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Excuses, Excuses

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So, it’s been more than awhile since I posted anything – even after I promised I would. I have lots of excuses for why I’ve been too busy. Here are some of the more important reasons:

In July, my mom & dad came to visit, and we all went to Prague. Prague is one of my favorite cities and I’m so glad we got to share it with them.

Prague '10

As soon as my parents left, I had to start getting things ready for the arrival of the new staff. This is one of my favorite things each year. Sadly, this year I was too busy to take any pictures. Fortunately, our friends the Johnstones took plenty.

After New Staff Orientation was over, Matt took me to Gmunden which is on the Traunsee. We celebrated our second anniversary and relaxed a little before the start of school. Traunsee is the most beautiful place I’ve ever been!

Trausee

As usual, school started at breakneck speed. One of the fun things I got to do in September was throw a baby shower for my dear friend Bethany whose sweet baby girl was born a few weeks later.

Bethany's Shower

Shortly after this fun celebration, the whole staff headed to the staff retreat. We had a great time walking in the Austrian woods and relaxing with our friends.

Staff Retreat '10

As soon as we returned, I began the planning for Fall Festival. This is our first big PTF event of the year and one of my favorite times at the school.

Fall Festival '10

So, these are my excuses for being a lame blogger. Hopefully, I’ll be better in the future. 🙂

You can see more pictures of all these events here: Prague, Gmunden, Bethany’s Shower, Staff Retreat, Fall Festival.

Breaking a Leg

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No, I’m not living a double life. I’m quite happy with the one I have. This is my stage family for the next 4 days. The school play runs from Wednesday through Saturday and sometimes I still wonder how it  happened that I’m a part of this.

Many of you are likely thinking, “I didn’t know you could act?” Well, neither did I. I’m still not sure I can, but I’m having a lot of fun trying. I play Calvin Taylor, head accountant for KittyKat Kat Chow and father of 3. In Every Babysitter’s Nightmare, I go to a nice dinner party with my wife leaving our three mischievous children in the care of an unsuspecting babysitter. Chaos ensues and much fun is had by all.

Zazzle!

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Christmas Collage

We have a fun new way for you to support our ministry here in Austria, and the best part is you get something fun out of it. 🙂 We have opened a Zazzle store. You can find it here: Ein Kleines Foto. Zazzle is a site that let’s you design products and sell them to the public. We have designed cards, tshirts, Christmas ornaments and more. Each time you buy something from our Zazzle store, a portion of it goes toward funding our ministry here in Austria.

Need Christmas cards? We have some cute ones here: Christmas Shop. You can even customize them to say what you want!

Looking for gifts? I suggest visiting The House of Matty or the Pippi Longstocking Shop.

Have fun shopping!

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ICSV Cross Country Season Recap

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Cross Country Final RaceCoach Montoya summed up our final race very well. She also gets props for the picture.

This season featured 5 runners, 2 coaches, 5 races, and 15 trophies/medals. A great season all-around!

Since we were unable to schedule any meets with other schools, we ran a handful of 5K races in Vienna. Our last race was about 45 min outside the city in a small town called Großweikersdorf. This race also featured an 86 year old man who ran the 10K. Wow!

It was a lot of fun coaching this team. We shared a lot of laughs and good times, and it was great to see them work hard and improve so much throughout the season.

Now we’re working on a post-season training program to stay in shape for track season. If everything works out we’ll run a couple of off-season races. I’ll keep you posted.

That’s a Boy Job!

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Dead Bird

Typical “Boy” jobs include taking out the trash and recycling and cleaning hair out the sink when it gets clogged. We also have a few marriage agreements such as, I clean the floors and she washes the dishes. Another such agreement extends my responsibilities to anything that comes out of an animal…and apparently, as I recently learned, dead birds on our porch.