baking friday :) Brownies, Pillsbury Sugar Cookies :) Countdown to new year! :)

"We're baking new year's brownies!"- my nephew's Brody,Hunter, 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,happy countdown to new year's themed baking friday adventure in the kitchen!!! :) this was so much fun! :) sharing lots of smiles, and spirited cheer as we countdown to the arrival of the new year,2023 :) We love this very special tradition, and are looking forward to many more adventures in the new year :) 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 pillsbury sugar cookies, featuring Elf and frosty the snowman design :) it was so much fun! :)We had a full baking friday crew, and we all got our picture taken together in the kitchen :) We're loving the spirit of the season,and all of the awesome times to look forward too, as we get ready to blossom into the new year, 2023! :)

Happy Countdown to New Year! :) 5, 4, 3, 2, 1! :) Hi angel friends! :) my family, Holly ,and i hope everyone is doing well,healthy,and enjoying a wonderful day! :) we're very happy and excited, to share in and celebrate the new year with everyone! :) it's a very exciting time,and lots of great spirited excitement of counting down to the arrival of 2023 :) We want to take this time, to wish everyone a healthy,safe, peaceful,and very happy new year,and upcoming weekend :)As we all celebrate these awesome times,we're all with eachother in spirit :) We've been enjoying these golden days of the holiday season with everyone, as the new year approaches :) There's lots of great things going on,and many special memories being made :) We love baking friday,and the very special joy it brings each week :) we've been having so much fun enjoying our baking friday adventures this year,and sharing our adventures with everyone :) We're looking forward to a whole new year, of baking friday adventures :) 52 friday's in 2023, to share lots of smiles, spirited cheer,and many great memories being made :) We're very heart happy and excited! :) Thank you angel friends, so very much,for sharing in this very special tradition with us each week :) Happy baking friday smiles! :)

This morning,we had a wonderful 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! :) You all are very nice,and sweet :) We've been looking forward to our super fun adventure :) a very special shoutout and thank you for my niece Alyssa, for all of the nice baking friday supplies she's gotten for us this year :) We appreciate it very much :) 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 :) We're very thankful the weather has warmed up a bit, as the week's been going on :) i gathered a nice bowl of goodies, breads, chex mix, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, and went outside for my nature walk :) i put lots of goodies in our backyard, for our nature friends :) they love their baking friday breakfast feasts :) i saw some squirrels, and bluejays around, and we had a beautiful sunrise sky that was glowing bright :)Holly and i are looking forward to all of our new year's nature walks :) We love nature, and the very special joy it brings :)

It was a sweet spirited early morning :) We enjoyed our breakfast,and having some hot tea with peppermint candy, water,and iced coffee :) i began to gather our baking friday supplies, 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 happy countdown to new year's theme :) Holly and i made some cool pictures/banner :) our kitchen looked great,and spirited for the arrival of 2023 :) it's so much fun decorating the kitchen :) i look forward to decorating more in the new year :) as the morning was going on, we put some sports radio on, lots of great football and basketball sports talk :) We're looking forward to the big football games this weekend :) Around mid-day, we enjoyed a nice lunch,and during the early afternoon, i enjoyed a nice time here on DS, writing to friends :)

Around 3pm, Alyssa and the kids came over, and Jenn and the kids came over :) Lots of great spirited excitement in the air :) The kids are enjoying their Christmas vacation,and enjoying all of their cool gifts they recieved for Christmas :) They've been having so much fun, playing with their toys, and games :) We 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 in the kitchen :) 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 supplies we've recieved from family and friends over the years :) i wore my nice apron that 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 some awesome goodies as we countdown to the arrival of 2023! :) 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've been learning a lot about baking, and cooking :) We love our adventures,and are so excited to bake lots of goodies to finish this year,and gonna bake lots more in 2023 :) We first began to prepare the brownies :) They're one of our favorite goodies to bake :) The kids love when brownies are on the baking friday menu :) the kids love to help add the ingredients, and super stirring :) We were sharing lots of smiles, as we prepared the goodies :) i had a funny new year's joke to share, i said to everyone,"what do you call something that has 2 hands, a face,and runs all day? A Clock!" hehe! :) we were all laughing :) my mom, Jenn, and Alyssa came out into the kitchen, and you all were right there with us in spirit :)

We super stirred the brownies mix, and got the baking pan ready :) i used butter to grease the baking pan, we poured the brownies mix into the baking pan,and i put the brownies into the oven to bake :) We got some baking pans ready,and put the nice pillsbury Elf and Frosty the snowman themed cookies onto the pans,and i put the first batch of cookies into the oven to bake :) As the cookies and brownies were baking, we did some cleaning up in the kitchen :) the kids were going back and forth, from the kitchen and living room :) the first batch of cookies finished baking, i brought the cookies out of the oven to cool down, and put another batch of cookies into the oven to bake :) our kitchen smelled great, brownies and cookies :)

The brownies finished baking, i brought themout of the oven to cool down, and the 2nd batch of sugar cookies finished baking ,they came out really good :) i sliced the brownies, and took pictures of all of the goodies, and we all began to dig in :) The brownies and cookies are awesome! :) i thanked the kids and Holly for helping bake :) We had so much fun baking the goodies, and a whole year, of super fun baking friday adventures :) We have many more super fun baking friday adventures to look forward too in the new year :) a very special shoutout for family and friends :) Lots of great bakiing, and cooking this week, and all throughout the year :) We love hearing about the goodies and foods you all bake, and cook : )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 Pillsbury Sugar cookies, dedicated to our wonderful family,friends,and to wonderful 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!!! :) December 30th ,2023 :) Happy baking friday and Happy new year everyone! :)

We're enjoying an awesome day! :) baking friday! :) Seasonal spirit! :) We love it!!! :) my family,Holly,and i are doing well, healthy,and in good spirits :) it was so much fun baking goodies :) We love these very special, spirited fun times and are so excited to blossom into a whole new year of baking friday fun :) There's lots of great things going on, and many special memories being made :) The weekend is arriving with lots of new year's spirit :) We love the weekend's :) We're very happy and excited! :) Tomorrow, new year's eve, we're gonna go shopping at the dollar tree :) We're going to stock up on some writing supplies, buying some mystery hotwheels collectibles, and browsing around the store :) we lov the dollar tree :) Holly and i are gonna have a fun, popcorn movies party :) we picked out some great movies to watch :) New year's holiday,we're gonna be home, having a football party,enjoying some foods, snacks, and drinks :) we're gonna put together foods/snacks platters :) it's gonna be an awesome,spirit soaring weekend welcoming 2023 :) i look forward to sharing our weekend adventures, celebrations,and pictures with everyone in my weekend journals :)

There's so much more to look forward too as the new year approaches :) Traditions, Birthday's, Adventures, and so much more :) Tonight, Holly and i are going to watch 2 episodes of most haunted show :) We love our fun, friday night paranormal party night's :) We're very happy, thankful, and blessed, to have you all in our lives, and to be able to share in these very special times of the season with you all :) Thank you angel friends, so very much ,for all that you do for us, for comforting us, uplifting our spirits, brightening our days, and for the very special joy you all bring our hearts :) We deeply appreciate everything, with all of the love of our hearts :) Big group happy sunny warm caring friendship hug :) We wish everyone a nice peaceful evening and night :) Wishing everyone a very healthy, blessed, happy and wonderful new year, 2023 is almost here! :) We're looking forward to ringing in the new year with everyone :)

-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,and sugar cookies for baking friday :) We love these very special, spirited fun times :) We're very happy and excited for the weekend, celebrating new year's eve, holiday, watching movies, football,shopping, and enjoying foods, snacks, drinks, and all of the spirited cheer of welcoming the new year :) 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 :) aww! :) We love you all bunches and bunches, our sweet dear wonderful guardian angel friends :) We're very heart happy and excited to share in and celebrate the arrival of 2023 with everyone :) You all make each day, very special and memorable for us :) We cherish and treasure your very special friendships :) We wish everyone a healthy, happy, and peaceful weekend :) Happy countdown to 2023! :)

Happy baking friday! :) Happy Countdown to New Year, 2023! :) Calling all cookie monsters! :)my family, Holly,and i are very happy and excited, to share in and celebrate the arrival of the new year with everyone :) it's a very exciting time, as a new year arrives :) Wishing us all, a very healthy, blessed, and happy new year :) We've been enjoying our baking friday adventures throughout the year ,so very much and are looking forward to a whole new year of baking friday fun! :) it's our favorite tradition :) many great memories being made :) 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, the kids, Holly, and i are baking brownies, and sugar cookies :) Celebrating new year spirit and cheer as we get ready to blossom into 2023 :) 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 this week and picked up baking friday supplies :) it's very nice and sweet of her :) Thank you Alyssa, so very much! :) We appreciate all of the nice baking friday supplies she's gotten for us this year :) 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 holiday kitchen to yours! :) The baking friday crew! :) The kids, Holly, and i got our picture taken in the kitchen :) it's a cool baking friday tradition :) You all are always right there with us in spirit, during these very special, spirited fun times :) We've been enjoying our baking friday adventures this year,and all of the great memories being made :)

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 proud of the kids, and all that they're learning about baking, and cooking :) We're very happy and excited for all of our new year's baking friday adventures, baking our favorite goodies, and new recipes too :)

my mom (on left side of picture) making an appearance in our baking friday journal :) 

Brownies and Pillsbury Sugar Cookies! :) Come on over, for some baking friday goodies! :) The kids, Holly, and i had lots of fun baking goodies :) Sharing lots of smiles, all throughout the year, with our super fun baking friday adventures,and many more adventures to look forward too :) Thank you all, for sharing in this very special tradition with us :) baking friday :)