baking friday :) 17th Anniversary :) Apple Pie, and Brownies :) cookie monsters smiles :)

"lets bake these brownies, double chocolate!"- my nephew's Brayden, Hunter, Colby, and Jacob said that today, during baking friday! :)

baking friday! :)Calling all cookie monsters! :) hehe! :)cookie monsters! :) hehe! :)cookie monsters unite! :) it's baking friday! :) oh my! :)A super fun, and super sweet, happy 17th anniversary themed baking friday adventure in the kitchen :) This was some great fun we very much needed, sharing smiles, and spirited cheer as we baked some goodies, honoring baking friday's 17th anniversary :) it was so nice having family over to visit, and baking goodies :) beginning our fall season baking friday adventures :) Come on over, for some baking friday goodies :)

We sure do love our baking friday adventures, and sharing our adventures with the everyone :) keeping with the tradition, a wonderfully wholesome tradition :) today, the kids, Holly, and i baked an apple pie, and brownies :) We love our annual anniversary baking friday adventure :) a wonderful tradition that began in 2007 :) many years of baking, and so much more to look forward too :) We're beginning a whole new season of fall season baking,lots of goodies, treats, and enjoying some sweet spirit of the season :) Thank you angel friends, for sharing in this very special tradition with us each week :) To baking friday, happy 17th anniversary :)

Baking friday's 17th Anniversary! :) Hi angel friends :) We're having a very special 17th anniversary honor, for baking friday today :) You all are with us in spirit :) my family, Holly, and i hope everyone is doing well, healthy,and enjoying a nice day :) We think of you all often,and love hearing from you :) Thank you angel friends, for being here for us, for all of your comforting and uplifting love, care, support, and prayers, and for all of your warm healing wishes for our Tiger girl :)We're very thankful, and blessed to have you all in our lives :) We're very glad, and thankful to share, Tiger girl is doing much better, feeling better, she's eating well, drinking water, and is regaining more and more of her energy and strength each day :) it's a wonderful healing blessing :) very good signs of continued healing improvement :) We'll forever be grateful, and appreciative, very thankful for the vet hospital that took very good care of her, with treatments, and family and friends being here for us :) Tiger girl and Holly and i, send a big warm hug to you all, from our hearts to your hearts :)Thank you :)

We're having a very special honor today, for baking friday's 17th anniversary :) baking friday is our favorite tradition, a tradition that began on September 21st, 2007 :) we had a very nice apples growing season, and baked our first apple pie using our own apples from our winesap apple tree :) i remember us all being very proud, and put the apple pie in our microwave, i took a picture of the apple pie to share with everyone here in my DS journal :) i remember friends asking what we were going to bake the next friday, that's when the baking friday tradition was born :) my niece Kayla and i baked for years, and eventually my niece Taylynn joined in on the baking friday fun, and these days, my nephew's join in on the baking friday fun :) 17 years of awesome fun baking friday adventures, and many great memories made, and many more to be made each friday :) We're very thankful, and blessed to have the baking friday tradition in our lives :) We love baking friday and sharing our adventures with everyon e:) it brings us great joy, baking, sharing smiles, spirited cheer, and getting to share our adventures with everyone :) You all have gotten to see the kids over the years, growing up, learning to bake, cook, grill, and all of the sweet fun moments, including those funny faces the kids love to make, during our adventures :) baking friday, is always an adventure in the kitchen, when the cookie monsters unite :) We're very excited, to honor baking friday's 17th anniversary today, and beginning a whole new year of baking friday adventures, beginning with fall season baking :) Happy baking friday smiles :)

This morning, we had a good new day, rising and shining, with our Tiger girl up early, eating some food, and drinking water :) it's a pure joy to see :) we're very thankful, and feeling very blessed :) A very special baking friday tradition i love very much, is wishing my family, Holly, and friends a happy baking friday, and i share with my family and Holly, your sweet happy baking friday wishes :) You all are very nice, and sweet :) Thank you angel friends, so very much :) It was a peaceful early morning :)We've been getting into our daily routines, which helps bring a very nice balance :) seeing Tiger up, and her energy and strength, her health, much better, has really given us all much comfort, we so very much hoped and prayed for :) We love our Tiger girl, and all of our pets :) We had some late rain here overnight, but it cleared by this morning, with a nice fall season sunrise :) i gathered a bowl of goodies, and went outside for my nature walk :) i put lots of goodies, on the bird feeders, and in the bird sanctuary area for our natue friends :) they love their baking friday breakfast feasts :) it's so nice, seeing the birds, squirrels, some early signs of fall season blossoming with trees changing colors :) nature is a big part of our lives, Holly and i look forward to all of our nature walks :)We have lots of morning glory flowers, som daises, sunflowers, roses, marigolds,and more, continuing to blossom in our garden :) it's so nice to see the fall season blossoms :) We look forward to see more of the trees, and leaves changing colors for the season, and picking our pumpkins in our garden soon :)

We enjoyed a nice breakfast :) Tiger girl had some of her pate wet food, and dry food :) Holly and i have been having some bagels, and cereal :) keeping our energy and strength up, eating well, and keeping hydrated :) we had some water, grape juice, chamomile tea :) Lisa brought us some vanilla iced coffees, from cumberland farms :) it's very nice of her :) We've been looking forward to having a traditional, classic baking friday today :) i began to gather our baking friday supplies, kitchen decorations, and went out into our kitchen to begin to set up and decorate our kitchen, for our super fun adventure :) Today ,i decorated with a nice Fall Season ,Apples theme :) our kitchen looks great, and spirited :) decorating the kitchen is a big part of the baking friday tradition :) As the morning went on, we put some sports radio on, and spending time with our Tiger girl :) She's doing so much better :) around mid-day, we enjoyed a nice lunch ,and added fresh dry cat food to Tiger's bowl :) she has her own food/water area, with a nice placemat, her bowls for food, water, and she has a plate too :) she's so proud of her food/water area :) During the early afternoon, i enjoyed some nice time here on DS :)

After 3pm, Jenn and the kids came over, and the triplets and Brody came over, and Jenn and the kid came over :) The kids have been having some good days :) They love when it's friday, and weekend's arrive, and they get to have some days off from school, they love playing outside, and playing their video games :) We're so glad, and thankful everyone came over, and us all gathering to bake goodies today, for a classic baking friday adventure :) The kids, Holly, and i got our picture taken in the kitchen :) it's a special baking friday tradition : )You all are always right there with us in spirit in the kitchen :) We love to use our nice baking friday supplies, i wear my apron Holly gave me, and we use our nice oven mits ,kitchen towels, baking pans, and all of our supplies that we've recieved from family and friends over the years :) Our kitchen was all set, and we were ready to bake som goodies :) Calling all cookie monsters :) It's time to bake! bake! bake! :)

We began our super fun adventure! :) baking friday teamwork! :) The kids love to help! :) They're great helpers :) We first began to prepare the apple pie :) we used frozen apple slices ,for the pie :) We got the pie baking dish ready, with a ready made crust :)we added in the apple slices, along with cinnamon and sugar :) We covered the apples with another ready made pie crust :) We made som small holes in the crust so that the pie baked evenly :) i put the apple pie into the oven to bake :) we love the scent of apples and cinnamon baking in the oven :) when i think of fall season ,i think of many trips to the apple orchards when i was a kid, picking an apple to eat while picking more apples :) always such a great fun time, and many special memories :)

As the pie was baking ,we got ready to prepare the brownies :) Hunter and Colby cracked open the eggs :) We added in the brownies mix, eggs, water, and vegetable oil :) We began to super stir the brownies mix :)We were sharing smiles, and cheer :) my mom and Jenn came out into the kitchen at times too, and you all are always right there with us in spirit, during these sweet times :) i used vegetable oil to grease the baking pan, and we poured the brownies mix into the pan, and i put the brownies into the oven to bake :) we did some cleaning up in the kitchen :) The brownies finished baking first, i brought the brownies out of the oven to cool down :) We were hanging out :)The kids went outside to play with their neighborhood friends :) The apple pie finished baking, i brought the pie out of the oven :) once the brownies cooled down, i sliced the brownies, took pictures of the brownies, and apple pie, and we all began to dig in :)

The brownies came out great, we look forward to having some apple pie this weekend :) it was so much fun baking goodies today :) i thanked the kids and Holly for helping bake :) We love these very special times, and are looking forward to many more super fun baking friday adventures, all throughout the fall season :) A very special shoutout for family and friends :) Lots of great baking, and cooking this week :) We love hearing about the nice goodies, and foods you all bake and cook :)We're all with eachother in spirit, in our kitchens :) this is so much fun and very special :) i wish we all could gather, and have a big baking friday picnic :) Apple Pie, and Brownies, dedicated to our wonderful family, friends, and to the wonderful spirit of the fall season :) We love you all, so very very much! :) many great memories made, to always cherish and treasure :) baking friday, we love it! :) September 27th, 2024 :) Happy baking friday everyone :)

It's a good day, baking friday, Tiger continuing to make good healing improvements, and ready to blossom into the weekend :) It was so nice baking goodies today, having baking friday's 17th anniversary :) We love gathering together, and all of the great memories being made :) We look forward to many more baking friday's, as we blossom more into the fall season :) We love seasonal baking :) my family, Holly, and i are doing ok, taking good care, getting good rest, and are continuing to share times together :) It's been a big and busy week. We're so glad, and thankful our Tiger girl is continuing to eat well, drinking water, and making good healing improvements each day :) She's doing much better :) We're very thankful, and relieved :) We're gonna spend lots of nice time with Tiger this weekend, having a nice weekend at home, resting :) Holly and i are gonna watch some movies on saturday, and picking out a new movie to watch on saturday night :) On sunday, we're going to watch football, and having some foods, snacks, and drinks :) We're going to cook spaghetti, with garlic toast for football sunday gameday meal :) i'm going to do some writing this weekend too :) Thank you angel friends, for being here for us, and for your comforting love, care, support, and prayers :) it means the world to us :) We'll always be here for you too :) big group caring, sunny warm friendship hug :) my mom, Holly, and our family says hi :) We love you all bunches and bunches our sweet dear wonderful guardian angel friends :) We send our love, wishing everyone a peaceful evening and night,and a safe, and peaceful weekend :)

Happy baking friday! :) Calling all cookie monsters :) a very special 17th anniversary baking friday :) my family, Holly, and i love baking friday, and the joy it brings us and friends, all throughout the years :) We're baking some sweet goodies :) blossoming into some fall season baking with baking friday's 17th anniversary :) many years of super fun adventures, and great memories being made :) We sure do love our baking friday adventures, and sharing our adventures with everyone :) it's a very special tradition all these years :) Thank you all, for sharing in this very special tradition with us each week :) This is a picture of our kitchen all set up, and decorated for our adventure :) Today, the kids, Holly ,and i are baking an apple pie, and brownies :) Thank you angel friends, for joining us in our kitchen each week, and for welcoming us into your kitchens :) We love this very special tradition :) calling all cookie monsters :) it's time to bake! bake! bake! :)

A special thank you for Alyssa and my mom and dad :) they picked up baking friday supplies :) it's very nice of them :) We love baking friday, and are very thankful, and blessed to have this very special tradition in our lives :)

Holly created this very nice baking friday shirt with many themes for each month of the year :) 

Greetings, from our kitchen to yours :) The baking friday crew gathered today :) The kids, Holly ,and i got our picture taken in the kitchen :) it's a very special tradition :) We love welcoming everyone over, for these fun adventures :) You all are always right there with us in spirit, in the kitchen :) baking friday's 17th anniversary today :)

Baking friday teamwork! :) The kids love to help :) They get so proud, adding the ingredients, super stirring, and of course enjoying the goodies we bake :) we're very proud of the kids, and all that they have learned about baking, and cooking :) They love to help Holly and i in the kitchen :) We look forward to many more fun adventures, beginning our fall season baking friday adventures :)

the kids love to make funny faces! :) hehe :) 

Apple Pie, and Brownies :) Come on over, for some baking friday goodies :) The kids, Holly, and i had a  fun time baking goodies :)We love these very special, spirited fun times, with the spirit of the season, and all of the togetherness that baking friday brings :)Family, friends, and sharing smiles :) the 17th anniversary of baking friday :)