baking friday :) Brownies and Potato Chips :) Sweet summer time spirit :)

"we love chips, and lets have some brownies too!" -my nephew's Brody, Brayden, Jacob, and Colby 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, summer time themed baking friday adventure in the kitchen! :) this was lots of fun! :) We were baking and cooking in the kitchen today, making 2 of our favorite goodies and foods :) We love these awesome fun times, sharing lots of smiles and spirited seasonal 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 brownies, and made homemade potato chips :) it was lots of fun :) the goodies are very popular :) my mom and dad were enjoying some potato chips :) We're enjoying a great time enjoying our summer time baking friday adventures, with lots of great memories being made :) Thank you angel friends, for shairng in this very special tradition with us each week :) Happy baking friday smiles :)



Spirit Soaring summer time baking and cooking! :) hi angel friends :) my family, Holly, and i hope everyone is doing well, healthy, and enjoying a nice day :) We love hearing from you and we think of you all often :) We're enjoying sharing in the season with everyone, and all of the spirited excitement the summer season brings, with lots of seasonal festivities and traditions, and great memories being made :) We love the spirit of summer time :) The sunshine returned today, and lots of spirit soaring nature sights all around :) We love these sweet days of summer, and getting ready to blossom into the month of August :) We're having lots of fun enjoying our summer season baking friday's, with lots of baking, cooking, and grilling :) The gardening season is in full swing, we're looking forward to harvesting more fresh garden goodies :) We're gonna cook some more fried zuchinni and yellow squash soon :) It's an awesome time in the season :) We're very blessed, and thankful to have you all in our lives, and to be able to share in the season with you all :) Thank you angel friends, for making each day special, for all that you do for us, and for shairng in the season with us :) We love you all bunches and bunches, and appreciate you all very much :) Sending our love, super big happy sunny warm caring friendship hugs, and our best well wishes, 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 :) 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 sunshine returned this morning, we love seeing the sunshine glowing into our windows and curtains :) we've had some replenishing rainfall in recent days, and it's so nice to see some sunshine today :) i gathered a nice bowl of goodies, and went outside for my nature walk :)



Our nature friends, sunrise sunshine, and our plants greeted me :) it's awesome seeing the glowing nature, all of the nature is replenished from the rain, and is super growing as the month of August is set to arrive :) 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 feasts :) i saw a sparrow bird in our apple tree :) our nature friends love to visit our yard, garden, and neighborhood :) our plants, flowers, and fruit trees are doing well, growing and flourishing :) We have tomatoes, zuchinni, yellow squash, string beans, snap peas, and cucumbers growing :) We look forward to making fresh homemade salsa later on this summer season, and we look forward to making more cucumber wraps :) our sunflowers, and flowers are doing very well :) We have lots of beautiful snowball bush blossoms and also roses, daisies, zinnia flowers, and more :) We love our garden, and the special joy it brings us, getting to share our garden and adventures with everyone :) our plants, fruit trees, are all healthy and happy, and ready for another great growing month of August :) We're looking forward to spending more time in our garden this weekend :) Happy sunny summer 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 :) We love our breakfast time, it's a special part of our days :) i began to gather our baking friday supplies, kitchen 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 cool summer theme :) our kitchen looks great :) it's so much fun decorating, it's a special part of the baking friday tradition :) As the morning went on, we put our favorite sports radio on, we love tuning in and keepingup with our favorite sports :) the nfl preseason begins next thursday :) We look forward to counting down to the football season :) Around mid-day, we enjoyed a nice lunch, and during the early afternoon, i enjoyed some nice time here on DS, writing to friends :)



my mom's babysitting Brody and the triplets today :) Jenn and family were with us in spirit :) Hunter had a procedure on his ankle yesterday, it went really well, and he is doing ok, and back home, resting and recovering :) We're very glad, and thankful all went well with his procedure, and that he's gonna make a full healing recovery :) we look forward to Jenn and the kids coming over next week for baking friday adventure :) The kids are very excited, they love potato chips and brownies :) it's 2 of the most popular goodies we make on baking friday :) The kids are having lots of fun enjoying their summer vacations, with lots of adventures this season :) it's amazing, how much the kids have grown :) They're getting taller each week :) We love baking friday and are so excited to enjoy our adventures each week :) When we mentioned to the kids that we're making potato chips and brownies, they all cheered :) We're having lots of fun enjoying our summer time baking, grilling, and cooking :) Lots of our favorite recipes :) it's our favorite day and tradition :) 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 :) my mom is so happy to take the picture of us all in the kitchen :) You all are always right there with us in spirit in the kitchen :) 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 summer time kitchen was all set, and we were ready to bake some goodies :) Sweet Summer time baking! :) 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 :) We first began to prepare the brownies :) They're one of the most popular goodies we make :) We love brownies, and potato chips :) Brody, Brayden, Jacob, and Colby helped Holly and i in the kitchen today :) We added the brownies mix into the bowl, with water, eggs, and vegetable oil :) The kids were talking about summer time, and video games :) They're excited for some new games coming out soon :) Brody and Colby cracked open the eggs :) We began to super stir the brownies mix :) we were sharing lots of smiles :) my mom came out into the kitchen at times, and you all are always right there with us in spirit in the kitchen :) i used vegetable oil to grease the baking pan, and poured the brownies mix into the pan, and i put the brownies into the oven to bake :) We did some cleaning up in the kitchen, and got ready to cook the potato chips :)



We had some vegetable oil heating up on the stove in a cooking pot :) i washed potatoes earlier, and sliced the potatoes into the shapes of potato chips :) We began to make lots of batches of potato chips :) i used the nice metal spatula/strainer to stir the chips in the vegetable oil :) We made lots and lots of batches of potato chips, almost 5 pounds of potatoes we used :) we put the chips on plates, and also had vinegar with salt in bowls, everyone began to dig in :) the chips came out great :) the kids were enjoying having seconds, even thirds, plates of chips :) my mom and dad enjoyed some chips too :) the brownies finished baking, i brought the brownies out of the oven to cool down :)We were hanging out :) once the brownies cooled down, i sliced the brownies, and we all began to dig in :) the brownies came out great :) It was so much fun baking and cooking today :) i thanked the kids and Holly for helping :) We look forward to many more super fun baking friday adventures :) a very special shoutout for family and friends :) Lots of great baking and cooking this week :) We love hearing about the goodies and foods everyone bakes and cooks :) 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 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! :) July 31st, 2026 :) Happy baking friday everyone :)



We're enjoying a nice day :) baking friday, and sweet summer time spirit :) my family, Holly, and i are doing ok, and continuing with the good care :) 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 summer time spirit :) we love the weekend's :) Tomorrow, we're gonna shop at the dollar tree :) it's our favorite store :) We're gonna buy some foods, snacks, drinks, candy, and gonna browse at the fall/halloween season decorations, hotwheels, and more :) i look forward to sharing about our shopping adventure :) Holly and i are gonna have a fun, popcorn movies party :) We picked out some cool movies to watch, and gonna watch a new movie on saturday night :) on Sunday, we're gonna have a TWD party, and also cooking some foods :) We're gonna spend some time in our garden, tending our plants :) It's gonna be a great 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 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 nice 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 sharing in the summer season with everyone, and all of the seasonal festivities and traditions that brings lots of great joy :)We wish everyone a healthy, safe, and peaceful weekend :)



Happy baking friday :) Calling all cookie monsters! :)The spirit of the summer season is all around :) my family, Holly, and i are enjoying a nice time sharing in the season with everyone, and all of the seasonal festivities and traditions that brings great memories :) There's so much to enjoy this time of the year :) 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 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 time 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 :)
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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, cook, and grilling goodies and foods :) We're so happy the kids love to help pick the baking friday menu :) We love baking friday, and are very excited for all of our fun summer time baking friday adventures, baking, grilling, and cooking :)
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Brownies and Potato Chips :) Come on over, for some baking friday goodies :) the kids, Holly, and i had a fun time baking, and cooking today :) The chips and brownies are very popular :) We love these very special, spirited fun times, 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 brownies and chips came out great Hope Hunter recovers quickly and does well. Your kitchen decorations look so nice with a summer theme A nice photo of you and Holly there Wishing all of you a nice weekend. Thanks for all my nice hugs today Have a good evening Hugs to everyone-Stephanie
Lilysawyer
Lilysawyer

Hi Chris. I am glad Hunter is doing well after his procedure and that the rest of your family is doing well. I loved the goodies you and the baking crew made. YUM! send some my way! Hugs.
Snowgirl
Snowgirl

Nice pictures of you and Holly. Hi everyone. Missed you on DS.
Squarley
Squarley

Hello baking team all nice table set up with sun flowers. I love the summertime but it’s going so fast. We have left before we know it. Oh my gosh, your potato chips look so good. That’s one of my favorites that I would just love to have some we haven’t been able to cook any out of the Summers once so fast we haven’t done anything. I think we cooked that one time but you’re baking all that looks so good. I’d love to have a piece of a brownie right now been on a low-fat diet so I really miss my chocolate stuff hopefully at the doctors we can get things straightened out. Thank you so much for letting us share it in your traditions and Bruce love seeing the family they’re cooking and your nephews he said that was so great that you can do that. He hopes you continue and he can be there and with us when he retires in a couple weeks will be able to spend and share more time together. We love you bunches. Tell everyone we said hello love you love you love you..