SO!
I decided to clean up the UI a bit, and implement a few new things.
A win streak counter to see how many games in a row you win, counter is reset to 0 upon losing and
Level difficulty based on your win streak with longer words/ less lives with the increase in level. Level increases every 3 wins.
I also spent a very long time changing the layout of the actual game itself. Added hills, beach area, forest area and full cow pen with different sized cows.
It’s been really fun and this was a great test of my knowledge so far. I just need to learn to take a step back and keep an open mind as to how to solve the problem. Try to approach it different ways and not to over-complicate my code 
