baking friday :) Brownies, and Potato chips :) Greetings from the baking crew! :)

"we love these chips and brownies!"- my nephew's Hunter, Jacob, Brayden Colby, Carter, and Brody 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 summer time themed baking friday adventure in the kitchen!!! :) This was so much fun! :) We were sharing lots of smiles, and spirited cheer as we baked some awesome goodies today :)Celebrating the golden days of summer season :) 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 brownies ,and made homemade potato chips :) it was so much fun! :) We're so happy and excited, to have our full baking friday crew with us today for a super fun adventure :) Thank you angel friends ,so very much for sharing in this very special tradition with us each week :)



Sweet Joys of Summer Time Baking! :) 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 :) We're very happy and excited, welcoming the kids back into the baking friday kitchen today, with some super fun baking, and lots of great memories being made :) we're loving our summer of baking friday adventures, and sharing our adventures with everyone :) The month of august is in full swing :) We've been enjoying baking, cooking ,and grilling this summer season, and have a whole new fall season of baking to look forward too next month, including celebrating the 16th anniversary of baking friday :) We're loving these golden days of summer time, and there's so much more to look forward too :) Wishing everyone continued joys of these sweet golden days of summer season :)



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 nic e, and sweet :) i was up early this morning ,enjoying some nice time here on DS, writing to friends, and getting ready for a brief early morning nature walk :) We had some rain in our area, and more stormy weather on it's way. i gathered a bowl of goodies, and went outside very briefly, i put lots of goodies out there ,for our nature friends :) They love their baking friday breakfast feasts :)awww! :) our plants, garden, and fruit trees have been doing very well, growing and flourishing :) it's amazing to see how much the plants have grown wild, in the past week, with the blend of rain, and summer warm weather. :) we're so happy and excited to be harvesting lots of fresh garden goodies, and seeing lots of beautiful flowers blossoming all around our yard, and garden :) it's a very exciting time in the season, with so much more to look forward too :) We love sharing our nature and gardening adventures with everyone, and are thrilled for lots more adventures, all throughout the season :)We have lots of beautiful morning glory flowers blossoming ,they have grown amongst our rose bushes ,and snowball bush :) it's incredible to see :)Happy summer garden smiles :)



It was a nice spirited early morning :) The stormy weather eased by 8am :) We enjoyed a nice breakfast, and having some iced coffee, water, and sprite soda :) Holly bought some nice lipton tea bags for us :) We love tea, and are looking forward to enjoying some more teas, especially when the weather gets colder :) We love to add the peppermint candies into our teas :) i began to gather our baking friday supplies, kitchen decorations, and went out into our kitchen to begin setting up and decoratign our kitchen, for our super fun adventure :) today, i decorated with a cool summer times theme :) Our kitchen looked great! :) as the morning went on, we put the sports radio on :) We love all of the football talk :) We're very excited for the upcoming football season :) Around mid-day ,we enjoyed a nice lunch :) i washed and sliced some potatoes into the shapes of potato chips, for our baking friday adventure :) 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 :) Lots of great spirit, and excitement in the air, with the golden days of summer time here :) The kids had so much fun enjoying celebrating their birthday's, and are enjoying their summer vacation :) Lots of great summer time adventures :) The kids still have some summer vacation left, and return back to school on September 5th :) We're so happy the kids are having an awesome summer season :) We all began to gather in our kitchen :) The kids love to select their spots, at the kitchen counter :) The kids, Holly,and i got our picture taken in the kitchen :) it's a cool baking friday tradition :) You all are always right there with us in spirit :) Each week, we love to use our baking friday supplies, that 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 our supplies, are a big part of our baking and cooking each week :) Our kitchen was all set, and 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! :) baking friday teamwork! :) the kids love to help! :) They're great helpers :) We first began to prepare the brownies :) Today, Hunter, Mikey ,and Jacob helped bake goodies :) We love the spirited excitement of our adventures :) The kids love to crack open the eggs :) We were adding the ingredients into the bowl :) The kids get so proud, adding the ingredients :) we super stirred the brownies mix :) Brody and Carter came out into the kitchen, they were having lots of fun playing :) We were sharing lots of smiles :) my mom and Jenn also came out into the kitchen at times , and you all are always right there with us in spirit in our kitchen :) i used butter to grease the baking pan, and while we were pouring the brownies mix into the pan, the kids all began to laugh! hehe! :) i then noticed, they had put a spoon inside the brownies mix, and i didn't discover it until i was spreading the brownies mix into the pan, the kids and Holly and i were laughing! hehe!:) The kids tricked me! :) i put the brownies into the oven to bake :)



As the brownies were baking, we had some chips cooking in the deep fryer on the back of the stove :) The chips cook nicely and very fast :) i was using the nice metal spatual that Holly gave me :) i was filling a big bowl with potato chips :) i washed and sliced a few more potatoes too :) Holly and i got some plates, and dip cups filled with vinegar and some salt, and began to fill some plates with the chips :) Everyone began to dig in :) The chips are very popular :) i was adding more chips into the fryer :) my mom and Jenn were having some chips too :) We did some cleaning up in the kitchen, and i put a plate of chips into the microwave for Alyssa, she loves chips :)



The brownies finished baking, i brought the brownies out of the oven to cool down :) i made some more batches of potato chips : )Holly and i shared a plate of chips :) i love to put old bay seasoning on my chips :) The chips are awesome! :) i sliced the brownies, and we all began to dig in :)The brownies came out great, and are going fast :) We look forward to baking lots more of these goodies :) iwe had so much fun baking goodies today :)i thanked the kids and Holly for helping bake :) we look forward to lots more super fun baking friday adventures, all throughout the season : )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 Potato Chips, dedicated to our wonderful family, friends, and to the wonderful 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!!! :) August 18th, 2023 :) Happy baking friday everyone! :)



We're enjoying an awesome day! :) baking friday! :) spirit of summer time! :) We love it!!! :) my family, Holly, and i are doing well, healthy, and in good spirits :) it was so much fun baking and cooking today :) We love these very special, spirited fun times, and all of the great memories being made :) The weekend is arriving with lots of great seasonal spirit :) We're very happy and excited! :) 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 food, treats for Tiger, and also going to buy some snacks, and candy :) we love browsing around the seasonal decorations, dvds, and hotwheels :) Holly and i are going to have a fun popcorn movies party :) We picked out some cool movies to watch and going to watch a new movie saturday night :) on sunday, we're going to watch TWD, and also going to enjoy some nature walks, and writing this weekend too :) 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 month of August continues on :) the golden days of the summer season are here, and the season is filled with lots of awesome seasonal festivities, traditions,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 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 an awesome day :) Today, the kids, Holly ,and i had a fun time baking brownies, and making homemade potato chips for baking friday :) We love these very special, spirited fun times :) We're very happy and excited for the weekend, shopping ,watching movies, our show, and writing :) The spirit of the season is all around :) 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 treasure your very special friendships, and are very heart happy and excited to share in and celebrate lots more spirit soaring times with everyone, all throughout the season :) We wish everyone a healthy,safe, and peaceful weekend :)



Happy baking friday!!! :) Calling all cookie monsters! :) Celebrating the golden days of summer time! :) my family, Holly, and i are very happy and excited! :) We're enjoying sharing in the summer season with everyone, and our super fun summer time baking friday adventures :) We sure do love our adventures, and sharing our adventures with everyone :) The golden days of summer season are here :) The kids are enjoying their summer vacation, and they love to pick out the goodies for the baking friday menu :) This is a picture of our kitchen all set up, and decorated for our super fun adventure :) Today, the kids, Holly,and i are baking brownies, and making homemade potato chips :) Thank you everyone, so very much, for joining us in our kitchen each week, and for welcoming us into your kitchen :) 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 this week and picked up baking friday supplies :) it's very nice and sweet of her :) Thank you Alyssa, so very much! :) We appreciate all of the nice baking friday supplies she gets for us all :) We all love to chip in each week, to get the baking friday supplies :) We love this very special tradition in our lives :)
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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 :) it's a cool baking friday tradition :) You all are always right there with us in spirit, during these very special, spirited fun times :) we're very happy and thankful to have the baking friday tradition in our lives :) We look forward to baking each week :) We love seasonal baking, cooking, and summer time BBQ Grilling, and looking forward to lots more adventures all throughout the seasons :) We're counting down to baking friday's 16th anniversary next month! :)
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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, cook, and grill :) We're so proud of the kids, and all that they're learning about baking, and cooking :) We love when the kids help select the goodies for the baking friday menu :) We're very happy and excited for all of our baking friday adventures each month, all throughout the year :) Summer time baking is here! :) Sharing lots of smiles, and spirited baking friday cheer :)
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The kids love to make funny faces! :) hehe! :) 


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Brownies and Potato Chips! :) Come on over, for some baking friday goodies! :) The kids, Holly, and i had lots of fun baking today :) We're very happy and excited for lots more adventures, all throughout the season :) sharing lots of smiles, and spirited cheer :) baking friday : )
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Replies

CoolGal
CoolGal

Hi Chris Glad you Holly and your family are doing well and enjoyed baking. The brownies and chips came out great. Your kitchen decorations look nice with a summer theme. The boys look like they had a good time with you and Holly We had some rain where I am today too. Thanks for all my nice hugs today. Have a good evening. Hugs to everyone-Stephanie
cedarbrooke
cedarbrooke

Potato chips, mmm! Brownies too. Look nice & chewy! Great job Team Bakers. Nice to see Mikey right in the middle cracking that egg & super stirring!

Love the decoration & pics. Football!!!!

Hugs! Brooke & Henri
Ladybug7
Ladybug7

Hey Chris! Great to see that you, Holly, and your family had fun baking today! The brownies and chips turned out well. Hope you enjoy shopping tomorrow and your popcorn/movies party. Have a wonderful weekend! Love and hugs.
Lilysawyer
Lilysawyer

Oh boy what fun you all had, I see even Mikey couldn't resist making some brownies! Okay pass some of those brownies and potato chips to me, you made me hungry. :D Enjoy your Movie Sat. Love and hugs
JeanCarlin
JeanCarlin

I’m glad that you and Holly and the boys had a fun time baking and those brownies and homemade chips you’re doing look yummy. I hope you and Holly enjoy your trip to the dollar tree and find some really good items to purchase and enjoy your movie marathon tonight.
Take care and have a wonderful weekend, hugs Jeannie
Squarley
Squarley

Hi baking team wonderful pictures love seeing the kids having so much fun your table decoration was wonderful watched the football we watched the Reds won the Bengals won I think I can’t remember now I watch both games hope you have a wonderful weekend enjoy it keep in touch we love you bunches!