Lea's Day-Lea's Week 2 (2026)

 Day 8, Thursday, January 8th

Harper and her friends had to make a video in Spanish of them making tacos as part of their final. 

Day 9, Friday, January 9th

Ry's game at Lewis and Clark

Grandma and Papa drove to watch. 

And we watched on TV

Day 10, Saturday, January 10th

Ry and a group of his basketball teammates went to Seaside Oregon for the night.

Day 11, Sunday, January 11th

Harper's first volleyball tournament of the club season. 

They took 3rd place.

Day 12, Monday, January 12th

Facetiming Ry on the first day of the second semester of his freshman year. 

Day 13, Tuesday, January 13th

Harper had an odd late start today because of Senior Presentations so they flipped a coin to see who would make a run for coffee. 

Day 14, Wednesday, January 14th

Chewy with a fresh haircut and then to visit Grandma and Max for a bit. 

Lea's Day-Lea's, Week 1 (2026)

 Day 1, Thursday, January 1st

First picture of 2026

12:02 AM 

Day 2, Friday, January 2nd

On their way to Target

Day 3, Saturday, January 3rd

We spotted Ry and Corey watching the girls game at the University of Puget Sound

Day 4, Sunday, January 4th

Harper's friend made it back from vacation and Harper had a Christmas present for her. 

Day 5, Monday, January 5th

Trying out best to get back on schedule

Day 6, Tuesday, January 6th

Facetiming with Ry this afternoon

He's been back for basketball practice and games, but his classes dont start until January 12th.

Day 7, Wednesday, January 7th

A snapchat picture from Ry to Harper

Welcoming 2026!

The last week has been all about the finale of Stranger Things

The finale was at 5 PM on New Years Eve so I made them a charcuterie board so they wouldn't have to text me for snacks. 

None of them really cared for how it wrapped up. 

We called Logan the next day and he was watching in bed and said the same thing. 

New Years Eve together

Sparkling Cider at midnight

We tried to watch the King 5 News countdown but it was so foggy in Seattle they had to cancel the fireworks/drone show. 

Made it to midnight and went outside to watch the (illegal) fireworks in the distance.

Joe and Lanae had their annual New Years Eve party.

New Years Day: 

Thursday, January 1st

1st breakfast always includes year pancakes

These 3 made a run to Target

They facetimed me to show me their efforts to get Harper out of there and Kel sent me a HELP message

Harper's been animal/house sitting for her friend and had to bring their garbage cans back up their long driveway. 

Harper's new friend Ollie.  

There was also Bruno and Bunny. 

Dave and I decided to leave on January 2nd to go to Ry's games this weekend in the Tacoma area. 

They played Puget Sound and Pacific Lutheran. 

Logan and Corbin joined us on the first night. 

We stayed the night and met with Logan and Corbin for lunch. 

Corbin suggested Cutter's Coffee for a stop before Ry's second game. 

They didn't go to that game, but we texted them a pic of us with our afternoon drinks. 

We drove home after his game on Saturday and got back about midnight. 

On Sunday, January 4th, Kel and Presley headed back to Portland. 

They both had work this week.  Presley's school started the 12th. 

We tried to pack up Chewy for them :)

Dave giving "the talk" to Chewy that Monday was going to be an early and tough morning. 

Dave's been going through some of Papa's old files and photo albums and ran across this school picture of him.  He doesn't remember wearing this Cowboys shirt and he's guessing that might have been his 3rd or 4th grade year.  

Dad's friend Troy is a big Cowboys fan and he sent this AI generated picture (its actaully a video) to Troy and Kevin when Dallas didn't make the playoffs this year.