Taylor's Middle School Basketball Season

School basketball is officially over!  It can be exhausting (practices or games Monday-Friday, plus an additional shoot-around practice before school on game days).  Two games a week, and the girls have to go to both the A and B team games, so we go straight from school and don't get home until well after 8.  And, this is just the middle school team... not including her feeder teams, which plays on the weekends.

BUT... it has been a super fun season.  Taylor made the A team as a 7th grader and started (and played most of) every single game.  Her coach has a lot of faith and confidence in her, which I know means a lot.  Taylor works hard, and even if she's having an off shooting game, she contributes all over the court in things that aren't kept as stats.  

The best part of it all is... they won the county championship!!!  They were the second seed going into playoffs, with the first seed being undefeated minus the one time we beat them.  We shouldn't have beat them again, but we did!  It was super exciting.

Here are more pictures of the rest of her season, since I last posted in December.

Pics I took:

Locker surprise from her little sister:

Semi-final game:

Championship game:

Middle School banquet, including dodgeball and one of the boys' coaches getting his head shaved (the A team boys won, too!)

January!

January always feels like the longest month.  Ours was consumed by basketball, but also Sydney starting track!  Her doctor cleared her to do "normal" track events (straight running- no hurdles, long jump, etc) so she jumped right into training.  Unfortunately I think her body went into shock- she ended up straining her hip flexor and has had to take 6 weeks off.  Definitely a bummer!  But, I'm thankful she's able to do a sport. :)

Anyways, besides sports, here is what we did in January!

GT game:

Preslie's birthday party- limo and the Hawk's game!

Outlet shopping with the girls:

Parker's friends birthday party:

Don't worry- no train comes here :)

Taylor got Student of the Month!

Random fun:

Sydney running, before she got hurt

The Rest of December!

 Besides all the Christmas and basketball fun, here are some other things we did in December:

Taylor's teammates went to cheer on the high school at an away game:

Taylor- training:

Parker's 5th grade Christmas party- his last elementary school one! :(

We got to hear my mom sing in her church's cantata, then she made us a yummy lunch:

Their album cover

Random:

Parker- school:

The girl's and boy's teams for the middle school went to the KSU game:

Sydney & friends:

Hawks Game: Parker's friend invited him and one other kid to the game for his bday: