Keeping up with the K-Bashes

Tuesday, January 31, 2023

January- Summed Up

January is usually the longest month EVA, but this year it seemed to fly by. Our January summed up went like this: basketball, school, work, basketball, basketball, school, basketball, work, basketball.

No joke. Taylor had either basketball practice or basketball games 7 days a week. Parker had basketball 3 days a week. It was fun and all, but, looking back, it was a lot!

Here are some basketball photos plus anything else we were able to squeeze in this month ;)

Taylor basketball:

Parker and Kellen cheering the girls on

The girls decorated the locker room for the 8th graders' last game

Peter and Liam came to cheer Taylor on!

Tourney champs!

Tryouts for the new travel season. Taylor's teammate posted this.

Battle wounds

There's a cool app that sums up a specific game. We didn't get them for every game, but they were cool when we did! This was one of Taylor's games.

GT Women's basketball game:

Parker:

New cut for P!

Cool shot of P!

Macy and Piper's birthday party:

Date night:

School:

Church clap before FCA

Student of the Month for Taylor!

Parker at First Priority Kids (he's in the red Nike sweatshirt)

Hanging Out:

Dinner with Ashley and Erica

Hanging with Madeline

Lily and Taylor making signs for their basketball big sisters

Kerrigan spent the night! They're checking out their Popshelf haul. ;)

Eden's Birthday Party:

Jake's birthday party:

Friday, January 6, 2023

Taylor Feeder Team (B-Ball)

The second team Taylor is playing on this year is the "feeder" team for her high school. This is done by grade, so she is on the 6th grade team. If we had known what it would be like, we probably wouldn't have done it. There's not much competition at the 6th grade level, and none of the games have been close. It's fun to win, but I don't feel like Taylor and a handful of her teammates are improving from being on this team, simply because you don't have to really try! It's a lot of time for not a lot of reward. The best part about it is just the socializing part for Taylor- she gets to hang with her friends!

They have played in 3 tournaments and won, which is cool. This last tournament, Taylor's coach (who is also her travel coach) put together a 6th, 7th, and 8th grade team to play against 8th graders. We won some games but lost in bracket play... but, I'll tell you, it was much more fun to watch us lose to a good team than to kill a bad team.

Here are some pics from the feeder team, so far!

This will give you an idea of what our games are like... this is 2 minutes before half time! We have about 6 girls on the team that can play, and 8 that really haven't played much/ever. Our coach trades the girls out regularly (and T doesn't get to play too much) and it will STILL be like this. It's insane.