Passover with Jeaux!
Jeaux’s first Passover! He got invited along with me to celebrate with my family.
Jeaux came to Passover!
Afikomen Time
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
Swimming and Sawamura
Fred and I decided to take a swim in my community swimming pool. Fred had bought me a cool bikini and I was trying it out. Fred documented it rather well I’d say.
White girl in a bikini
White girl in a bikini
White girl in a bikini
White girl in a bikini
Sawamura
Here’s the guy who cooked it for us, he was awesome.
Sawamura
Summer visit with Fred!
See, he was really here! That is Fred in the woods of my apartment complex.
Fred in the woods
Well, and here’s me in the woods at my apartment complex!
Ivy in the woods
We played with some stuff and I made this pretty decoration!
Pentacle made of pine needles
We got this awesome watermelon! This is us attempting to eat it.
Sharing a watermelon
Fred visit Day 4
Well, we made tomato soup, checked out my calendar drawings, and had more epic chats!
Imitating Ivy 🙂
Making tomato soup
Making tomato soup
Enjoying tomato soup
Enjoying tomato soup
Enjoying tomato soup
Always working
2001 calendars!
Fred with Ivy Calendar!
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
Jessica’s Wedding
Jessica and Ron at their wedding reception, having their first dance as children attack them with airborne bubbles. (I don’t have any pictures from the actual wedding, as it was not open to the public.)
Jess & Ron with bubbles
This is the freaks table at the reception: Jessica’s friends. Here is me visiting them. (Fred and I were actually seated at the long front table with Jessica and Ron.)
The Freak Table
There were shells all over the table and I gave Fred the idea to put two of them behind his glasses. Isn’t it cute?
Fred with shell eyes
The wedding cake.
Jessica’s wedding cake
Jes and Ron cutting their cake.
Jess & Ron’s cake
And it’s Jes and Ron *eating* their cake. Oh, isn’t it cute, barf barf.
Jess & Ron fed each other cake
Silly traditional wedding things . . . Jessica’s about to throw her bouquet here. Observe how I’m attempting to get out of the way.
I hid from the bouquet
It’s the wedding crowd doing the chicken dance! AHH!
Chicken dance
This is me and Fred with Jessica’s mom. I am making an inexplicably weird face!
Me with Fred and Jess’s mom
After the reception, there was a real party. Observe Jes and her friends in the pool.
Friends on the raft
Here’s where I spent most of the party, on the side of the pool talking to my new friend Steven, who is quite nice, a good listener and has stuff to say besides.
Pool party
Steven, the Leader of the Penguin Tribe, is swearing fealty to me, Queen Ivy and High Priestess of Budgiland.
New friend Steve kneels to me
I liked this rope swing. I spent lots of time there during this party. (Mostly talking to Steven and watching the pool partiers frolic.)
Rope swing
It was nice and shady there.
With Steve in the shade