Heilander Hill

My brother’s farm has a name! These cows are so fun to photograph. They’re almost as cute as all of our blondies☺️ Graves A Beef🐮

Easter 2023🪺

Easter has always been my favorite, since I was a little girl. I would spend the day cooking with my Mom and preparing for the aunts, uncles, and cousins to come over. Full of excitement & sugar🐰 When Garett proposed, he set up an Easter egg hunt for me. I couldn’t open my basket until…

Cookies & cream cupcakes🍪

This weekend I made some cupcakes to celebrate two special ladies in our family. Aunt Kelly’s favorite flavor is vanilla, and Grandma D loves chocolate dipped Oreos so I decided on cookies & cream😋 It just so happens the cafeteria at the hospital this past week had a cookies & cream cake for dessert so…

Strawberries & Cream cupcakes🍓

My mother-in-law recently placed an order for cupcakes to celebrate her co-worker’s birthday. The birthday girl’s request was strawberries & cream, yum. A couple of fun facts about perfecting this flavor… #1 My husband takes his job as my food critic very seriously. It took two attempts at the strawberry cake recipe before it was…

Dog Themed Birthday!🐾

I was recently asked to make some dog themed cupcakes for my niece’s 9th birthday! I had so much fun creating these, but even more fun celebrating with her and all of her friends at the local roller skating rink! Happy Birthday to the sweetest 9 year old!

Lemon cupcakes with raspberry frosting🍋

Oh, and no-bake chocolate peanut butter pies🍫 We recently celebrated my husband’s 35th birthday and I had some fun in the kitchen with his favorite flavors. He’s a huge lemon fan, but also loves a good peanut butter pie. These past 2 weeks have been BUSY! Super Bowl, birthday celebrations, Love Day, sleepovers, soccer practices,…

Cauldron cakes with chocolate frogs🪄

It was Harry Potter day in the kitchen! Our daughter is quite the enthusiast. She was given a Hogwart’s Cookbook for Christmas, so today we decided to try out a few recipes. This was our favorite one! Have a magical week everyone!

Happy Birthday Jackson

Our big man is 12 years young! Seems like just last week he was itty bitty. One of my favorite memories of Jackson as a puppy is pictured below. I heard him snoring but he was no where to be found. He had crawled up into our laundry hamper and fell fast asleep. Then he…

Sunday morning cinnamon rolls☕️

Credit to The Pioneer Woman for this recipe. 99% of the time, I’m popping them from a can. Every once in a while though, I crave this maple icing! Weekend highlights: Friday evening: movie night, our daughter’s pick was Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2. She just finished reading the series so she…

Peanut butter banana pupcakes🥜🍌

Revvy’s 1st Birthday treat! Oh, Rev – Equal parts handsome, stubborn, naughty, and needy. He’s always down for a snuggle, and spends most of his time lounging wherever we are. Out of all the pups, he loves the kitchen the most🥓 Revvy was the puppy we didn’t know we needed. We certainly weren’t on the…