I know it's been a while...

Last weekend, the Sires (close friends of ours from our old neighborhood) came to visit. Suzanne came Thursday through Sunday, and Charlie and Nathan came down and spent the night on Friday, then hung out and watched the game with us on Saturday. We had a great visit! Unfortunately Emma was sick all weekend with croop and a stomach virus. On Saturday morning, I wiped out coming down my steps. Just call me grace! (Natalie, I know you will laugh your head off when you read this. You're sick like me. It's hilarious when other people fall, but don't you dare laugh at me!) I had on flat sandles, but they were slick on the bottom. I was even holding on tight to the rail because I know how slippery they are. The whole left side of my hip is black and blue. I've decided I'm gonna stick to rubber flip flops and tennis shoes from now on.
This weekend we had a garage sale with our friends and neighbors, the Schacon's. We both sold our big items, but since we didn't get it in the paper in time, we didn't get much traffic. So we're having it again next weekend. I can't stand having such a messy garage, I'm ready to get it cleaned out!
Poor Ellie has been sick this weekend. She started running a fever on Saturday. The girls were supposed to go to the Chinese Moon Festival at UGA with Fei and Ray today, but since Ellie's sick, they had to go without her. Emma looked so cute in her little traditional silk chinese dress.
I recently found out that there is something called the UGA String Project. Ellie has been asking to take violin lessons for years, but by the time you pay for the lessons and rent the instrument, it's so expensive. I told her she'd have to wait til she's in middle school when she could take orchestra for free. But now that I found this program, she doesn't have to wait. It's $80.00 for a whole semester. They offer 2 one hour lessons per week. It averages out to be $3.00 per lesson. They said they normally don't take children til they're 7 years old, but said they would accept Emma. I think I'm gonna just take her to watch Ellie this semester though and we'll see how interested she is.