The Lieslands

simply livin' it up

The Neighborhood Cat

This is Stormy. I think that is the name our girls made up for the cat that makes the social rounds in the neighborhood.

RACE Day

It was the annual RACE Day fundraiser at Lucia and Rose’s school today. They girls had fun with their friends.

Lucia and friends.
Lucia, Stella, and their kindergarten buddy
Rose and friends.

School Pictures

The girls had their school pictures today and the picture company sent us their pics from previous years. I love seeing how they’ve changed.

Happy Birthday, Susan!

I swear we had a birthday party for Susan this year, but I didn’t take any pictures of the cake. We had people over on a Sunday evening. I was out of town in the morning and Susan and the girls went on a special picnic breakfast with Erin and Hope.

Cross Country Happenings

The cross country season is in full swing.

Yard sign production in our garage.
Hope running at Ames.
Fans
Elliot running at Ames.
Elliot and Johnny.

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Music in the Park

This weekend we attended not one, but two Des Moines Symphony Pops performances at Water Works Park. The first night was a tribute to Billy Joel and the second night was Broadway dance favorites. Fun was had.

Susan’s First Day of School

19 years(?) after she finished her Master’s degree at Xavier, Susan is headed back to school! She is going to take a few additional classes at Drake to tag on to her existing Master’s so she can become a license mental health counselor. It should take a little longer than a year for the school portion. Go Susan!

Cross Country Dinner

We hosted the Valley Cross Country team for dinner this evening. A team dinner is a standard occurrence the day before a meet, but this week the meet is canceled because of the heat, which is also why everything is set up inside.

First Day of School 2024

Andrew Leaves for College

Andrew left for college this morning. It was his first time driving himself. His goal is to make it to school mid-afternoon so he and his friends can head into the mountains for a couple of days.

Liesland and Reagen Boys

One last hurrah before Andrew and Ian leave for college.

Andrew’s Last Day at the Pelican Post

I wish I would have started this video about 3 seconds sooner. The funny thing about this is that it took Andrew about 5 minutes to get the garbage bag out of can.