baking friday :) Brownies, Ice Cream Cones, and Homemade Sweet Pickles! :)

"We love ice cream!!!" my nephew's Brody, Hunter, Jacob ,Colby, Brayden, Mikey, and Holly and i 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, Ice Cream Shop 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, and enjoyed some ice cream cones today :) The kids are so happy and excited! :) They love ice cream cones! : )We all do! :) celebrating sweet spirited summer times, and lots of great memories being made :) come on over, for some baking friday goodies and Ice cream! :)

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, made homemade sweet pickles, and also enjoyed some ice cream cones :) it was so much fun! :) ice cream is one of our favorite summer time treats :) We're already getting some cool requests to have more ice cream baking friday's soon :) We love these awesome, spirited fun times and all of the great spirit of the season! :)

Welcome to the baking friday ice cream shop! :) Happy Summer Smiles! :) Hi angel friends! :) my family, Holly, and i hope everyone is doing well, healthy, and enjoying a wonderful day :) We're loving the summer time spirit, and all of the awesome festivities, and traditions that makes summer time so much fun, and memorable :) We're enjoying our summer time baking friday adventures very much, and have been looking forward to our annual, ice cream shop themed baking friday :) ice crewma is one of our favorite treats,and brings back lots of special memories of summer time, going to get ice cream at the shops, and also the ice cream trucks visiting our neighborhood :) The sounds of "ring-a-ling" and the ice cream truck music :) it's such a fun and exciting time in the season :) You all make the season very special for us :) Thank you angel friends :) We love hearing about your summer time adventures, traditions, and sharing ours :) The summer season is in full swing, with lots of great nature shining all around :) We're so happy to include cucumbers from our garden as a special part of our baking friday adventure today to make homemade sweet bread and butter pickles :) We treasure the very special joy of getting to share in and celebrate the season with you all :) Iced coffee cheers!! to sweet classic, and golden summer time! :)

This morning, we had a great new day, rising and shining :) a very special 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! :) There's lots of great summer time recipes we love to bake, cook, and also having some ice cream :) it's one of our favorite treats :) We've been counting down to the days until our ice cream shop themed baking friday :) 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 :) it's been very active outside with lots of our nature friends visiting our yard, garden,and our neighborhood :) the summer time nature is spirit soaring :) i gathered a nice bowl of goodies, and went outside for my sunrise nature walk :) i put lots of goodies in our backyard, bird sanctuary area for our nature friends :) They love their baking friday, breakfast feasts :) awww! :) It's an awesome joy seeing lots of our nature friends visiting :) Holly and i are gonna make more nectar food for the hummingbirds this weekend :)

Our plants, and garden are doing well :) we're so happy and excited to be harvesting cucumbers, snap peas, and very soon, will be harvesting zuchinni and string beans :) We love growing fresh garden goodies, and also seeing lots of beautiful flowers blossoming all around :) we have tomatoes growing, our fruit trees, raspberry bushes, grapevines, and also lots of happy daisies, morning glory flowers, some poppy flowers, and our snowball bush beginning to blossom :) We're very heart happy and excited, that everyone is enjoying our nature, gardening adventures, and pictures :) it warms our hearts, and makes us smile :) We have lots more adventures to look forward too :) We're gonna continue to give our plants some good waterings, it's one of our favorite gardening activities, tending the plants :) We're very heart happy to see our plants flourishing, very healthy and happy as they soak up the summer sunshine, and continue to super mega grow :) Happy summer nature, and gardening season smiles :)

It was a sweet spirited early morning :) We enjoyed our breakfast, and having some hot tea, water, and iced coffee :) 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 our kitchen with a cool ice cream shop theme :) our kitchen looked awesome! :) it's so much fun decorating :) as the morning went on ,we put some sports radio on for a bit, and then went outside to tend our plants :) We gave our plants a good watering, and also picked another fresh cucumber from our garden :) We enjoyed a nice lunch around mid-day, and during the early afternoon i enjoyed some nice time here on DS, writing to friends :)

Around 3pm, Jenn and the kids came over, and Aj brought the triplets and Brody over :) Lots of great summer time spirit :) the kids are having so much fun enjoying their summer vacation :) camping trip, and going to 6 flags amusement park :) They love summer time :) 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 :) It's a cool baking friday tradition :) 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 suppleis 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 goodies, and having ice cream cones :) calling all cookie monsters! :) it's time to bake! bake! bake! :)

We began our super fun adventure! :) baking friday teamwork! :) The kids were so excited, as they were cheering for ice cream! :) We first began to prepare the brownies :) The kids are great helpers :) They love to help Holly and i bake goodies :) We began to add the ingredients into the bowl :) The kids all love to add ingredients into the bowl :) Today, Hunter and Brody cracked open the eggs :) We were sharing lots of smiles, preparing the brownies :) Brody had his cool funko mystery minis in the kitchen, and was showing us his cool collection :) he loves to collect them :) my mom and sister Lisa was coming out into the kitchen at times, and you all are always right there with us in spirit in our kitchen :) we began to super stir the brownies mix :) i used butter 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 homemade sweet bread and butter pickles :) i washed the cucumbers with warm water and sliced 3 cucumbers, and on the stove ,i added white vinegar, mustard seeds, celery seeds, salt, and sugar into the cooking pot :) the sweet pickles brine began to cook :)the kids said, "it smells like pickles!" :) we put the cucumber slices into the jar, and once the pickles brine began to boil, i put a butterknife into the jar with the sliced cucumbers, to help protect the jar from the heat, and i used a laddle to pour the pickles brine into the jar, and then put the lid on top of the jar to seal it :) It's our first jar of homemade pickles this season :) We love sweet bread and butter pickles :) i took pictures of the process of making the pickles :)

Ice Cream Time!!! :)The kids were so happy and excited! :) they all began to line up to get ice cream cones :) we had 2 kinds of ice cream, chocolate and vanilla :) We had joy brand ice cream cones :) The kids got to pick their choice of ice cream :) Holly and i were helping the kids, they all got ice cream cones :) Holly and i each had an ice cream cone too :) an ice cream party!!! :) The kids want us to have more ice cream themed baking friday adventures this summer :)aww! :) We were sharing lots of smiles :)

The brownies finished baking :) i brought the brownies out of the oven to cool down :) We did some cleaning in the kitchen :) i sliced the brownies when they cooled down, and took a picture of the brownies, and we all began to dig in :) The brownies came out great! :) We look forward to trying the homemade bread and butter sweet pickles :) we love pickles on sandwiches, salads, and on crackers :) it was so much fun baking, cooking, and having some ice cream cones today :) i thanked the kids and Holly for helping bake :) We love these very special, spirited fun times, and have lots more super fun baking friday adventures to look forward too as the summer season continues on :) 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, you all bake, cook, and grill :) 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, Ice Cream Cones, and Homemade Sweet Pickles :) Dedicated to our wonderful family, friends, and to the awesome spirit of summer season :) We love you all, so very very much! :) many great memories made, to always cherish and treasure :) baking friday! :) We love it!!! :) July 8th, 2022 :) Happy baking friday everyone! :)

We're enjoying an awesome day! :) baking friday! :) Summer time spirit! :) We love it!!! :) my family, Holly, and i are doing well, healthy, and in good spirits :) it was so much fun baking goodies today :) We love these very special, spirited 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, my mom, dad, Holly and i are gonna go shopping at the dollar tree, and maybe walmart too :) We look forward to buying some foods, snacks, drinks, and browsing around at the dvds, hotwheels :) Holly and i are gonna have another super fun, summer blockbusters popcorn movies party tomorrow :) We picked out some great movies to watch :) We'll watch a new movie on saturday night :) on sunday, we're gonna have a TWD marathon, i'm gonna enjoy some writing time ,and we're gonna tend our plants and garden :) i look forward to sharing our weekend adventures, and pictures with everyone in my weekend journals :) There's lots more great things to look forward too :) Tonight, Holly and i are gonna watch 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 Sunflower friendship hug and Summer Smiles :) We wish everyone, a nice peaceful evening and night, and wishing everyone continued joys of the blossoming summer season :)

-never lose hope :)

To Wildthing, Peaceful Gentle Moments of the day :) Wildthing, we're enjoying an awesome day! :) Today, the kids, Holly, and i baked brownies, made homemade pickles, and also had ice cream cones, for baking friday :) We love these very special, spirited fun times : )We're very excited to blossom into the weekend, shopping, watching movies, gardening, and enjoying our show on sunday :) i'm also gonna enjoy some writing time this weekend :) 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 very much, our sweet dear wonderful guardian angel friends :) We think of you all often :) We're very happy, thankful, and blessed to have you all in our lives :) Thank you all for brightening our days, and for the very special joy you all bring our hearts :) We look forward to sharing in lots more great summer time festivities, and traditions with everyone :) We wish everyone, a healthy, safe, and peaceful weekend :)

Happy baking friday! :) Calling all cookie monsters! :) Welcome to the Kitchen Ice Cream Shop! :) my family, Holly, and i are very happy and excited! :) We're loving our summer time baking friday adventures, and having a very special time sharing in and celebrating the season with everyone :) There's lots of spirit soaring seasonal festivities, and traditions that makes the season so much fun and memorable :) We sure do love our baking friday adventures, and sharing our adventures with everyone :) We're very excited to have one of our favorite adventures of the year, our annual ice cream shop themed baking friday :) 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, making ice cream cones, and also making a jar of homemade sweet pickles using fresh cucumbers from our garden :) 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 niece Alyssa :) She went shopping and picked up baking friday supplies :) it's very nice and sweet of her :) Thank you Alyssa, so very much! :) We all love to chip in to get the baking friday supplies each week :) We're very happy and thankful to have this very special tradition in our lives :)

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 baking friday cheer! :)

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 so happy and excited to be enjoying our summer time baking friday's :)

Brody showing us his collection of funko mystery minis collectibles :) 

Mikey joined us in the kitchen! :) 

Preparing the pickles :) 

Ice cream party time! :) 

Brownies, Ice Cream Cones, and Homemade Sweet Pickles :) Come on over, for some baking friday goodies! :) The kids, Holly, and i had lots of fun baking ,cooking, and having ice cream cones today :) We love these very special, spirited fun times and all of the great memories being made :) Happy summer time smiles! :) baking friday :)

Happy ice cream smiles! :)