Summer time

Since school is out for the summer, I didn't want to have the kids get bored, so I went through a lot of my books and picked out things that we can do to keep them occupied. One of the things that I wanted to do was make ice cream. You know the kind that you put cream into a baggie and mush around until it turns into ice cream. Well, we did this Monday and the kids LOVED it! We put in our cream, sugar, and vanilla into a small baggie and that baggie into another small baggie (so it didn't leak). Then put those baggies into a large baggie filled with ice and rock salt. Then started shaking and shaking! The ice cream turned out great!

Here are the kids shaking their baggies. They got really cold, so I put hot pads on their hands to keep them warm. It worked really well!

Enjoying their finished product! YUM!!! Caution though, when I took the baggies out and opened the ice cream, I got some ice cream on my fingers and licked them. BIG mistake! I had salt on my fingers from the big baggies along with the ice cream. It was AWFUL! Don't do that!!!

This was so much fun and tasted sooo good!

The next day we made homemade strawberry ice cream in the ice cream maker. WOW! It was so yummy too.

I am looking forward to all of the fun we are going to have this summer. I love that both of the kids are old enough to do pretty much whatever we want to do now. And naps are optional for a couple of days...at least until they haven't had one for a couple of days and are so crankey that I insist that they take one :)

What are your summer plans?