Christmas in July

The 6th Annual Christmas in July came and went in a flurry of snow cones and pinata candy.

The new addition to this year's festivities was an idea supplied by Grandma: make your own ice cream. You fill a little ziploc baggy with half-and-half, sugar, and vanilla. You put that inside a larger ziploc baggy filled with ice and rock salt. Then you shake it up for 5 minutes. The ice cream is really yummy and you can eat it right out of the little baggy with a spoon. Plus if you do it right, you can burn calories shaking up the baggy and it is less of a sinful treat.

We enjoyed the traditional favorite of Pass the Parcel. And Soren experienced a couple of firsts:

His first snow cone

and his first Brain Freeze