Meet the Shaneyfelts

Strawberry Cake Cookies

I love all things strawberry!  I also love easy dishes, and the recipe I’m going to share with you today is the easiest thing I’ve baked.  Anytime I take these somewhere I always get so many compliments, and it’s great because they are so easy!  I can’t emphasize that enough!

This may be a recipe you’ve already heard of and made, but if you’re like me, I didn’t know about these cookies until about two years ago.  Now I make them all the time!

Strawberry Cake Cookies

1 box strawberry cake mix
2 eggs
1/2 cup vegetable oil

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Mix eggs, oil, and cake mix together in a bowl.
Yours will look like this!

3. Spoon batter onto a cookie sheet.  
I put mine on my Pampered Chef stone, but if you do a metal cookie sheet then you might want to spray it first.

4. Bake for 8-10 minutes. 
 I baked mine for 9 minutes and then I let them cool completely on my stoneware before I removed them.

The greatest thing about this recipe is that you can change the cake mixes out each time you make it–chocolate, red velvet, butter pecan, whatever you want!  AND another great thing is that you can make cookie sandwiches!  My sister and I love these and our favorite is two red velvet cake cookies with cream cheese icing in the middle.  People love it when I bring these over!  Enjoy!

A Surprise 30th Birthday!

This coming weekend is going to be a big one for the Shaneyfelts!  On Saturday, July 25th my cutie husband turns 30!! (insert big eyed emoji here)  And on Sunday, July 26th we celebrate ONE YEAR OF MARRIAGE!!  Eeeek!  I’m so excited!

Unfortunately Dustin has to work this work this weekend, so this past Saturday I surprised him with a surprise birthday party 🙂  Of course I picked the craziest time of the summer to throw it (think work traveling, major grad school assignments due, two finals to take for grad school, etc) but it was either this past weekend or two weeks from now.  I had great help in planning and getting things together, and I am especially thankful for Janie, whose husband Chris basically babysat Dustin while Janie was at my “Pampered Chef” party (my mom came up with that awesome excuse for cars at our house….go Mom!).

(Rachel is going to love that I put this picture on here haha!)  
Okay, so I planned poorly on getting the cake.  I left my house and told D that I had to go deliver some catalogs to some people who couldn’t make it (it literally took me forever to come up with that lie because I don’t lie and am very uncomfortable doing it) and instead I went to go get his cake.  It’s about 100 degrees outside here so I knew I couldn’t leave it in my trunk until he left with Chris, so I called my sister to meet me at our church parking lot for me to give her the cake!  She did!  And doesn’t she look so happy to be getting a massive cake to take home and look at but not touch?

This is set up in the dining room since we don’t have dining room furniture.  I went above and beyond on those decorations didn’t I?  Ha.  I think if I didn’t have to travel to Atlanta earlier last week and then write two papers and do a statistics project and study for two finals, then I would have had more time to decorate.  Oh well.  At least I stuck with a green and blue color scheme!

I wanted to do a small and intimate surprise party since this was actually the first big thing we’ve hosted in our new home.  It turned out great and I can’t wait to host more events!

 I didn’t think until I was eating that I probably better take some pictures, so this is why everyone is eating in all of these pictures.  (Rachel and Nick are behind the lamp on the right.  You can’t see them eating.)


 This cake.  Not what I was expecting.  
Publix, when you tell me that you’ll do confetti on this cake, I’m expecting a little more excitement than this.


 The birthday boy!!  ….a week early though.  He’s still 29, y’all, and proud to say it!


 I’m so thankful for her willingness to come to the party hours early just to help me get things together….and to loan me her husband to keep mine away.


 I love my sister!  (and my brother-in-law in the back)


 The Shaneyfelts and the Spikers!


The day after.  He was so tired that this is what he did after lunch yesterday.  And who naps in nice clothes?  As soon as we came in from church, I immediately put on a t-shirt and Nike running shorts.  Dustin puts on this.  🙂

I am so thankful to everyone who took time out of their night Saturday to come celebrate Dustin’s birthday!  It meant a lot to both of us to see his family and friends celebrating with him!

Friday Favorites!

I’m a little sad to see this Friday come because I’m just one more Friday away from the start of school.  I’ve got mixed feelings about school starting–usually I am ready to get back to a routine, but this has been the first summer Dustin and I have been married and now living in our new house and I have loved being home every single day (well I’m not home every day, but you get what I mean).  I’m going to miss being home with him during his off days when school starts back.

As usual, I’m linking up with Andrea and Erika for Friday Favorites!


ONE
I’m starting a new series on my blog!!!  This is my first series to do that I have come up with because I usually link to other blogs for series–like the Friday Favorites that I do.  I will be featuring different home tours every 1-2 months on my blog and I can’t wait!  I have always loved looking at house plans and home decor so be looking at the beginning of August for my first home tour!  It’s definitely going to be a FAVORITE!!  Hint: It’s not mine, but she’s been my BFF since 3rd grade!

TWO
 Dustin finally mounted our TV above the fireplace and I helped.  It was not the most fun activity we’ve ever done simply because it took HOURS.  But the TV is mounted and now all we have to do is hide the wires!  This is a FAVORITE because we now have our TV hooked up and mounted!  Yay for catching up on all of my shows!


THREE
 This huge window in my bathroom is definitely a FAVORITE because it lets so much natural light in.  But it is HOT in the morning!  This summer I have kept the light off while getting ready and I only turn it on when I put on my mascara.  It’s been really nice!


FOUR
 Rompers are my FAVORITE and I found this in Old Navy the other day.  I hardly ever go into Old Navy but I had to run to Target so I dropped in and found this cute chambray romper.  They didn’t have my size, so I didn’t buy it but I’m telling you to stop by Old Navy!


FIVE
While I was in Atlanta for my conference this past week, we took the MARTA to Lenox Square Mall in Buckhead.  I went into Athleta for the first time ever and found the BEST EVER LEGGINGS (a definite FAVORITE) that I just had to have!!!  I texted this picture to Dustin and hinted to him that I want these before the weather gets cold–probably my birthday…or a just because present!

Next week I’ll post a recap my work trip to Atlanta–we did lots of eating haha!
Enjoy your weekend!