Better Than Ice Cream?

It's officially summer. Here in Tampa we are hitting the high 90's on an everyday basis. Every afternoon I crave something creamy and refreshing. I just need something to hit the spot. You know- something cool, creamy, sweet, refreshing.. and healthy?

Here is a (growing!) list of some healthy options to turn to when the heat is on! I've combined a few reviews of products I've tried recently in the list.

- Frozen banana w/ smear of PB and cinnamon (peel, slice in half and places bananas in plastic bag in freezer- great pre-workout snack!)
- Club soda with a slice of lime/orange/lemon
- Fage/Oikos w/ blob of fruit preserves
- Fruit smoothie w/ peach, yogurt, ice and splash of milk or juice! (Speaking of smoothies...Just tried Smoothie King's Angel Food today! Perfect!)
- Blended iced coffee w/ 1/2 frozen banana
- 100 cal. Slim-A-Bear Ice Cream Bars (I just tried a box of these. They are a good size and taste exactly like the regular sandwiches! Yum!)
- Handful of frozen peas (seriously addicting)

Please leave your yummy heat-relievers in the comments! Enjoy!

Summer Picnic!

I can't wait to catch up on all of your blogs (and your great comments on my last post), but I wanted to get a few photos up in the meantime. The picnic was a blast! The video is by far the best, but I have to figure out how to upload that.

About 20 good friends came. I have some fun friends! They brought tons of delicious food and drinks. We socialized, ate.. and then played games! First we broke into 2 teams to compete in a series of challenges:

1. Egg Race- One spoon for each team; carry 1 egg with the spoon to and around cone and back to starting line to pass to next person in line. If they dropped the egg, they had to start over with a new egg. In the end, everyone just threw the eggs at each other.

2. Jumping Race- Each team had to send out one person to jump rope around the cone and back to the starting line to pass off to the next member. Watching these big, muscular guys jumping roping (sparkly jump ropes, of course!) with serious looks on their faces was the best!

3. Dirty Water- One bucket at the starting line, one bcket for each team at their respective cones at the end. Each time has a big sponde and must soak up as much water as possible and race to fill up their bucket with more water than the other team. We couldn't find a place to get water, so we used a bucket of muddy, seaweed-y pond water! Ewww!

(My team won!)

Also, we played Red-Rover and 500! I haven't played Red-Rover since elementary school!

Mostly, we ate toms of food and ran around silly like we were 8-year-olds set free at summer camp! SO much fun!