Feat #1- Complete

WE TOOK REGION!!!
Oh and by we, I mean the Bountiful Boys Basketball team. AHH! I don't think you will ever understand my joy. Ever.

So in case you were wondering, this team is made up of purely juniors and sophomores. They started pre-season with a record of 4-5.. thats not too impressive. But what do you expect from a team of juniors? So we began regular season. Game 1: against Highland. I'll be honest, I was slightly worried. But we won 44-42. A nail biter! And so we continued winning. And then came Friday, February 5th. We had to go play Woods Cross. At WX. Oh bother. That was such a stressful night. We were playing so well, but then we lost by one point. One point! Our perfect record (in region that is) was down the drain. But we were back on our feet for our next games against Stansbury, East, and Tooele. Don't even worry about it- they were all wins:) So by this time our record is 10-1. Olympus' record is 10-1. Tuesday night was a showdown between us and Olympus for the region title! They'd won 4 of the past 5 region titles. We'd won 4 of the last 5 region titles. So the game began. At the end of the first quarter we were down by 8-13. But did that stop us? NO! At the end of the half we had narrowed their lead to only two points. So the second half began and in the 4th quarter we were up by 11 points. I was completely blissed out up in the student section. But oh no, Olympus wasn't going to give it to us that easily. They made a huge comeback and came within 3 points with only a few seconds left. McKay LaSalle got fouled and made one free throw. That sealed the deal!! they couldn't do it. We became Region VI Champions!! 5 years in a row! And we were a team of juniors against a team of seniors! Sweet victory.

So we clinched the title. And now comes state. The BEST week of the entire year in my humble opinion:) For a JV team, I think we have a pretty decent shot, so we'll see where the boys can take us! This team is amazing. If you didn't already know, Natalie, Hannah, Caddy and Me have all kept the score and helped manage the JV and Sophomore teams. It's been so fun, I've loved every second of it! Honestly, these boys are so fun to watch and be around. They're just incredible. I love them to death and have complete faith in them this coming week. If you ask me, I think we'll do pretty great!

mechalelauren

Bliss

Today I had flute. Can I just tell you that I absolutely love it. You have no idea. I started taking flute when I was in 4th or 5th grade, my memory is a bit hazy I guess... Anyhoo, I quit in 7th grade because it wasn't even fun. I took from this lady who said that my half hour lessons would be free if I cleaned her house for an hour after, and back then I was willing to do anything to play the flute. So this is how my mondays went for a couple years. Go to school. Come home. Get my flute. Go to my lesson. Play stupid, annoying exercises and although I'm sure they were good for me, I got so bored after years of exercises and no solo pieces. So I quit. But then, in December, my young women's president asked me if I would accompany the young women singing God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen in Sacrament Meeting, so I said I'd try it and I'd let her know. So I practiced.. and it kinda sounded crappy, not super bad, but not as good as I wanted it to so I didn't play for them. But through this, I realized that I LOVE the flute and want to get back in lessons. My mom called around and got me into this AMAZING teacher who usually has waiting lists of basically a billion people, but miraculously I got in right away:) soo I've been taking for a month and its incredible. My teacher, Cindy Henderson, took flute from Toshio Takahashi. Now I'm positive that that name means nothing to you, but he developed the suzuki method for the flute! Mrs. Henderson was the first suzuki flute teacher in Utah, yeah she's that good. But honestly, I thought I was going to be terrible, but turns out I guess I'm actually pretty good. That made me more happy than you can believe. Today I picked out my federation pieces, and they're pretty hard and technical, but my teacher said I'll have no problem with it. Such good news, really.

There's something about playing the flute that excites me. I can't exactly pinpoint it. I don't know if its the fact that its an instrument that was new to me and one that no one in my family plays so it made me unique. Or maybe its the way that you have to sychronize every part of you to create a beautiful sound. It takes your tongue, throat, sinuses, fingers, lips, lungs, jaw, diaphram, proper anchoring of your legs, wrist posture, shoulder direction and much more to make a just single clear note.

I can't get enough of it.
It's truly a beautiful instrument.

he.is.we

My new almost* favorite band.
Name: {he is we}
I can't even express how much I enjoy this band.
Maybe you should check them out.
They play music that I can listen over and over to- and for the record I have.

*Parachute- you will forever and always be my favorite. Don't even worry about it;)