Day 8---I ❤ My Blender!

Hi!  Remember me? The girl who set out to do all kinds of fun and amazing and creative things found on Pinterest every single day of the year?  I know I've been MIA for a few days, but you would not believe the things going on around here!  The kids are out of school, we've been busy busy at work, Kraig and I are in the process of finding a new home plus planning our wedding, planning our July vacation to New Mexico, and so much more!  I'm not giving up though!  And as I said in my last little post, I'm still at it.  I've found the time to stay with my Pinterest activities, it's just this blogging I can't seem to find time for!  I may have to schedule my blogging time for weekends only.  Just seems like the only way! For now, I wanted to see if I could catch up a little.  I thought I would fill you in on some of the things I have been doing with my beloved blender...

There she is!  Isn't she so awesomely vintage?  This chic is from the 70's and still running great! (Not me!  The blender!)  My Grandma King gave it to me probably 10 years ago.  I very seldom used it until recently.  No specific reason I didn't...I think I just kind of forgot about it.  As you can imagine though it is VERY special to me.  And the fact that I can use it still to make my kids yummy stuff is really cool!  I love telling my daughter stories about how my grandma taught me to cook as I am in turn teaching her. 

The last couple of weeks I've put my completely awesome blender to work and it's thanks to Pinterest!  Remember those frozen coffees I first wrote about?  Well, that's when I brought her out of retirement.  Since then shes been whipping up coffees, frostees, and shakes galore!  It's been perfect for this extremely hot hot weather we've had. 

I've pinned and used SOOOO many drink recipes.  But wouldn't you know...I didn't take pictures of my final product.  Around here edibles and drinkables don't hardly last long enough for a picture.  They're doomed from the start to be gulped down by my family of diehard foodies!  So, anyway for now I want to share a simple recipe I've used a ton the past couple of days:

2 C Ice cubes
3/4 C milk
1/4 C Hershey's syrup (We've been using the sugar free because I'm doing a low carb thing right now...)
1/4 C sugar (or 3 or 4 packets of Splenda~again the low carb thing.  I'll fill you in more on that later!)

I put my ice cubes into the blender first, followed by the syrup, then the milk, then the sugar.  I doubt that the order I put them in really makes a difference, but I like pouring the syrup over the ice...Don't ask!  Just another one of my weird quirks.  I've got plenty of those that's for sure.  So anyway, back to making this frosty drink.  Blend at the highest speed until all the ice cubes and milk and sugar and syrup have turned into a frosty, smooth, yummy drink!  We also tried it with caramel syrup.  Oh my goodness!  It was great.  Tasted like homemade vanilla ice cream.

Well, that's all I have time for tonight.  I'm still working out some kinks on all this blog stuff.  Hoping to compile a list of recipes soon with pictures along with other projects and things I've been working on.  I love love love sharing all of this.  Hopefully someone else will enjoy it too if I eventually get the hang of things!