While there is nothing groundbreaking about my Jalapeno Sausage Balls Recipe, they are most definitely delicious!  We got together and had a pot luck Cinco de Mayo brunch.  And because of my egg allergy, I wanted to fix an egg free dish.  I decided to make sausage balls, but realized they weren’t really

My first installment of Boozy Cupcakes was an experiment for a baby shower I helped throw this past weekend.  It was a co-ed baby shower with lots of BBQ, beer and cupcakes!  When planning the shower we started with the invitation utilizing the colors of the baby’s nursery:

Happy New Year! If you’re like me, you can’t believe it’s 2013! Where did 2012 go?

Planning a wedding shower with the bridesmaids for Beth was awesome. We put together, sorry I can’t help but brag, an adorable wedding shower! Everyone did so much, I was so excited with how it all came together!  Since my house is jam packed right now with wedding stuff, Mom was nice enough

{Warning Long Post – Baby Shower Food Ideas}

I know you’re probably wondering, Pietsch is pronounced “peach,” like the fruit.  Sunny Pietsch married my cousin Ryan about 4 years ago and they are expecting their first baby.  And it’s a girl…I am SO excited!  Not that I don’t love my nephews Wesley and Easton; it’s just that baby girl clothes are so much more fun!  Any way…I got to design the invitation, my cousin Lindsey gave me the idea of the peach in the tummy because at the time we sent out the invite we didn’t know what they were having.

I love designing custom graphics so this was a lot of fun for me.  (One day I’ll update www.kateogroup.com and upload more items like this.)  If you know of anyone looking for custom invitations send them my way!

We decided since Sunny is in Austin and her family and friends are spread out from Dallas all the way down to Corpus Christi and of course out west where she grew up, to throw the shower in Austin.  But since none of us live there we were fortunate enough to be able to borrow my mom’s friend’s house for the shower.  They live up on a hill in Lakeway with a gorgeous view!

Beth, Tiffany and I had all sorts of ideas for the baby shower food thanks to Pinterest!  Here’s all of the food and beverages we had at the shower:

Isn’t it fun and festive!? Not to toot our own horn but I think it turned out awesome!

I thought I’d go over the baby shower food items that I made since I cannot take credit for all of this awesomeness, it was most definitely a team effort!  Mom, Lindsey, Tiffany and Beth!

First I’ll start with Bacon Bundles.

I got this recipe for a coworker many years ago and have altered it quite a bit since then to make it easier to make because they are always so popular they are frequently requested and can be time-consuming to make.  One recipe makes almost 100!  I’ll start with the recipe as it was originally given to me: