baking friday :) Banana Muffins, Triple Berry Muffins, Cookie Bars, and Fried Zucchini! :)

"we love cookies and muffins!" :) my nephew's Hunter, Brayden, 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, flour flying, summer time celebrations 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, as we baked up some cool baking friday fun in the kitchen today:) the summer season is in full swing, lots of celebrations, festivities, and traditions :) We made 4 different goodies in the kitchen today :) 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, Kayla, Alyssa, the kids, and i baked cookie bars, triple berry muffins, banana muffins, and made fried zucchini for the first time :) it was so much fun! :) everyone is digging in, enjoying the goodies :) it's a spirit soaring time in the season, with lots of great memories being made :) a very special shoutout for my mom, dad, and Alyssa for picking up baking friday supplies :) They even picked up some extra supplies, for our baking friday next week :) We're cruising toward baking friday's 12th birthday! :) There's many more adventures to look forward too :) Thank you angel friends, for celebrating this very special tradition with us :)

Sweet joys of classic summer time! :) Hi angel friends, my family, Holly, and i hope everyone is doing well, keeping cool, hydrated, and enjoying a great day! :) We're thinking of you all, and wishing everyone relief, from the very extremely hot weather. a heatwave has began here, and gona be over 100 degrees with the heat index this weekend. We're taking good care, having plenty of cold drinks, making sure our pets and our nature friends are ok, and refilling the bird bath with cold water :) It's been a big week, with lots of summer time celebrations, and great memories being made :) We're having so much fun, celebrating the season with everyone :) There's lots of festivities, traditions, and celebrations, that makes summer time, such a sweet time :) Thank you all, for making our summer season very special, and memorable :)

This morning, we had a sweet new day, rising and shining :) We've been looking forward to baking some nice goodies and making fried zucchini for the first time :) a special friday tradition i love very much, is wishing my family, Holly, and friends, a happy baking friday, and i share with them, your sweet happy baking friday wishes :) awww! :) you all are so nice, and sweet :) Thank you angle friends, so very much :) We're so proud, to be using one of our garden zucchini's, as a part of our baking friday adventure today :) We've been enjoying the gardening season, and harvesting fresh garden goodies :) it's such a nice time in the season, and is very rewarding, seeing all of the goodies growing :) we love baking friday, and the special joys the season brings :)

As the new day was blossoming, i gathered a big bowl of goodies, and went outside, for my early morning nature walk :) i put lots of goodies in our backyard, bird sanctuary area for our nature friends :) they love their baking friday breakfast feasts :) awww! :) they've been visiting our yard often, to gather the goodies :) i was walking around our yard, checking our plants :) they're doing really well, and enjoyed the nice rain we recieved yesterday :) The plants are super mega growing :) we're gonna be picking more yellow squash, and string beans this weekend :) it's an amazing time in the gardening season, everything has grown so much :) We're loving the special joys, of the experience of the season :) Tending our plants, and helping them grow, and flourish :) We're loving 2019 gardening season :) Our plants are soaking up the sunshine, and warmth today, as they continue to super grow :) it's so neat, to see the flowers, popcorn cobs growing, and our sunflowers growing very tall :) We're so happy, and excited for lots more gardening adventures, as the season goes on :) we've been seeing lots of happy bumble bees, and butterflies visiting our yard, and garden :)

It was a sweet super charged up and exciting morning, as the nw day was blossoming :) We had a nice breakfast, and i made a blueberry iced coffee :) cheers!!! to the wonderful joys of the season :) i began to gather our baking friday decorations, and went out into our kitchen, to begin setting up, and decorating for our super fun adventure :) today, i decorated with a summer celebrations theme :) our kitchen looked great! :) i love displaying our cards, and treasures in our kitchen :) We made a nice lunch, and during the early afternoon, i enjoyed some nice time here on DS, writing to friends, and also browsed online at some collectibles :)i've been checking out some coins, and stamps :) i bought a stamps collector's book, and also some cool stamps on ebay, including the apollo 11 moon stamps, and a few others, including a classic CT stamp :) i'm so happy and excited for my new stamps and book to arrive :) it's fun browsing around :) Holly and i went outside for a bit, for a nature walk, we checked our plants, and picked 2 more cucumbers and string beans :) we had salads for lunch, with cucumber from our garden :) we filled the bird bath with cold water :) We've got AC and fans on, keeping cool, and comfortable, as it's gotten very hot as the day went on. We're having iced cold drinks :)

Around 3pm, Alyssa and the kids, and Jenn and the kids came over :) we were all gathering around ,lots of great spirit, and excitement in the air :) The kids were cheering, "it's baking friday!" :) awww! :) they get so excited, for the adventures :) my niece Alyssa brought over some extra supplies, and earlier my mom and dad got some extra supplies too :) muffins mixes :) This is awesome!!! :) earlier, i sliced a zucchini from our garden, and got th frylator ready, and had bowls of half and half cream milk, and breadcrumbs :) the kids love to select their spots in the kitchen by the counter, as we get ready to get our picture taken :) it's a cool baking friday tradition :) You all are always right there with us in spirit, during these special times :) Each week, we love to use our baking friday supplies, that we've recieved from family and friends over the years :) i wear my apron, and we use our oven mits, kitchen towels, and all of our supplies, are a special part of our baking friday adventures each week :) our kitchen wa sall set, and we were ready to blossom into some cool baking :) calling all cookie monsters! :) it's time to bake! bake! bake! :)

We began our super fun adventure! :) Kayla, Alyssa, the kids, and i first began to prepare the chocolate chip cookies mix :) We used a package of the mix :) baking friday teamwork! :) the kids love to help :) they're great helpers :) they get so proud, when they add the ingredients, super stirring, and of course, enjoying the goodies we bake :) Kayla picked out the best egg ever :) she loves to pick out the eggs :) We were stirring the cookies, and i got a baking dish ready, i spread vegetable oil into the dish, and we poured the cookies mix into the dish, and i put the cookie bars into the oven to bake :)

As the cookie bars were baking, we got ready to make the banana muffins, and triple berry muffins :) we were sharing lots of smiles, baking friday spirit! :) my mom and Jenn came out into the kitchen too :) we were all having lots of fun, enjoying the adventure :) we mixed the banana muffins, and added the muffins mix into baking cups, and then mixed the triple berry muffins mix :) we had a whole baking pan ready to bake in the oven :)We love muffins :) Holly was excited for the fried zucchini, and banana muffins :) i put the muffins into the oven to bake :)

on the stove area, i was making 2 kinds of fried zucchini :) the first kind, was zucchini dipped in half and half cream milk, and then dipped in breadcrumbs, and the second kind, was flour, half and half cream milk, breadcrumbs, an egg, and also some garlic salt and pepper :) The zucchini was frying nicely :) we were all hanging out, enjoying the awesome spirit of the day :) we were having so much fun, baking, and cooking :) we did some cleaning up in the kitchen :) the cookie bars finished baking, and the muffins finished baking too :) our kitchen smelled great :)

i took some pictures of the baked goodies, and some fried zucchini, it came out great! :) we all began to dig in :) the goodies are awesome :) my mom and Alyssa had a triple berry muffin, and Holly and Hunter had a banana muffin :) Jenn and i had some fried zucchini, and all of the kids were having som cookie bars :) Mikey and Taylynn were playing the video games with Colby, and Carter and Brodie are in the living room, we're all hanging out :) this is so much fun! :) We had so much fun baking goodies today, and making zucchini :) i thanked Kayla, Alyssa, and the kids for helping bake :) we love these special times, and all of the great memories being made :) we have many more super fun baking friday adventures to look forward too :) 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 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 :) Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars, Banana Muffins, Triple Berry Muffins, and Fried Zucchini, dedicated to our wonderful family, friends, and to the wonderful spirit of the summer season :) We love you all so very very much! :) many great memories made, to always cherish and treasure :) baking friday, we love it!!! :) July 19th, 2019 :) Happy baking friday everyone! :)

We're enjoying a super sweet, awesome spirit soaring day :) baking friday, summer time, we love it!!! :) my family, Holly, and i are doing well, and are in great spirits :) we're so happy, thankful, and blessed to have the wonderful opportunity, to share in, and celebrate very special times, and great weeks like this, with everyone :) Lots of very special memories being made :) We're so happy, and excited, to blossom into the weekend :) We hope everyone keeps cool, and hydrated :) We're gonna go to the dollar tree early tomorrow :) We're gonna buy some cards, gifts, and snacks :) i hope the dollar tree has some new hotwheels, and dvds :) We're gonna pace ourselves, with tending our plants. It's gonna be extremely hot weather. We're gonna limit the amount of time we spend outside. We're gonna watch youtube videos, and Holly and i look forward to our fun popcorn movie party :) i'm gonna do some writing, we're gonna organize our coins books, and open our twd cards this weekend :) i look forward to sharing our weekend adventures, and pictures with everyone, in my weekend journals :) There's lots more great things to look forward too :) Tonight, Holly and i are going to watch 2 episodes of most haunted show :) we love our friday night, paranormal party night's :) Thank you angel friends, so very much, for all that you do for us :) You all are wonderfully nice, sweet, and very caring :) We deeply appreciate everything, with all of the loe of our hearts :) big group caring happy sunflower friendship hug :) We hope everyone enjoys a wonderful weekend :)

-never lose hope :)

To Wildthing, Peaceful Gentle Moments of the day :) Wildthing, it's a spirit soaring summer day :) Today, Kayla, Alyssa, the kids, and i baked chocolate chip cookies, banana muffins, triple berry muffins and made fried zuccihini for baking friday :) Thinking of you, our dear friend :)

my mom says hi :) She says, "i hope everyone is having a really good baking friday" :) awww! :) We love you all bunches and bunches, our sweet dear wonderful guardian angel friends :) We hope everyone is doing well, and enjoying a great day :) We think of you all often :) We wish everyone a wonderfully safe, fun, and happy weekend :) keep cool, and hydrated :) we care deeply :)
Happy baking friday!!! :) Calling all cookie monsters! :) it's sweet classic and golden summer time! :)The season is in full swing :) Lots of festivities, traditions, and great summer time memories being made :) my family, Holly, and i are having so much fun, celebrating the summer season with everyone :) there's lots of awesome garden nature glowing, lots of fun times, summer celebrations :) We're cherishing and treasuring in all of the special times :) We're having a great summer of baking friday adventures as we countdown to baking friday's 12th birthday in September :) This ia picture of our kitchen all set up, and decorated for our super fun adventure :) Today, we're baking chocolate chip cookie bars, banana muffins, triple berry muffins, and making fried zucchini for the first time :) Thank you everyone, so very much, 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! :) cookie monsters unite! :) it's time to bake! bake! bake! :)

baking friday supplies! :) We have a very special shoutout, for my dear, and lovely mom, dad, niece Alyssa, and nature! :) my mom, dad, and Alyssa went shopping, and picked up baking friday supplies, plus we're using some fresh garden zucchini, from our garden, to make fried zucchini for the first time :) Thank you mom, dad, Alyssa, so very much! :) it's very nice, and sweet of them :) We all love to chip in and get baking friday supplies each week :) We're very happy, and thankful to have this very special tradition in our lives :) happy baking friday smiles :)

Greetings, from our kitchen to yours! :) Kayla, the kids, and i got our picture taken in the kitchen today :) it's a cool baking friday tradition :) You all are always right there with us in spirit :) happy baking friday smiles :)

Baking friday teamwork! :) preparing the goodies :) The kids love to help :) they're great helpers :) they get so proud, when they add the ingredients, super stirring, and of course, enjoying the goodies we bake :) sharing lots of happy baking friday smiles :)

Alyssa said, "Take a picture of me pouring the cookies mix" :) She's so happy joining in on the baking friday fun :)

Banana Muffins, Triple Berry Muffins, Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars, and Fried Zucchini! :) come on over, for some baking friday goodies! :) Kayla, Alyssa, the kids, and i had lots of fun baking goodies, and cooking today :) we love these awesome times, and all of the great memories being made :) The spirit of summer season is all around, with lots of festivities, traditions, and celebrations :) baking friday :)

our first time making fried zucchini :) it came out awesome :)