Butterfinger Bliss

I am a little late posting this, but I thought I would share it anyway. A week or two ago I decided to make a cake. I am not normally one to bake, but I have been looking on Pinterest and have found quite a few things I want to try. I found the recipe here, but I decided to change the name and and I swapped a few ingredients. Here is what I did

 

1 box chocolate cake mix (+ I used a chocolate fudge cake)
1 can sweetened condensed milk
1 jar hot fudge sauce
1-8 oz container of cool whip
4 Butterfingers, crushed (The food processor works great for this)

Make and bake cake according to box directions. As soon as it comes out of the oven, poke holes with the handle of a wooden spoon all over the cake. Pour sweetened condensed milk over the top( I found that the edges tended to get more of the milk than the middle so I think next time I will focus on getting more of it in the middle.) (I let this set overnight) Next spread fudge over the cake and then spread cool whip over the top lastly top with crushed Butterfinger bars (I feel like the canned reddiwhip would work too, if you wanted to make it pretty). Make sure you keep the cake refrigerated. Also after about two days the condensed milk has had a chance to permeate the cake with all its yummy goodness…sooooo good!

2 have and 2 hold

See what I did there? Today is our 2 year anniversary and I couldn't be more thankful for how God has blessed me with a husband like Drew!

In high school I used to get so upset when my friends were with people and I was all alone. It seemed like my prince would never come, it wasn't like there weren't offers, it was just I had made a commitment that I wouldn't date anyone I couldn't see myself marrying.The point of dating is to find a mate and let's face it you aren't getting married in high school so the whole idea is pretty pointless.  After high school I had pretty much given up and through a few moments of bad judgment on my part I went on a date and "talked" to someone that even to this day makes me wonder if I was under the influence of some sort of narcotic. Luckily I had a moment of clarity and walked away before anything became "official" which led to this person telling another boy in the college group that I must be insane. Luckily this boy didn't take the word of this so called expert seriously and decided he would take his chances and sit by me in Sunday School. At this point I wasn't even looking, and was a little taken aback that this boy would even think about sitting by me.

Let me rewind about 5 years and tell you that I remember being a 9th grader looking at a newly graduated church maintenance boy and thinking how absolutely dreamy he was, but knowing he would never give me the time of day. You can again fast-forward to October 2006. Those 9th grade thoughts creeped in and secretly I must say I had a little party in my head.

Sunday school turned into phone calls, phone calls turned into dates and on December 20, 2006 I got my first and only boyfriend. Three years later on October 3, 2009 he became my husband. I often look at Drew and think back on the days when I thought I would be alone forever, and can't help but feel thankful that God spared me from relationship after relationship and instead orchestrated this beautiful love story for me. There is not another person on this earth who can deal with my mood swings, my need for waking up time in the morning, the nights when I would just rather order pizza than cook, my incessant talking, my need to vent about my day, not to mention all my other countless eccentricities the way that Drew does. Drew is such a helpful, compassionate, fun loving person and he exceeds all the dreams I ever had about what my prince would be like. Most girls look for their prince to ride up on a big white stallion, mine rides a 450 Kawasaki and that is so much better!