The new giveaway at I Heart Faces is a Tracy Joy product of your choosing. Personally, I love the Reese bag. So many little pockets! They’re cute, too. 🙂
Go to I Heart Faces for the details: Tracy Joy Giveaway
And definitely check out the Tracy Joy website to see all the goodies: Tracy Joy
Liz, the awesome fifth grade teacher, and I collaborated on another really fun project. Her class just finished a poetry unit and we decided to have them create poetry videos using Animoto.com. They turned out really well. The students did a great job of choosing music to fit the mood of their poems. I’m posting a couple below. You can see the rest here: Fifth Grade Poetry Videos
On Saturday we went to our church’s 10th annual barn dance. We’re very glad we went not only because it was loads of fun, but because this is the last year they will be doing it. We got to get out of the city and spend time in the country. Yay!
Since we went a little early to help set-up, I got to run around and take a bunch of pictures of wildflowers and butterflies. It was such a beautiful day! (Mom, you would have loved the variety of wildflowers.)
The food was really good. They had several different kinds of meat, veggie salads, potato salad, Knoedel (dumplings), and homemade apple pie. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Y-U-M-M-Y!
The dancing was super fun to watch. It was mostly Scottish square dancing with a caller and everything. I say fun to watch because those dances were complicated! I just resorted to taking pictures. Matt resorted to eating apple pie. But our super coordinated friends Jeff, Bethany, and Sandi all got out there and danced away.
It was a great time to hang out with our church friends and work on meeting new people. We are really enjoying our church and the awesome people there. Thanks to all of you who have been praying for us to build relationships at church. We really appreciate it.
There are lots of pictures here: Barn Dance
No this isn’t a spinoff of Diagnosis: Murder, and it doesn’t star Dick Van Dyke or Scott Baio (sadly). Oh, Scott Baio, where have you gone?
This is the official diagnosis for my shoulder handed down by my orthopedic. I still have not succeeded in properly saying that word, but I guess that doesn’t really matter so long as my insurance company can figure it out.
In English this means I have a rupture or tear in my left rotator cuff. Specifically the tear is in the Supraspinatus muscle (see picture). And that will end our science lesson for today.
My orthopedic recommended surgery and we’ve scheduled it for this coming Friday. I will be admitted to the hospital Thursday afternoon, surgery will be Friday morning and I should be discharged sometime on Saturday.
In the US this would almost definitely be outpatient surgery, but I’m not sure outpatient surgery exists in Austria. I guess that’s just one of the perks of the medical system here.
I would appreciate it if you would keep me in your prayers this week.
This is the week that I Heart Faces is having their Blurb book contest. I had such a hard time deciding which photo to use, but I just love this one. I’ve entered it at I Heart Faces before, but for this week only, we can have a repeat. Yay! I’m of course entering the beginners/amateurs category, because I am definitely still a beginner.
This week everyone is supposed to submit their very best photo. They’ll definitely be worth checking out!
I am submitting this photo into the www.iheartfaces.com Blurb Book photo contest. I am granting I Heart Faces permission to use my photo in a printed version of a book for commercial use and possibly advertising of a photo book on both the Blurb and I Heart Faces web sites.
