baking friday :) Brownies, and Smores :) Celebrating Summer Time Spirit! :)

"Smores and Brownies! Happy Summer!"- my nephew's Hunter, 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, spirit soaring happy summer time themed baking friday adventure in the kitchen!!! :) this was so much fun!!! :) sharing lots of smiles, and spirited cheer, as we get ready to blossom into the summer season! :) We're loving our seasonal baking friday adventures, and all of the great times to look forward too! :) 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 some brownies, and made smores :) it was so much fun! :) we love these spirited fun and special times ,and are so happy and excited for the arrival of summer season :) it's a very exciting time of the year :) lots of spirit soaring adventures, traditions, and all of the nature glowing all around :) We're feeling the spirit of the season beginning to arrive! :) Thank you angel friends, so very much ,for sharing in the seasons with us, and for sharing in this very special baking friday tradition with us each week :)



Summer Time Spirit as we get ready to blossom into Summer Season!!! :) we love it!!! :) Hi angel friends! :) my family, Holly, and i hope everyone is doing well, healthy, and enjoying a beautiful day :) The spirit of the season is all around, as summer season is about to arrive on sunday :) We're so happy and excited to share in, and celebrate this wonderful time of the year with you and your family's :) There's lots of classic, and golden traditions and festivities, that makes the season very special, and memorable :) from BBQ cookouts, adventures, nature walks, gardening, birthday's, celebrations, and lots more :) There's so much to enjoy this time of the year :) We're so happy, and excited to begin our summer time baking friday adventures :) a whole new season of baking friday fun! :) it's a really sweet time of the year :) You all make the seasons very special, and memorable for us :) As we get ready to blossom into summer season, we want to take this time to wish everyone a super fun, awesome, and very happy summer season :) We look forward to hearing all about your summer traditions, festivities, and sharing ours :) it's gonna be a great summer! :) We'd love to take this time ,to share with everyone, about an awesome time we had last evening, celebrating Taylynn's and Hunter's graduations :) We're so happy and excited for the kids, as they advance to the next grade, and beginning their summer vacation :)


Taylynn's and Hunter's Graduation party! :) Hi angel friends! :) We had a really awesome, fun, and joyful time yesterday evening, celebrating Taylynn graduating from 8th grade, and Hunter graduating from Kindergarten :) During the evening, we had family over for the celebration party in our backyard :) Jenn and family, Alyssa and family, Bobby and family, and Charlie and his girlfriend Lisa came over :) You all were right there with us in spirit :) We congratulated Taylynn and Hunter :) We had some balloons, and cool 2021 Graduates Beach balls for them, and gave Taylynn and hunter some cards with money :) Alyssa also gave Taylynn a cool snowglobe with a rose inside it :) We ordered pizza, sandwiches, and also had salads, and cupcakes :) We enjoyed the delicious foods :) it was great! :) Brayden was talking with Holly and i, about eating lots of grinders sandwiches, and we said, "You're the best grinders eater" :) he was so proud! :) awww! :) Charlie, Bobby, and i were talking about gardening, everyone loved seeing our plants, and garden :) my dad and i were talking about our fruit trees :) The kids were having lots of fun, jumping on the trampoline, and Ryan and Miranda went swimming :) my mom was hanging out with us, and we were talking about the day :) Kayla and Taylynn got the fire pit going :) We were outside until about 8:30pm :) it was still a bit light out :) it was such an awesome evening and night, with lots of great memories made, celebrating Taylynn's and Hunter's graduations :) We're so happy and excited for the kids, and very proud of them :) They all are advancing to the next grade, and are super excited for their summer vacations :)



This morning, we had an awesome 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! :) We love this very special tradition :) we've been enjoying our spring time baking friday adventures, so very much and are so excited to blossom into a whole new summer season of baking friday adventures :) There's lots of great spirit, and excitement in the air :) i was up early this morning, enjoying some nice time here on DS, writing to friends, and gettin ready for my early morning nature walks :) it's been a beautiful stretch of days, lots of sunshine ,and comfortable weather in the 70's :) it's a great time in the gardening season :) i gathered a big bowl of goodies, and went outside for my nature walk :) into the sunrise sunshine :) i put lots of goodies in our backyard, bird sanctuary area for our nature friends :) They love their baking friday breakfast feasts! :) awww! :)



The season is shining bright all around :) Our plants, and garden are doing very well, growing and flourishing :) it's so nice, to see everything flourishing :) We love sharing our garden with everyone :) Our plants are continuing to super mega grow :) We'll be picking fresh raspberries, and snap peas very soon :) it's gonna be a summer of harvesting fresh garden goodies :) We love to garden, and are so thrilled for the season :) We've reached the stage in the gardening season, where we've done most of our planting and are now tending our plants, giving them good waterings on sunny days, and pulling weeds, keeping our garden areas fresh :) it's so neat, and very exciting to see how much the plants have grown, and the spirit soaring nature that shines all around :) We love sharing our garden with everyone :) Holly and i are looking forward to some weekend gardening :) our plants and garden are ready to blossom into summer season :) Happy nature, and garden season smiles :)



It was a nice sweet spirited morning :) we enjoyed our breakfast, having some tea, iced coffee, and water too :) Cheers!!! to the spirit of the season! :) 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 :) it's so much fun decorating :) Holly and i made a cool Summer banner :) Today, i decorated with a cool welcome summer theme :) our kitchen looked great! :) as the morning went on, we put the sports radio on, and Holly and i went outside to tend our plants, we gave our plants a nice watering :) It's a beautful sunny day :) around mid-day, we enjoyed a nice lunch, and during the early afternoon, i enjoyed some nice time here on DS, writing to friends, and also checked in on updates on my online orders i have coming in the mail :)



Around 3pm, Jenn and the kids came over, Aj brought over Brody, and my mom and dad picked up triplets from school :) Later on, Alyssa came over after work :) Lots of great summer time spirit, and excitement in the air :) Summer time is here! :) the kids are so happy and excited for the summer vacation :) We've been looking forward to our summer time baking friday adventures :) The kids love to select their spots in the kitchen counter :) We got our picture taken :) it's a cool baking friday tradition :) Greetings from the baking friday crew! :) 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 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 for our super fun adventure! :) 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 Holly and i :) They're great helpers :) we're so proud of the kids, and all of their learning about baking, and cooking :) They were so excited when we told them we're baking brownies, and making smores today :) We first began to the brownies :)We got some eggs, water, and melted a little butter, to add to the brownies mix :) The kids were super stirring the ingredients :) we were talking about summer time, and all of the great adventures the kids have to look forward too all throughout the season :) We were sharing lots of smiles, as we prepared the brownies :) my mom, Jenn, and Carter came out into the kitchen at times :) You all are always right there with us in spirit in the kitchen during these special spirited fun times :) i used butter to grease the baking pan, and we poured the brownies mix into baking pan, and i put the brownies into the oven to bake :) we love the scent of brownies baking in the oven :)



As the brownies were baking, we began to prepare the smores :) Smores are one of our favorite treats, and a classic treat this time of the year :) The kids were so excited, to help assemble the smores :) They broke the graham crackers in half, opened the chocolate bars, and got the marshmallows ready :) Holly and i got 2 plates, to put the smores ingredients on :) We put the chocolate on top of graham crackera, and then put a marshmallow on top, and then put the plates into the microwave for 20 seconds, the marshmallows got really big as they microwave heated them, and we brought the plates out of the microwave, and the kids helped put graham crackers on top of the marshmallows, and chocolate, to make smores sandwiches :) We were having so much fun! :) The kids were so proud, making the smores :) They each made their very own smore, some made triple stack, and some made regular stack smores :)



We made a huge plateful of smores :) the smores came out great! :) i took a picture of the smores, and we all began to dig in! :) the smores are delicious! :) The brownies finished baking, they came out awesome too :) We had so much fun baking the goodies :) After baking, the kids went outside, to play in the backyard :) i thanked the kids and Holly for helping bake :) We're loving our adventure, and so happy and excited for a whole new season of summer time baking friday fun :) We'll be baking goodies next week, and then our annual 4th of July themed baking friday adventure :) There's lots of super fun adventures to look forward too :) A very special shoutout for family and friends :) Lots of great baking, cooking ,and grilling this week : )We love hearing about the goodies, and foods everyone bakes, cooks, and grills :) 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 Smores, 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!!! :) June 18th, 2021 :) Happy baking friday, and Happy summer time 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 great spirits :) it was so much fun baking goodies today :) We love these spirit soaring and super fun times :) there's lots of great things going on, and many special memories being made :) The weekend is arriving with lots of summer time spirit :) We love the weekend's! :) Tomorrow, Holly and i are going to have a popcorn movies marathon party, enjoying some cool movies, having foods, snacks, and drinks :) We'll pick out a new movie to watch on saturday night :) We're going to do some gardening, tending our plants, celebrating Father's day on sunday, and also watching TWD :) it's gonna be a spirit soaring weekend :) i look forward to sharing our weekend adventures, and lots of pictures with everyone in my journals :) We all are with eachother in spirit :) There's lots more great things to look forward too :) Tonight, Holly and i are going to watch 2 episodes of most haunted show :) We love our fun, friday night paranormal party night's :) in my journal tomorrow, i'm going to share pictures from the graduation party we had for Taylynn and Hunter, and also going to share new nature, garden pictures :) 



keep healthy, safe, and strong everyone :) Thank you angel friends, so very much, for all that you do for us, and for the very special heart warming joy you all bring to our days, our hearts, and our lives :) You all are wonderfully nice, sweet, and very caring :) We deeply appreciate everything, with all of the love of our hearts :) big group warm caring happy sunny sunflower friendship hug and blueberry iced coffee cheers! :) You all give us strength, hope, inspiring us to enjoy each day to the fullest <3 We're with you all, and will always be here anytime you all need us :) Thank you all, for brightening our days and making each day very special :) We're so happy, thankful, and blessed to have you all in our lives :) We look forward to sharing in many more very special times, adventures, birthday's, holiday's, and all of the seasonal traditions and festivities with family, friends, nature walks, the wonderful spirit of the season, and blossoming more and more into the gardening season, and celebrating the month of June, as summer season approaches :)



-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 super fun time baking brownies, and made smores for baking friday :) Celebrating the arrival of summer time spirit :) We love baking friday, and sharing our adventures :) We had a great time celebrating Taylynn's and Hunter's graduations yesterday evening :) Lots of great memories being made :) We're so happy and excited to blossom into the weekend, with nature walks, gardening, writing, and watching movies :) Welcoming summer season on sunday :) Thinking of you, our dear friend :)



my mom says hello :) She says, "i hope everyone is doing well, healthy, and enjoying a really good baking friday" :) awww! :) She says, "wishing everyone a nice weekend" :) We love you all bunches and bunches, our sweet dear wonderful guardian angel friends :) We hope everyone is doing well, healthy, and enjoying a great day :) We think of you all often, and are so happy, thankful, and blessed to have you all in our lives :) We're so happy and excited to blossom into the weekend, and celebrating the upcoming summer season with everyone :) We wish everyone a healthy, safe, and peaceful weekend :)



Happy baking friday and Happy Summer Time!!! :) Calling all cookie monsters! :) We're ready for some summer time baking friday fun!!! :) my family, Holly ,and i are so happy and excited to welcome the summer season, and sharing in, and celebrating the awesome festivities, and traditions of the season with everyone :) it's a very exciting time of the year, and the spirit of the season is all around :) There's so much to enjoy this time of the year :) BBQ cookouts, adventures, nature walks, gardening, and so much more! :) The kids have completed the school year :)We're so proud of them! :) Wishing everyone a happy summer season! :) We sure do love our baking friday adventures, and sharing our adventures with everyone :) We're celebrating the arrival of summer, as the season arrives on sunday :) This is a picture of our kitchen all set up, and decorated for our super fun adventure :) Today, we're baking brownies, and making smores, for baking friday :) Thank you everyone, so very much, for joining us in our kitchen each week, and for welcoming us into your ktichens :) 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 dear and lovely mom and dad :) They went shopping this week, and picked up baking friday supplies :) it's very nice, and sweet of them :) Thank you mom and dad, 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 :)
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Greetings, from our kitchen to yours! :) The baking friday crew! :) We're ready for a whole summer of baking friday fun! :) The kids 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 in the kitchen :) Sharing lots of smiles, and spirited baking friday 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 so happy and excited to welcome summer season, and many more super fun baking friday adventures :)


Brayden and Holly! :) 
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the kids love to make funny faces! :) hehe! :) 


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Brownies and Smores! :) come on over for some baking friday goodies! :) The kids, Holly, and i had so much fun baking goodies :) Celebrating summer time spirit! :) We love these special spirited times, and all of the great memories being made :) baking friday :)
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Replies

CoolGal
CoolGal

Hi Chris Glad you and your family are doing well and enjoyed baking The goodies look great I see Mr cool sunflowers was visiting your summertime kitchen today So nice Taylynn and Hunter and your family enjoyed the party last evening. Hope you and Holly enjoy tending the garden this weekend and enjoy all your movies and shows too Thanks for all my nice hugs today Have a good night hugs to all there-Stephanie
cedarbrooke
cedarbrooke

Great job Team Bakers! Everything looks delicious. I love chocolate. Graduation celebrations sounded fun. Was hoping to see some pictures. Baking Friday pictures are great & put a smile on my face. Enjoy the rest of your evening. Hugs! Brooke & Henri
Lilysawyer
Lilysawyer

yummy! send some brownies and smores my way :D what a wonderful time you all had :D
sunsetyellow2
sunsetyellow2

Hi Chris and Holly. John and I had a great time at the lake until it started raining and storming. We came home around 1:00. We will go again next week sometime.

It is so great that everyone had a great time baking. The goodies really look good.

The graduation party Sounds like a lot of fun. I love sitting around the fire pit. It is one of my favorite summertime thing to do. Congratulations to Taylynn and Hunter. I remember when you were teaching Taylynn to bake.

You and Holly have a great evening.

Hugs
John and Debbie
JeanCarlin
JeanCarlin

Everything looks so yummy, :-) Love all the pics, :-)
Glad you all enjoyed the party , it sounds like a lot of fun!!
Have a great weekend
Hugs, Jeannie
Squarley
Squarley

Hello team bakers glad to see that you made it and everything look delicious a s’more made my mouth water so happy to see that everybody was working together in love to see Holly‘s face hi Holly. Enjoyed reading your journal so glad everything went all right love your table set up you always do a fantastic job have a wonderful weekend love sharing your baking Friday one of my very special Saturday morning treats love you bunches from Bruce And Shirley!