Life

Weekending

How was your weekend? We had our weekly Friday night Bible study (check out the kielbasa butter bean recipe here 🙂) and Saturday was a busy day! Jimmy took Sadie to work with him in the morning and made some progress on the floors in the homeschool room. The room used to have carpet, but we ripped it up and are doing polished concrete floors (with a rug or play mat on top because… kids 👧👦).

Carpet to polished concrete flooring before and after

Before we started, the carpet was beat, stained, and just done. Once we ripped the carpeting up, we spent a ton of time getting the carpet glue off the ground. Jimmy and I had a “date night” last week where we spent a few hours laying down paint thinner and scraping the floor. Saturday was all abound grinding and smoothing the concrete. I think our next step is to polish and seal it. Then we can move on to fun things like painting and putting together furniture! (more…)

Highland Cow Cupcakes

My friend is having her fourth baby and first girl in August! I was able to do gender reveal cupcakes for her last two babies, one of her son’s first birthday cupcakes, and another son’s birthday cake a few years back. Here’s a little walk down memory lane.

Cow and farm themed cakes and cupcakes

Clearly, farming and cows are a big part of their lives. They have quite a few cows, so it was no surprise to me when I found out the upcoming baby shower theme was highland cow. (more…)