Need a fix??

I know, I know... it's been a long time since the last post. I have a few to put on the computer but have been swamped planning little miss Ryan's birthday parties, working a lot, and everything else that creeps up. I am hoping that tomorrow I can get to more blog updates. So... in the meantime you can get a Grace Girls fix by going to my friend Jenn's blog. We went down to San Diego last Monday for a playdate. Copy and paste the link below (or click on the right column of the blog that says "Holden's Blog":

http://www.thefletcherfam.blogspot.com

Duck, Duck, Goose!

The reason for this post is that Steve is out of town visiting Uncle Jeff and he is missing his girls. He is wanting to get online and see some pics of them. Jeff too of course! Hopefully, getting a little sneak peak of our VERY exciting evening of miniature princess figurine Duck, Duck, Goose will help him to remember why he should be rushing to the casinos ASAP! Haha! We miss daddy too. It's a girl power weekend! We went to Super Mex for dinner (daddy hates Mexican), went out for hot fudge sundaes after (daddy hates a mess), and tomorrow we are headed to the mall (daddy doesn't like the mall so much either)! See you tomorrow daddy!

Goalie anyone??

These pictures were taken at Ryan's soccer practice two weeks ago! We have been so sick around here that I totally forgot to post them. At this particular practice, each child got a chance to try goalie. The coaches taught the kids that this is the only position where you can use your hands and that it is your job to protect the goal so... you need to stay in the goal if you are playing goalie. Guess who got to be the goalie during the scrimmage?? Yep, little ol' Ryan. And guess who ran out of the goal to go chase the ball around the field with the rest of the kids?? Yep, that was Ryan too. It took the coach about 5 minutes to realize he didn't have a goalie anymore. And the only reason he noticed was that the other team was on a break away for the goal and there was no goalie in sight! Here are some pictures of the drills for the day...

The UPside of Sick

The girls stayed home from school every day this week except for Friday because they were sick. Ryan with a bad cough. Charlie with some sort of flu with a never ending fever. And both of them staying home from school. Well... since it seemed that they would be home for awhile, I decided to make the most out of our week together. Charlie got potty trained! Woo-hoo!! I am so proud of her. She took to it very well, even with being sick. Last Saturday (Day 1) she had several accidents. I figured she just wasn't ready. But we tried again on Sunday (Day 2) and she hasn't had an accident yet (now Day 8)!! What a star!

Here are my panty girls! Ryan has been so proud of Charlie for "joining the club."

Charlie had both this potty seat and a little musical potty to choose from. Every time, she was very specific to which one she wanted to use. Thank goodness the one you see in the picture is the one she has chosen to go #2 (sorry to be graphic, typical mommy talk!)

She spent most of the week just like this, running around in panties only "just in case."
Good job Char-Char!!