i had a couple of cake orders in march. the first was a 70th birthday cake for my friend kim’s husband bill, who is an avid pickleballer. it was cookies and cream, which is one of my favorite recipes, and i basically stole the design from several cakes on instagram. the second cake was for […]
hanging rock kidnapping.
i’ll spare you a long commentary about this day. basically, anna had a sleepover with her friend. in the morning, i gave them the option of me taking the friend home and going hiking alone, or them both coming hiking with me and the friend going home later. they chose the hiking. or were coerced […]
the cookie coop.
after several months of selling decorated cookies cakes under the annababy cookie cakes name, anna decided to rebrand. her new business name is the cookie coop, and she sells cookies by the dozen. every week, she announces two to three cookies of the week, people place their orders, and she spends the better part of […]
febroorary. 2o24.
i literally can barely remember the happenings of last february. some of these pictures aren’t even really jogging my memory. but, i’ll muddle through, in the name of family memory keeping. here we go. ruby’s birthday is february 3rd. or so we are told. anna made her some pupcakes to celebrate her fifth birhday. she […]
western sky quilt
i really started off 2024 on a quilt making rampage. before i even finished the strawberry quilt, i was making plans for a western sky quilt. (pattern by plains and pines). i found an array of shot cottons in the perfect palette for my vision at a local shop and it was game on. this […]
elk knob with hiking heather.
for several months (i think), my hiking pal heather has been talking about trying a trail she heard about near boone called elk knob. i’m game for almost any hike, so when she offered to pick me up and chauffeur me to the trailhead, i was glad to oblige. we were a little surprised to […]
hanging rock hike & failed photoshoot.
somehow, on a slightly less cold february saturday, i talked anna into going on a hike with me. ruby requires no coercion, just a mention of a car ride and there’s no shaking her. we opted for moore’s knob, which is probably my favorite hike in the park at this point. we usually opt to […]
scrappy strawbs quilt
for quite awhile, i had been admiring the super scrappy strawberry blocks and quilts filling my instagram feed, at the hands of sewmaryhappy. finally, enough was enough, and i set out to make my own. i pulled together all of my pink scraps and got to work. it was so much fun to fussy cut […]
january of 2024
lets see here. apparently kicked off 2024 with a photoshoot with the christmas tree at derek’s parents house. i do not recall this happening, but the pics don’t lie. we took the kids to a carolina thunderbirds hockey game. it was fun. cold. but fun. the score was like 15-4 or some nonsense. we spent […]
somehow seventeen so soon.
you guys. this kid turned seventeen in january of 2024. seven. teen. feels like this was yesterday. like previous years, his birthday aligned with exams and the semester break at school, so he got to spend his day doing what he loves. gaming. the boy agreed to homemade nachos for dinner and then opened his […]