Enchilada hater and Volleyball

Alexis hates enchiladas! Whenever we have it, we have a battle over trying to get her to eat it! It is weird because she likes sour cream, corn tortillas, cream of chicken soup, and cheese but in this combination of ingredients she completely breaks down. She sees it and starts crying right away. We try to entice her into eating it with all sorts of goodies. We give her super small portions and tell her that if she eats her food, she can can ice cream, cookies, candy, anything. Normally what happens is this...

She takes a bite and lets it sit in her mouth until her saliva has broken some of it down and then she starts gagging...Gross!

(Beware, some of the pictures are gross!)

Until we finally make her spit it out so that she doesn't throw up all over the place.

We have given up on having her eat enchiladas! There were certain foods that I just didn't like growing up, mainly stroganof (nasty!) and so my mom let me have a sandwich instead. I never reacted in this manner, but mom still let me have something else and so Alexis gets to have a PB&J sandwich. She is a happy camper now at dinner.


Most of you also know that I got to coach the seventh grade volley ball team this year. I faked my way through it pretty well, and I am very confident in my abilities come next year if they need me again. It was a great season. We lost a lot in the beginning and then came out with a bunch of wins in the end which show the girls improved and I improved in my coaching too. Plus, I feel like every girl got pretty much the equal amount of playing time, no joke, I paired my weaker players with my strong players and that worked out pretty well! The best were those days when I would have a few girls missing and so I couldn't sub in for my really good players. In volleyball, you can only sub in one girl for the other and back again, I can't switch partners for the whole game and so I would purposefully make it so that my superstars were paired with the missing girls that game.

We were slaughtering the Rigby team and so the other coach called a time out, so I am telling my girls to push hard, talk to each other, get it to the setter, and finish strong!


Coaching from the sidelines.

I had a fun time and it gave me a little break from the domestic life. Jared said he had the hardest job of both of us. He would get home from school and I would leave for practice. He would have to help the girls with their school work, take care of Jordyn, and try to get dinner ready by the time I got home. (Dinner hardly ever was ready or even started for that matter, but he was still great!) He told me he gained a greater appreciation for what I do as a stay at home mom. He said I have a hard job. I, on the other hand, got a look into the coaching world. Having to deal with parents, drama with the girls, the highs of winning, and the lows of losing helps me understand that it is not all fun and games for him and that stress is definitely affecting him! Would I do it again...yes...but for pay this time, which they will have to do for anyone, so why not me?