Dialoguing Avery's Basketball Stitches

I figured this would be a good title that summarized everything in this post.

My Stitches!
Here they are; the pictures you have all been waiting for!!!! :)


I tried taking them out myself, like I did with elbow stitches I had, but this was waaay harder for three reasons: 1. I had to use a mirror to look at them, 2. they were stitched up tighter than the ones on my elbow, and the knots were smaller, and 3. digging around with little scissors and tweezers in a cut in my face made me a little woozy. See the band-aid gunk? Ick.

I ended up having to go to an urgent care place because I had cut off the top of the knots, but the rest of the stitch slipped under my skin out of my reach. The doctor was nice enough to remove them for free (without much trouble, too). :)


Avery's First "Dress Up"
For Easter weekend, we went to visit Nathan's brother's family. My 6 nieces and nephews had a lot of fun with Avery. Here she is with my niece, Victoria.



I have a feeling that this will be a pricey little lifestyle to support. :) Check out that bling!


Basketball
I was on our ward basketball team. We ended up beating all the other teams in our stake, so we went on to the "regional" tournament (a region has about 10 stakes). We ended up going all the way to the semi-finals where we lost to a team of all twenty-something year-old girls! Regardless, I was so proud of our team because only two of us are in our 20's. Everyone else is 30+!!! They were so awesome! It was so fun to get to know those ladies who I had only seen in dresses playing some rough and tough Bball! I want to be like them when I'm 40:

Below is a video Nathan shot of our semifinal game. We're in the white. I just happened to be in the right place at the right time...their player basically handed me the ball. :)


Calvary Chapel Interfaith Dialogues
We got to host another group at our house for some more interfaith dialoguing. This group was from an evangelical college in southern California. They even brought pizza, salad, and really good cookies with them! We actually even had a couple local evangelicals show up and join the Calvary Chapel group. It was a great group!


Most of the evangelicals in my group had taken biblical Hebrew and/or New Testament Greek. It was cool to hear the things they had learned from their professors!


And lastly, a video of Avery in one of her "everything-is-silly" moods. :)