snow ice cream and dirt pudding make for a fun party!

Last Saturday, we had a birthday party for my South Carolina grandson, Owen, who turned two this week. The chances of him being in Ohio for his birthday are rare, so we were so excited to do this. We rounded up some little people and some big people too, and my daughter-in-law Ellie and I threw together a great theme party. It didn't hurt that our good friend, Jennifer, had a whole grocery bag full of "free" dump truck themed birthday stuff that she donated to the cause.

As the children were arriving, we sat them down at the table where they colored a picture of a dump truck that Ellie found on line and had made copies of. This kept them occupied for a few minutes.

But Ellie and I had decided the main "entertainment" would be making snow ice cream, since we had a very plentiful amount of clean, fresh snow right outside the kitchen slider window.

The kids loved it!

Instead of traditional birthday cake, we decided to make dirt pudding, and we served it from a large dump truck, filled with gummy worms of course!

Here's the birthday boy the night before they had to leave, trying out the shaving set we got him. Does it get any cuter than this?

SNOW ICE CREAM

1/2 cup of heavy whipping cream (or half & half)

1/4 cup sugar

1/2 tsp. vanilla

Mix until dissolved.

Mix in 4-6 cups packed snow.

Serve immediately.

DIRT PUDDING

2 cups cold milk

1 package chocolate instant pudding mix (4 serving size)

1 - 8 oz. tub Cool Whip

1 - 16 oz. package oreos, crushed as in a food processor

gummy worms

Pour milk into large bowl. Add pudding mix. Beat with wire whisk until well blended, 1-2 minutes. Let stand 5 minutes. Stir in Cool Whip and half of crushed cookies. Place into bowl (or dump truck!) and "hide" gummy worms in pudding, with a few sticking out of pudding. Cover with remaining crushed cookies.