The Easiest, Cheapest, Yummiest, Summertime Pies You'll Ever Make!!!

We Wards just LOVE desserts!!! But in the summer it is way to hot here in Texas to turn on the oven for very long. We have been experimenting with easy, cheap and yummy pies that you have to try! They are all sooooo good and so easy and are perfect for a cold summertime treat, and the best part is that they are so cheap to make!!!

Jell-o Pie

8 whole graham crackers, finely crushed

7 tablespoons melted butter

1 carton of cool whip

1 box of jello, any flavor (in the pictures we used orange and it tasted like dream sicle!!!)

Put graham cracker crumbs into a pie pan. Pour in the melted butter and stir around with your fingers, press to fit into the pan. Take a carton of cool whip and pour the jello powder directly into the carton of cool whip. Stir until well mixed. Spread on top of your crust, cover with plastic wrap and freeze until hard.

Pudding Pie

8 whole graham crackers, finely crushed

7 tablespoons melted butter

1 package of pudding, any flavor

1 1/2 cups milk

1 carton of cool whip

Put graham cracker crumbs directly into your pie pan. Pour the butter over the crumbs and stir with you fingers. Press to fix the pan. In a bowl, mix the milk and pudding powder. Mix in half the carton of cool whip into your pudding and then spread on top of your pie crust. Cover with plastic wrap and freeze until hard.

Ice Cream Pie

8 whole graham crackers, finely crushed

7 tablespoons melted butter

softened ice cream (just eye ball it  until your pie pan is filled.:) )

1 carton of cool whip

Put graham cracker crumbs directly into your pie pan, pour the butter over it and mix with your fingers. Press to fit your pans shape. Take some ice cream and mix with half of the cool whip. Spread on top of crust. Spread the rest of the cool whip on top of the ice cream. Cover with plastic wrap and freeze until hard.

Tricks & Tips

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  If your pie is a little bit to hard to cut and eat, put it in the microwave for 30 seconds.
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  With all these pies you can add vanilla, cinnamon or any other flavors into your pie crust to add a special taste.

Enjoy!!! :)

Homeschooling....The FUN Way!!! :D

Who said that homeschoolers stay at home and do boring work and never have any fun???? The fast few days we've done some school that was not only educational but supper fun! First we put together a model rocket (Science) and shot it with our friends the Parkers at the ROC. Then today we took a cooking lesson, we made a crock pot lemon pudding cake! YUM!!!! And to top it off we played in shaving cream and even had a spelling bee (you try and spell a word in the shaving cream before everyone else!) and we did math problems in the shaving cream. Enjoy!

Daddy putting the rocket together (or at least trying to! ;D)

Mr. Parker, Tommy and Daddy getting the rocket ready to lift off!

Below is a video of the rocket. (Sorry our photographer (me! oops!) forgot that you can't take a video sideways, (:0) so you'll need to turn your head to see the rocket soot!) To make video bigger, click on the expanding arrows on the right hand below the video.

 

Robby and Ashley love to bake! Here they beat the egg whites for the lemon cake.

Yummy!!!

Everyone loves shaving cream....

Especially Robby! :D

Tommy "drawing".

Everyone during the "shaving (spelling) bee" :D

Here Tommy works a math problem! (And got it right!!!)

Below is a video of our "shaving bee" LOL! Enjoy!

Blessings,

Bethany

ROC Pictures

This morning we all went to the ROC (Recreational Outreach Center) by our house to play before it got hot. (Which happens VERY QUICKLY in Texas!!!) I (being the kind of person who LOVES to take lots of pictures :D) got a few shots of Abby... and a few other things, enjoy!

Abby by the pond's waterfall.

Isn't she adorable?!?!?!

A peaceful moment.

A cute profile.

This one's my favorite photo!

Crossing the water.

So cute!

The beautiful waterfall!

The pond.

A dragonfly (talk about at once in a lifetime kinda picture!) Speaking of a once in a lifetime kind of picture, look at what else we found...

An orange and brown snake! :0 I was washing my feet of in the lake and I look over and there he is...let's just say that I'm going to wait to wash my feet...at home! :)

Blessings,

Beth

Shopping.....for a family of 8! Part 2

Finally we got everything out...but then we had to put it all away! :) Although it doesn't look like much, everything was piled on top of everything!

 Robby is ready for Friday's pizza night! :)

On this trip (which begun at 6 am, and a few hours later we got 3 heaping buggies full) we got:

• 5 lb grapes
• 1 cantaloupe
• 2 pints blueberries
• 6 lb apples
• 2 pkg celery
• 3 lb onions
• 2 lb carrots
• cilantro
• 7 lb  cabbage
• 2 lb broccoli

8 dozen eggs

3 gallons of milk

1 lg tub of margarine

creamer

sour cream

4 lb tilapia

4 lg pkg Popsicles

5 pkg whole wheat bagels

1 lg jar of peanut butter

agave nectar (it's like honey)

1 45 oz vegetable oil

olive oil

4 cans ranch style beans

4 cans corn

2 lg pkg splenda (it's like sugar)

slat

pepper

parsley

mustard

1 bag flour

2 lg quick oats

10 pkg pudding

1 pkg jello

1 box graham crackers

1 bag marshmallows

1 box raisins

3 lg cans pink salmon

4 cans boneless skinless salmon

2 salmon packets

16 cans tuna

2 cans baking powder

10 32 oz bottles Gatorade

1 pkg cream cheese

2 family size tea bags

9 frozen pizzas

20 lbs chicken quarters

5 butterball smoked sausages

32 frozen hamburger patties

3 pkg chick peas

12 pkg pinto beans

10 pkg hot dogs

2 frozen Apple juices

4 cartons of whipped cream

2 cans black olives

2 pkg tortilla chips

1 lb cooked shrimp

1 bottle of syrup

6 lbs of party peanuts

5 boxes of cereal

2 bags of frozen broccoli

1 bag of frozen corn

8 loaves of bread

All of these things were:

$ 284.06

These things will probably last us for about 2 weeks, plus all that we still have leftover from last weeks trip.