Mikey’s as well and had a Thanksgiving feast.

Thanksgiving Prep!

Thanksgiving Prep!

Patricia in the kitchen

Sister stack

Sisters

Sisters

Family girls

Family girls

Family girls

Mom’s Spongebob pants

Loving to see the girls together

Sitting down to eat

Sitting down to eat

Jeaux is ready

Corny girls

Jeaux enjoys

Lindsay enjoys

Mom enjoys

Patricia photographs food

Ivy enjoys

Lindsay accepts pie

She’s impressed

Jeaux has pie

Feelings about cleanup

Exhausted P, cuddly dog

Fred Visit! Day 7

2005, Vacations, , , , , ,

Got my comic posted in the early morning before Fred got up, then I made him an Ivy shirt and he wore it to Kanapaha Gardens, where we looked at wonderful plant life and stuff. I love it there. It is so cool. We saw these lilypads that looked like gigantic serving platters, and these loofah plants that looked like gigantic hanging zucchini or something (Fred pretended to eat one), and we saw a couple snakes and lots of bugs and some birds. And trees. I like trees.

Butterflies

Butterflies

Kanapaha Gardens

Giant leaf at Kanapaha Gardens

Fred pretending to eat a plant

I paused for a nap in the clubhouse and then we went to Beef ‘O’ Brady’s for food–I got a macaroni kids’ meal for the 12 and under crowd. Hey, I wear kids’ clothes, I take children’s dosages of medicine; why not eat their portion sizes too? It was great.

Mac N Cheese

We went BACK to the Gardens and moseyed, and when we came back we watched another Shinobu after making quiche crust dough to chill. I napped and he went to the pool again, and then he came back and showered and we made the rest of the quiche together. After we ate it, we called and harassed Jes because we wanted to find out what she was doing that night and be part of her night o’ weirdness, and so that was cool ’cause we actually got her. After that I read Phred some fun stuff from my secret character files and then we started watching The Dark Crystal. He got to see why some people have pointed out my resemblance to Kira. Har. I’m a muppet.

Kanapaha Gardens

Kanapaha Gardens

Kanapaha Gardens

Kanapaha Gardens

Ivy at Kanapaha Gardens

Ivy at Kanapaha Gardens

Fred Visit Day 8

2003, Gatherings, , , , , , , , , ,

Fred and me right before we took off down the river!

Before canoeing

It’s a gator we saw on the river!

Gator

 This is another gator. Actually I took a bunch of shots of gators but not all of them are that interesting so I just put the two best ones.

Gator

We ran the canoe onto the bank on purpose so we could have a picnic. This is me and my mommy relaxing.

Mom and Ivy picnic

This is what my mom described as the “big honkin’ tree” that we used as our landmark to find the picnic place. (It was pretty honkin’.)

Big honkin tree

 We’re shoving off to paddle the rest of the trip; me and Mommy in the canoe.

Mom & Ivy canoe

There was some awesome scenery on the Hillsborough River! Lookit how the reflections are in the water.

Nice scenery

A pretty bird in a picturesque scene!

Nice nature

 WOW. Look at that reflection. It totally bowled me over, I’m glad the quality translated to digital format.

Nice nature

At the end of our trip, we spotted this WILD CHICKEN. Also known as gator food. Heh.

A wild chicken

I met my friends at Beer Belly’s, where some came for the beer and some came for the karaoke. (Guess which reason was mine?) Here we have me, Phil, Steve, and Meghan.

Phil, Steve, Meghan at Beer Belly’s

Same people as above except now you can see Ammy. We’re trying to decide what to sing. (Steve is only concerned with getting shitfaced. Which he did well.)

With Ammy, Phil, Steve, Meg, 7/2003

Ammy, me, and Phil. Probably saying or doing something goofy.

Ammy, Ivy, Phil at Beer Belly’s

For some reason this is what my mom did when her picture was taken at the karaoke place.

Mom licks her drinks

It’s Ammy singing karaoke.

Ammy sings at karaoke

Fred’s turn to sing!

Fred sings at karaoke

It was so special that I had to have two pictures. 🙂

Fred sings at karaoke

 Here’s me singing karaoke, from far away.

Ivy sings at karaoke

Meghan’s turn to sing! She is a doll.

Meghan sings at karaoke

Phil’s turn. My mom forbade him to sing the song “Chef’s Salty Chocolate Balls” this time, so he ended up singing Adam Sandler’s “Ode to My Car.” Just as raunchy. You can tell from his hand gesture.

Phil sings at karaoke

Fred Visit Day 7

2003, Hangouts, , , , , ,

I’m going through the memory boxes at my mom’s house.

Going through a memory box

There’s me and my baby sister L, posing for the camera. (Damn, she’s tall.)

Lindsay & Ivy

Here’s me and my sister with her cute-but-freaky-looking chihuahua, Pork Chop.

Lindsay with Pork Chop

The dog being cute. (But how can she help it?)

Pork Chop being cute

She does this cute thing where she stands on her hind legs and actually turns around if you bribe her with a treat, like my mom’s doing here.

Mom does a trick with Pork Chop