Homemade Ice Cream Sandwiches

Did you know that July is National Ice Cream month?  Since we are entering the final weekend of July I highly encourage you to enjoy some ice cream this weekend.  That's why for this week's (delayed--but at least I'm doing it) Tasty Tuesday post, I wanted to suggest a delicious way to enjoy ice cream.  Even though I'm due for more of a savory recipe suggestion, I figured you could overlook my game plan change*.

Very Berry Sherbet

Oh how quickly a week can go by!  As I mentioned before, our summer schedule has us hosting family from the lower 48 almost non stop this summer.  This past week, started out with some fantastic house guests and then a couple of days to catch our breath and prepare for our next set of visitors due to arrive in two days.  I also threw some Bible class preparation into our schedule last week for an upcoming vacation Bible school our church is hosting in a few weeks.  So yes, it's been a busy week. :)

But I made sure there was time to make this DE-licious frozen treat.

Point and Shoot

 Sometime around spring break, we started letting our older two yahoos use our small point and shoot camera when we've gone out on adventures.  It's a camera that I got on a fantastic sale the day after Thanksgiving.  It's been great to have as an emergency back-up for our big dSLR and for when we don't want to lug it around.  But we've also found how fun it is to let the kids experiment with photography.  We've really enjoyed seeing the adventure through their eyes.

So for today's post, I thought I'd share a collection of photos that both the little miss and the little man took during a walk we did near the Mendenhall Glacier with my brother in June.  Hope you enjoy their perspective as much as we do.

Rotisserie Style Crock-pot Chicken

 ****I do realize that it's not Tuesday.  But due to circumstances beyond my control I had to bump back my Tasty Tuesday post by a day this week.  I do hope you'll allow me this scheduling change for the week.  And I really hope you enjoy the recipe this week.  We do at our house. :) ****

This recipe is quickly becoming one of our family's favorite chicken meals.  It is ridiculously delicious and quite simple to prepare.  Plus I REALLY like to use my crock pot and a recipe that uses a "cut" of meat that I can often find on sale is another bonus.

I've started buying several whole fryer chickens whenever our local Fred Meyer has them on coupon sale.  Then I put them directly into the freezer and pull it out to defrost a day before I plan to make this meal.  Whenever I make this, there's always plenty of meat for our family for several meals.

Extended Adventures

First of all, I realize I let Tuesday pass this week.  My apologies if you were looking forward to a tasty recipe, but celebrating Independence Day this week threw me off a bit.  And then I decided it would be better to separate two food posts with a non-food post.  You know, keep things from getting too predictable.  So I present to you today a post with no food, but plenty of pics of cute kids....

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This summer we're hosting several rounds of visits from our extended family.  They all hail from the "lesser 48" and are in need of their Alaskan fix.  So far we've Shawn and his brother took their dad on a successful bear hunt in May and we had a really nice visit with my brother, Eric.