baking friday :) Brownies, Blueberry Muffins, Chocolate Fudge :)

"we love chocolate goodies!"- my nephew Hunter 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, triple the goodies, themed baking friday adventure in the kitchen!!! :) this was so much fun! :) sharing lots of smiles, and seasonal cheer, as we baked up some awesome treats :) We made 3 different goodies today, including making chocolate fudge for the first time in a long time :) We're so happy and excited! :) The spirit of the season is all around :) 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, Hunter, Alyssa, and i baked some brownies, blueberry muffins, and also made some homemade fudge, using a nice carnation brand fudge kit, that Alyssa brought :) it was so much fun, baking, and cooking :) We're so happy and excited, for all of the spirited fun times, and adventures, as the new year is blossoming :) it's our favorite day and tradition, baking friday! :)

SPECIAL THANKS! :) hi angel friends! :) my family, Holly, and i hope everyone is doing well, and enjoying a nice peaceful day :) We want to take this time, to thank you all so very much, for your wonderfully heart warming comments, and for celebrating the very special anniversary day with us yesterday :) we had so much fun, celebrating my mom's and dad's anniversary, and Holly's 1st anniversary of living here with us :) You all were with us in spirit, throughout the day :) our hearts are very happy :) You all made the anniversary celebrations very special, and memorable for us :) We deeply appreciate everything, with all of the love of our hearts :) We'll always cherish and treasure the very special memories made :) During the evening yesterday, Alyssa and the kids were here, and my sister Lisa arrived home from work early :) we all placed some orders, at the 99 restaurant :) we all got our favorite meals :) my mom, dad, Alyssa, and i selected the country homestyle meal, with chicken, mashed potatoes, coleslaw, honey biscuit with gravy, Holly selected the fish seafood meal, with 2 kinds of fish, coleslaw, and cranberry sauce :) Lisa got the nachos dinner, Kayla got the hotdog with fries meal, Taylynn got the hamburger, fries, and macaroni and cheese meal, the kids got happy meals, from mcdonalds :) We were all gathered in our living room, and enjoyed our meal :) the foods were delicious! :)

We were all enjoying a wonderful time visiting :) a very special, and joyful day, evening, and night :) for dessert, we enjoyed some chocolate eclairs and cherry pie :) it was so nice :) We're so happy, and excited, sharing in, and celebrating these very special times with you and your family's :) We're very happy, thankful, and blessed to have you all in our lives :) before we all settled in for the evening, we wished my mom and dad a happy anniversary again, and wished eachother a good night :) Holly and i enjoyed some BBQ potato chips, and powerade last night, and watched videos on youtube, re-living our traveling adventures last year, on January 16th, and also watched some treasure hunting videos :) A wonderfully special day, and many great memories made, to always treasure :) We're very heart happy :) We're so happy and delighted, that everyone enjoyed our anniversary journal, and our pictures :) that warms our hearts, and brings us lots of smiles :) Thank you again angel friends, for sharing in, and celebrating these very special times with us :) You all are always in our hearts :) we love celebrating with you all :)

It's been a wonderful stretch of days, and an awesome week :) Sharing lots of special times with family and friends :) The spirit of the season is all around, with the month of January in full swing, lots of very special joys, and times being shared :) We're having a wonderful t ime, blossoming into the new year :) We love hearing about your days, adventures, special times you and your family's share, and sharing ours :) There's so much more to look forward too, as the new year continues to blossom and shine :) We're getting ready for lots more special times, festivies, and the upcoming championship sunday football games to celebrate, and seeing which 2 teams advance to the big, superbowl 54 :) it's a very exciting time, in the blossoming of the new year :)

This morning, we had a sweet 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 them, your sweet happy baking friday wishes :) You all are very nice, and sweet :) Thank you angel frends, so very much! :) We're enjoying blossoming into all of our new year baking friday adventures :) in 2 weeks, we're going to be having our annual, superbowl themed baking friday adventure, baking a football cake :) we can't wait to see which 2 teams advance, to the big game :) we love all of the sweet fun times, to celebrate throughout the months, and seasons :) We love baking friday, and all of the great joys of baking lots of goodies, all throughout the year :)

As the day was blossoming, i gathered a big bowl of goodies, and went outside for my early morning nature walk :) i put lots of goodies outside, for our nature friends :) They love their baking friday breakfast feasts :)awww! :) it's very cold outside, the moon was visible in the sky, and the sun was rising up :) We're on snow watch, for tomorrow afternoon, into the evening and night. it could be 1-3 inches of snow, before turning to rain. we'll get a chance to go out to shop tomorrow, before the snow arrives :) it was a sweet spirited early morning :) we enjoyed a nice breakfast, and had some blueberry iced coffee, cheers! :) i began to gather our baking friday supplies, and decorations, and went out into our kitchen to begin setting up and decorating for our super fun adventure :) today, i decorated with a sunshine nature theme :) our kitchen looked great :) it's so much fun decorating :) we've been looking forward to baking goodies :) we prepared a nice lunch around mid-day, and during the early afternoon, i enjoyed some nice time here on DS, writing to friends :)

Around 3pm, Alyssa and the kids, and Jenn and the kids came over :) We were all gathering around, lots of awesome spirit, and excitement in the air :) The kids have been doing really well in school, we're very proud of them :) the triplets, Brayden, Colby, and Jacob got some handheld nintendo switch gaming systems, they love the games :) in our kitchen today, Kayla got her picture taken with Hunter and i :) Hunter wanted to help us bake :) The kids were in the living room, but came out into the kitchen at times :) Mikey and Taylynn were playing video games :) Each week, we love to use our nice baking friday supplies we've recieved from family and friends over the years :) i wear my apron, and we use our 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 ready, and we were ready for some awesome baking friday fun :) calling all cookie monsters! :) cookie monsters unite! :) it's time to bake! bake! bake! :)

We began our super fun adventure! :) we first began to prepare the brownies :) baking friday teamwork! :) Kayla helped Hunter crack open the best 2 eggs, for the brownies :) awesome! :) Hunter was so proud :) he's been learning how to crack open the eggs :) We were sharing smiles as we prepared the brownies :) my sister Jenn and Mike went to run some errands :) my mom and dad came out into the kitchen, and Alyssa brought Brodie out into the kitchen :) You all are always right there with us in spirit, during these awesome times :) We super stirred the brownies mix :) i used vegetable oil to grease the baking pan, and we poured the brownies mix into the baking pan, and i put the brownies into the oven to bake :) We love the scent of goodies baking in the kitchen :)

As the brownies were baking, we began to prepare the chocolate fudge :) The carnation kit is really cool :) it came with evaporated milk, sugar, and chocolate chips :) i got a cooking pot, and got the stove on, and we put 2 tablespoons of butter into the cooking pot, and then added in the evaporated milk, and sugar :) i stirred the sugar/milk until it was nice and smooth, and began to boil :) i stirred it a bit more, and we then added in the chocolate chips, and marshmallows :) we stirred it some more, and then poured the fudge into a nicely greased foil in a pan :) i took a picture of the fudge, before putting it in the fridge to chill :)
We did some cleaning up in the kitfchen, and began to prepare the blueberry muffins mix :) The blueberry muffins come in a nice packet, we just had to add water :) i used vegetable oil to grease the muffins baking pan, and we put the muffins mix into the baking pan, and put the muffins into the oven to bake :) The brownies finished baking, ib rought them out of the oven to cool down :) We were all hanging out, enjoying the spirit of the day :) the muffins finished baking :) i sliced the brownies, and i took pictures of the blueberry muffins too :) the goodies came out great :)

We had so much fun baking brownies, blueberry muffins, and making chocolate fudge :) we love these awesome times, and all of the great joys of the season :) winter time baking :) i thanked everyone for helping :) We're so happy and excited for lots more baking, and cooking, as the season goes on :) next week, we want to bake some more onion bagels, and also going to make mozzarella sticks :) There's 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 nice goodies, and foods you all bake :) We're 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, Blueberry Muffins, and Chocolate Fudge, 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 firday! :) we love it!!! :) January 17th, 2020 :) Happy baking friday everyone! :)

We're enjoying an awesome day! :) baking friday! :) we love it!!! :) Championship weekend is arriving!!! :) my family, Holly, and i are doing well, and are in great spirits :) We're so happy, thankful, and blessed to have the wonderful opportunity, to share in, and celebrate many very special times like this, and lots of great memories being made :) celebrating birthday's, my mom's and dad's anniversary, Holly's 1st anniversary of living here with us, and all of the joys of the season :) the weekend is arriving with lots of spirit :) We're so excited to go shopping at the dollar tree tomorrow :) We're going to buy some gifts, snacks, and cards :) We're gonna stock up on some football snacks, for the big championship sunday :) i'm going to write some cards this weekend :) Holly and i are gonna have a popcorn movie party on saturday :) on sunday, we're going to have our annual, championship sunday football party :) 2 big games :) We're gonna have foods, snacks, drinks, and enjoying the AFC and NFC title games :) We look forward to celebrating with everyone :) i look forward to sharing about our weekend adventures, pictures, and celebrations, in my weekend journals :) 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 friday night, paranormal party night's :) Thank you angel friends, so very much, for all that you do for us, and for the very special joy you bring our hearts :) 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 friendship hug :) We hope everyone enjoys a great weekend :)

-never lose hope :)

To Wildthing, Peaceful Gentle Moments of the day :) Wildthing, it's an awesome day! :) Today, Alyssa, the kids, and i baked some brownies, blueberry muffins, and made chocolate fudge, for baking friday :) it's been a wonderful week, and we're so excited to blossom into the weekend, and looking forward to shopping, and championship sunday :) thinking of you, our dear friend :)

my mom says hi :) She says, "i hope everyone is having a really good baking friday" :)awww! :)She says, "have a nice weekend" :) We love you all bunches and bunches, our sweet dear wonderful guardian angel friends :)We hope everyone is doing well, and enjoying a great day :) Thank you again angel friends, for helping make my mom's and dad's anniversary, and Holly's 1st anniversary of living here with us :) We love these very special times :) We wish everyone a wonderfully safe, happy, and fun weekend :) We're so excited, to share in, and celebrate many more joys with everyone :)

Happy baking friday!!! :) Calling all cookie monsters! :) it's sweet classic, and golden January baking time! :) my family, Holly, and i are so happy and excited! :) We're enjoying a very special time, sharing in, and celebrating the joys of the week with everyone :) it's been a big week, with anniversary and birthday celebrations :) lots of great memories being made :) We're loving the spirit of the season, as the new year is settling in :) There's lots of very special times being shared, with family and friends :) 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, blueberry muffins, and making chocolate fudge :) Thank you everyone, so very much, 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! :) cookie monsters unite! :) it's time to bake! bake! bake! :)

baking friday supplies! :)We have a very special shoutout, and thank you, for my dear and lovely mom, dad, and niece Alyssa :) they went shopping this week, and picked up baking friday supplies :) it's very nice, and sweet of them :) Thank you mom, dad, and Alsysa, so very mmuch! :) We all love to chip in and get baking friday supplies each week :) We love this very special tradition in our lives :)

Greetings, from our hearts, home, and kitchen to yours :) Kayla, Hunter, and i got our picture taken in the kichen todya :) it's a cool baking friday tradition :) You all are always right there with us in spirit, during these special times :)sharing lots of smiles, and baking friday cheer :)

Baking friday teamwork! :) preparing the goodies! :) The kids love to help :) they're great helpers :) they get so proud, when they add the ingredients, super stirring, and of course, enjoying the goodies we bake :) Sharing lots of happy baking friday smiles :) we're having so much fun, blossoming into the new year of baking friday fun :)

Brownies, Blueberry Muffins, and Chocolate Fudge! :) come on over, for some baking friday goodies! :) We had lots of fun baking goodies today :) We love these awesome times, and all of the great memories being made :) The new year is blossoming, lots of special joys, and times being shared :) We look forward to many more special times, and super fun adventures :) baking friday :)