baking friday :) Berry Muffins, and Potato Chips :) Sweet golden days of July :)

"We love these potato chips!"- my nephew's Jacob.Brayden, Colby, Hunter, Mikey, Brody,and Carter 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, golden days of July summer time themed baking friday adventure in the kitchen! :)this was so much fun! :) The kids were ordering lots of plates of chips today! :) The chips are one of the most popular goodies we make :) We love these spirited fun summer times, sharing lots of smiles and spirited cheer :) 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 berry muffins, and made homemade potato chips :) it was lots of fun :) We made a whole 5 pounds of potato chips :) The kids are so happy :) they love chips :)We're enjoying our summer time baking friday's,and looking forward to lots more super fun adventures, all throughout the season :) Thank you angel friends, for sharing in this very special tradition with us each week :) Happy baking friday smiles :)



Sweet Summer Time baking , and cooking! :) The golden days of July are here! :) Hi angel friends :) my family, Holly, and i hope everyone is doing well, healthy,and enjoying a great great :)We love hearing from you, and we think of you all often :) the golden days of July are here, with the summer season in full swing :) We're enjoying a special time sharing in the season with everyone, and all of the seasonal festivities and traditions :) Lots of nature flourishing, with flowers blossoming, and the spirit of the season all around :) We love summer time foods, with BBQ grilled foods, and lots of seasonal adventures :) We're having lots of fun enjoying our summer time baking friday adventures :)The kids had a special request for us to make homemade potato chips today :)The chips are one of the most popular foods we make :) We love summer time,and all of the great memories being made :)We're very blessed, and thankful to have you all in our lives, and to be able lto share in these special times of the season with you all :) There's so much more to look forward too, as the summer season and month of July continues to shine :) Thank you angel friends, for sharing in the season with us,and for making each day special :) We appreciate you all, and we love you all bunches and bunches :) Sending our love, super big happy sunny caring friendship hugs, and sunny sunflower smiles across the miles, from our hearts, and home to yours :)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 :) it's been a nice stretch of days, and summer time spirit all around :)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 :) The summer time nature is shining all around, with lots of beautiful nature sights, nature friends visiting, flowers blossoming, and plants flourishing :)We love these sweet summer times :) i gathered a nice bowl of goodies ,and went outside for my nature walk :)



Our nature friends, plants, and a cool early morning summer breeze greeted me :)the cool breeze was refreshing :) 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 feast :) It's so nice seeing lots of our nature frineds visiting :) our garden is very active also, with butterflies, bees, ladybugs, and dragonflies visiting often :) Our plants, flowers ,and fruit trees are doing great, everything is super mega growing :)it's very exciting to see :) We're so happy and excited enjoying sharing in the gardening season with everyone :) we've been picking cucumbers, string beans, snap peas :) it's so nice seeing the tomatoes growing, and lots of potatoes, and pumpkin plants :)we hope for some cool halloween pumpkins to grow :) We love nature, and gardening, and the great joy the season brings :) The sunflowers are growing tall, and roses, cosmos, nasturiums, and daisies blossoming :) our first Zinnia flower of the season has blossomed :)The nature is spirit soaring all around :)our snowball bush is blossoming too :) The sunflowers are growing a lot, they're having a race to see which sunflower will grow as tall as the garden fence, and also which sunflower will grow the tallest :) Lots of great garden times, and so much more to look forward too :) Holly and i love sharing our adventures, and garden with everyone :) Happy sunny nature, and gardening season smiles :)



It was a nice peaceful early morning :)We enjoyed our breakfast, and having some hot chamomile tea, water, and vanilla iced coffee :) Tiger girl enjoyed her breakfast, and some treats :)i began to gather our baking friday supplies, kitchen decorations, and went out into the kitchen to begin setting up and decorating our kitchen for our super fun adventure :) Today, i decorated with a nice summer sunflowers theme :) our kitchen looks great :)It's lots of fun decorating,and is a special part of the baking friday tradition :)As the morning went on, we put our favorite sports radio on :) we love tuning in, to the sports talk :) Around mid-day, we enjoyed a nice lunch,and during the early afternoon, i enjoyed some time here on DS, and also prepared some potatoes for baking friday, i washed the potatoes,and sliced the potatoes into shapes of potato chips :) Lisa and Kayla stopped by, we had a few more birthday gifts for them :) it was great seeing them :)



Around 3pm, Jenn and the kids came over, and my mom is babysitting Brody and the triplets today :)We love welcoming everyone over :) Lots of great summer time spirit and excitement in the air :)We're enjoying a super fun time enjoying our summer time baking friday adventures :) the kids are having a great summer vacation, with lots of adventures , and lots of great summer time memories being made :) We love counting down the days until it's time to bake, and are so happy the kids helped select the baking friday menu this week :) They love homemade potato chips, it's one of their favorite foods we make :) 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 Summer time baking, Cooking,and Grilling :) 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 :)All of the kids were helping today :) We first began to prepare the berry muffins :)We had 2 nice packs of berry muffins mix :)We added the muffins mix into the bowl, with milk, and began to super stir :)We were sharing lots of smiles, and cheer : )The kids love gathering,we all get eachother laughing at times :) like for example, 1 or 2 of the kids would stare up at th ceiling, and see if anyone would stare at the ceiling too, they'd say, "got you to look!"hehe! :)my mom and Jenn came out into the kitfchen at times, and you all are always right there with us in spirit in the kitchen :) We super stirred the muffins mix, and then added the baking cups into the muffins pan,and poured the muffins mix into the baking cups, and i put the muffins into the oven to bake :) We love the scent of muffins baking in the oven :)



As the muffins were baking, i had some nice vegetable oil heating up on the stove :) i added the potato chips into the cooking pot, the potato chips were cooking nicely :) Holly and i organized some plates for the chips,and also some bowls for the vinegar and salt :) We made many batches of chips, we used the whole 5 pounds of potatoes :) The kids were ordering more chips :) the chips came out great :) i like to put old bay seasoning on my chips :) The berry muffins finished baking, i brought the muffins out of the oven to cool down :) i took a picture of the muffins ,and we all began to dig in :)the muffins came out great :) the kids went outside to play :)we did some cleaning up in the kitchen :) it was so nice baking and cooking today :)ithanked the kids, and Holly for helping bake and cook :)We've got 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 goodies, and foods you all bake, and cook :)We're all with eachother in spirit, in our kitchens :) i wish we all could gather and have a big baking friday picnic :) Berry Muffins ,and Potato Chips, dedicated to our wonderful family, friends,and to the sweet 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 18th, 2025 :)Happy baking friday everyone :)



We're enjoying a great day :) baking friday,and sweet summer time spirit :) my family, Holly, and i are doing ok, healthy,and continuing with the good care :) it was so much 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 summer time 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, plus some snacks, candy, and browsing at the hotwheels, and seasonal items :) Holly and i are going to have a fun, popcorn movies party :)We love this special tradition :) We picked out some cool movies,and gonna watch a new movie on saturday night :)We love to make some popcorn, and having some iced cold drinks :)We're gonna tend our plants this weekend, and also having a TWD party on sunday :) it's gonna be a nice 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 some 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 great 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 enjoying a special time, sharing in the summer season with everyone, with all of the seasonal festivities, and traditions :) We wish everyone a healthy, safe, and peaceful weekend :)



Happy baking friday :) Calling all cookie monsters! :) it's sweet classic and golden days of July :) my family, Holly, and i are very excited, sharing in these golden summer days with everyone, and all of the seasonal festivities, and traditions that brings lots of great memories :) The summer season is in full swing :)We're enjoying all of the baking, cooking, and grilling, lots of foods, goodies, and treats :)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 Berry Muffins, and also making homemade potato chips :) 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! :)
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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 :)
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Greetings, from our Summer 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 Summer Time baking, grilling, and cooking :)
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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 :) plus our chillin n grillin baking friday's this time of the year :) we're so happy the kids love to help pick the baking friday menu :) We love baking friday, and are very excited for a whole summer season of baking friday fun, with many great memories being made :) Sweet summer time spirit! :)
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The kids love to make funny faces! :) hehe! :) 


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Berry Muffins, and Potato Chips :)Come on over, for some baking friday goodies :) The kids, Holly ,and i had a fun time baking, and cooking :) We're having lots of fun enjoying our summer time adventures, sharing lots of smiles, and spirited cheer :) baking friday :) 


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CoolGal
CoolGal

Hi Chris Glad you Holly and your family are doing well enjoying a nice baking Friday, The muffins and chips look great. Happy to see the boys having fun in the photos there, So nice you and Lisa and Kayla had a nice visit today Your kitchen decorations look great with a sunflower rheme. Wishing all of you a nice weekend enjoying your shopping movies and shows, Thanks got all my nice hugs today Have a good evening Hugs to all-Stephanie
Squarley
Squarley

Hello Chris and happy baking day. You had a great team there. Everything looks delicious. How was the potato chip ,I want some so bad glad to see that everybody showed up and you had a fun day. Bruce said to say hi he loves seeing your pictures you take care. we love you all. !
Lilysawyer
Lilysawyer

YUM! Those goodies looks SO yummy. The baking crew looked like they had a great time. Send some goodies my way. :D
JeanCarlin
JeanCarlin

Hi Chris, it’s good to see the baking crew all back together again, the boys look really happy and excited to be there. Both your muffins and your homemade potato chips. Both look yummy, I wish I would’ve been there to taste them..
I hope you and Holly have lots of fun with your shopping at the dollar tree this morning and watching your popcorn movie marathon tonight :-)
I’m going to see the new Superman movie today, should be fun.
Sending lots of hugs for everyone and thanks for sharing your day with us, all the boys are getting so big!