4th of July Weekend 2011

This past weekend was great!!! We went bowling with the few youth that were able to come. David, Travis, and Kyle. As I have said, we had a couple in our youth group break up so it has affected a couple of our girls not being there. As well as some other faithfuls didn't get to come. We still had fun and after bowling they came to our house and we grilled out hamburgers and hot dogs. The night before we also saw a fireworks show from our front porch coming from Oaklawn Race Track.

On the 3rd, we had a great service and then no evening service that pm so we got together with John and Crystal and cooked out at their house and let the kids play. Of course, it was a good time.

Monday, the 4th, we got up and all watched Rapunzel since Crystal let us borrow it. Then we all decided to go as a family to Entergy Park at Lake Hamilton. I had not yet been there yet and it was GORGEOUS. Beautifully set on the lake and surprisingly it wasn't crowded. Grace threw rocks in the lake and we walked a little of the trails and went to the playground. It was hot, so we left there and picked up a pizza and went home and made HOMEMADE Ice Cream in our ice cream freezer. Then later a nice walk with our big dog, Bud. It was a GREAT Day!

I will share some pics as well as the recipe..

This was only our 2nd attempt to make ice cream in it since we got it last year, I think, and it was GREAT. I found the recipe on allrecipes.com and used strawberries as my fruit. I loved the recipe because it doesn't call for eggs so no pre-cooking the raw eggs and cooling before putting in the ice cream freezer. Next time, I may just make it without the fruit in it and then it would be just vanilla and have a 'ice cream bar' with your choice of fruits, broken up cookies, candy bars, etc. If you make it as is, it will have frozen bits of fruit in it. Or you could puree the fruit and put it in there to get the full fruit ice cream taste.

Fruited Ice Cream

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Prep Time:
45 Min
Ready In:
45 Min

Original Recipe Yield 1 gallon

Ingredients

* 2 (14 ounce) cans sweetened condensed milk
* 5 cups milk
* 2 cups heavy cream
* 2 tablespoons vanilla extract
* 1/2 teaspoon salt
* 3 cups chopped strawberries

Directions

1. Combine condensed milk, milk, cream, vanilla, salt and fruit in freezer canister of ice cream maker. Freeze according to manufacturer's directions.








By the way.. Grace took this next pic of Adam and I. Is that not awesome!! :)