Have to laugh!!

So for the 4th of July, we spent the evening with some friends of ours. We have a bbq at their house and then walk down the street to watch the fireworks display at our local airport. (It's become somewhat of a tradition for us now.) Well I wanted to try my hand at making this to surprise the kids. I thought it would be so much fun. 


Well, here's what I started with, a bag of chocolate chips, a box of raspberry jello and half of a hollowed out watermelon.


I prepared the jello according to the instructions on gourmet moms blog and then poured the liquid into the watermelon. I then put it in the fridge. I was supposed to pull the watermelon out as the liquid was beginning to set so that I can push the chocolate chips in, but totally forgot. (I have 2 little ones who keep me busy!)

So it was time to put in the chocolate chips. I poked mine with a skewer for easy placement into the jello mixture!


But as you can see here, my jello had already set! (Oops!) I had to force the chocolate chips in there!!


Alas, my watermelon was done! I cut off the excess rind around the edge to give it that authentic look I was looking for! (Mostly because I forgot to do it in the beginning! Shhh, but don't tell the kids that!)
Here's a pic of it cut once we were at our friends house. The kids loved it and thought it was the coolest thing they'd ever seen. (Not to mention my friends husband really enjoyed it!!)



"What's there to laugh at?" you say about this post.


Well, I also thought I'd bake a cake with our beloved red white and blue. And as you can see in the pic, it didn't quite work out the way I'd planned. This was a red velvet cake recipe. Once the batter was done, I divided it in half, added red food coloring to one pan, and blue food coloring to the other. Well, no one ever told me that adding blue food coloring to a chocolate cake mix would give me a scary looking green cake! So we ended up eating a red, white and green cake. Christmas maybe??? I'm seeing the cup as half full here, very optimistic for the holiday season! hehe I know I've been MIA for quite some time, but I'm hoping to start back up posting again. Summer is always busy and I like to dedicate my time to spending it with my family and not stuck on the computer!

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