Lea's Day-Lea's, Week 34 (2024)

 Day 232, Monday, August 19th

Harper and her great friends at Slidewaters today. 

Day 233, Tuesday, August 20th

Presley's 21st birthday

Day 234, Wednesday, August 21st

Logan was the biggest winner in Las Vegas, starting off with $872 tonight!

Day 235, Thursday, August 22nd

Presley requested seeing a "Thunder Down Under" show in Las Vegas so her, Mylee, Amy, Samee, and I all went to one. 

Day 236, Friday, August 23rd

Sweet Harper turned 15 in Las Vegas!

Day 237, Saturday, August 24th

We flew home and drove from Seattle.

Presley was back in grandma-mode with her tea by 8:30.

Day 238, Sunday, August 25th

Ry had senior photos tonight. 

I think they're going to be so good, I can't wait to see the edited versions!

Lea's Day-Lea's, Week 33 (2024)

 Day 225, Monday, August 12th

Rylan had his wisdom teeth removed. 

Day 226, Tuesday, August 13th

Harper painted a high school memory box for the next four years' worth of memories. 

Day 227, Wednesday, August 14th

Playing basketball in the hallway

Day 228, Thursday, August 15th

Presley is house, dog, and cat sitting for a co-worker these next few nights. 

Her she is with Harvey the cat, who the owners told her would bring her live mice if Harvey felt like he wasn't getting enough attention. 

Presley really doesn't want Harvey to bring her any gifts :)

Day 229, Friday, August 16th

Went for a light shoot around tonight. 

Day 230, Saturday, August 17th

We all went out to dinner and then to Blue Spoon tonight. 

Day 231, Sunday, August 18th

Ry's getting his appetite back so he's having 2nd dinner here. 

The moon was beautiful tonight too. 

Olivia Rodrigo: August 10th, 2024

 Presley and I surprised Harper with tickets to Olivia Rodrigo's Portland concert for an early birthday gift (for both of them). 

We "sent" her the tickets in the mail.

This is when she opened up the envelope. 

In the hotel room, ready to walk over. 

We stayed at a hotel very close to the venue and they were able to walk over to the Moda Center. 

Waving up at me in our room. 

Outside the Moda Center

Olivia floating around the center.

We woke up on Sunday, made a Trader Joe's run, and then went by Presley's U of O apartment, and drove home. 

Lea's Day-Lea's, Week 32 (2024)

 Day 218, Monday, August 5th

Celebrating our Logan today!

We all went to Leavenworth for a few hours and rode the alpine coaster. 

Day 219, Tuesday, August 6th

I earned my 1,000th running badge.

(and peloton is very generous because my running is someone else's brisk walk)

Day 220, Wednesday, August 7th

Watched a lot of Olympics the past two weeks. 

Tonight was table tennis :)

Day 221, Thursday, August 8th

Our 26th wedding anniversary

Day 222, Friday, August 9th

Today's Olympics was USA basketball's come from behind victory over Serbia. 

Ry was really into it, up on the coffee table cheering!

Day 223, Saturday, August 10th

We surprised Harper (Presley helped me get the tickets) with tickets to see Olivia Rodrigo in Portland tonight. 

Day 224, Sunday, August 11th

Presley got her apartment address so we went to see it. 

(We knew the apartment structure before, but this is her official door)

She's right across the street from her U of O campus. 

Lea's Day-Lea's, Week 31 (2024)

 Day 211, Monday, July 29th

Harper asked for a selfie with me, so of course!

Day 212, Tuesday, July 30th

We snuggled in bed and watched Olympics. 

Harper is trying to do the one legged beam twirls that Simone Biles performs :)

Day 213, Wednesday, July 31st

Cristy, Geezer, and Rookie were special visitors today.

They stopped by on their way to Leavenworth to celebrate Joe and Lanae's 50th wedding anniversary. 

Day 214, Thursday, August 1st

Sitting outside tonight waiting for Chewy to go potty. 

Day 215, Friday, August 2nd

Watching TikToks tonight. 

Day 216, Saturday, August 3rd

Presley, Harper Ella and I went to see Frozen today in Spokane. 

Day 217, Sunday, August 4th

Dave and Logan (and his basketball friend and his dad) went to 3 basketball camps this weekend. 

This was the final one at Pacific Lutheran University. 

Lea's Day-Lea's, Week 30 (2024)

 Day 204, Monday, July 22nd

Getting on Dad's nerves

Day 205, Tuesday, July 23rd

Our little buddy finally got a haircut.  

He was needing one so badly. 

Day 206, Wednesday, July 24th

Playing around outside tonight.

Day 207, Thursday, July 25th

We went to see Beauty and the Beast tonight in Leavenworth. 

(The lady seated behind us saw us taking this picture and said this should be an orthodontic ad)

I took Presley and Ella to Beauty and the Beast in Leavenworth for Presley's 13th birthday

 (this is them at Wok About prior to the performance). 

And we were back almost exactly 8 years later.  

Day 208, Friday, July 26th

We took Ry out shopping for senior outfits. 

Presley and Harper were both with us, and they were great at giving positive opinions. 

Day 209, Saturday, July 27th

Logan, Presley and Ry have spent a lot of time playing video games this summer. 

Ry plays in his room, Logan in the movie room, and Presley pulls the rocking chair into the downstairs TV area.  

Day 210, Sunday, July 28th

We drove to the Lee theatre in Ephrata tonight to watching Twisters (Harper and I) and Deadpool (Ry and Dave). 

They have booth seating and reclining plush chairs and you can pre-order pizza to eat while the movie plays.  

It was fun to do (Presley and Logan declined out invitation).