baking friday :) Brownies and Butterscotch Chips Cookies :) Happy Earth Day! :)

"lets bake goodies for earth!"- my nephew's Hunter, Jacob, and Colby said that today, during baking friday! :)



baking friday! :) Calling all cookei monsters! :) hehe! :) cookie monsters! :) hehe! :) cookie monsters unite! :) it's baking friday!!! :) oh my! :) A super fun, and super spring time sweet, Happy Earth day themed baking friday adventure in the kitchen!!! :) This was so much fun! :) Sharing lots of smiles, and spirited cheer, as we baked up some awesome goodies! :) We love this very special tradition :) We're celebrating earth day, with sunshine, and the blossoming of spring season on this beautiful day! :)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 today :) Today, the kids, Holly, and i baked brownies ,and butterscotch chips cookies :) it was so much fun! :) We're enjoying the sunshine, and the spirited excitement of the season :) it's a really sweet time of the year, with the spring season blossoming, and lots of seasonal times to share in :) You all make each day, very special and memorable for us :) Thank you angel friends! :)



Happy Earth Day! :) Sunny smiles, and spring time cheer! :) Hi angel friends! :) my family, Holly, and i hope everyone is doing well, healthy, and enjoying a beautiful day :) We love hearing from you, and getting to share in and celebrate the wonderful spirit of the season with you all :) Your friendships are a very special joy :) thank you all, for your continued warm well wishes, prayers, and comforting care :) it means the world to us :) We're so glad, and thankful my dad and Holly are doing better, and making good healing improvement :) You all warm our hearts, brighten our days, and have been keeping us in good spirits :) We're very happy, thankful, and blessed to have you all in our lives :) Wishing everyone continue good health, and peaceful joys of the season :) it's earth day, and lots of sunny spring nature sprouting, and blossoming all around :) We're loving seeing the nature shining, and looking forward to lots more spring nature adventures to look forward too :)



This morning ,we had a beautiful 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 :) Thank you angel friends, so very much! :) You all are wonderfully nice, and sweet :) We've been looking forward to baking some awesome goodies :) We love spring time baking ,and being in the spirit of the season : )There's lots of seasonal festivities, and traditions to enjoy this time of the year, that makes the season so much fun ,and very memorable :) 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 :) nature is amazing ,it's so neat how the spring season nature sprouts and blossoms :) we've been hearing lots of happy birds singing outside here :) we love hearing the birds, it's the sounds of spring time :) i gathered a big bowl of goodies, and went outside for my sunrise nature walk :)



It's a beautifully sunny earth day :) we love these sunny days of spring :) i put lots of goodies in our backyard, bird sanctuary area for our nature friends :) They love their baking friday breakfast feasts :)awww! :) our plants, flower bushes ,and fruit trees are doing great, and flourishing with the blossoming of spring season :) it's very nice, the excitement of blossoming spring season :) it's been a bit chilly in the mornings, but thankfully warms up into the 50's and 60's :) Holly and i are looking forward to some awesome fun upcoming gardening adventures, and sharing our adventures with everyone :) We hope everyone has lots of great earth day sunshine :) i saw some birds this morning while i was outside, all of our nature friends are celebrating earth day :) Happy spring nature smiles :)



It was a sweet sunny spirited morning :) we enjoyed our breakfast, and having some hot tea, iced coffee, and water :) i began to gather our baking friday supplies, and 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 earth day spring nature theme :) our kitfchen looked awesome! :) it's so much fun decorating our kitchen, it's a very special part of the baking friday tradition each week :) As the morning went on, we put some sports radio on, lots of football talk and also nba playoffs in full swing :) it's a cool part of our days tuning into the sports radio :) around mid-day, we enjoyed a nice lunch, i cooked some scrambled eggs, and we had some baked potatoes :) a delicious lunch :) during the early afternoon, i enjoyed some nice time here on DS, writing to friends :)



Around 3pm, Jenn and the kids came over, and the triplets, and Brody came over :) Alyssa came over after work :) the kids have been enjoying their Spring Easter vacation :) They've been enjoying playing their favorite video games, and also playing outside when the weather is nice :) Lots of great spring spirit in the air :) We're so happy the kids are enjoying their spring Easter vacation :) We all began to gather in our kitchen :) The kids love to select their spots at the kitchen counter :) We all got our picture taken in the kitchen :) You all are always right there with us in spirit, during these very special spirited fun times :) Each week, we love to use our nice baking friday supplies we've recieved from family and friends over the years :) i wear my nice apron that Holly gave me, and we use our nice oven mits, kitchen towels, and all of our supplies, are a big part of our baking and cooking each week :) our kitchen was all set, and we we were ready to bake some awesome goodies :) calling all cookie monsters! :) cookie monsters unite! :) it's time to bake! bake! bake! :)



We began our super fun adventure! :) Today, Hunter, Jacob ,and Colby helped Holly and i bake :) baking friday teamwork! :) The kids love to help! :) they're great helpers :) We first began to prepare the brownies :) They're one of our favorite goodies :) We added the brownies ingredients into the bowl :)The kids love to crack open the eggs :) We began to super stir the ingredients :) We were sharing lots of smiles :) i had some funny cool spring time jokes to share with everyone :) i said, "what flower can talk? and after everyone took guesses ,i said, "Tulips!" hehe! :) "Why can't you tell a secret in the garden? because potatoes have eyes and corn have ears!" hehe! :) i had 1 more funny joke, "what does the Letter A and Flowers have in common? they both have BEE's coming after them! hehe! :) the kids, Holly and i were laughing :) my mom, Jenn, and Carter came out into the kitchen at times, and you all are always right there with us in spirit :) 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 :)



As the brownies were baking, we began to get ready to make the butterscotch chips cookies :) We added flour, sugar, butter, 1 egg, and the butterscotch chips into bowl, and super stirred the ingredients :) We were having so much fun baking :) i used butter to grease the cooking baking pan, and we added the cookies into the pan, and i put the first batch of cookies into the oven to bake :) we did some cleaning up in the kitchen, and were hanging out :) going back and forth ,from our kitchen and living room :) The kids were playing some of their video games :) The brownies finished baking ,i brought them out of the oven to cool down :) the first batch of butterscotch chips cookies finished baking too :) i brought them out of the oven to cool down ,and put another batch of cookies in :)



Once the brownies cooled down ,i cut the brownies and put them onto a plate, and took a picture of the brownies ,and we all began to dig in :) i took a picture of the cookies too :) The goodies came out awesome! :) the 2nd batch of cookies finished baking nicely :) We had so much fun baking brownies and cookies today :) We love these very special, spirited fun times : )We have lots more super fun baking friday adventures to look forward too :) i thanked the kids and Holly for helping :) We're looking forward to sharing in lots more awesome spring times with everyone :) 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 :) Brownies and Butterscotch Chips 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!!! :) April 22nd, 2022 :) Happy baking friday and Happy Earth day Everyone! :)



We're enjoying a great day! :) baking friday! :) Spring time cheer! :) We love it! :) my family, Holly, and i are in good spirits :) it was so much fun baking goodies today, celebrating Earth day :) We're very thankful, for the nice healing progress my dad and Holly are making :) we appreciate everyone's comforting care, warm well wishes, and prayers :) the weekend is arriving with lots of seasonal spirit :) We love the weekend's :) Tomorrow, there's a chance my mom, dad, Holly, and i might go shopping at the dollar tree :) We'd love to buy some writing supplies, and stocking up on some foods, snacks, and drinks :) on sunday, we're gonna some episodes of the food that built America :) We also look forward to enjoying some nature time, checking in on our plants :) i look forward to sharing our weekend adventures and pictures with everyone in my weekend journals :) it's gonna be a nice weekend :) There's lots more great things to look forward too :) Tonight, Holly and i are looking forward to watching 2 episodes of most haunted show :) We love our fun, friday night paranormal party night's :) Thank you angel friends, so very much, for all that you do for us, for your wonderful love, care, support, warm well wishes, and for keeping us in your thoughts and prayers :) We deeply appreciate everything, with all of the love of our very happy hearts :) Big group happy sunny warm caring friendship hug :) We wish everyone, a nice peaceful evening and night, and wishing everyone continued joys of the season :) Happy Weekend! :)



-never lose hope :)



To Wildthing, Peaceful Gentle Moments of the day :) Wildthing, we're enjoying a great day! :) Today, the kids, Holly, and i had a super fun time baking Butterscotch chips Cookies and Brownies, for baking friday :) We love these very special, spirited fun times :) We're so glad, and thankful dad and Holly are continuing to make really good healing improvements :) We're looking forward to blossoming into the weekend :) we might shop tomorrow, and Holly and i are going to have a popcorn movies marathon :) we also look forward to enjoying some peaceful nature walks :) Thinking of you, our dear friend :)



my mom, Holly, and family says hello :) We hope everyone is doing well, healthy, and enjoying a really good day and baking friday :) awww! :) We love you all bunches and bunches, our sweet dear wonderful guardian angel friends :) We think of you all often :) Thank you all, our dear angel friends for the very special comforting peaceful joy you all bring our hearts :) We wish everyone a healthy, safe, and peaceful weekend :) We look forward to sharing in lots more special times of the spring season with everyone :)


Happy baking friday! :) Calling all cookie monsters! :) Happy Earth day! :) celebrating the sweet spirit of blossoming spring time! :) my family, Holly,and i are very heart happy and excited, to share in and celebrate special times of the season with you all :) There's lots of great seasonal festivities, and traditions that makes the season very special, and memorable :) We're celebrate Earth day today, with lots of sunny spring time nature blossoming and having a super fun time baking :) 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 brownies, and butterscotch chips cookies :) Thank you everyone, so very much, for joining us in our kitche neach 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! :)
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baking friday supplies! :) We have a very special shoutout, and thank you for my niece Alyssa :)She went shopping and picked up some nice baking friday supplies :) it's very nice, and sweet of her :) Thank you Alyssa, so very much! :) We all love to chip in each week, to get the baking friday supplies :) We love t his very special tradition in our lives :)
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Holly colored this awesome Happy Earth day picture for us all :) awww! :) it's very nice and sweet of her :) Thank you Holly, so very much! :)
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Greetings, from our kitchen to yours! :) the baking friday crew! :) The kids, 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, during these very special, spirited fun times :) Sharing lots of smiles, and spirited cheer! :)
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Baking friday teamwork! :) preparing the goodies! :) 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 enjoying our awesome fun spring time baking friday adventures :)
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everyone making hearts with their hands, for happy earth day! :) 


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Super stirrers! :) 


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Brownies and Butterscotch Chips Cookies! :)Come on over, for some baking friday goodies! :) The kids, Holly, and i had a super fun time baking goodies today : )We love these very special, spirited fun times, and all of the great memories being made :) Celebrating spirited cheer of spring time! :) baking friday :)
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Replies

CoolGal
CoolGal

Hi Chris Glad you and your family are doing well and enjoyed baking. Happy to hear your dad and Holly are doing better each day. The brownies and cookies came out great and the boys always look like they're having fun, Holly's earth day picture is very cute and your kitchen decorations look great for the holiday. Hope all of you have a good weekend ahead. Thanks for all my nice hugs today Have a good evening. Hugs to all there-Stephanie
gratefulgrandma123
gratefulgrandma123

Hi Sweet Chris, Happy Baking Friday. I loved all the pictures you posted of what you made, of you & Holly & of your nephews. You all look so nice & the Earth Day picture Holly made is very nice. I'm very glad that your Dad & Holly r getting better & that you may all go to the Dollar Tree tomorrow to do shopping. I hope u all r able to do that. All the jokes you shared in your journal r very funny. Tu for sharing & tu for sharing your Happy Baking Friday. I hope u all have a nice evening & stay warm & feel well. Hugs & love FF
bluemoon29
bluemoon29

Looks delicious!! You’re awesome baking team! What a great bunch in the kitchen this time:). I had a chocolate chip cookie from McDonald’s and thought of all of you while I ate it:). Yummy!!

Thanks for sharing your joyous day! Love to everyone:)
gratefulgrandma123
gratefulgrandma123

P.S. The goodies you all made look so good. I'm going to come over & have some. lol.:) just kidding but the goodies look great & yummy. Enjoy
sunsetyellow2
sunsetyellow2

Hi Chris and Holly. So glad that everyone is getting better. I spent this morning at the hospital getting blood tests and a urinalysis done. My surgery for my knee has finally been approved if my heart tests and all the other tests come back all right. I am so happy your Dad and Holly are improving. John and I are pretty much over our colds and also feeling much better. Still tired a lot of the time but even that is getting better.

Your goodies look delicious. Tomorrow I am baking an apple pie and maybe some sugar cookies. Love the pictures of everyone baking. Looks like everybody is having a good time. If I lived closer I would come over for a brownie.

You and Holly have a great evening and keep getting better. Will keep you in my prayers.
Lilysawyer
Lilysawyer

Hey Chris WOW everything looks SO yummy. I am glad that your dad and Holly are doing well. I loved the joke you told. and boy the kids all look like had a great time. I loved the spoons over the eyes, who was the one who did that? Please send me some brownies and cookies :D have a great evening and weekend.
cedarbrooke
cedarbrooke

Great job Team Bakers! Wow, everything looks delicious. Lots of smiles in the kitchen. Glad everyone is feeling better. Continue with good health care. Listening to the frogs & ducks this evening. What a noisy night! Good noise! Thanks for sharing your day! Hugs! Brooke & Henri
JeanCarlin
JeanCarlin

Your table looks very pretty in your cookies and brownies look so yummy :-)
I’m glad you all had a fun time with your baking yesterday
Have a wonderful weekend
Hugs Jeannie
Ladybug7
Ladybug7

So glad to hear that your dad and Holly are doing better! Love the happy Earth that Holly colored...it made me smile! : ) I'm glad that you guys had fun in the kitchen. The brownies look especially good. Hope you guys have a great weekend! Love and hugs.
Squarley
Squarley

Hi Chris looks like you had a great baking day so glad Holly could help everything looks delicious I love the set up of your table but it’s very decorative and spring like everything looks delicious looking forward to talking to you on Thursday have a wonderful weekend sending love hugs and healing prayers love you all!