baking friday :) Berry Muffins, and Onion Pretzels :) Sharing lots of Smiles! :)

Happy baking friday, from our kitchen to yours! :)

baking friday! :) Calling all cookie monsters! :) hehe! :) Cookie monsters! :) hehe! :) Cookie monsters unite!!! :) it's baking friday! :) oh my! :) a super sweet and fun, summer time baking friday adventure in the kitchen! :) Holly and i baked some awesome goodies today :) The kids are having some summer adventures, and were with us in spirit :) We're so happy and excited to blossom into a whole new season of baking friday fun, baking, cooking, chillin n grillin, and lots of great memories being made :) 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, Holly and i baked some onion pretzels, and berry muffins :) We had a fun time baking,and my mom joined us in the kitchen too :) we were hanging out, talking about baking, and summer time :) We're enjoying some goodies, and iced coffees :) We're so excited, for lots of summer times to share in, all throughout the season :) You all make these times very special, and memorable for us :) i have some cool baking friday adventure pictures to share today, and some classic baking friday memories pictures to share too :) We love this very special tradition :)

Summer Time Spirit! :) Hi angel friends! :) my family, Holly, and i hope everyone is doing well, healthy, and enjoying a wonderful day :) We think of you all often :) The summer season is here, and lots of great seasonal festivities, and traditions that makes the season very special, and memorable :) We're very happy, and excited to share in, and celebrate the summer season with everyone :) Lots of great joyful times, and many great memories to be made :) Alyssa and family had safe travels to Virginia, and Jenn and family are camping :) Family is keeping in contact with us, during their adventures, travels :) The kids were all with us in spirit today, during baking friday :) We love this very special tradition ,and looking forward to baking friday each week :) We have a whole summer of baking friday adventures planned ,including our upcoming annual 4th of July themed baking friday adventure :) We're very happy, thankful, and blessed to have the baking friday tradition in our lives, and are so happy and thrilled, for all of our adventures this summer season :) it's very special to us, getting to share our adventures with everyone each week :) Wishing everyone continued joys, of a very happy summer season, with many spirit soaring joyful moments and smiles :)

This morning, we had a great new day rising and shining :) A very special 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 :) awww! :) Thank you angel friends, so very much! :) You all are very nice, and sweet :) It was a sweet thursday, and getting ready for baking friday today :) it's been a great stretch of days, and lots of summer time spirit as the season blossoms : )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's a great time in the gardening season ,and lots of awesome visits from our nature friends :) Holly and i love to hear and see the bumble bees buzzing around our yard, and garden :) Lots of spirit soaring nature and many more gardening adventures to look forward too :) i gathered a nice bowl of goodies, and went outside for my nature walk :)

We love the summer time nature, and all of the great nature to enjoy throughout the season :) i put lots of goodies in our backyard, near our fruit trees, and in the bird sanctuary area, for our nature friends :) They love their baking friday breakfast feasts :) Aww! :) Our plants ,and garden are doing well, growing and flourishing :) it's so nice ,and very exciting seeing how much everything has grown :) we have lots of nice fruit growing, and also vegetable plants growing :) it's awesome seeing some snap peas beginning to grow :) We look forward to picking lots of fresh garden goodies :) We're very happy and excited, seeing everything growing, and flourishing, and as the summer season blossoms more and more, we look forward to lots more summer time nature adventures, in our yard, and garden :) We have lots of beautiful roses, daisies, and lillies blossoming ,including our tiger lillies beginning to blossom near our snowball bush :) Our sunflowers are growing taller, and we have lots of wildflowers, and other flowers growing :) it's gonna be a summer of beautiful flowers blossoming all around :) it's such a fun ,and exciting time in the season :) Holly and i are having so much fun gardening ,and sharing our adventures with everyone :) it brings us lots of great joy :) Happy nature, and gardening season smiles :)

it was a sweet peaceful early morning :) We enjoyed our breakfast, and having some hot tea, iced coffee, water, and sprite soda :) i began to gather our baking friday supplies, decorations and went out into our kitchen to begin setting up and decorating our kitchen, for our super fun adventure :) it's one of my favorite baking friday traditions :) it's so much fun decorating :) Today ,i decorated with a cool summer theme :) our kitchen looked awesome! :) i prepared some nice onion pretzel dough early :) it's a really easy recipe :) 1 cup of water, 1 packet of yeast, about 4 tablespoons of sugar, some dried onion flakes, about 5 tablespoons of vegetable oil, and flour :) i added the flour into the bowl until the yeast/water/ingredients becomes a nice pretzel dough :) i then cover the dough ,and i put it in the fridge to rise :) Around mid morning ,we put the sports radio on, tuning into the basketball and football news :) We enjoyed a nice lunch around mid-day :)

Around 2pm, Holly and i got ready to bake the goodies :) We decided to bake earlier today, and looking forward to having some onion pretzels, and berry muffins :) The pretzel dough rised nicely :) Each week, we love to use our baking friday supplies we've recieved from family and friends over the years :) i wear my nice apron Holly gave me, and we use our nice oven mits, kitchen towels, and all of these special supplies are a big part of our baking, and cooking each week :) Holly and i got our picture taken in the kitchen :) my mom took the picture :) my mom was hanging out with us in the kitchen and you all were with us in spirit :) it's time to bake! bake! bake! :) We began our fun adventure! :) Holly and i prepared the berry muffins :) We used a nice muffins mix package :) We were sharing smiles, and thinking of all of the kids having some fun adventures, and thinking of some upcoming baking friday adventures, including our annual 4th of July themed baking friday adventure next week :) Holly and i put the muffins mix into a measuring cup, and poured the muffins mix into the baking cups, and put the muffins into the oven to bake :)

As the muffins were baking, we prepared the onion pretzels :)The pretzel dough rised nicely :) i cut the pretzel dough into portions :) we made the pretzel dough into the shapes of pretzels :) on the stove, i had a cooking pot filled with watering heating up :) i put the pretzels into the water one at a time ,this helps make the pretzels get larger :) i used a metal spatula to put the pretzels onto a baking pan that i greased with butter :) We melted some butter, and drizzled the butter on the pretzels :) my mom has some everything spices, like the everything spice bagels, she loves when we make 2 everything spice pretzels for her :) we sprinkled onion flakes on the rest of the pretzels :) the berry muffins finished baking, i brought the muffins out of the oven to coold own :) i then put the pretzels into the oven to bake :)

We did some cleaning up in the kitchen, and were hanging out, whole the pretzels were baking :) The pretzels baked for about 20 minutes, they baked nicely :) i brought the pretzels out of the oven :)The pretzels are awesome, they are great, especially when they've been out of the oven for about 5 minutes, the pretzels are nicely warm :) my mom, Holly and i each had a pretzel :)they're delicious, and the muffins are great too :) i thanked Holly for helping bake, and we thanked my mom for hanging out with us in t he kitchen :) We had a fun time baking, and are so happy and excited for lots more super fun adventures all throughout the summer season :) 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 :) Onion Pretzels, and Berry Muffins, dedicated to our wonderful family, friends, and to the awesome 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!!! :) June 23rd, 2023 :) Happy baking friday everyone! :)

We're enjoying a great day! :) baking friday! :) celebrating summer time spirit! :) We love it!!! : ) my family, Holly, and i are doing well, healthy,and in good spirit :) Holly and i enjoyed our baking friday adventure today, and looking forward to the kids returning to bake goodies with us next friday :) We love these very special, spirit soaring fun times, and all of the great memories being made :) The weekend is arriving with lots of seasonal spirit :) We love the weekend's :) on saturday, we're gonna go shopping at the dollar tree :) We love shopping there, it's fun browsing around :) We're going to buy some snacks, candy, some treats for Tiger, and browsing at the seasonal items :) Holly and i are going to have a fun popcorn movies party :) We're loving watching some summer time/themed movies :) on Sunday, we're going to watch some episodes of TWD, and also gonna have a special summer time writing day :) We have some potential stormy/rainy weather in our area, we hope for some opportunities to go out into our garden if the weather is calm/clear :) it's gonna be a great weekend :) i look forward to sharing our weekend adventures, and pictures with everyone in my weekend journals :) Tonight, Holly and i are going to watch 2 episodes of Most Haunted show :) We love our fun, friday night paranormal party night's :)

There's so much more to look forward too as the summer season blossoms :) the season is filled with lots of awesome seasonal festivities, traditions, holiday's, and birthday celebrations to share in :) We love the special times, and celebrations from month to month as the year goes on :) We love the gardening season and sharing our adventures :) a whole new summer season to share in :) We cherish and treasure, the many special memories being made :) We're very happy, thankful, and blessed, to have you all in our lives, and to be able to share in these very special times of the season with you all :) Thank you angel friends, so very much ,for all that you do for us, for comforting us, uplifting our spirits, brightening our days, and for the very special joy you all bring our hearts :) We deeply appreciate everything, with all of the love of our hearts :) Big group happy sunny caring sunflower friendship hug :) We wish everyone a nice peaceful evening and night :)

-never lose hope :)

To Wildthing, Peaceful Gentle Moments of the day :) Wildthing, we're enjoying a great day :) Today, Holly and i baked onion pretzels, and berry muffins ,for baking friday :) We love this very special tradition :) We're very happy and excited for the weekend, shopping, watching movies, our shows, and enjoying the continued joy of the blossoming summer season :) Thinking of you, our dear friend :)

my mom, Holly, and family says hello :) We hope everyone is doing well, healthy,enjoying a wonderful day ,and a really good baking friday :) awww! :) We love you all bunches and bunches, our sweet dear wonderful guardian angel friends :) We think of you all often :) We're very happy and excited to share in and celebrate many more special times of the blossoming summer season with everyone :) We wish everyone a healthy, safe, and peaceful weekend :)

Happy baking friday!!! :) Calling all cookie monsters! :) The summer season is blossoming! :) my family, Holly, and i are very happy and excited ,to share in and celebrate the summer season with everyone, and all of the sweet festivities, and traditions that makes the summer season so much fun, and very memorable :) The summer season is season is settling in, and the spirit of the season is all around :) We love all of the awesome times being shared :) The kids are on some summer adventures/travels with family and will be baking with us next week :) They all were with us in spirit today :) We have a whole summer of baking friday adventures to look forward too :) 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, Holly and i are baking onion pretzels, and berry muffins :) Thank you angel friends, 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! :)

a special thank you for Alyssa and Holly, for getting the baking friday supplies :) Alyssa got the flour, and Holly got the berry muffins mix :) it's very nice and sweet of them :) Thank ou Alyssa, and Holly, so very much! :) We all love to chip in each week, to get the baking friday supplies :) we love this very special tradition in our lives :) 

Greetings, from our kitchen to yours! :) Holly 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, our dear angel friends :) Sharing lots of smiles, and baking friday cheer! :) 

Baking friday teamwork! :) Holly and i preparing the berry muffins, and onion pretzels :) 

we put the pretzels into the hot water for about 1 minute :) this helps the pretzel get larger :) 

We love baking friday!!! :) Hi angel friends! :) The kids have been with us in spirit today, and you all are always right there with us in spirit, during our baking friday adventures :) i've got some cool memories pictures here, from some baking friday adventures over the years :) The kids have grown a lot, over the years :) We're so proud of the kids ,and all that they have learned about baking, and cooking :) We look forward to lots more super fun adventures! :) lots of great memories :) 

in 2015, the triplets were 3 years old, we had a special ninja turtles themed baking friday adventure :) Brayden, Jacob, and Colby dressed up as ninja turtles for the fun adventure! :) 

Mikey began to bake goodies when he was 2 years old :) he was 1, when he got to sit on the counter for the first time, a baker in training :) he still joins in on the baking friday fun  from time to time! :) 

Hunter started to join in on the baking friday fun, when he was 2 years old :) 

Hunter was a natural, enjoying super stirring the ingredients for the first time :) 

Carter's 1st baking friday adventure! :) 

Brody was a cookie monster in training! :) he loves chocolate chip cookies and brownies! :) 

We're so happy and thrilled, that Holly began to join in on the baking friday fun in 2019 when she moved here to CT with us! :) 

The baking friday crew! :) 

Onion Pretzels, and Berry Muffins! :) come on  over, for some baking friday goodies! :) Holly and i had a fun time baking goodies today :) We're looking forward to lots more super fun adventures, all throughout the summer season :) sharing lots of smiles, and spirited cheer :) baking friday :)