Presley's Memories
Harper's Memories
Wednesday, December 31, 2025
Lea's Day-Lea's, Week 52 + December 31st
Day 358, Wednesday, December 24th
Christmas Eve at Grandma and Papa's
Later tonight, in our Christmas jammies
Day 359, Thursday, December 25th
Christmas Morning
Day 360, Friday, December 26th
Ry all packed up and ready to leave this morning.
He had practice at 4 this afternoon.
Day 361, Saturday, December 27th
The Legard Progressive Party.
Starting point: Cristy's house
Day 362, Sunday, December 28th
Chewy and I feel the same way--searching for a clean, quiet place to lay down to rest.
Day 363, Monday, December 29th
Ry got in tonight for 8 minutes.
Of course they were losing by 30.
But he usually has to bring the stools onto the court for the players in, and tonight he was in during a timeout and someone had to get the stool for him.
Day 364, Tuesday, December 30th
Kel, Presley, and Harper went ice skating today.
And then Harper had a late volleyball practice and they had some New Year's fun!
Day 365, Wednesday, December 31st
New Year's Eve
Lea's Day-Lea's, Week 51 (2025)
Day 351, Wednesday, December 17th
A weird looking sunrise this morning.
Day 352, Thursday, December 18th
An early Christmas present for Logan and Corbin!
They got to watch the Seahawks take on the LA Rams and get the overtime win!
Day 353, Friday, December 19th
Dave watching Christmas Vacation tonight.
Day 354, Saturday, December 20th
Ry and Presley got home today and we had dinner and ran to get a haircut!
Day 355, Sunday, December 21st
Running errands today.
Ry had a friend party tonight and needed a white elephant gift.
Day 356, Monday, December 22nd
Decorated the tree tonight.
Day 357, Tuesday, December 23rd
Visited with Grandma earlier this afternoon and then headed to Leavenworth for a few hours.
Lea's Day-Lea's, Week 50 (2025)
Day 344, Wednesday, December 10th
Chewy has found his sweet spot for the month.
Day 345, Thursday, December 11th
We had to have a facetime funeral for Harper's fish Mickey.
Day 346, Friday, December 12th
We had an insane amount of wind and rain, called a Pineapple Express, that resulted in flooding in the Wenatchee Valley.
And closed Highway 2 coming into Leavenworth.
The whole highway washed away.
Day 347, Saturday, December 13th
Getting Ry's game on the streaming service.
This tracks--Ry gets in when his team is down by about 25-30 points.
What a frustrating season.
Day 348, Sunday, December 14th
Harper hosted her volleyball teammates today for a holiday party.
Day 349, Monday, December 15th
Cashmere updated their athletic website and we spotted ry on screen.
Day 350, Tuesday, December 16th
Harper has her late practice tonight so I was quickly chatting about her day/practice while she was getting ready for bed.
Lea's Day-Lea's, Week 49 (2025)
Day 337, Wednesday, December 3rd
Dad got the call early this morning that Papa had passed away early this morning at home.
Day 338, Thursday, December 4th
I had a book exchange holiday party tonight.
Day 339, Friday, December 5th
Harper and Kat went to the state championship football game today.
Cashmere played Royal.
Cashmere lost by 1 point--they scored in the final seconds of the 4th quarter and went for the 2 point conversion and the win and didn't complete it.
Heartbreaking.
Day 340, Saturday, December 6th
I decided to drive to Oregon this weekend to be with Presley and Rylan.
Ry had a game tonight so we got to watch that and then take him to dinner afterwards.
Ry found me up in the stands.
Back at home, Dad and Harper went to the movies.
Day 341, Sunday, December 7th
Love this picture posted on Instagram
Day 342, Monday, December 8th
We had fall sports awards tonight and Harper got her varsity letter and her state participant award.
Day 343, Tuesday, December 9th
We had e-mail progress reports this week and I got this extra note from one of her teachers.
Ry got one more mention in the Cashmere Athletics instagram in the pre-season write up for this year.
Wednesday, December 10, 2025
Fall Memories
We had a very late wildfire season this year.
This was taken from our backyard in early October.
Wenatchee was right in the middle of two active wildfires--The Labor Mountain Fire and the Sugarloaf Fire.
The Labor Mountain fire shut down Blewitt Pass for a week.
Our air quality was poor for a few weeks, affecting the football and soccer games schedules.
Logan, Corbin and Corbin's parents came to Leavenworth for Octoberfest and we all went to dinner one night.
We showed them this picture and they couldn't believe we hadn't been evacuated (we were on Level 2, but never immediate danger)
The helicopter with their water buckets flew over our house lots of times.
Ry came home for a few days in October for their fall break.
He started official practices on October 13th
Ry texted that he got the jersey number he wanted.
Samee and Miryn went to see Benson Boone in Portland and met up with Presley and Kel at a bookstore.
One of our last fall swims of the season
Harper took Chewy for a walk to get the mail and sent me this rainbow pic.
Always waiting for Dad to wake up and come out.
I don't have to drive to Cashmere too often anymore, and Harper had a 6 game away schedule.
By the time she played on her home court, the leaves were beginning to change.
This fall was about volleyball, lots and lots of volleyball.
Neon night at one of the early football games.
This new little driver has been going to all the football games, both Wenatchee and Cashmere.
I sent Logan a care package with fall shaped pasta noodles.
Presley and Kel drove to the Oregon coast.
Kel must really love Presley cause he endured a 2 hour Taylor Swift official release party documentary. 
It was his half birthday tonight and I told Presley the real gift for Kel would be allow him to leave half way through :)
Dave texted Presley that he completed a Peloton workout to The Life of a Showgirl
Papa, Joe, Bobby
Joe and Papa
Papa with the berries was honored at his local union, earning his 65 year service pin. Amazing!
Halloween with Miryn and her friend as K-Pop Demon Hunters
I love, love, love getting a "look what I did to my hair" text from Miryn.
We were all Mariner's fans this fall when they made it to the World Series, losing to Toronto in 7 games!
Thomas with his rally shoe on!
Logan and Corbin even got tickets for one of the home games!
It was such an exciting extra innings game.
Logan texted us this Space Needle picture from his apartment window.
Seattle was flying the Mariners flag.
And right after the World Series, Nate and Papa twinned to watch the Seahawks together.
And we found ourselves traveling to catch the first few games of Ry's collegiate career.
Walking the campus a little bit before Ry's game.
Chewy made a new bestie when Grandma and Papa came to watch Harper's volleyball on Saturday, stayed the night, and then we drove to Newberg the following day to watch Ry's game.
My mom had brought cookies for us and the next morning Dave was wondering why the container was empty.
I was looking for an old notebook of mine and ran across this one of me and Presley's conversations.
She was feeling sassy this evening and just trying to read (this must have been her 7th grade year).
Dave having a long conversations with his Dad one evening.
We had so many special fall days, but also received difficult medical news and long term outcomes for Papa Nelson's cancer diagnosis.
Dad went to lots of medical appointments and helped make Papa comfortable for those last few weeks when it was decided that there were no other options to control his cancer.
On November 14th, Papa and Grandma decided to stop all treatments and he was given 4-6 weeks left to live.
He passed away early morning, December 3rd.
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