Climbing a Mountain

The girls and I climbed Stone Mountain yesterday (Grace rode on my back) and YES, I am out of shape. Can't believe Grace weighs 30 pounds (she felt like 50). Frannie did GREAT! We will have to plan some more real hikes!

Fun Fay Girls Day of Adventure

Sounds like Girls Gone Wild, but we wanted to have a DAY OF ADVENTURE so we went to cheesey Helen, GA! The girls and I ate boiled peanuts and saw some pretty North Georgia country scenery. We miss Kevin like crazy, but the Fay Musketeers had a fun day of girly laughs without him (he's in LA working the NBA Allstar junk).

The picture above of Shanghai reminds me of feeling so claustrophobic when we were there! The main shopping street got more and more and MORE crowded as we walked further down and I just had to get the heck out of there! Anyhoo, what a great picture of the Chinese lanterns during the Chinese New Year Celebration. And of course the dumplings are my favorite. I've tried to make some for the girls (okay, really for me) and at least I know for a fact they do not contain earthworms or bugs.

What is it?

Having a long week already. Frannie ended up with some strange hives yesterday. Anyone out there have any guesses? She went to school yesterday morning with no bumps and when I picked her up at 3:00 she had little red bumps from her neck to her toes. Mostly on her belly. Nothing unusual to eat at school or in the morning at home. No new detergent at home or soap. This am she is better, but I gave her some Benedryl anyway. Grace and Frannie are both coughing some, but they are on their way to school.

We are so pathetic

I can't believe it has taken us this long to get a picture - ANY PICTURE - of the four of us. We have a TON of pictures of a combination of everyone, but only one of the four. Here we are. Grace's teacher has been asking for a photo for, oh, 5 months or so.

Anyone out there interested in Medjugorje? If you don't know what I mean, don't continue .... I've been reading this incredibly interesting book called "The Miracle Detective" by Randall Sullivan and I cannot recommend this book enough for anyone interested. I've got about 75 pages left and I wish I could just sit in bed and read!

Poor Grace is home with a fever. Her antibiotics for strep don't seem to be doing the trick just yet so we are praying for her poor little throat.