One of my favorite things about summer with little children is the simplicity. It’s lazy, it’s relaxed, and it’s simple. I love having two little boys who are rowdy and very easy to entertain. They don’t necessarily like “quiet” fun, but they don’t need toys to have fun either. They just need an open area to run and they’re good to go!
One of our favorite ways to have a blast together in the warm weather is to set up the sprinkler in the yard, put the boys in their swimsuits (or even just a diaper), and let them run around the yard. We inflate our big kiddie pool (that is also big enough for adults and a large Golden Retriever) and get just a little bit of relief from the heat. We could spend the whole day outside playing in the water. It’s a safe activity, we can all enjoy it together, and it’s free!
Hudson in the summer of 2010 playing in the sprinkler
We’re big into doing low-key things together that allow everyone to just be happy and relaxed. There’s no pressure to be quiet and we can laugh as loud as we want to.
After we run through the sprinklers and splash in the pool, everyone needs a little summer treat. I was so excited to find out about Breyers Blasts!® Chocolate REESE’S®. This new variety features chunks of REESE’S Peanut Butter Cup pieces and REESE’S Peanut Butter swirled in chocolate frozen dairy dessert.
REESE’S are my absolute favorite candy, so to have actual REESE’S cups mixed in with my favorite chocolate is just the perfect summer dessert. And my boys love it, too! There is so much flavor packed into each bite. The chocolate is rich and smooth and the bites of REESE’S cups are just perfect for this peanut butter-loving mama. Hudson and Hayes absolutely couldn’t get enough of this. Dessert is a special treat in our house, but it’s summertime, so everyone gets to indulge!
For Hudson’s third birthday, I was super excited to see Breyers Blasts!® OREO® Birthday Blast! This new variety features OREO cookie pieces and rainbow sprinkles in artificially flavored cake-flavored frozen dairy dessert. Oh my goodness. I love cake-flavored treats! And this flavor is really perfect. It tastes like your ultimate birthday cake.
The rainbow sprinkles were definitely Hudson’s favorite part. Little kids just love sprinkles on anything. And the huge OREO flavor combined with the birthday cake and sprinkles was really just perfect. Who needs a birthday cake when this stuff is available? We celebrated Hudson’s birthday as a family at the beach. I was a blast!
I’m excited about having a summer full of simple fun: ice cream on the back porch and kids in swimsuits. It’s our favorite way to have a blast together as a family.
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Icecream is a wonderful treat at our house that we enjoy all year long! You simply cannot beat the taste of Breyers Blast flavors on a hot summer day! It’s also delicious used with brownies to make a yummy frozen layer dessert!
We would invite our neighbors over and enjoy our Breyers blast on our front porch!
In a sugar cone, on the front porch, after dinner. YUM
we would love it! It’s so hot in TEXAS right now we are ice cream fools. That Reeses peanut butter looks soooo good!
In the evening in the comfy chairs on our back patio
In the evening after dinner on our front porch!
The Birthday Blast Oreo Ice Cream looks amazing! We would enjoy it inside with the AC on full blast {it’s supposed to be 108 this weekend in Alabama- crazy!}
OREO flavor yum!! We would eat it right out of the carton! Haha!
Oh my word! That Reese’s Cup ice cream looks amazing! We just got Reese’s Cups here in the UK…finally! I feel like my life in complete.
How would we enjoy Breyer’s Blasts? We’d have a Family Fun Night. We would eat the Reese’s Peanut Butter Chocolate and play board games!
We would definitely enjoy it in a sugar cone on the back porch after dinner. Such a relaxing way to end the day!
My husband eats the Reese’s flavor every night with an additional scoop of peanut butter on top! It’s sticky but ooey gooey goodness!
My family would love the Reese’s ice cream. It would be like getting a Blizzard without having to go to Dairy Queen!
We’re all about the ice cream cones now. Rowan loves them!
I would enjoy a big bowl of this ice cream whilst watching bad television (Real Housewives)
Outside on the screened in porch after dinner with the crickets and lightning bugs out!
Plop ourselves on the couch and dig in!!
After a long day at work, the Reese’s would hit the spot!!!
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Breyer’s blast would be my boys first ice cream so I’m expecting it would be a crazy cute mess of him playing with it and LOVING it !
My 2 year old is obsessed with ice cream so we would have a big bowl on our deck at night. Yum!
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we normally eat a big bowl after our kiddos are in bed, but our two year old would LOVE this so we may have to indulge as a family outside after dinner!
I would eat the entire carton in one sitting then beg husband to go get more 🙂 7 months pregnant here!
My husband and I love ice cream! We enjoy a bowl together every night after the baby goes to bed while we catch up about the day.
Sounds so good! We’d invite friends and family over for a BBQ and serve it as dessert!
My mouth is watering looking at those desserts. I have been wanting to host a girls’ night at my new apartment, so I think I’d set up different varieties of Bryers Blasts and turn on some music. That sounds like the perfect summertime girls’ night!
We are all about snuggling up with a movie and big bowl of ice cream after a long day. My fiance and I are huge Reese’s fans, but the Birthday Blast looks SO good as well! Tough choice!
Oohhhhh I LOVE Reeses! Guess I’ll be going to the store today! I can see all of us out on the deck under the umbrella enjoying it!
Ty would absolutely love the oreo blast flavor! I’m going to have to pick some up for him. We love to sit on the couch at the end of the day with a bowl of ice cream and a favorite tv show and just relax!
My husband and I would enjoy the REESE’S Breyer Blast (we both LOVE peanut butter) on our new deck while our dog plays in the yard. We love after dinner treats and this is the perfect one!
We would love to enjoy the blasts poolside with friends this summer!!
After dinner on a warm summer night, sitting on the porch watching the kids run around.
I love reese’s too! Yum. I would say after a day at the pool we would return home to have another cool off treat!
Oh YUM! My husband’s 30th birthday was last weekend and he picked the ice cream for the party. He came home with the new Breyer’s Blasts…..Chocolate Reese’s and Waffle Cone Chocolatey Chip. They were both delish! I checked their website for other flavors and I have got to get my hands on the whoppers and heath bar version! My son enjoys a special treat of ice cream each night with us after we put the baby to bed!
YUM. I would probably enjoy the Oreo flavor by eating the WHOLE container in 1 sitting. Hey, I’m 9 months pregnant, I can’t help it!….ha!
Yum!! We would eat it at night watching a movie 🙂 a summer favorite!
On the back porch at he beach!
These happen to be two of my absolute favortie flavor combos and I would enjoy them any night of the week but especially after a lake or beach day!
when I was younger my older sister, younger brother and I would go catch fireflies outside in the backyard after dinner just before it got dark! That’s one of my best childhood memories
Wow, these look so good! We would enjoy them on our back porch. 🙂
Oh man, my daughter and husband are ice cream lovers for sure! We would enjoy this treat by eating a cone outside after a long day at the pool or playing in the sprinkler in the yard for sure!
I love Reese’s – I bet that is delicious! I live in the southwest, so ice cream is the perfect treat to beat the triple digits in the summer.
We love our ice cream in cones out on the front porch.
We like to make cobblers with fresh fruit we’ve picked/bought in the summer….like blackberries, blueberries and peaches. A la mode is always the best way to enjoy a hot cobbler in the summer months. My mouth is watering now.
i would enjoy the reeses ice cream on the back porch with my little family in our new house! 🙂
on the beach after a great bbq on the deck over looking the sunset!!!
We need byers blast to cool off from this hot Texas heat!! The oreo birthday flavor looks amazing!
Breyers blast would be great for our summer birthday parties!
oh wow, that Reese’s looks amazing! We seriously LOVE us some icre cream over here! We are slightly obsessed and so are our 2 little boys! We would sit outside with Breyers Reese’s Blast in a bowl or even a sugar cone, let the boys hold their own and watch it drip down their bare tummys as they laugh and enjoy one of life’s greatest pleasures! yummy! and then we’d wash them off with the hose for a little extra fun!
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LOVE icecream! We would use these as a reprieve from the heat out here in the AZ desert!!!
Right out of the carton with a spoon!
On the back porch after a great cookout!
We would definitely enjoy the ice cream on one of these scorching hot days that are about to hit South Carolina!
In a waffle cone cup in our backyard…where unfortunately the temps are supposed to reach 106 this weekend. Is that even legal?!
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we’d enjoy our ice cream straight out of the carton – with four spoons of course 😉
we are an ice cream lovin’ family!
We would enjoy Breyers Blasts for my twin girls second birthday party! I love the birthday oreo, it looks so delicious!
My three-year-old and I would make pushpops!
on the floor with the tub and a few spoons! no need for bowls; we’ll finish it in one sitting! 🙂
I love Breyers! I would take the first bite directly out of the container, then I might think about putting the rest in a bowl!
On the front porch swing, after a nice summer dinner on the grill.
As much as we love making ice cream, I’d probably give that Reese’s flavor a try – that’s my favorite candy, too! I’m sure we’d enjoy it as an after-dinner treat.
I can’t believe I haven’t seen the Oreo birthday bash flavor…we would definitely enjoy that at an outdoor summer birthday party!
YUM! That Reese’s sounds SO yummy! Would be a perfect addition to a relaxing evening on the back porch 🙂
Unfortunately, we’ve hit our typical SC summer temps…..so it’s hard to enjoy anything outside!! My husband & I snuggle up on the couch at night and enjoy a coffee mug full of ice cream. I think we’ll have to give the Reese’s a try next!!
In a big bowl 🙂
For my daughter’s third birthday!! (or any other day too!)
We would enjoy this as a delicious dessert!!! Thanks for a chance to win and have a great day!
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After dinner, while watching Dallas. And maybe just skip dinner and have the ice cream for dinner.
We would have a party in the backyard with my sons pool and water table! He calls that special treat ICE CEAM! 🙂
I love ice cream ,anytime, any kind. It is my big weakness. I love it in a sugar cone or waffle cone.
We would enjoy Breyers Blasts after a family barbecue. Thanks!
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in my new yard!
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We would enjoy this at my nephew’s birthday party with some cake!
I would share it as a special treat with my 5yr old granddaughter………making memories.
We would enjoy an ice cream treat this weekend. It’s going to be triple digits in southeastern VA!
with a good dinner, movie and and a cozy blanket!!
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We would enjoy it as a delicious dessert after family dinner
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I would take Breyers Blast to my grandmother’s place & share it with her. She recently moved into a senior center and she says the food is blah and misses the simple treats of life. She misses her house and being able to go on the back deck & just relax. I would take a bowl of Breyers Blast with two spoons, we would go on the patio, in the comfy chairs wrap up in a blanket sharing stores/catching up, snacking away watching the sun set. It still gets chill at night but its how we share our love language with eachother. Treats, stories & a break from reality 🙂
Considering if was 104 here today, I’m not sure our blast wouldn’t be much more than a puddle, but it would be a yummy puddle to enjoy tonight 🙂
We’d enjoy this by eating it outside on a hot summer day!
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we’d enjoy it out by the pool
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with one bowl and two spoons – one for me and one for my sweetie
I love to curl up on the couch with a mug ful of ice cream and a good tv show after the babies are in bed!
Honestly? I’d wait until my husband went to bed and watch some DVR to enjoy some ice cream!
We would enjoy this as part of the dessert bar at my son’s birthday party.
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we would enjoy it every night on our back porch with our kids
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My hubby and I would it enjoy it as a little after dinner snack with our one year old little boy 🙂
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Sitting outside after dinner, eating bowls of this ice cream to cool off!
we would enjoy it on July 4th!
The hubs is an ice cream fanatic. One of our favorite summer activities is sitting on the back porch in the evenings with a bowl of ice cream listening to the frogs chirp and watching the lightening bugs. Summer is so much sweeter when it’s simple.
My oldest son (2 1/2) loves having ice cream! This is the first summer he has really gotten to have some as dessert after dinner & he loves going out to get some too! I am sure my husband & son would both enjoy a bowl of any flavor of this new treat!
“artificially flavored cake-flavored frozen dairy dessert”? Sounds like something I would never want to give my kids.
I would definitely enjoy some of the oreo birthday blast on the back patio after dinner
we would have this after friday night dinner to celebrate the weekend 🙂
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My little guys birthday is coming up ! And he loves ice cream so we would have a ice cream party!
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looks so so delicioussss
We’d definitely enjoy it after supper while relaxing in the AC…This heat wave is too much!
I’d love to sit out back with my husband and daughter, and just soak it all in. 🙂
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We love it in banana splits!
Breyers…vanilla with fresh strawberries and friends..treating same friends another day with the new peanut butter cup! Breyers chocolate with a homemade fudge sauce recipe found in a new magazine..always a good time if Breyers is a feature in the party!
Ha! How am I NOT enjoying the summer blast from Breyers!? 🙂
Cause definitely I’ve been eating the Mrs. Fields cookie dough one like a crazy pregnant lady lately 😉 Guess that’s because I am a crazy ice cream hungry pregnant lady! 🙂
just how we did last night: with ice cream and a movie on the couch! 🙂
My family loves Oreo’s big time, so I would make sure to serve up lots of Oreo’s Birthday Blast – and even incorporate it into one of my famous ice cream cakes I make in the summer! 🙂
That cake-flavored Oreo one sounds really REALLY good! I am a sucker for anything cake-flavored. My husband and I have to enjoy ice cream after our girls go to bed since our oldest is allergic to dairy.
We would enjoy this after a fun day at the pool!
At the beach this summer!
We love ice cream as dessert. I know we all would enjoy the Reese’s blast.
My family and I would enjoy Breyers Blasts with an ice cream bar all summer long. With different toppings, syrups and sauces to choose from, we can all get our favorites and have a blast!
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On the front porch after a nice summer dinner on the grill 🙂
Breyers Blasts sound so yummy!! Perfect for a hot summer afternoon treat!
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We would enjoy this after a sunny day at the spray park….probably eating it outside on the back swing. or for dessert or for a party or or or….sounds so good!
my family and i enjoy breyers blasts on a hot summers day, with hot fudge
We would enjoy anytime, anywhere.
my husband would die for this. he loves Reeses!
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I actually just bought this the other day and I’ve been enjoying it as a little treat after dinner!
we would enjoy it after swimming
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We love a little ice cream dessert after dinner….I can’t wait to try the Reeses–it looks SO yummy!!
We would eat the ice cream after dinner.
At a BBQ with friends!
I will enjoy it on a hot day on the back deck.
My family will eat Breyers anytime I have it in the freezer. They love it.
This would be perfect for a family pool party!
We would enjoy it after a hot day on our farm.
We could enjoy it after a day of yard work. There’s lots to be done around here!
we’ll snack on it while watching movies or playing games. Thanks for the review and giveaway.
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we would love it after dinner with veggies , this would top it off just right! Thanks for a super giveaway!
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We’d enjoy it after dinner time.
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The Breyer’s Blasts would be a perfect way to end our neighborhood pool parties
I’d love to try the ice cream in a milkshake to beat the heat!
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This would be waiting for us when we got home from our after dinner walks. It has been so hot but this would motivate us to come home faster.
We would have a Banana Split Sunday party with all the gandkids!
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We’d enjoy it as an evening snack after working the farm all day.
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We would definetly enjoy it with lots of chocolate syrup, cool whip and cherries.
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My family and I would enjoy Breyers Blasts with different toppings after dinner and sit in front of the TV in our family room. We love Breyers ice cream, we’ve been eating it for years. Thanks for this giveaway.
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We would probably enjoy the Breyer’s treats on Sunday night after church. Sitting on the porch if it’s not too hot! 🙂
My family and I would enjoy the Breyer’s Blasts sitting on the deck after a long day of softball!
We would enjoy Breyer’s Blasts after a night of grilling while the sun is hitting the mountains and the wind is picking up. Nice way to end the 100 degree days!
my family would enjoy the reeses breyer’s blasts for dessert after a backyard BBQ
We would enjoy this after a family get together.
On the couch, ice cream in a bowl, with my husband!
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this would be a great special treat after dinner while watching tv!
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We would enjoy them after a cookout on a hot summer day
We would enjoy this after a hot Florida day! 🙂
My family would enjoy Breyers Blast in a waffle cone after dinner!
We would have to have an ice-cream cone night!
Will eat in cones.
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I’ll take the Beyers Reeses on the back patio after the sun goes down.
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We would enjoy some for dessert sitting on the back patio.
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My family would enjoy Breyer Blasts together at a picnic in our backyard with friends and family and lots of fun!
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We would enjoy Breyers Blasts as an after dinner treat — any night of the week!
We would pig out on the back porch under the ceiling fans 🙂
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We would enjoy them after a day of swimming!
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We would enjoy them on a cone while sitting on the front porch watching the neighborhood kids play tag!
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We would love a bowl out on the patio on warm summer afternoons
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We;d like it while watching movies at home.
I would treat myself to this after an extra long day at work.
We would enjoy them on the weekend in a nice big sugar cone!
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We’d enjoy it at a birthday get together
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My grandsons would love this for dessert in their blanket and chair fort they have built in my living room.
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After watching a family movie
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We would enjoy this as a dessert,grill outs etc. (snacks) lol
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We have ice cream for dessert almost every night. We all love Breyers Banana Split.
We would enjoy it snuggled on a coach watching a movie! sweepmorey at gmail dot com
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My daughter and I love sharing a bowl of ice cream late in the evening. Thanks for the chance to win!
We would enjoy it after dinner watching tv
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I’d serve Breyer Blasts on a waffle with whipped cream.
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as a weekend treat
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We would enjoy them as a dessert, or occasional treat.
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as an after dinner treat