Lime Koolaid Ice cream

At one time we bought 2 packets of Lemon-Lime Koolaid and when we made the first one it tasted like green jello. We weren't very keen on drinking green jello so it has just been sitting on our shelf for a while. I finally found a recipe that used lemon-lime koolaid. It is a sherbert ice cream recipe that only takes milk, sugar, and flavoring and is really easy. We made it this weekend and it turned out really good. The recipe is:

1 cup sugar

1 pkg (.13oz) drink mix

3 cups milk

Mix all ingredients in a bowl until sugar is dissolved. Pour into a shallow pan, cover and chill in freezer for 1 hour or until thick. Pour into a bowl and mix until smooth. Cover and store in freezer. It is best to let it sit out to soften for ~20 min before serving.

You can use whatever drink mix brand, whatever flavor as long as it's not sweetened. You can also put fruit in it if you want, I read a review of someone who had used lemonade drink mix and grated lemon peel into the ice cream and said it was really good. You can also mix flavors. Some people said they used flavored soy milk to mix flavors and then they didn't need any sugar, or only a little bit. It may not taste as good with some flavors as with others.

Camping

Last week end we went camping with our neighbors, Nephi and Hannah Williams. In the mouth of green canyon a piece fell off of the Williams’ car. The car still worked but they didn’t want to drive it more incase that would make it worse. So we packed the 4 of us and all of our stuff in our car and kept driving. We spent a while looking for a campsite but eventually the boys found the perfect one. We immediately started dinner: mashed potatoes with bacon and cheese; and meatballs and gravy. While we waited for dinner we played a few rounds of hand and foot.

Here are Hannah and Nephi cleaning the Dutch ovens. It was quite dark by then so she was holding a light for him. We stayed up late enough for the fire to burn down to a few hot coals and then hit the sack. Here are Hannah and Nephi in their tent and me setting out our sleeping bags.

The next morning Nephi started the fire while Bryan started briquettes for breakfast: Dutch oven breakfast casserole.

We had a big day ahead of us helping build an addition onto a house in Brigham for Hannah’s brother so we packed up after one last round of hand and foot.

When we got back to their car Nephi called his dad and described the piece that had fallen off. His dad knew exactly where it went; it helped hold the belt on for the idle. He also said it would be ok to drive as long as the belt didn’t come off.

So we followed them straight to Auto Zone to make sure nothing else happened.

In this picture Nephi is describing the piece to his dad and trying to see where it is from.

Despite the car trouble we had a great time and hope to do it again before it gets too cold.

Wedding Photo editing

I am finally making it through my wedding photos so here are a few that I edited. I like the ones with Neil and Zackary because the colors are so vivid. The black and white with Debra and Alicia had too much light on the right hand side so I couldn't get the colors right but when I changed it to black and white I thought it worked great.

Swedish Twister

Our stake re-did our ward boundaries so now we are in the 10th ward. I went to a relief society meeting and we played Swedish twister. You start with everyone standing in a circle. One person uses their right foot to touch the person on their right. That person has to use the foot that was touched to touch the person on their right and it goes around and around the circle until you touch the floor with anything other than your feet.

Some of us just lost our balance.

a couple of girls had to stretch pretty far,

we tried to be kind of nice to the girls in skirts,

I think Shannon got the worst of it, she had a hard time walking for a little while afterward,

and some of us ended up in precarious situations.

It was tremendously fun.

Digital Scrapbooking

So I have been doing some digital scrapbooking for a while now, and looking at some other blogs I thought I'd see if this works. This is the first page of my Disneyland Album.

And here are some group pictures.