Lea's Day-Lea's, Week 9 (2024)

 Day 57, Monday, February 26th

The all league CTL teams were announced in the newspaper. 

Day 58, Tuesday, February 27th

Ry's 17th birthday today

Day 59, Wednesday, February 28th

Cavity free at the dentist today

Day 60, Thursday, February 29th (LEAP DAY)

Headed to the gym today with his new basketball shoe clips. 

Day 61, Friday, March 1st

Ice Skating with friends tonight. 

Day 62, Saturday, March 2nd

We drove to Yakima to watch the Cashmere girls team place 6th in the state tournament. 

He was a great cheer-er and did the arrow when they made a 3 pointer. 

Emory's last cheerleading event for their junior year. 

Day 63, Sunday, March 3rd

A Sunday afternoon nap for Harper and Chewy. 

Ry is SEVENTEEN

 

I went down to tell him goodnight and hung these up sneakily but I"m sure he was still awake as I was walking away. 

Coming up for breakfast

Some years you have a test to take on your birthday. 

We went out to dinner at Garlini's and ran into one of Logan's high school friends who thought we were walking in with Logan :).

Ry and Emory

I was so pleased with his cake that I texted a picture of it to Presley. 

Which she then sent out her real thoughts to our family text, and then Logan chiming in with one of his core memories...ha ha!

Ry's SEVENTEENTH Interview

 

Rylan's 2023-2024 Varsity Basketball

 

The district program

I didn't have very many good still pictures of him through the season but a student took some and offered them to Ry to buy.  So yes!  I was thankful for his good work and for sharing them. 

One of his goals this year was to make first team all conference, and he did! 

Fiesta Tournament (Mesa, Arizona)

February 16th-February 19th

We left early Friday morning for Seattle and flew to Phoenix. 

We had no delays and no car rental troubles. 

Our team was in the AM wave so we went to bed early and had to be at the Legacy Sports Complex at 7:15 AM for our first 8 AM game. 

The Legacy Sports Complex was massive---way too massive for one women's bathroom and one refill water station.   Our field house had 45 courts, but there were several field houses, outdoor soccer,  outdoor baseball and softball fields, and a playground. 

It was lovely to walk around outside during the breaks though. 

We made it through this first day undefeated which was an exciting start.  

Joe and Lanae joined us this week-end. 

They were traveling from Las Vegas to visit Emily at college in Tucson and they made the extra stop to watch Harper's group play. 

Volleyball is some long days but they didn't miss one game. 

The moms bought our players the tournament sweatshirts at the end of the day. 

That night we had a team dinner at The Porch in Gilbert. 

Ice-cream after dinner. 

On day 2, we continued with the AM wave of the tournament. 

We won 2 games and lost 1 today. 

That meant that we took 2nd place in our pool and put us in the silver bracket for the final day! 

We got back to our team hotel and some of the girls wanted to swim for a while. 

That evening we drove to Scottsdale (about 35 minutes away from our hotel), and ate outside at the Old Town Tortilla Factory.

Harper was team captain to start off Monday morning. 

They would play today until they A) made the championship or B) lost. 

We weren't sure if it would be a very short day or a long day. 

Turns out we went pretty long--all the way to the semi-final game where we lost in 3 sets!! 

It was such an competitive day of volleyball. 

With Joe and Lanae before they headed to Tucson--they were great volleyball supporters this week-end. 

Some people had flights home tonight but we weren't flying out until Tuesday morning so we drove back to Gilbert and ate at The Culinary Dropout.

We were delayed flying out of Phoenix so we each got a kids snack box on the flight. 

Harper used the Wiki Sticks in the box to entertain herself. 

We stopped for gas and a quick bite to eat and got home about 9. 

And we found out that we placed 15th overall out of 96 total teams in our U14 group.