Finals and Nationals

Finals are done. Thank goodness.

As interesting as my classes were, I was running out of steam fast for this semester (maybe being gone every weekend for lacrosse and constantly playing catch-up had something to do with it). I'm just excited to be done and felt good about how my finals went.

I'm excited that this means a few days to just play before spring term starts.

I'm excited that this means good weather is coming fast.

Mostly though I'm excited because for the next three weeks I don't feel guilty about my priority being my team.

We found out this week that we have been invited to compete in the national tournament and that we have been given the #2 seed!! This is the highest we've ever been ranked and I couldn't be more proud of the work that we've put in and how our season has gone this far.

This season isn't over and we have some more to prove, and I can't wait to see how we do it.

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PS - Coverage from this season and our last trip to the national tournament can be found: here, here, here, and here.

National Sibling Day

In honor of National Sibling Day (which is apparently today?) I figured I would make a list of my favorite things about the coolest people in the world. I love them to pieces.

Justin:

-- He is one of the most protective people I know, even though he probably wouldn't admit it if you asked
-- He loves to tease me but rarely takes it too far
-- He sometimes still lets me pretend I can beat him up
-- He laughs at my dumb jokes
-- He puts up with my teasing
-- He is an extremely hard worker, when he puts his mind to something I know better than to get in his way
-- He makes me breakfast when I come home :)
-- Last but not least, he sees what's important to the people around him and helps them achieve those things

Julia:

-- I should probably start by saying she's my best friend in the whole world
-- She sends me funny snap chats
-- She is the best road trip copilot and traveling buddy ever
-- She puts me in the funniest moods I think I've ever been in
-- She is patient with my messiness and even helps me clean it up
-- She is already a better athlete than I'll ever be
-- She makes the best brownies and cookies ever
-- She is one of the most diligent and organized people I've ever met - pretty good combination
-- She pushes me to be better in so, so many ways

Joshua:

-- He gives the best hugs in the whole world
-- He is always so excited to see me, it makes it 10x better to come home
-- He is the first person to include someone else and ask them to play a game with him
-- He is the best Monopoly player I've ever met (I don't think he's ever lost to anyone in the family)
-- He's one of the best story tellers ever - just ask him about the scar from a shark bite on his leg ;)
-- He loves to cheer the rest of us on at our sporting events and still likes to play them himself
-- He is extremely independent and can fend for himself super well
-- He loves to read books and remembers crazy details about all of them
-- He writes the best notes ever and asked me to be his pen pal while I'm at school

I'm the luckiest sister in the whole world. These three are my favorite ever and I wouldn't trade them for anything. Sorry for the picture overload... I struggled to pick just a few haha.