Bechtel Family: Back to Blogging,,,,

...well I hope to be anyway! I am so behind on my blogging! We have had alot going on the past few weeks with Lillie turning ONE, her birthday party, my birthday, G starting soccer and dance! So, I am just going to do my best to try and catch up! I am starting with the rest of my I Phone pictures for August! Hope to get to birthday pictures next! Enjoy!

This was Gracie's first soccer practice! She is the one in the pink shorts and white shirt on the right! She is on The Lions team this year! Daddy is helping coach her team which has been fun so far! She has her first game this weekend so I'm sure I will have lots of pictures from that! She's excited!

Practicing kicking the ball in some of the drills they did!

She is suppose to be trying to get the ball away from that little boy and not let him score...we will have to work on that!

My birthday was a few weeks ago and Gracie and daddy got me a yummy chocolate cake!

This is Gracie singing happy birthday to me! I so wish I had gotten it on video! She was singing with such passion it just melted my heart! It's fuzzy because she was waving her arms around as she sang!

My balloon G picked out for me! She is all about balloons which she does not get from her mommy!

Pretty roses!

We donated babydolls for Lillie's birthday and Gracie came up with such a creative idea that she could do! She made arm casts for the kids at the hospital out of paper she cute and colored and then used stickers to attached a strip of paper for there arm to go through! I was so proud of her for creating this all by herself! I asked her how she new about casts and she said someone at church had one on! We had never talked about it...this was all her!

I asked Gracie to help me clean one day and she asked for a rag. I got one for her and then went on cleaning the den! When I looked in on her this is what I found...she had empty her dollhouse and was dusting! Then she put everything back so nice and neat! She takes after her mommy on this one!:)

Sweet Lillie!

Gingy and Poppop came to visit the weekend of Lillie's party! They were such a help with the girls so we could get everything ready! Here is Gingy and Gracie doing dot paints!

Lillie thought this was so funny when Poppop would hold her up to hit the balloon! She would laugh and laugh and thought it was so much fun! I tried to catch it on camera but it's a little fuzzy!

You can't see her face but she is having the best time!

Poppop and Gracie ran to the store the morning of Lillie's party and came back with a birthday balloon for Lillie! Gracie said she picked it out all by herself!:)

Gracie came up with an idea to have House Family Appreciation Day! I just love my sweet girl and all the creative ideas she comes up with! We each drew pictures for each other and then we suprised each person with there picture! Then we had family game night which really turned into having fun playing in the playroom! I think she just enjoyed having us all in there together!

Our pictures...of course Lillie didn't draw one but Gracie did one for her anyway!

Instead of presents for Lillie from friends we asked that everyone bring a babydoll to donate to the Children's Hospital here in Macon! Here is Lillie checking them all out! Gracie enjoyed looking through them all too!

We ate lunch with friends on Lillie's birthday! Aunt Jennifer said she looked like she was holding up one finger for the #1 and I thought that was cute...smart girl!:)