Thursday's Thoughts.

- I LOVE the drive in! Hubs and I went a few weeks ago and it was so wonderful. We usually go once a year but I always love every second of it. (Even though this year Coy fell asleep at the very beginning of the second movie and I ended up coming down with a miserable fever).

- It drives me almost crazy when it rains and people act like they don't know how to drive. I know rain can be dangerous but at the slightest sprinkle traffic becomes atrocious. This makes me want to hit something.
- I have anger management issues sometimes. (obviously seen in the previous thought).
- I have been trying to increase my creativity and crafting ability. This was my first experiment.

 - There is not much more I love then watching Coy be the best uncle in the whole world. He is going to be an amazing dad one day. However, the downside of this is that my nieces and nephews don't even care about me anymore; as soon as they get in the house they can't stop screaming out of excitement for seeing 'uncle Toy.'

- Having fun coworkers is great. It keeps me on my toes at work.

- This week I made the quickest $50 ever for doing a health screening at work which took all of 12 minutes. One of the great perks of my job.
- Sometimes I get so down by the state of our country with no positive end in sight. I have to shut my brain off from thinking about.
- I have been breaking out in hives when I work out! Hopefully I didn't gain an allergy to sweat and/or exercise because as much as I hate it before I start I feel so much better afterwards.

So ready for the weekend & so glad that I always get a three day weekend. (especially this weekend when my three day weekend turns into a four day weekend!)

Fresh Strawberry Yogurt Cake

I am always look for new recipes, which is why Pinterest quickly became my new best friend. I have not had many recipes that I have gotten from there disappoint, and this was no exception. I made this cake this past week for book club and it was amazing! It took a little bit of work; however most things that are homemade do so I can't complain!
Enjoy!

Ingredients

• 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
• 2 cups sugar
• 3 eggs
• 3 Tb. lemon juice, divided
• Zest of 1 lemon
• 2 ½ cups all-purpose flour, divided
• ½ tsp. baking soda
• ½ tsp. salt
• 8 oz. plain or vanilla, Greek yogurt
• 12 oz. fresh strawberries, diced
• 1 cup powdered sugar

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Grease and flour a 10 inch Bundt pan (10-15 cup pan.) Sift together the 2 ¼ cups of flour, baking soda and salt. Mix in the lemon zest and set aside.
2. With an electric mixer, cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs one at a time, then stir in 1 Tb. lemon juice. Alternate beating in the flour mixture and the yogurt, mixing just until incorporated.
3. Toss the strawberries with the remaining ¼ cup of flour. Gently mix them into the batter.
4. Pour the batter into the Bundt pan. Place in the oven and reduce the temperature to 325 degrees F. Bake for 60 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean.
5. Allow to cool at least 20 minutes in the pan, then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely. Once cooled whisk together the remaining 2 Tb. of lemon juice and the powdered sugar. Drizzle over the top of the cake.

 Make sure that you allow the cake to cool completely to avoid it sticking to the pan!

 I accidently doubled the recipe for the icing. It worked out great though since the icing was amazing!

Seriously...this icing is my new go-to!

 Heaven. 

Another recommendation I have is to allow to cake to cool completely once it is out of the pan. I was inpatient and while the cake was still delicious the presentation wasn't as magnificent as it is above because the hotness of the cake made the icing all sink down into the cake! 

Fair Fun.

I love the fair! The food, the rides, the animals...all of it! I especially loved going last night because we not only received $2 admission but there was also the added bonus of $2 food and $2 fair rides! This made our fair experience a little more crowded but SO much cheaper so I can't complain too much! The only downfall of the night was the credit card machines being down for ride tickets we had to use cash for this and therefore ran out before the end of the night and missed out on fried girl scout cookies, fried Oreo's, and pineapple whip! There's always next year though and I know I have something to look even more forward to!

Camping.

This past weekend Coy and I headed a few hours south to Santa Claus, IN. Although typically I steer clear of manual labor and anything where I could get dirty, we went camping and it was such a great time! We spent the weekend with hubby's bestie (he would never use this word) and his fantastic girlfriend. We had a great time sitting around the fire, roasting marshmallows, hashbrowns, apple pies, hotdogs, eggs, and sausage. We tried swimming but it was entirely too cold so we opted instead for a row boat ride. I never grow tired of seeing hubs and Derek act like little school boys...they are the definition of bromance. Not to mention they are two of the funniest people I know, so it was a weekend full of laughs! We topped the trip off by a day at Holiday World, which was SO much fun!

It is always nice to get away and spend some time doing something we normally don't do! However, after this trip I think we may try to add short camping trips to our agenda more often!

Enjoy some of the weekend in Instragrams!

 This gorgeous winery, Monkey Hollow, we stopped at on our way there!

 "Girls, go take care of girly things." - I'm fine with avoiding manual labor!

 The final product!

 First fire of the day!

 I dropped four eggs on the ground while trying to make breakfast! Oops. 

So delicious! Our only causalities of the weekend were one of the sandwich makers (that oddly got warped in the fire) and Coy's contact, which he lost on a water ride at Holiday World.