Here a baby, there a baby...

Our baby girl is scheduled to arrive on December 21st but she is due December 27th. My sister Torrey is pregnant with a boy and due one month behind me on January 27th. My mom wanted a picture of the two of us together so here it is! It's amazing how different we are carrying the babies. I am 35 weeks and she is a month behind that:

Fun With Grandpa

Kadie and I usually just chill by ourselves when Taylor is at school, but my dad has been home the last week or so. Kadie enjoys every minute with her Grandpa and they keep each other busy. Here they are frosting a cake that he made the night before with Kadie and Taylor:

The final product that Kadie frosted by herself. It may not necessarily look it, but it was one of the most delicious cakes I've had in a long time!

Then of course after you do the cooking, you have to do the cleaning. Grandpa is training her on how to wash the dishes and it is one of her favorite chores to do with him:

One Cool Kid

Kadie and I were watching TV and there was a blue train on one of her cartoons. She kept telling me it was purple, so I told her she needed glasses. She ran to her room and came back like this:

And who can resist having a little fun while disguised by shades:

Cookies!!!

Grandpa Ferris spent the afternoon making sugar cookies with Taylor after she got home from school. After dinner, Taylor and Kadie picked their favorite colors to color the frosting with and we decorated the cookies. The sugar cookies are my great-grandma's recipe-on my mom's side, and are super yummy. Here they are with their completed masterpieces:

Can't wait to eat one!

The frosting process:

Not a hand-me-down!

Being the younger sister, most of Kadie's clothes are hand-me-downs from Taylor. While shopping the other day, I found the cutest shirt and found some pants to match and decided to buy them. I tried to get Kadie to pose for a picture and this is the first face I got:

Then her pose of "Yeah, I'm cool..."

And finally a cute, regular pose:

Lee is 30!

Lee turned 30 on Sunday. He really likes chocolate cake but I discovered we didn't have any mixes so I decided to make one from scratch. Cakes never really turn out that well for me, (they either make a funny mound or sink in the middle) but this one turned out surprisingly nice and was also super yummy!

Something fun we have been doing is letting the girls pick out the presents to give at the dollar store. They pick out some random things sometimes but we try to let them pick anything they want to give as a gift. (Taylor got Lee a pack of zip ties last Christmas even though she had no idea what they were...). I think they did pretty good this year for his birthday, even if they DID pick out things they would like. Kadie gave Lee those little pill things that you put in water and the case dissolves to reveal a small foam animal. These were dinosaurs. I think they had more fun than he did, but it was a nice present for them to all do together!

Taylor had a hard time choosing a gift for her daddy, but she finally decided on twisty straws. They made a nice addition to the root beer floats we had with dinner. Here's Lee with the green one:

I can't believe that Lee is 30. (Especially since it means I am only a few years behind him!) I love him more every year and I look forward to spending many more birthdays together.