Snow Cream

We are snowed in today after having a BLIZZARD yesterday!  I saw a few people raving about their homemade snow cream on Facebook, so we checked out the link and gave it a shot!

Snow Cream

Ingredients:

½ cup milk

½ cup sugar

½ tsp. vanilla

4-6 cups snow

1. Mix together the milk, sugar, and vanilla until the sugar dissolves.

2. Add the snow and stir until ice cream forms!

3. Put it in the freezer to set up a little bit.

 

We loved it! We used chocolate milk to make chocolate ice cream, and we are already planning on making vanilla later! It tasted just like homemade ice cream but took only about 10 minutes. No I know why people rush out to buy milk when there is going to be a snow storm :-)

Recipe from Disney family.com

Badges of Fun: Winter Fun

The girls recently earned their seventh badge in Disney FamilyFun's Badges of Fun challenge!  The theme of this badge was Winter Fun.

Jaden, which I'm sure you've figured this out by now, has a heart of gold.  She is always concerned about others.  When winter arrived, Jaden was worried that the birds would not be able to find enough food under all the snow.  So, for our Winter Fun badge, we decided to help out our feathered friends!

First, we made bird seed cakes to hang on our shed.  

We used a really long string of yarn to connect all of the cakes.

Then, we made a couple of feeders to stick in the bushes in the front of our house.  To do this, we spread peanut butter on a toilet paper roll core and then rolled it in bird seed!

After letting our treats sit out in the cold garage overnight, we headed out into the snow to deliver them!

Our shed has an overhang where we store wood, sticks, and fallen limbs.  This has become a nice nest for a bunch of birds :o)  We hung our bird seed cake string across the shed.

The girls had a lot of fun with these projects.  The birds killed these treats in only a day or two!  Jaden and Taylor successfully earned badge seven!

Great job, girls!!

Snow Day!

I just realized that I am SO behind on posting.

This has been a pretty mild winter.  We've had cold but not SUPER cold temps.  It will snow really good one day and then be in the upper 40s with rain the next.  The snow will come and then completely disappear before it snows again.  We've had hardly any of that nasty gray slush on the streets and sidewalks.

One day last month, it snowed pretty good.  The girls and I decided to head out and have us some FUN!

Jaden's lanky body is the perfect snow angel maker!  Until she tries to get up :o)  Then it just looks like a snow angel crash landed.

We tried making snow balls.  When I say "we," I obviously mean "they."  I don't have waterproof gloves!  Plus, I'm on camera duty :o)

Taylor's version of a snow angel... It just didn't work :o)  She's fallen and she can't get up!

Jaden's friends told her it was ok to eat the snow.  Well, my picky child was a little hesitant.  

"It's snowing!!"

Then, of course, there is the swing set!  What kid can resist a snow covered swing set?!?

Taylor had a hard time walking through the snow.  It was so deep and her snow pants were SO puffy!  Jaden crawled to make a path for her :o)

Then, we sledded down our front yard!

Pictures ended here because it was my job to drag these beasts back UP the hill after they sledded down it. Talk about tiring!  We still haven't gotten our snowman family built... I really need some better gloves!  But, it's only February and I live in Indiana.  Odds are we will be building snowmen on Easter!

Happy Thursday :o)  Stay warm!