Yummy goodness... yeah, just for my brodda!

So we're preparing for our trip to Lancaster for Labor Day weekend and my brother's Welcome Home Party! (Cole returned from his tour of duty overseas with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit on August 12th and is FINALLY receiving leave to come home to PA!)

Brayden reminds me on an hourly basis that we're going to "Go bye-byes in da caaa to Mimi-Pop-pop-doodas-Unco-Co." TRANSLATION: We're going to my parents house (which requires us to drive past the Strasburg Railroad where he once saw "doodas" (AKA Thomas) to see Uncle Cole! Did you get all that? =) He actually thinks my parents last name is "Thomas" instead of Miller, which is comical for many reasons....

ANYway, other than packing the car with necessary items for traveling with my "high matainence" family (food, toys, clothes, food....) I've also been working on some other things. Here are a few teasers before the party Saturday!!

This is the first layer of my Ice cream cake- ice cream sandwiches... (YES, you may take notice of the ice cream sandwich at the bottom of the picture with a bite out of it. I HAD TO! Honestly! If you count across, there is an odd number, so when cutting them in 1/2 to fit the dish, there was 1/2 left over! darn...)

The second layer of yummy goodness (caramel)

1/2 a jar, THATS IT! hehe

Then a layer of Cool Whip... Then start the layering all over again!! (I'm currently awaiting Derek's arrival home with more ice cream sandwiches since this pack was unusually small!)

And just a note... I'm going to top the next layer with chocolate syrup instead of the caramel, and after the Cool Whip- strawberries & blue berries depicting an American Flag!!)

Check out the layer action on THAT! ;)

And here is my last surprise sneak peak:

Can YOU guess what it is??? (Bonus points for anyone who guesses correctly-other than my mom!)