Dutch Wonderland

What an unbelievable day!  Ok, so we missed out on the whole weekend part and Chocolate World, but Saturday at Dutch Wonderland and the chance to meet so many of our POLP friends and families was incredible!!!  Hopefully if we make this a yearly event, Jaxson will be old enough to handle the whole weekend next year!

Peyton made a new friend in Trace’s older sister, Taylor.  He was so excited that there was going to be someone there his age and they seemed to have a good time together.

 

Peyton had a blast riding all kinds of things.  Together we rode roller coasters and anything and everything that would spin really fast!  Unfortunately since I was riding, there aren’t many pictures, but I loved being able to have so much fun with him.  Here is one from the swings and come on, who doesn’t like the swings?

Jaxson unfortunately did not like any rides.  I’m going to take the blame on this one and say I traumatized him on the very first ride.  I loved the tilt-a-whirl as a kid, but I gotta admit Jaxson is probably too young to enjoy it.  Anyway, we all four rode it together and Jax HATED it.  After that I thought ok, we’ll try the carousel.  Who doesn’t like the carousel and it can’t be that bad, right??

WRONG!!!

So sorry Jax!  He did enjoy his day being strolled around in the stroller and sipping lemonade all day!

While waiting to get the group picture taken and ride the train, we came across Duke’s dance show so we decided to take a little break and let the kids watch.  Duke is a huge purple dinosaur and he had two people dressed as jokers dancing with him.  Peyton once again had a good time and even danced a little….

This was him “shakin’ his tail feathers” during the chicken dance!!

I think Jaxson was a little weirded out by the jokers and their dancing…..

And here was one of my favorite parts of the day…….Everyone got together and we tried very hard to get a group shot of the kids.  Let’s just say Jaxson was on the move.  He was so happy to be out of the stroller that he kept walking off.  Oh well, here’s a few of the shots I got……

It was so nice to meet so many POLP families.  We are very blessed to live in an area where Jaxson has the chance to grow up with this many friends close by.  Many thanks to Jenn Greene for organizing the whole thing and we can’t wait to connect with many more people in Nashville!!!

Blue Angels

Wow, what an amazing day!  Saturday Jason and I took Peyton to see the Blue Angels.  It was a joint open house day at the airforce base so not only did we see the Blue Angels fly, but there were all types of other planes in the airshow and parachute jumpers. 

 

This is “Fat Albert”.  It’s the plane that is used to carry all the supplies for the Blue Angels.

We had an absolutely amazing time!

Ice Cream Cake

Sorry it’s taken me so long to get this recipe posted, but it’s been quite hectic and I just haven’t had a chance to sit down to type it.  Anyway, I think I got this from a Kraft magazine:

 

1/2 Cup fudge ice cream topping, warmed

1 Tub (8 oz) Cool Whip, thawed and divided

1 pkg (4 serving size) Jello-O Chocolate Instant Pudding

8 Oreo Cookies

12 Vanilla Ice Cream Sandwiches

Pour fudge topping into a medium bowl.  Stir in 1 cup of the whipped topping with a wire whisk until it’s well blended.  Add in the dry pudding mix; stir 2 minutes or until well blended.  If mixture is too thick to spread easily, stir in 1/4 cup of milk.

Chop Oreo cookies roughly into chunks.  Stir into pudding mixture.  Arrange 4 of the ice cream sandwiches side by side on a 24 x 12 inch piece of aluminum foil; top with half of the pudding mixture.  Repeat the layers.  Top the pudding mixture with the remaining 4 ice cream sandwiches.  Frost the top and side with the remaining whipped cream.  Bring up the foil sides.  Double fold top and ends loosely sealing the packet.  Freeze at least 4 hours before serving.