Banana Pudding and a Pool Party!

So much for sleeping in this morning! It always happenes that way. When I really want to stay in bed, I have to be somewhere and can't. When I can stay in bed, I'm up at the crack of dawn! So. Since I was awake, I decided to get my Saturday started. 

We have a birthday pool party to attend today. It was raining when I woke up this morning, but has stopped now. All week it's been very cloudy with scattered storms. Don't get me wrong, I've enjoyed it. We NEEDED it! But it's the weekend now and that means pool time. Hopefully, it will clear off by this afternoon (the weatherman doesn't think it will).

Anyways. I made banana pudding this morning for his birthday. He loves it, so I make it every year. 

I thought I'd share the recipe with you. I always use light or fat free ingredients ( I can't tell a big difference) and this time I used Walmart brand.

You will need:

2 small boxes French vanilla instant pudding mix (and 2 cups milk to mix with pudding)

1 large tub Cool Whip

1 can sweet condensed milk

1 box vanilla wafers

3 or 4 bananas 

 To make the pudding, combine pudding mix with 2 cups of cold milk and whip until thick. Then, add the can of sweet condensed milk and half of the cool whip (the other half goes on top).

Then you begin layering. Place wafers across the bottom of the dish. 

Next, spread half of the pudding onto the wafers. 

  

Add a layer of bananas and then repeat with the wafers and pudding mix only. Top with the rest of the cool whip. Crumble leftover wafers and sprinkle on top.

So here's the funny part. I've made this many many times. I must have still been asleep this morning because I forgot the layer of bananas! I had to carefully scrape off the cool whip layer, then the pudding layer (I didn't even try to remove the cookie layer, so mine is out of order). Anyways. I placed the bananas on the cookies and added everything back. OOPS!