& then i got bored.

you know those days when you have an extra 2 hours & you just don't quite know what to do with yourself? yeah, that was today. it was early out day so school got out at 1:15 then practice started at 3:30 = 2 hours of pure nothing. it made us happy & it felt absolutely fantastic. i can't remember the last time that happened, so i took advantage of the fact that paige gave us a tub of cute, cute clothes & i got ready for the first time since basketball started.

it was a good day.
-tar

ahhh. the smell of sweet success!

thursday. mountain view. remember?! well, jv DOMMED. (my brother tells me that's not a word, but i still like to use it all the time, sorry stink.)  i strongly dislike mountain view, keyword strongly. they're very rough players & like to complain. but we pulled through & came out with a TON of energy. the score after the first quarter was 24-6. eat it bruins. we ended up winning by 27-ish points! the varsity game was CRAZY. our bench got a warning because we were cheering a little too loud, if we stood up out of our chairs even ONCE we were going to get a technical. yikes. it was sooo close the whole time, but we ended up losing. boy, was it a nail biter!

friday. practice was so much fun! everyone thought it was gonna be so rough because of yesterday's game. it was still hard, but everyone went all out & held nothing back! coach even ended a little early (: boys varsity game was today.

we won.

again.

i LOVE winning, especially when it's the boys team because we're known for not being.. the best team out there. we beat our two rivals- orem & mountain view. we are on a roll!!! after the game we went to wendy's with our basketball girls. boy do we love them! there are absolutely zero dull moments with them, & they've become some of our best friends! my stomach still hurts from laughing so hard. w-o-w, they're hilarious. tomorrow is another day filled with doing the clock for little girls tournament & we couldn't be more excited! they're the cutest little girls ever! { besides my KJ, peeps ;) }

over & out.

-taryn

 * they think they're gang members. i told them to wait so i could be in it, but NOOO.
only tay made the cut.

look up 'struggle' in the dictionary, i'm sure you'll find our names close by..

last night, taylor & i both got into the varsity game against lehi. we were ahead by a lot and there was only 1:30 left on the clock. i, for one, was scared out of my mind! my heart was beating soo fast & i thought my lungs were going to collapse. here's how it went..

we have possession & my teammate passes it to me. i was wide open so i shot it.. airball. (crap) next possession- jamie passes it to me & i have a wide open lane, so i drive. i panicked, chucked the ball up & it hit the glass, not even the rim. (crap) next, taylor gets fouled & shoots a 1-1 free throw but missed. (crap) i hussle back on defense and our crowd started chanting 3, 2, 1, hoping the lehi girl would chuck it up & miss, so i just stood there. welp, there was a lehi girl standing right in back of me & i didn't see her. she got the ball & made a wide open lay-up at the buzzer. (CRAP)

i struggled & was more embarassed than i have ever been in my whole entire life. the boys team was all watching, waiting for their game to start. great.

so later, we look at the newspaper. [you can read that here] it says that taylor scored 2 points....WHAAA?! we look even closer. it says that #23 scored but that's my number!! WHAAA?! so now taylor/taryn nelson averages .17 points a game! hooray! shoot to the deseret newspaper author, but that's ok. it's alright to struggle sometimes writer, that's what i've learned from yesterday's game.

tomorrow we play mountain view. as of right now, we're both undefeated in region. this game is HUGE because we only had one loss in region last year, & that was to mountain view. so whoever wins tomorrows game will be #1 in region! GO T-WOLVES.

- taryn -

let the countdown begin

baseball trips.

they're the best thing ever!

we started talking about this years baseball trip while we were eating dinner & it got me sooo excited! there's nothing better than a road trip with the fam & soaking up the sun while watching baseball all day every day. this year we're going to st. george, partaay!

this was taken the year we went to california.

-taryn