baking friday :) Brownies, Peanut Butter Cookies, Pickled Banana Peppers :) Peacefulness :)

"we love brownies, lets bake!"- my nephews Colby, and Brayden said that today, during baking friday! :)

baking friday! :) calling all cookie monsters! :) cookie monsters! :) hehe! :) cookie monsters! hehe! :) cookie monsters unite!!! :) it's baking friday! :) oh my! :) a super fun, sweet, peaceful, summer time baking friday adventure in the kitchen! :) This was lots of fun, that we deserve :) a good ole fashioned, comfortable feeling, happy baking friday in the kitchen :) Thank you angel friends :) We dedicate this fun baking friday adventure to you all, our dear angel friends :) to our hearts, you all put the joy, and peace in our kitchen today :) Thank you <3 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 nice brownies, peanut butter cookies, and made 2 more jars, of pickled banana peppers :) We're so happy, and thankful for a very nice, peaceful baking friday with Alyssa, and the kids this week :) We've all needed an adventure like today, that helped to hug our hearts, in many ways :) baking friday is a big part of our lives, and we love getting the wonderful opportunity to share our adventures with everyone :) Writing about our adventures, is always a pure joy, and i'm very happy to be getting this nice time today, on a normal, uneventful baking friday, to be able to write about our adventure today :)

We love baking friday! :) Hi angel friends! :) my family, Holly, and i hope everyone is doing well, healthy, and enjoying a really nice day :) We think of you and your family's often :) We love hearing from you, and sharing in the joys of the summer season, with everyone :) The month of August has settled in, and the golden days of summer time are here :) lots of great nature, gardening, harvesting fresh garden goodies :) We've been enjoying lots of baking, cooking, and grilling this summer season :) baking friday is our favorite tradition :) we're very happy,thankful, and blessed to have this very special tradition in our lives :) We love to make it fun for the kids, and when we do, it makes it fun for us :) We love counting down, to it's baking friday,and we love to bake lots of goodies the kids love :) They truly are our stars of baking friday! :) i wanted to share with everyone :) Last week, during baking friday, while we were baking, the kids,Holly,and i were so very into the moments of having fun baking, that we all started to cheer, and chant things, like, "Brownies! Brownies! and baking friday! baking friday!" and we even were taking turns cheering eachother's names :) it's moments like that, with lots of smiles being shared, that brings so many awesome cool memories into our hearts :) We love baking friday,and we look forward to it each week :) it's a very special joy, having traditions in our lives :)

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 my family and Holly, your sweet happy baking friday wishes :) Thank you angel friends, so very much! :) You all are very nice, and sweet :)We treasure all of the great memories being made, from our summer time baking friday's, and as the season goes on, we'll be blossoming into our countdown to fall themed baking friday's next month :) We're gonna be baking 2 or 3 fall season goodies, each week, including using lots of apples, from our fruit trees :) We're having an amazing growing season :) i was up early this morning, as the new day was blossoming :) i enjoyed some nice time here on DS, writing to friends, and getting ready for my early morning nature walk :) We had some nice rain yesterday, it replenished all of the plants, and trees :) our garden has reached an amazing growing stretch, in the summer season :) i gathered a big bowl of goodies, and went outside for my nature walk :) i put lots of goodies in our backyard, for our nature friends, in the bird sanctuary area, and around our fruit trees :) We have lots of nice trees in our backyard, it gets very active out there with lots of our nature friends visiting :) They love their baking friday breakfast feasts :)awww! :) i always put lots more goodies outside, on days like baking friday, and sweet treats tuesday too :)

Our plants, and garden, fruit trees continue to grow very well, and are flourishing :) We have lots of fresh garden goodies :) Holly and i picked 12 more banana peppers yesterday, and now have picked a total of 36 banana peppers :) it's our biggest growing season for banana peppers :) we love pickled banana peppers : )we have lots of tomatoes, peppers, zuchinni, yellow squash, cucumbers, carrots, string beans, and snap peas growing :) we look forward to making fresh homemade salsa during one of our upcoming baking friday adventures :) With football season coming up, we love to have lots of salsa :) it's one of our favorite foods :) our popcorn plants, gourds, pumpkins, and all of our sunflowers, and flowers are doing great : )We have lots of beautiful morning glory flowers blossoming, including some that have grown with our popcorn plants :) it's a very neat time in the season, and lots of great nature, and gardening memories being made :) Holly and i are looking forward to tending our plants this weekend, and picking more fresh garden goodies :) it's a very rewarding time in the gardening season :) we love sharing our garden with everyone :) happy nature, and garden season smiles :)

it was a nice peaceful morning :) We enjoyed our breakfast, and had some iced coffee, hot tea, and water :) i checked my weight this morning, i've been doing well with my goal this summer, to eat healthier, and to lose some pounds :) i'm very happy,and pleased to share with everyone, that i've now lost, a total of 11 pounds in about 2 and a half months :) i've been eating healthier, lots of exercise from nature walks, and gardening :) i've only cut back on 2 things, greasy foods, and i've got back on the amount of breads i've had. i'm very happy to be making some great progress, and enjoying feeling healthier :) Holly also is doing well, eating healthy, and exercising :) cheers! to good health :) 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 one of my favorite joys each friday, decorating :) Today, i decorated with a very special theme, beautiful pictures that Holly painted :) She loves arts and crafts, and is very creative :) Our kitchen looked great! :) i love taking a picture of our kitchen decorations each week, to share with everyone :) as the morning went on, we put some sports radio on, and went outside for a nature walk to check in on our plants as the day was going on :) we picked 4 more banana peppers, a zuchinni, string beans ,and snap peas :) around mid-day, we enjoyed a nice lunch, and during the early afternoon, i enjoyed some nice time here on DS, writing to friends :)

Around 2:30pm,Alyssa brought Brody, Brayden, Colby ,and Jacob over :) The kids were very excited, as they have birthday's coming up, and they love to help bake goodies :) We got our picture taken in our kitchen :) it's a cool baking friday tradition each week :) the kids love to select spots at the kitchen counter :) Each week, we love to use our nice baking friday supplies, that we've recieved from family and friends over the years :) i wear my nice apron that Holly gave me, 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 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 get so proud, helping add the ingredients into the bowl :) We're so proud of the kids, and all that they're learning about baking and cooking :) we first began to prepare the brownies :) Alyssa and the kids brought over some triple chunk brownies for us to make :) we were adding in the ingredients, super stirring the ingredients :) We were sharing lots of smiles, which is very good for all of our hearts, to be enjoying our adventure :) You all are always right there with us in spirit in the kitchen :) i used vegetable oil to grease the baking pan, and we poured the brownies mix into the pan, and i put the brownies in tothe oven to bake :)

Colby has a cool Ernie (Sesame Street) stuffed toy, he was putting the stuffed toy near the bowls today, and it was like Ernie was helping in the kitchen :) awww! :) The kids love their collectibles :) While the brownies were baking, we prepared some peanut butter cookies :) We used some Betty crocker cookies mix :) it's an easy recipe, we added in some vegetable oil, some water, and a little extra flour :) We made a nice batch of the cookies, we had the cookies baking in the oven with the brownies :) We did some cleaning up in the kitchen, and on the stove, i got the nice brine going, for the banana peppers :) Vinegar, Mustard Seeds, Celery, Salt, and some Sugar :) We the brine is really good :) i washed, and sliced the peppers, and added the peppers into the jars :) i then used a laddle to pour the brine in the jars :) the jars of peppers are so nice :)

The brownies and peanut butter cookies finished baking :) i brought the cookies and brownies out of the oven to cool down :) i took some pictures of the brownies, cookies, and banana peppers, and we all began to dig in :) i thanked the kids, and Holly for helping bake :) We had a fun time, and it was so nice, a very fun, and uneventful baking friday, that we truely needed and deserved :) We have 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 goodies you all bake, and cook :) We're all with eachother in spirit, in our kitchens :) i wish we all could gather, and have a big baking friday picnic :) Brownies, Peanut Butter Cookies, and Pickled Banana Peppers, dedicated to our wonderful family, friends, and to the awesome peaceful spirit of fun, baking friday adventures, and to summer time :) We love you all, so very very much! :) many great memories made, to always cherish and treasure :) baking friday, we love it! :) August 6th, 2021 :) Happy baking friday everyone :)

We're enjoying a nice day, baking friday, and keeping with summer time traditions :) my family, Holly, and i are doing ok, keeping healthy,and continuing to make the most of each day :) it was so nice, and a fun joy, baking goodies today :) We love this very special tradition, and looking forward to baking lots more goodies as the season continues on :) We love summer time and the spirit of the season :) The weekend is arriving with peaceful spirit, we treasure it :) We love the weekend's :) Holly and i are going to have a popcorn movies marathon party tomorrow :) We want to watch at least 5 or 6 movies :) We're gonna have some foods, snacks,and drinks :) on sunday, we're going to watch some season 4 episodes of TWD, as we countdown to the arrival of season 11 :) We're gonna enjoy some nature walks, tending our garden this weekend too, plus i look forward to getting into some writing this weekend :) i look forward to sharing our weekend festivities, adventures, and pictures with everyone in my weekend journals :) There'slots 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 :) it's gonna be very special to us, getting to watch the episodes we were intending to watch last friday, as we continue to move forward each day :)

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 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, gardening adventures, and continuing to enjoy the summer season to the fullest :)

-never lose hope :)

To Wildthing, Peaceful Gentle Moments of the day :) Wildthing, we're enjoying a nice day :) Today, the kids, Holly, andi baked some nice brownies, peanut butter cookie bars, and made some more pickled banana peppers, for baking friday :) We love our adventures, and are so thankful, for a nice fun adventure we had today :) We look forward to many more adventures, and blossoming into the upcoming weekend :) Holly and i are going to watch some movies, our show, enjoying some nature walks, gardening, and continuing to enjoy each day to the fullest :) 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, our dear angel friends :) We hope everyone is doing well, healthy, and enjoying a great day :) We think of you all often :) We're very thankful, and blessed to have you all in our lives, and it's very comforting, and upliftign knowing you all are there for us :) we'll always be here for you all too, our dear angel friends :) We wish everyone a safe, peaceful, and relaxing weekend :)

Happy baking friday! :) Calling all cookie monsters! :) We're ready to bake some awesome goodies, enjoying our favorite tradition, and our adventures of summer time :) Thank you angel friends, for sharing in the season with us, and for sharing in this very special tradition with us :) We love baking friday, and counting down the days until our super fun adventures :) it brings our hearts a lot of very special joy, getting to share our adventures, and pictures :) the month of August has settled in, and the sweet classic, golden days of summer are here :) This is a picture of our kitchen all set up,and decorated for our super fun adventure :) Today, we're baking brownies, and making some more pickled banana peppers :) We're having a great growing season for peppers, and are very happy to be pickling jars of peppers :) 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 to some stores this week, and picked up baking friday supplies :) it's very nice, and sweet of them :) Thank you mom, dad, and Alyssa, 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 :)

Greetings, from our kitchen to yours! :) The baking friday crew! :) 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 during these very special times :) Sharing lots of smiles, and spirited baking friday cheer! :) We love it!!! :)

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 having an awesome fun time, enjoying our summer time baking friday adventures :) baking, cooking,and grilling all throughout the season :)

The kids brought their stuffed toy Ernie into the kitchen :) he was helping bake! :) 

Brownies, Peanut Butter Cookies, and Pickled Banana Peppers :)come on over, for some baking friday goodies :) the kids, Holly, and i had a fun time baking goodies today :) We love our adventure, and sharing them with everyone :) We're so thankful,for a peaceful adventure today, and we all felt comfortable in the kitchen :) baking friday :)