Summer Time with the Kids and an Ice Cream Maker!

Posted May 19, 2011 By CentroAveiro

It is now getting towards the end of May and the kids get out of school next week for the summer. I cannot believe how fast this year has flown! The kids have all had a great school year and are bouncing-off-the-walls excited about being out of school for the summer time!

I will be working all summer, as I own a large childcare center and we will be extraordinarily busy this summer. But, I also want to make this a wonderful, fun summer for my own kids. I’d like to find some fun and special activities that we can do together.

One of the things I was thinking of doing is buying an ice cream maker. You know, those electronic machines where you put in the ingredients and it mixes and freezes itself into delicious ice cream! The kids love ice cream and I think they would really enjoy making their own frozen concoctions! (Not the Jimmy Buffet kind!)

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Food, Wine, and Entertaining Outdoors

By CentroAveiro

We love to entertain and we love wine! I love to have friends and family over for dinners. We entertain a good bit both indoors and, now that the weather is getting nicer, we love spending time entertaining outside as well! And while food and drink go hand in hand, we truly look forward to our evenings for great friends, foods, and wines.

We have recently put in an outdoor kitchen and have created an outdoor patio with cobble stone, a full kitchen that includes the grill and cook top, refrigerator, and sink. We even installed a wine fridge to keep our wine chilled at just the right temperature. We have our kitchen set up right next to the beautiful waterfall we installed several years ago. Coupled with new, comfy outdoor dining and lounging furniture, we are ready to go! Can’t wait for our next “event!”

Going to check out Vinotemp wine coolers and a dual zone wine refrigerator.

And maybe next year….we put in a pool to top it all off! Or add an electric fireplace entertainment center!

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