baking friday :) Chocolate Chip Cookies, and Grilled Hotdogs! :) summer smiles! :)

"We love cookies and hotdogs! lets bake!" :) my nephews Jacob, Colby, and Brayden 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, flour flying, and super sweet, summer time themed baking friday adventure in the kitchen!!! :) This was so much fun!!! :) Sharing lots of smiles, and getting the flour flying in the air in the kitchen, as we baked and grilled up some awesome goodies! :) We're so happy and excited for a whole new season of baking friday fun! :) 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 chocolate chip cookies, and grilled hotdogs :) Chillin n Grillin, for some summer time baking friday fun! :) we love these super fun, spirited times, and all of the great memories being made :) it's so exciting, a whole new summer season is here, and we're ready for a whole summer of baking, cooking, and grilling :) it's an awesome time of the year, to fire up the BBQ Grill, and making all kinds of recipes :) We're super excited, to share in all of the awesome times of summer! :)

SUMMER TIME BAKING FRIDAY FUN!!! :) Hi angel friends! :) my family, Holly, and i hope everyone is doing well, healthy, and enjoying a wonderful day :) We think of you and your family's often :) We're so happy, and excited to be sharing in, and celebrating the awesome blossoming of the summer season with everyone :) There's lots of great summer time spirit, and excitement all around :) There's so much to enjoy, with all of the seasonal festivities, and traditions :) it's that time of the year, the summer time sunshine, lots of nature glowing all around, adventures, gardening, nature walks, the scent of BBQ foods cooking on the grills and all of the exciting times and great memories that summer season brings :) We love this time of the year, so very much, and are so happy and thrilled to have our first baking friday adventure of the summer season :) We sure do love our baking friday adventures, and sharing our adventures with everyone :) The kids love to countdown to baking friday, and earlier in the week when they're visiting, we love to ask the kids what they'd like to make, for baking friday, and they give us some treats/goodies that they'd like to bake :) we love to plan our adventures with them :) the kids are so excited for summer time, and enjoying their first week of summer vacation :) It's a very spirited time of the year, and lots of great memories being made :) Thank you angel friends, so very much, for sharing in and celebrating the summer season with us, and this very special baking friday tradition with us each week :)

This morning, we had a great 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 wonderfully nice, and sweet :) We've been looking forward to our super fun baking friday adventure, and are so happy and excited we had an awesome opportunity to do some baking yesterday too :) Jenn and family went camping today, and this weekend :) Jenn and Mike ran some errands yesterday, preparing for their camping trip :) they took Carter with them, and brought Mikey and Hunter here :) my mom babysat them :) the kids really wanted to bake some goodies, as they knew they'd be camping today and they wanted to get in some baking time :) i told my mom."sure! we can bake!" :) Mikey, Hunter, Jacob, Holly, and i baked some nice oreo cupcakes :) Brody, Colby, and Brayden came out into the kitchen too :) it was so much fun preparing the cupcakes, sharing lots of smiles :) it felt just like a regular baking friday :) we were all hanging out, whilel the cupcakes baked, and the kids were playing some video games :) They helped frost the oreo cupcakes, the frosting came with crumble oreo cookies :) Holly and i thanked the kids for helping bake :) We're so happy, and thankful we got a chance to bake with the kids before their big camping adventure :) Mikey, Hunter, and Carter all got some cupcakes to bring with them, and the triplets and Brody had some cupcakes too :) i took some pictures yesterday while we baked, and will include those pictures in my journal today :)

it's been an awesome stretch of days, and overnight, into this morning we recieved some nice replenishing rainfall here :) our plants and all of the nature enjoyed the rain :) We've been enjoying our nature, and gardening adventures very much, and seeing our plants super growing as summer season blossoms :) We love this time of the year, so 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 :) i gathered a big bowl of goodies, and went outside for my nature walk :) it was still a bit rainy, and misting a bit. it's been a very active nature week, with our plants growing, lots of beautiful sunshine and cool weather in recent days, and the rainfall at times this week, has been so nice and replenishing for the plants :) i put lots of goodies in our backyard, for our nature friends :) they love their baking friday breakfast feasts :) Awww! :) i walked over to check in on our plants, they're doing really :) we're so proud of our plants, and are very heart happy and excited our plants are doing very well, flourishing with the blossoming of the summer season :) We're so happy to have zuchinni, snap peas, bell peppers, banana peppers, and lots more growing :) our plants are very healthy, and happy as they continue to grow and grow :) it's a very exciting time in the gardening season, with all of the nature shining :) Holly and i are looking forward to some weekend gardening, and tending our plants :)

It was a nice peaceful and spirited early morning :) We enjoyed a nice breakfast, and having some water, and iced coffee :) Cheers!!! to the spirit of summer time :) 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 a special part of baking friday each week :) Today, i decorated with a cool summer nature them :) our kitchen looked great and summer time spirited! :) as the morning went on, we put some sports radio on :) 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 my online orders :) i'm so happy and excited to have some new collectibles coming, that i ordered online :)

Around 2:30pm, Alyssa and the kids came over :) The kids were so excited to bake and grill :) they love to help :) Jenn, and family were with us in spirit today :) We're so happy and excited to hear about their camping adventure :) The kids were so excited about going camping, and were so happy to bake some oreo cupcakes yesterday :) Lots of great excitement, and summer time spirit in the air :) We love summer time, and have been looking forward to baking, and grilling :) it's very exciting, beginning a whole new season of baking friday fun :) The kids love to select their spots at the kitchen counter :) Brody's been helping bake, and is so excited, he says ,"brownies, cookies" :) awww! :) We got our picture taken in the kitchen :) it's a cool baking friday tradition, sending smiles and 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 ready, and we were ready for some chillin n grillin baking friday fun! :) Calling all cookie monsters! :) it's time to bake! bake! bake! :)

We began our super fun adventure! :) baking friday teamwork! :) the kids love to help! :) They're great helpers! :) They get so proud, helping add the ingredients, and super stirring :) We added all of the recipes into the bowl, and we also taste tested the chocolate chips before adding them into the bowl, of course the chocolate chip cookies get 2 thumbs up! :) We were sharing lots of smiles, and spirited cheer! :) we love to teach the kids how to bake, grill, and cook :) We were super stirring the ingredients, and added in some extra melted butter :) it helps all of the ingredients stir together great, and makes that classic cookie dough :) i used butter to grease some baking pans, and we began to make the dough into round cookies :) my mom came out into the kitchen at times, and Brody joined us too :) he loves to check in on the baking friday fun :) i put the cookies into the oven to bake :)we love the scent of chocolate chip cookies baking in the oven :)

We did some cleaning up in the kitchen, and got the George Foreman grill set : )we had 2 pairs of grilling tongs, the kids love to put the hotdogs on the grill :) They're taking a great liking to grilling :) They were grilling lots of hotdogs :) Kayla's boyfriend Zach came over, and he said he'd like to have a hotdog too :) awesome! :) We grilled lots of hotdogs :) the kids all got a plate with a hotdog, and their favorite topping, ketchup :) my mom and i had a hotdog too :) We grilled some more hotdogs :) The chocolate chip cookies finished baking, i brought them out of the oven to cool down :) once the cookies cooled down a bit, i took a picture of the cookies, and we all began to dig in :) The cookies, and hotdogs came out great, and are very popular :)

We had so much fun baking and grilling today :) i thanked the kids and Holly for helping bake and grill :) We love these special times, and are looking forward to lots more super fun baking friday adventures :) next week, we're going to have our annual 4th of July themed baking friday adventure, baking an American flag cake :) it's one of our favorite adventures of the year :) Summer time is here! :) a very special shoutout, for family and friends :) lots of great baking, cooking, and grilling this week :) We love hearing about the nice foods, and goodies 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 :) Chocolate Chip Cookies, and Hotdogs, dedicated to our wonderful family, friends, and to the awesome spirit of summer time :) we love you all so very very much! :) many great memories made, to always cherish and treasure :) baking friday! :) We love it!!! :) June 25th, 2021 :) Happy baking friday, and Happy Summer time everyone! :)

We're enjoying a great day! :) baking friday! :) Summer time spirit! :) We love it!!! :) my family, Holly, and i are doing well, healthy, and in great spirits :) We're so happy and excited about all of the great things going on, and many special memories being made :) it was so much fun baking and grilling today :) We're loving the summer time spirit, and so excited to blossom into the weekend :) We love the weekend's :) Holly and i are going to have a popcorn movies party tomorrow :) We're going to watch some cool movies, having foods, snacks, drinks, and going to pick out a new movie to watch saturday night :) We're going to enjoy some nature walks, gardening, and also some nice writing time this weekend :) Holly and i are going to have a TWD marathon on sunday :) it's gonna be an awesome summer time weekend :) i look forward to sharing our weekend adventures, and pictures with everyone in my journals :) There's lots more great things to loook 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 :)

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 blossoms :)
-never lose hope :)

To Wildthing, Peaceful Gentle Moments of the day :) Wildthing, we're enjoying a great day! :) Today, the kids, Holly, and i baked chocolate chip cookies, and grilled hotdogs, for baking friday and yesterday Mikey and Hunter baked with us, we baked some oreo cupcakes :) We love our adventures, and these spirited fun times :) There's lots of great things going on, as summer season continues to blossom :) We're so very happy, and excited to blossom into the weekend, watching movies, our show, nature walks, gardening, and writing :) We love summer time :) 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, "i hope everyone enjoys 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 wonderful day :) We think of you and your family's often :) we're so happy and excited for all of the continued joys of sharing in, and celebrating all of the summer time festivities, and traditions with everyone :) it's such a great time of the year :) We wish everyone a healthy, safe, and beautiful weekend :)

Happy baking friday, and Happy Summer Time!!! :) calling all cookie monsters! :) Celebrating Summer time baking, cooking, and grilling! :) my family, Holly, and i are so happy, excited, and thrilled! :) We love sharing in, and celebrating these awesome times of the season with everyone :) summer has arrived, and the seasonal excitement, and spirit is all around :) We love the awesome joys of getting to share in, and celebrate the summer time festivities, and traditions with everyone :) It's such a fun, and very exciting time of the year :) 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 :) to celebrate Summer season blossoming, today we're baking chocolate chip cookies, and grilling hotdogs :) 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 and dad :) They went shopping at some stores 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 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 in our kitchen :) Sharing lots and 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 so happy and excited to be blossoming into a whole new season of baking friday fun! :) This is such a great joy :) We're so happy, and thankful for all of these awesome times, baking lots of goodies! :)

the kids love to make funny faces! :) hehe! :) 

Yesterday, Mikey and Hunter were here, and the triplets and Brody were here too :) With Jenn and family camping today and this weekend, Mikey and Hunter wanted to bake some oreo cupcakes yesterday :) the kids, Holly and i had fun baking the cupcakes, and took some pictures to share with everyone :) We're so happy we got a chance to bake with Mikey, Hunter, and the kids yesterday before Jenn's and family's big camping adventure :) they were so happy and excited to go camping :)

Chocolate Chip Cookies, and Hotdogs! :) come on over, for some baking friday goodies! :) the kids, Holly, and i had a super fun time baking, and grilling today :) We love these special spirited times, and are so happy and excited for a whole new season of baking, grilling, and cooking :) baking friday :)

Oreo cupcakes we baked yesterday :)