Mad Photograpmapher Skills

Linking it up again with my favorite ladies, Stephanie & Chelsee!   I attempted to take some terrible blackmail photos of myself this weekend for you but didn't get very many so I will keep at it the next couple of times and hopefully get more for you! 

I have been slowly improving my photography skills with our point and shoot camera and this weekend I figured out how to use the burst setting to get some killer photos of the guys!  Since they run around, dance and jump all over it's hard to get good shots but obviously there are awesome moments we want to capture for them.  Here are some of my favorites from the weekend.  

 

That is Ryan's co-worker celebrating his bachelor party.  Ryan dragged him up on stage and with both of them being pretty far gone it was the most ridiculousness ever.  The two of them were tripping over each other trying to sing into the mike. 

Look I got a good photo of Pat!!!!  I actually got quite a few.  Since he is always moving like a madman with the drumsticks it makes it insanely hard to get a good photo.  

Not my best but I need the gratuitous photo of the hubs right? : )

 

They're floating!!!  

Baller

Also need to send a shout out to Miss Tara.  It was her last night in Chicago for a long time.  She graduated law school and is back in Iowa to take the bar.  You need to get on it so you can come back and be a baller J.D!

Recipe: Banana Cream Layered Dessert

Over the weekend Kevin and I had dinner with my parents and my brother.  Mom tops over a great chicken dinner with this fabulous dessert.  I have a Gamma Phi Beta Alumnae potluck tonight so I decided this would be a great one to bring with.  It was so light and cool, just totally hit the spot. 

I called mom up while I was at the grocery store last night because of course I'm just behind on everything this week, to get the ingredients.  While she was giving them to me she actually confessed that it was a Kraft recipe that she had altered.  Between talking with her and looking at the link she sent me we realized how amazingly versatile this recipe could get.  The original calls for all chocolate but mom did golden Oreos with banana pudding.  You could do peanut butter Oreos or Nutterbutters with chocolate pudding or it just occurred to me mint Oreo with chocolate pudding.  The combinations are ENDLESS!

Ingredients:35 Golden Oreos
6 Tbsp. Butter, melted

1/4 C. sugar
1 (8oz.) package 1/3 fat cream cheese, softened
2 Tbsp. cold skim milk 

1 tub (12 oz.) Cool Whip, thawed
2 (3.9oz.) packages Banana sugar free instant pudding
3 1/4 C. cold skim milk

1. Crush up cookies in Manual Food Processor. You can crush it up finely or I chose to do it a mixture of fine and smaller chunks.  I like the texture of some larger pieces.

2.  Transfer to Mixing Bowl and add butter.  Mix until combined then press into bottom of 9x13 pan.**  Refrigerate until you're ready to add the next layer.

3.  Mix together sugar, cream cheese and 2 Tbsp. cold milk until smooth and combined.

4.  Add Cool Whip to the mixture until combined.  Then spread over the crust.  I needed to put the mixture back in the fridge since my kitchen gets so insanely warm so you might want to do the same!

5.  Combined pudding and 3 1/4 C. cold milk according to package directions.  Then let pudding set for about 5 minutes until it is thick.

6.  Spread pudding over the first two layers then finish off the dish with the remaining Cool Whip.  The refrigerate for at least four hours.          

   










I will be sure to get a photo of a piece when I enjoy it at tonights potluck!! Enjoy!