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Back Porch Ice Cream Date Night: A Reason to Smile

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This post is brought to you by Edy’s and The Motherhood. I was provided with product coupons and compensated for my time, but all opinions are mine.

Tim and I made a very fun recent discovery: July is National Ice Cream Month! That, my friends, is something worth celebrating. We are HUGE ice cream fans in my house, and love getting to try fun new flavor combinations. Edy’s (also known as Dreyer’s in some parts of the country) is one of our very favorite brands, thanks to the delicious taste, value pricing, and fun variety of flavors.

We recently tried out a selection of the Edy’s Limited Edition Flavors that are out right now. And oh my word, you guys, they are AWESOME!!! Darah seemed to enjoy Take the Cake the very best. It somehow has managed to put the exact flavor of a birthday cake, including a frosting swirl and fun sprinkles, into ice cream form. How did they do that?!

Edy's Take the Cake Ice Cream

Over the weekend, after we put the kids to bed for the night, we decided to have our very own date with each other. We didn’t have to hire a babysitter to get some quality time in. We just needed our favorite ice creams and to head out to our back porch! We recently got some outdoor furniture (a first for us, even though we’ve been married for 11 years!). This was the perfect opportunity to break it in!

Here we are with our favorite Edy’s/Dreyer’s flavors:

edy's ice cream limited edition flavors

I’m a big fan of 3 Stripes You’re Out, which is a delicious vanilla combined with blueberry and strawberry swirls. It is lovely to look at and even more lovely to eat!

Edy's 3 Stripes You're Out Ice Cream

Tim also liked 3 Stripes You’re Out, but felt an even stronger connection (as you can clearly see in the picture of him kissing the carton!) with Sunny Salted Caramel Pretzel. This flavor is available in the Slow Churned Ice Cream line at Edy’s. With the Slow Churned line, you get all the taste and ½ the fat (with ½ the fat and 1/3 fewer calories than regular ice cream). Sunny Salted Caramel Pretzel, it is a simply AMAZING combination of sweet, creamy vanilla ice cream, sprinkled with a pop of salty caramel and pretzel. I think we’ve all experienced the delicious combination of salty and sweet together. Edy’s has hit the nail on the head with this one. Tim and I both agreed that we’ve never had ice cream like this before. It was a winner!

Edy's Sunny Salted Caramel Pretzel ice cream

After we remembered that we weren’t having a date with our favorite ice creams, but rather with each other, we really enjoyed our special date with each other and vowed to make it a regular habit. It was a beautiful evening. We felt spoiled by our great ice cream flavors. And we had UNINTERRUPTED conversations with each other. Definitely a reason to smile!

Speaking of a reason to smile, Edy’s is in the mist of a great partnership with Operation Smile, an international children’s medical charity, with the goal of making possible 500 reconstructive surgeries for children all over the world suffering from cleft palate, cleft lip and other facial deformities. Every two weeks, Edy’s has been posting content on their Facebook page giving followers the change to like, share, or comment, and in return, Edy’s makes a donation to Operation Smile! Edy’s will donate up to $125,000 to the cause this year (!!!) and they need your help to make it happen.

Be sure to visit the Edy’s Facebook page and start participating so that Edy’s can reach the goal and changes the lives of hundreds of children and their families. The campaign runs through September 31, 2013, so you’ve still got plenty of time to participate! If you are reay to smile, be sure to join the conversation on Twitter and Instagram, as well, using #ReasontoSmile.

edy's national ice cream month

Win it!: In celebration of National Ice Cream Month and the #ReasontoSmile campaign, Edy’s wants to give one Stuff Parents Need reader two coupons for free Edy’s ice cream!

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Be sure to enter my other current giveaways, found on the sidebar of my page.

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  8. my kids are always doing something to make me smile, even when their bad sometimes its so funny I have to smile at thm

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  9. For me its when my 7 year old runs up to me throws her arms around my legs and tells me she loves me which she does a lot

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  51. The little things in life make me smile. I spent the day with my husband today and he works so much. this little bit of time made me beam all day

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  53. The thing that makes me smile the most is having the whole family together…as the kids get older and older it is harder and harder to find a time that works for everyone. My favorite moments in life are when we are all together!!

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  81. I live within a 5 minute walk from the beach. Seeing the sunset over the Pacific Ocean makes me smile every time.

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  85. My cats give me a reason to smile. They are hilarious. Especially when Dixie chases her tail. kristiedonelson(at)gmail(dot)com Thank you.

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  111. Definitely would have to be seeing my toddler toddle! I LOVE that age when they have learned to walk but still toddle 🙂

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  112. My children. They picked me a very sweet bouquet of flowers today that definitely made me smile! 🙂

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  120. What makes me smile is every year on my birthday my little sister (11) goes around my house picking up my stuff to wrap and give to me as birthday gifts! Every year!

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  130. Movie and video game date nights with my husband makes me smile. Especially if we have good snacks like ice cream to go with the date.

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  135. There is nothing like a new baby to bring on smiles and you don’t have to be related – HRH prince George and his seemingly normal parents truly made the world smile.
    Don’t you think we could do without drama laden celebrities who demand $$ or at a minimum a boost to their ratings for a peek at their new baby?

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  139. thanks for a great giveaway. my husband loves ice-cream and I love him so its nice to try to win something for someone else 🙂

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  158. My daughter and my nieces makes me smile. Also being cancer free 1 yr makes me smile too.I want to try that salted caramel pretzel ice cream.I’m going to have to look for that when I go shopping this wkend.Oh yum! Thank you 🙂

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  173. Something that makes me smile everyday is my dog Biggles. He does such funny things! He likes to lay out in the sun on a hot day! I call him my Hot Dog!

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  198. I am one of the fortunate people that LOVES their job so much that I smile all day long. Then I go home and smile because my house is so cute and my doggies are so funny.

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  199. We love Edy’s too! (And Bluebell, and…..) I love Mint Choc Chip, but my husband is into the fruity flavors and Reese’s. We take turns picking out flavors in the summer (my husband is one of those weird people that only eat ice cream in the summer.) Crazy I know! lol.

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