Breakfast with the grandparents
Staying with the grandparents always means hearty breakfasts in the morning.
Breakfast at the Grandparents’
Breakfast at the Grandparents’
It’s New Year’s Day (Also Fake Hanukkah)
All three sisters were together for the first time in a long time, so we had fake Hanukkah on New Year’s Day with our dad and grandparents.
Family together!
Posing by the water
Eldest, Youngest!
Holiday meal!
Chanukah Gifts
Lighting the candles
Lighting the candles
Dad reached a milestone
Congratulations, Dad!
Milestone with Dad
Milestone with Dad
Milestone with Dad
Milestone with Dad
New Dress, Clearwater Beach, Karaoke
Here’s me in a sundress right before we went to Tampa to see my mommy and all.
Posing by the tree
And we saw her, at work . . . I’m with her on a bench.
Visiting Mom at work
And here is the beach visit Fred and I had with my sister in Clearwater.
Beach hangout with Fred
Beach hangout with Fred
Beach hangout with Patricia
Beach hangout with Patricia
Okay and here’s when we went to sing karaoke with my dad! One is just me singing “Forgiven” by Alanis, two are me singing with Dad, and one is Fred singing “Hotel California.”
Karaoke
Karaoke
Karaoke
Tuckered out
Christmas 2000
This is Corey. He lived with my parents at the time, so of course he was there for the festivities.
Corey
My dad’s parents came to our house for a visit.
Grandma & Grandpa Decker
Dad was happy to see his folks.
Deckers
Here we all are! On the left side, that’s Yuichi (the guy sister P was dating), my grandmother, me, sister Lindsay, sister Patricia, Dad, and my grandfather.
Decker grandparents, Dad, sisters, Yuichi
Later that night, there was a dinner. There’s Corey, Lindsay, Patricia, Yuichi, and Dad helping themselves.
Dinner: Corey, Lindsay, Patricia, Yuichi, Dad
We had Heather (who used to live with my parents) and her younger sister Sam there too, and on my other side is my mom’s ‘Net friend Bill.
Dinner: Heather, Sam, Ivy, Bill
Gotta get the whole table! There’s the backs of Yuichi’s and Dad’s heads, and then you see Heather, Sam, and me (with my mouth full embarrassingly).
Dinner: Heather, Sam, Ivy
Rare shot! Mom almost never sits down, but there she is!
Dinner: Mom actually sat down
Yuichi plays piano, you know. Nice pose, guys.
Yuichi & Patricia
After the dinner, we all played a group game. Kind of a tradition in our house.
Game tradition
Here’s the first of many gift-opening shots. Mom and me.
Opening gifts
Mom’s a gift
Opening gifts
Opening gifts
Opening gifts
Opening gifts
Opening gifts
Old times at parents’ house
This beautiful pot thing was in my parents’ front yard. I liked it.
A yard pot at Mom’s
Dad and I played some duets like old times.
Piano duet with Dad
Happy birthday Lindsay!
We went to my parents’ house to visit my sister on her birthday. Here’s my sister Lindsay, me, and my dad, while she opened her presents.
Surprising Lindsay for her birthday
Fred and I gave Lindsay a card with a cute moon on it. She apparently liked it. (I hope.)
Lindsay’s birthday card
Linds cutting her cake that we brought.
Lindsay’s cake
My mom putting bunny ears on her dog Charlie. For some reason she has taken great pains to hide her face from this picture.
Hanging out with Mom & the dog
Birthday in Vegas
Now I’m 21. 🙂
Playing Jacks or Better
Slot machine that accepts $100 bills
Dad’s High Roller outfit
Birthday Vegas Trip
Dad took me to Las Vegas for my 21st birthday! But we arrived the day before I turned 21 so this is stuff we did before I was allowed to do anything Vegas is known for.
Happy in the Vegas hotel room
Dad happy in the room
A cool big vase
Dad with slot machines
The Monte Carlo and my finger
Quark’s after the Star Trek exhibits
