new dessert!

This past weekend Jill and Wael and the kids returned back to the US from being overseas. We were all excited so Eric and Sarah hosted a return dinner friday night and I made this great dessert. Thought i would share it was a hit with everyone and something completely new for me.

Creamy Layered Fruit Sensation 

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Prep Time

25min.

Total Time

2hr. 

25min.

Servings

16 servings, 1/2 cup each

At every party there seems to be a star at the dessert table—and this creamy layered fruit bowl mixed with vanilla pudding will be it

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  1/4 tsp. almond extract

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  1 pkg. (10 oz.) prepared angel food cake, cut into 2-inch cubes

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  2 pkg. (1 oz. each) JELL-O Vanilla Flavor Sugar Free Fat Free Instant Pudding

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  2-1/2 cups cold fat-free milk

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  1-1/2 cups thawed COOL WHIP Sugar Free Whipped Topping, divided

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  2 pkg. (12 oz. each) frozen unsweetened mixed berries (raspberries, blueberries, sliced strawberries), thawed, well drained

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  Make It

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• Mix juice and extract. Drizzle over cake cubes in large bowl; toss to coat.
• Beat pudding mixes and milk in medium bowl with whisk 2 min. Stir in 1 cup COOL WHIP.
• Reserve a few berries for garnish. Place half the cake cubes in 2-qt. glass bowl; top with layers of half each of the remaining berries and pudding mixture. Repeat layers. Refrigerate 2 hours. Top with remaining COOL WHIP and reserved berries just before serving.

New resturant

On Sunday we visited another church, one that we both liked. I think we will visit it again next sunday its so far only 2 of 5 that we have any interest in going back. Anyway, afterwards we tried a new restaurant for me, call Village Grill  it's in the Village part of Grosse Pointe. It is on the adjacent corner to a star buck we go to all the time. It was so good we forgot to take a picture of our food. So i got a picture of the carrot cake we shared before it was gone.

We also visited another restaurant the beginning of the month Pat O'Brien, it is also within walking but we biked up to it and sat outside on their patio. I took Melissa to it because i have falling for the fried chicken salad they have. So yummmy will have to go back and take pictures for you all next time.!

Melissa Visits!!

This past week July 22nd and 23th Melissa Eefsting came down for a few days. And as usually we went geocaching.! She had spent some time solving puzzle caches for a series of caches in Michigan and Canada, when you find them all they make a maple leaf on the map page. Which sound really nice. However, all excited we were we headed out and went over to canada, this was the first trip over since i moved here and it was pretty easy.

We had 4 or 5 could not finds to begin with right off the bat, it was very discouraging! So we had to find ice cream, because ice cream fixes everything!

and within the next one or two we looked for we found one!!

So we kept looking till about 2 pm then we came back to michigan and grabbed lunch and called it a day for caching! we found 21 in canada in all. we were hoping for 30 but we did have a great day of visiting too.


no we haven't finished the leaf yet. guess that  a reason for her to come back down!!

Kayaking!

Every summer for 5 years Kim and i have done a kayaking, well the first trip was a tubing and i got really badly burned so we switched to kayaking. Mom has joined us several years and last year and this year David and Dad have joined us. We went up north with plans of Kayaking on the 18th.

It was a beautiful day forecasted for 90 degree weather.! we got out on the river, and about a 1/2 hour into it it began to rain. Eventually it lightninged and thundered too.

to say the least this was the worse of 6 years! We did a 4 hour trip in 3 everyone was sore the next day we could not paddle fast enough, and the wind got hard to go against at times too. But here are some pictures before i put my phone away because of the rain!

Ice Cream

So one of the the great things about where we live is how many great restaurants

, shops, and activities are within walking distance. Yes there is a ice cream shop that we finally checked out!

It was yummy i guess we should have taken a picture of the ice cream too. !

New toy

So David loves milk shakes, and over the 4th of july weekend we went to a estate sale and found a milk shake maker in great condition for only $8.00 so we are just shaking it up !!! hehehehe

name change!

I started this blog as a way to keep in touch with family, and I guess its time to add David officially since he joining me on my adventures called life on May 16, 2015 so i guess this should include him in all aspects!!

Thanks everyone for following so far, can't wait to share with you more of the adventure we call life to come.

love,
kristie