well, life is wonderful and friends are amazing! 
i had a tournament this morning, and i will have it again tomorrow morning. i dont get to go to church and that makes me pretty frustrated. we didnt win any of our games today. it was a downer, BUT we did play together and we hung tough. we have one girl out for about a month with a stress fracture and another one is in the bahamas.. (dont you wish YOU were there?!) so i think all in all we did pretty well. it was our first tournament this year. i know tomorrow will be better, becuase now we know what to expect and what to fix.

i found a verse last night during my quiet time, though. it was really awesome, because i sort of have a "competitive" problem (nahhh.. not kaitlin! =] ). so when i found the verse, it reminded me that i have to be a leader. i cant get mad and blow my witness. i have to keep encouraging everyone, no matter if we ARE down 23-6... the verse was---
1st Corinthians 15:58
"So, my dear brothers and sisters, be strong and steady, always enthuasiastic about the Lord's work, for you know that nothing you do for the Lord is useless." ... pretty cool!

&& i will leave you with a picture...

"The most wasted of all days, is one without laughter"
-E. E. Cummings

edit..
our record for the tournament:
1/17 games
0/8 matches
... but God is good!
we played absolutely amazing!! we lost ANOTHER girl today! i dont know whats going on. it was the last point in our game against the hardest team. we had been playing amazing! i set our middle hitter. when she came down, she landed on another girls ankle and fell down screaming, imediately. they took her to the e.r. and she is out for 2-3 weeks with a pretty bad sprian. seemingly though, we pushed through with 6 out of our 9 players and won our first game the whole tournament. it was bad, but no one had a sour attitude-we played together and accomplished more than we thought we would. we can only get better, right?!