baking friday :)Apple Pie, Chocolate Chip Cookies :)Celebrating baking friday's 18th Anniversary!:)

Happy 18th Anniversary baking friday, from the Baking friday Crew! Lets Bake!"- my nephew's Hunter, Brody, Jacob, Mikey, Brayden, Colby, Carter, Holly and i 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, flour flying, and super sweet, Happy 18th Anniversary themed baking friday adventure in the kitchen! :) This was so much fun! :) we had the flour flying in the air, and sharing lots of smiles and spirited cheer, celebrating baking friday's 18th Anniversary! :) baking lots of goodies :) We're very happy and excited to celebrate this very special day with everyone, and all of the spirited excitement this very special tradition brings each week :) Happy 18 years of baking friday, and many more to look forward too! :) come on over, for some baking friday goodies! :)

We sure do love our baking friday adventures,and sharing our adventures with everyone :) keeping with the tradition ,a wonderfully wholesome tradition :) Today, the kids, Holly ,and i baked an apple pie, and chocolate chip cookies :) it was lots of fun :) We love to bake an apple pie each year, for baking friday's anniversary :)We're celebrating the 18th anniversary of baking friday today :) We're very happy, thankful, and blessed to have the baking friday tradition in our lives, we love counting down to our adventures, and are thrilled to celebrate this very special day with everyone :) Thank you angel friends,for joining us in our kitchen each week :) Happy baking friday smiles :)

Happy 18th Anniversary Baking Friday! :) Celebrating baking friday's 18th Anniversary, with family, friends, and Baking! :) Hi angel friends :) Greetings, from our baking friday kitchen to yours :) my family, Holly ,and i hope everyone is doing well,healthy, and enjoying a wonderful day :)We love hearing from you, and we think of you all often :)We're very excited to share in these golden days of September with everyone ,and blossoming into the fall season :) We love the spirit of the season, and all of the seasonal festivities, and traditions that brings lots of great memories :) We're very excited, to celebrate baking friday's 18th anniversary today :)We love this very special tradition :) i remember it like it was yesterday, when baking friday first began :) it was September 21st, 2007 :) my first year here on DS :) We had an amazing apples growing season that year, our winesap apple tree had lots of apples grow :) i remember us picking some nice bowls full of apples, and we decided to bake our first apple pie, which was on a friday :) i remember the pie coming out great, and putting the pie into our microwave :) i was just about to close the microwave door, but decided it would be neat to take a picture of the apple pie, and share the picture with everyone here on DS :)

i remember the picture of the apple pie was very popular, and everyone asked what we were going to bake the following friday :) The baking friday tradition was born :) my niece Kayla was 6 years old, when baking friday began, she and i baked for years, and eventually our nephew's, and niece Taylynn, joined in at times, and Holly joined in when she moved here to live with us in 2019 :) We love baking friday, the very special fun, joy, excitement, and great memories it brings us throughout the years :) It's always an adventure in the kitchen :)We're very blessed, and thankful to have the baking friday tradition in our lives, to be able to share in the adventures each week :) it's our favorite day and tradition :) From fall, to winter, to spring and summer, baking, cooking ,grilling, getting the kitchen warm in the winter time ,or having ice cream and grilling hotdogs during summer, there's lots of delicious goodies we enjoy making throughout the seasons of the year :) We'll forever treasure all of the great memories made, throughout the years, and many new memories :) one of our favorite joys about baking friday, is you all, our dear angel friends, joining in on the adventures :)We're so happy ,and excited everyone enjoys our adventures, and pictures and seeing the kids grow up over the years :) We have many more super fun baking friday adventures to look forward too :) You all make baking friday very special :) it brings us lots of great joy and excitement getting to share our adventures :)Thank you angel friends, for sharing in this very special tradition with us each week, and for sharing in the season with us :) We love you all bunches and bunches! :) Sending our love, super big happy sunny warm caring friendship hugs, and happy baking friday smiles : )Wishing everyone continued joys of the season :)

This morning, we had a sweet new day, rising and shining :) a very special friday tradition i love very much, is wishing Holly, our family ,and our friends a happy baking friday ,and i share with Holly and our family, your sweet happy baking friday wishes :) Thank you angel friends, so very much :) You all are very nice, and sweet :) we've been looking forward to our super fun adventure, celebrating baking friday's 18th anniversary, and getting ready to welcome the fall season :) it's a wholeome, heart warming time of the year :) i was up early this morning ,enjoying some nice time here on DS, writing to friends,and getting ready for my early morning nature walk :) It feels like fall season is arriving, with some cooler weather, and some trees begining to change colors a bit :) We love those bright colors of fall, they'll be shining all around very soon :) i gathered a nice bowl of goodies, and went outside for my nature walk :)

Our nature friends, sunrise sunshine, and flowers greeted me :) a nice cool and crisp early morning, with a hint of fall season in the air :) i put lots of goodies on the bird feeders, and in the bird sanctuary area for our nature friends :) They love their baking friday breakfast feasts :) we love seeing our nature friends visitng :) There's lots of spirit soaring nature sights all around :) Our flowers, and plants are doing well, we have lots of morning glory flowers blossoming alongside our backyard fence, they shine bright as the sun is rising up more in the sky :) It's so nice, seeing our flowers blossoming, it's a sweet time in the gardening season, as the seasons get ready to transition from summer to fall :) We're very excited to continue to enjoy our garden, nature walks, and seeing our garden and plants blossom into the fall season, with lots of beautiful fall foliage shining all around :) Happy sunny nature smiles :)

It was a nice peaceful early morning :)We enjoyed our breakfast, and having some hot chamomile tea ,water , and vanilla iced coffee :)We love the scent of the coffee brewing :) Tiger girl enjoyed her breakfast, and some treats :) i began to gather our baking friday supplies, kitchen decorations ,and went out into our kitchen to begin setting up and decorating our kitchen for our super fun adventure :) Today, i decorated with a happy 18th anniversary themed baking friday theme :) i used the special baking friday shirts that our dear friends Deb (Stardust) and family sent us years ago, featuring classic baking friday pictures from our early adventures :) our kitchen looks great :) it's lots of fun decorating :) as the morning went on, we put our favorite sports radio on :) We love tuning in, they have their football preview on friday's :) We love all of the sports talk, and looking forward to a great football sunday coming up, and having a football party :) Around mid-day, we enjoyed a nice lunch, and during the early afternoon i enjoyed some time here on DS :)

Around 3pm, Jenn and the kids came over, and Brody and the triplets came over :) We love welcoming everyone over :) Lots of great spirit and seasonal excitement in the air :)The kids are having some nice school days, they're having a great start to the new school year and are looking forward to halloween time :) We'll be beginning our halloween season themed baking friday adventures soon, along with lots of fall season baking :) It's very exciting, all of the seasonal times, festivities, and traditions :) We love when the kids help pick out the baking friday menu :) They're giving us lots of cool ideas for halloween season baking :) We all gathered in the kitchen :) The kids love to select their spots at the kitchen counter :) the kids, Holly, and i got our picture taken :) it's a special baking friday tradition :) You all are always right there with us in spirit in the kitchen :) my mom takes the picture of us each week :) We love to use our nice baking friday supplies, i wear my nice apron Holly gave me, and we use our nice oven mits, kitchen towels, baking pans, and all of our baking supplies that we've recieved from family and friends over the years :) Our kitchen was all set, and we were ready to bake some nice goodies :) Sweet Seasonal baking as we countdown to the fall season :) 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 love to put the apple slices in water, and we then add in sugar and cinnamon,and we simmer cook the apples on the stove :) We use the ready make pie crust, and a nice baking tin to put the crust in :) we love the scent of apples and cinnamon in our kitchen :) We added the apples into the crust, and then added more sugar and cinnamon, and the pie crust on top of the apples, and then made some small holes in the top of the crust so that the pie evenly bakes :) i covered the pie with aluminum foil,and put the pie into the oven to bake :) We love the scent of apples and cinnamon baking in the oven :) baking an apple pie, brings back lots of great memories of the first apple pie we baked in 2007 :) As the pie was baking, we got ready to prepare the chocolate chip cookies :)

the kids were so excited, they love chocolate chip cookies :) the kids love to add in the ingredients, Brody cracked open the egg :) all of the kids helped out today in the kitchen, and were hanging out in the kitchen :) We added in the flour ,sugar, butter, and began to super stir the ingredients :) We had flour flying in the air in the kitchen! :) that's always been a cool baking friday tradition over the years :) We taste tested the chocolate chips :) We love the chips :) We made a big batch of the cookie dough :) we were sharing lots of smiles and spirited cheer :) my mom came out into the kitchen at times, and you all are always right there with us in spirit in the kitchen :) i used butter to grease the baking pan, and we made the dough into cookie shapes, and i put the cookies into the oven to bake :) The kids were having lots of fun, playing arm wrestling :)they were showing us how strong they are! :) We did some cleaning up in the kitchen, and the kids were going back and forth ,from the kitchen, living room, and outside :)

The apple pie finished baking ,i brought the pie out of the oven and took a picture of the pie in our microwave, just like the apple pie we baked in 2007 :) The chocolate chip cookies baked nicely too, i brought the cookies out of the oven to cool down :) The kids were excited to enjoy some cookies :) we had lots of fun baking goodies today, celebrating baking friday's 18th anniversary :) i thanked the kids, and Holly for helping bake goodies :) We have many more super fun baking friday adventures to look forward too, including our fall/halloween season baking friday's :) A very special shoutout for family and friends :) Lots of great baking and cooking this week :) We love hearing about the 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 Chocolate Chip Cookies, dedicated to our wonderful family, friends, and to the awesome spirit of the season :)We love you all, so very very much :) many great memories made, to always cherish and treasure :) baking friday, we love it! :) September 19th, 2025 :) Happy 18th Anniversary baking friday everyone! :)

We're enjoying a great day :) baking friday,and sweet seasonal spirit :) my family, Holly, and i are doing ok, and continuing with the good care :) it was lots of fun baking goodies today :) We love these very special, spirited fun times, and all of the great memories being made :) The weekend is arriving with lots of seasonal spirit :) We love the weekend's :)Tomorrow, we're gonna go shopping at the dollar tree :) We love shopping there :) We're going to buy some treats for Tiger girl, plus some snacks, drinks, candy, and browsing at the fall, halloween decorations, and hotwheels :) Holly and i are going to have a fun, popcorn movies party :)We picked out some cool movies, and going to watch a new movie on saturday night :)on sunday, we're going to have a football gameday party, with foods, snacks, drinks ,and spirited gameday cheer :) it's gonna be a great weekend :) i look forward to sharing our weekend adventures, and pictures with everyone in my weekend journals :) There's lots to look forward too :) Tonight,Holly and i are going to watch 2 episodes of most haunted show :) We love our fun, friday night paranormal party night's :) Thank you angel friends, for always being here for us, and for the special joy you all bring us :) We're very blessed, and thankful to have you all in our lives :) We appreciate you all very much, and will always be here for you all too :) Big group caring, happy sunny sunflower friendship hug :) We wish everyone a nice peaceful evening and night :)

-never lose hope :)

my mom, Holly ,and our family says hello :) We hope everyone is doing well,healthy,enjoying a wonderful day, and a really good baking friday :) We love you all bunches and bunches, our sweet dear wonderful guardian angel friends :) You all are always in our thoughts, prayers, and in our hearts :) We're very excited, to blossom into the fall season with everyone, and all of the excitement and spirit of the seasonal festivities, and traditions to share in :) We wish everyone a healthy, safe, and peaceful weekend :)

Happy 18th Anniversary baking friday! :) Calling all cookie monsters! :)We're celebrating baking friday's 18th Anniversary! :) my family, Holly ,and i are very excited, sharing in this special day with everyone, and all of the continued joys of the month of September,as the fall season begins to arrive :) There's lots of great things going on, and many seasonal festivities and traditions that brings lots of great memories :) we sure do love our baking friday adventures, and sharing our adventures with everyone :) This is a picture of our kitchen all set up and decorated, for our super fun adventure :) Today, we're baking an apple pie, and chocolate chip cookies :) Celebrating 18 years of baking friday fun, adventures, baking an apple pie just like the 1st baking friday :) Thank you angel friends, for joining us in our kitchen each week,and for welcoming us into your kitchens :) This is so much fun and very special :) Calling all cookie monsters :) it's time to bake! bake! bake! :)

baking friday supplies :) A special thank you for Alyssa :) Alyssa went to the stores, and picked up baking friday supplies this week :) it's very nice of her :) We all love to chip in to get the supplies :) We love baking friday, and are very thankful, and blessed to have this very special tradition in our lives :)

The very first apple pie we baked, on September 21st, 2007 :) the baking friday tradition was born :)

Picture of one of our baking friday shirts, that our dear friends Deb (Stardust) and her family sent us years ago :) The pictures collages feature pictures of the first baking friday adventures, in 2007 into 2008 :) Deb and family also baked, and she included pictures of some of the goodies she and family baked too :)

Greetings, from our September countdown to Fall season kitchen to yours :) The baking friday crew :) 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 seasonal adventures :) You all are always right there with us in spirit, in the kitchen :) it's our favorite tradition :) We love gathering, and sharing lots of smiles with spirited baking friday cheer :) Sweet seasonal baking, and cooking as the Fall season approaches :)

Baking friday teamwork! :) The kids love to help :) they're great helpers :) 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 love helping teach the kids how to bake and cook goodies and foods :) we're so happy the kids love to help pick the baking friday menu :) We love baking friday, and are very excited to countdown to the fall season with our super fun adventures, with many great memories being made :) Celebrating baking friday's 18th Anniversary :)

Apple Pie, and Chocolate Chip Cookies :) Come on over, for some baking friday goodies :) the kids, Holly, and i had lots of fun baking goodies, and celebrating baking friday's 18th anniversary :)We love this very special tradition :) Sharing lots of smiles, and spirited cheer :) baking friday :)