sugar cakes

Today is Jeff's Birthday!!! Last year I made him cupcakes so this year I wanted to make him another one of his favorites. Sugar cakes. They are sort of like a big cake like sugar cookie. He always buys them when he goes home to York, PA but the last trip we ran out of time and he didn't get any. Aw, so sad. He was surprised to get these to take to work for his birthday!!!


Used an ice cream scooper so that they would be the same size and shape but of course they all turned out different!!!

So nice to have my kitchen back. I really missed baking stuff even though it is very hot here.

Yum... They turned out pretty good considering I couldn't find the recipe that Jeff's Grandma gave me. In fact I can't find any of my recipes. I guess there are still boxes that are not unpacked from the renovation. I found this one on the Internet for Amish Sugar Cakes and it is pretty good.

Happy Birthday Jeff...

our garden, one year later

It's been one year since we started our blog. Time sure goes fast.

In honor of our 1st anniversary here are some new pictures of our

garden one year later...

it's time for summer

Now that summer is here we got a new grill, a mini one but still bigger than the one we had before.

Looking good!!!

Almost done.

Here it its, finally put together...

Our first grilled dinner.

And, no... We didn't eat all that food.

The steak was raw, so we saved it for

the next day. It was very good.

your big day

Today is Marissa's High School Graduation.

Lots of Love and Best Wishes from Auntie Lisa and Uncle Jeff!!!

Hard to believe you are all grown up.

the last layer

Sorry for the long delay in updating our blog. We have been so busy. Well, here it is finally the back splash tile has arrived and being installed. You might have thought our kitchen was done by now but this is the first thing that has happened this year. We finally decided on the tile and it took 6 weeks to arrive. We had some guest stay at our house for 2 weekends in a row so it took a couple of extra weeks before we had some time for work to be done. As you can see the hood and stove had to be removed so yet again no cooking for a few weeks. It will be a miracle if the flooring doesn't get messed up!!!

The center design layout.



Looks good so far.

First look at the custom made tile by Brittany & Coggs. It was pretty scary ordering it since we had no idea of how it would turn out. The center white tiles were ordered wrong so it won't be finished till next week. It will have a good amount of time to dry before it's finished and grouted. Stay tuned for the end result.