Kidd's Ring

...with two students. But this particular day, we were wearing them on the same day! :)

see two posts below for more :)

So a friend of mine does every once in a while - it's called 7 Quick Takes Friday and it's just a blurb about life that week. W/out further ado, here we go: #1 Saturday was a busy day ... Felix and I had a pre-marital counseling session in the morning - after a waffle breakfast! Then we went to the park and to an Easter market. I picked out some Easter eggs, so next year we can have our own pussy willow branches with Easter eggs. It was so fun picking them out. Look for pictures next year! ;) #2 Sunday was church and I translated for New City Wien church. After the church service, we had another pre-marital counseling meeting. It was a good and enlightening session about what kinds of disagreements or difficulties we think we will face in our marriage. It's good to know that even if we disagree, we can find a solution and still love each other. #3 The school week started off well. I enjoyed having a volunteer come in and help with some of my classes. This allowed

listen carefully for a quite and confused: "Miss Kidd?" soo funny!

these are pictures taken at a concert that Felix and I went to

Buying: a sweater for € 4.50 (that's about $6.12)! Considering: the guest list for the wedding Cooking: Hawaiian pizza Eating: two free ice cream scoops - peppermint and nutella (yum, great combo!) Googleing : the weather for the weekend and next week, I'm ready for spring!! Learning: that planning a wedding is a lot of work Listening: Sara Groves - Add to the Beauty Loving: the comment from one of my 2nd graders: Miss Kidd, your shoes are cutie! Planning: a waffle breakfast for Saturday! Reading: Job, 1. Corinthians, Sacred Marriage Watching: I Love Lucy Wearing: cute necklaces Wishing: Tax season was over and done w/ Thankful: for faithful supporters Writing: an essay about my testimony and my desire to teach overseas Hoping: that translating on Sunday for New City Wien will go well

Every March is Book Month for the elementary at VCS. Here are some snapshots from our party. Enjoy! Spongebob, who won first place and couldn't hardly even see! :) Korean fox, she won 2nd, I believe - she even translated her book into English w/ illustrations, very impressive! A snail, not sure what book, she also won a prize! Very cute! Star Wars The Cat in the Hat and Thing 2 :) The Mouse and the Motorcycle If you give a Mouse a Cookie Where's Waldo? Our amazing Where the Wild Things Are cake! Now with "candles"!!

In 2nd grade, we were talking about wind and the effects of it. They had to draw what happens when the wind comes and I thought these three different drawings were fun! Gotta love the crazy hair at the bottom with the wild smile. I'm pretty sure I had to giggle out loud when I saw the head with the four sticks coming out! LOL

So in order to get married here in Austria, I needed a birth certificate with an apostille. I had to do some researching on how to get this and be on hold a while with the Vital Records Office, but thankfully, I found out what I needed, where to send it and then a little over a month later, I got this in the mail! YAY for one step closer to getting all the paperwork done for marriage - it gets complicated when you marry someone of a different nationality in a different country!

one of my students likes to refer to me as this: makes me laugh! every time! lol

On Sunday, I got introduced to a Ring Family Tradition. They call it Kerzen Wetten - Betting of Candles. They use leftover candle stubs and put them on a plate. Everyone must then choose the candle that they think will go out first. And whoever's candle dies first wins! :) I got lucky for my first candle betting ;) I forgot to take a before picture, but these are during and after shots. It was so fascinating and so fun to watch. The candles burned amazingly fast. Definitely, a tradition to keep in the family! lol ;)

Wow, hard to believe I have been doing GSTs for one year now - so much has happened and changed in this past year! God has been so faithful and good to me! I am so very, very blessed. Here are the last five GST: * All Day Read In with the elementary kids * putting together our wedding registry - soooo much fun! * fast dinner w/ Felix * bday party with Austrians * falling into bed after a very LONG, but very good Monday!

~ hearing the church bells - I love Sundays!! ~ good church service ~ fun day with Felix and his family ~ learning a new game ~ slideshow of the Ring Family in their early years :)

-as my mom would say, sleeping in until I woke up this morning :)- -public transportation, I used it SO much today!!- -making and eating Thai chicken w/ peanut sauce for lunch- -good talk with Felix tonight after a day of assembling living room furniture- -sunshine and snow (not so happy about the last one though!)-

....bulgogi for dinner - it's been so long since I've had Korean food!!! ...it's Friday! ...watching a new movie ...taking Felix to try suits on for the wedding! Fun times! :) ...good classes with the Kinder.

The fifth graders headed up a penny drive for Haiti. In one week, they raised € 193.99 that is $263.24! Isn't this amazing?!

- having fun between school and the concert - having families come together for Uncle Jerry's concert - durum for dinner! - not feeling too tired today - watching the kids during book title charades

/having a primary student wave and wave and wave to me until I was almost out of sight/ /a walk with Petra to Lidl/ /phone calls with people I haven't seen in a while and getting a facebook message from an old school friend!/ /Italian potluck with VCSers/ /getting a refund in the mail for my eye doctor visit!!/ For a fun read - read this blog entry: http://melmacnotmc.blogspot.com/2010/03/from-your-mouth-to-gods-ears.html

having a volunteer help with second grade so that we could make two classes with two different levels of English - it was AMAZING! laughs with one of the first graders throughout chapel picking up living room furniture for the new place :D getting another idea for the wedding fun time reading The Mitten with one of my classes

1) the start of spiritual emphasis week (for a full report visit Tricia's blog ) 2) beautiful Monday 3) finally purchasing the last tickets for the summer! 4) a little bit more time to read throughout the day 5) eating cake made on Saturday :)