Beans, rice, and mushrooms!
Cooking meals with Fred is fun!
Our dinner
Our dinner
Our dinner
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!
Meg and Katelyn visit
Lovely little visit from Meg and Katelyn after Christmas stuff was over!
Katie’s mellow
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
Listening to a shell?
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
Errands with Fred
Here’s me with my little cat ears headband on. Look! I’m from Josie and the Pussycats!
Cat ears
When we got back to Gainesville, we visited some shops. I like Books Inc.
At the bookstore
Fred had never had “grits” before, as it is sort of a Southern food. He had ordered some in the restaurant but we didn’t have the camera then. Here’s our memory of his experience with grits.
Fred likes grits
Me in the store with bananas, and a Chiquita sticker on my head!
Ivy likes bananas
At Mother Earth they had these cool cheesecakes. Fred stocked up.
Stocking up on cheesecake
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
Population
Here’s me with a big blow-up bat with which I was preparing to smack Fred, probably.
A big bat
Here’s Fred riding a bike to the picnic we were going to have.
Fred rides my bike
We had our picnic on a roof; here is me on the wall that is around the outside of the roof.
Lounging on the wall
And here’s me on the wall again, because Fred seems to be camera-happy.
Sitting on the wall
There’s Fred enjoying the food of the picnic.
Fred enjoying the roof picnic
There’s me, also picnicking.
Ivy enjoying the roof picnic
After lunch we played my game, The Phantom Whistler. On a second-story roof, I whistle and then see if the people on the ground figure out where the sound is coming from.
Whistling at passersby
These are some people we photographed who were walking by while I was whistling. Hehe!
People walking by on the ground
There’s me populating! Another one of my pranks: I made little men out of clay and give them roof-pebble heads, and place them all over the music building in a mini-men invasion.
Hiding clay men in the wall
Fred helped. 🙂
Hiding clay men in the wall