learning is fun!

i remember talking with a former boss about her child and all the new things he was learning. and it was amazing to think that everything that we know we have to learn-it seems very silly, i know, but i realized that you have to learn how to drink..how to speak..etc. and now that beniah is learning more and more it is so much fun to watch him grow in understanding.

coco, our dog, has one sweater that i will throw on him when it gets chilly. beniah laughed when i put the sweater on coco and has brought it over to coco several times when it was off. one time in particular it was on the stairs because it needed to be washed and beniah climbed up the stairs, brought it down to coco on the floor, and then put it on top of him. i told beniah that it was dirty and that we needed to clean it first and took it off of coco and headed toward the stairs...and then beniah burst into tears. he was so excited to see the sweater on coco!

beniah also loves to put socks and shoes on. whenever i tell him that we need to put his socks or shoes on he sits down on the floor and holds one foot up. it is so fun to see him connect the dots. he even reaches out to pull his velcro tab on his shoe to fasten it onto his foot.

occasionally i will take beniah along and go help or watch dave at vball practice. one day we walked it at the end and the girls were trying to serve 50 serves in a row so they were all lined up serving one after the other. beniah was standing on the sideline with me just watching when he raised his arm and thrust it to try to "serve" his own imaginary ball.

its amazing how our brains absorb so much information!

here are some photos from our trip to state last weekend:

i love this game

if you haven't been keeping up with my blog, my volleyball team made it to the state tournament for the first time in school history. what an experience.

we won our first match 3-0, the girls played solid and it sent us to the quarter finals.

our quarter finals match was against joseph city. now, if there are any teams that make it to state that lack quality, they are quickly weeded out in the first round. joseph city is a little town (mormon...i'm assuming) a few miles east of flagstaff. they have won the womens volleyball state championship a number of times, most recently in 2006.

set one - refs killed us (23-25), i really really try not to blame refs...but come on!

set two - we killed ourselves (14-25), too many errors against a phenomenal team

set three - joe city killed us (23-25), we played our hearts out and just got beat

going to state and winning our first game was an amazing experience, giving joe city a heck of a game was an amazing experience. however i am not certain these were the highlights of the trip.

see we have these cross-town rivals, greenfields, they are an very tough, very well coached team and have essentially become our rivals due to the intensity of every match played over the years...always great volleyball. well, they made state as well and came early to cheer us on against joe city. we decided to return the favor as they played their quarter final match following ours. our girls went absolutely nuts! it was sooo much fun cheering so hard for a team that we have had to sweat blood over to beat.

i have put a lot of pressure on myself and my team to make state, especially this year, so much so that there were moments that i may have lost focus of why i coach this sport.

cheering like crazy for our rivals put my love for this sport and for coaching back into perspective...what a night.

see results here.

state tournament

the lady lynx volleyball team is a 2 seed at state. we are playing joy christian at apache junction high school on friday nov. 6 at 11am, if we win...which i think we can, we play at 5pm.

see the brackets here.