When life gives you snow...make ice cream.

As you read in an earlier post we've been dumped on in our neck of the woods...winter is here!!!  I'm always looking for fun things to do with the kiddies this time of year and a while back I saw this recipe.  I thought it would be fun to try and the kiddies would enjoy putting the snow to some good use (besides making forts, snow angels, snowmen, snowballs...who am I kidding?  THEY looooove the white stuff)!!!  Well, now we can add SNOW ICE CREAM to our list of fun snow activities! 

This recipe is from Paula Dean and not only is it easy it is SUPER good (trust me, I was a little skeptical).  We started by collecting 7 cups of fresh snow (yes, that is our dog in the background and we made sure we weren't collecting any YELLOW snow while doing this -- yikes!  Ha!)  I'd like you to notice Eva's hairband in this picture too...the girl is just in LOVE with Taylor Swift.  I did her hair with that hairband that morning and she corrected me saying "this is how Taylor wears hair bands"...love it.

We then added a can of sweetened condensed milk and a little vanilla extract...

 Mix it up...

And you've got yourself some homemade ice cream!!!

"Do what you can...with what you have...where you are."

--Roosevelt