Ice Cream, Baseball, Orbit, Fireworks and Flags

There's lots to cover from the title. So we'll get started with Ice Cream. While watch Rachael Ray a few weeks ago she showed us a cool recipe to make ice cream with kids. So last Tuesday we finally got a chance to try it. Here's the recipe:

1 Tablespoon Sugar
1/2 Cup Heavy Cream
1/4 Teaspoon Vanilla
Combine those ingredients in a small (sandwich size) ziplock bag.
Fill a large (gallon size) bag with ice and 6 Tablespoons of salt. Put the small bag in the large bag and shake for 15 minutes. Then you'll have ice cream. You can add chocolate chips or crushed oreos to make any kind of flavor, but since it was our first time and I was a little skeptical we just stuck with vanilla. But it really worked. Need a summer time activity for your kids, this is a good one and it will occupy them for 15 minutes. So here's Logan shaking it. I had to give him a towel to hold the bag in because his hands got so cold.

Boy 15 minutes is a long time when your waiting for ice cream.

Mmmm, but it's worth it.

Next on to Baseball. Last night (5/24) we went to and Isotopes game. The church had a bunch of tickets for a church night last night. I think there were about 55 people from the church there. Pretty good turn out. We had good seats right behind home plate. They played the Salt Lake Bees. The Isotopes lost 3-2. Oh well, next time maybe they'll win.

The Isotopes are in the blue jerseys.

"Where's my hot dog Dad?"

Now we're enjoying the game.

Of course the highlight of the baseball game for Logan is to see Orbit. No one is quite sure what Orbit is, but he is funny. In the past Logan has enjoyed seeing Orbit from a distance but this game Logan went up to Orbit where he was signing autographs and had Orbit sign his ticket.

Orbit meeting with a little girl in line in front of us.

Here's Orbit signing Logan's ticket.

Wow!!! He was so excited about it after Orbit signed it. We put the ticket in the diaper bag so that it wouldn't fall apart and Logan kept asking where it was during the game and on the way home. He's so excited about his Orbit autograph.

We don't normally stay for the whole game, Logan either is fussy and tired or they just go to long. But since they had fireworks after the game we tried to stay for the whole thing. Logan did great and so we stayed. The fireworks were great after the game and we left by about 9pm.

Today is Memorial Day and Dan has the day off. We hung our flag out this morning.

Well I think I covered everything. We'll be making ice cream later for dessert but we'll do it in the ice cream maker, not as exciting as a bag of ice.

Have a good Memorial Day!