January Birthdays

My dad and I share January birthdays and this year we were lucky enough to be able to celebrate his birthday here in Columbus.  My dad and Mary decided to come down to see one of Nolan's baseball games so the kids wanted to bake him a cake since his birthday was a couple of days prior.  This is the final product...

Neither one could compromise on a frosting color while we are standing in the aisle at Target so we opted for a combo cake which they both referred to as "the girl side and the boy side."  They did agree to the actual cake which was Funfetti.  Isn't it a masterpiece?!

My birthday was a couple of weeks later.  Eric had to work the night of my birthday so he treated me to lunch and we massages after work that day.  Later on the kids and I went to Menchies for dinner.  Yes, dinner.  I didn't feel like cooking and ice cream for dinner can't hurt them once a year.  They thought it was so funny and great.

Oh the combinations of sugar they came up with in their bowls.  Makes me want to gag thinking about it but they seemed to like what they created and ate every last drop.  Now if only they would do that on the average night.

After our ice cream dinner the kids drew on the chalkboard for awhile.  This is a portrait of our family :)