Happy Fourth of July and a fun Summer Recipe

 

Hello Friends! 

Happy Independence Day to my Friends in the USA. ❤️💙 I hope you have a fun day planned ahead. We were invited to our bestie's, the C's, cabin...but Matt and I are having a mellow fourth because we both work tomorrow. And I'm kind of thrilled because June went by in a blink because we were so busy! So chilling sounds great. 

One of the reasons we were so busy was because our Annie graduated high school. She graduated in early June. Then we went on our big Europe trip...so we had her grad party late in the month. For those that didn't see about it - we did a Hawaiian theme as Annie dreams of going there one day, and because she loves pineapple flavored anything! As you can see, we had fun getting into the theme including a photo op spot with palm tree and basket of lei's and pineapple sunglasses. :) 

One of her favorite pineapple related flavors is pina colada flavored things (she's not old enough to drink yet 😉). So I found this recipe for a pina colada dip and it was a hit and went fast! What was left over, Annie ate up the next day. Lol

We had a separate extra big fruit tray - but we kept a smaller one next to the pina colada dip, and the strawberry cream cheese dip...along with nilla wafers and cinnamon graham crackers too. The nilla wafers were especially delish with the pina colada dip! 

I toasted some coconut to garnish the top and I highly recommend that extra. The recipe is pinned on my pinterest board labeled "Annie grad party" It came from diprecipecreations.com 

The only thing I didn't do was the coconut cream because we couldn't find it. We only found cream of coconut, which is not the same thing. See the note below. So I instead added some extra coconut extract. But the rest I kept the same. It turned out great! 

Here's the recipe:

I'm off to play some ladderball with my fellow, take Ruby for a nice walk, BBQ, enjoy my book on the deck, and hopefully go watch the local fireworks tonight. 

I hope you enjoy! xo