baking friday :) Chocolate Chip Cookies, and Ice Cream Party! :) Summer time! :)

"We'd like a 2nd ice cream cone!"- my nephew's Brody, Hunter, Colby, Jacob, Brayden, and Mikey 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 summer time sweet, Ice cream and cookies themed baking friday adventure in the kitchen!!! :) This was so much fun! :) We had the flour flying in the air, and sharing lots of smiles and laughs, as we baked some awesome goodies, and had one of our favorite treats, ice cream! :) it was an ice cream party in the kitchen! :) Hunter choose the legendary, 5 stacks/scoops of ice cream! :) hehe! :) We're loving the summer time, and all of the great memories being made :) 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 had some ice cream cones :) it was awesome fun! :) we're so happy and excited, for all of these spirited fun times of the season :) The kids were cheering for ice cream and cookies today! :) it turned into an ice cream party! :) The kids all lined up to get their ice cream cones, and some of the kids even had a 2nd cone! :) we love these very special, spirited fun times and all of the excitement of summer season! :)

Celebrating Summer time spirit and cheer! :) Hi angel friends! :) my family, Holly, and i hope everyone is doing well, healthy, and enjoying a beautiful day :) The summer season is in full swing :) we love these spirited fun, and joyful times of the season :) The summer season brings lots of great memories :) We're loving our summer time baking friday adventures, and getting to share in all of the seasonal festivities, and traditions with everyone :) You all make the season very special and memorable for us : )We had so much fun enjoying making ice cream cones last week, we got a very special request from the kids to get more ice cream and cones for this week's baking friday :) The kids are having such a fun summer, with lots of adventures :) Thank you angel friends, so very much for sharing in the season with us :) Lots of happy summer time smiles! :)

This morning, we had an awesome 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 :) aww! :) Thank you angel friends, so very much! :) You all are very nice and sweet :) We love the awesome excitement of baking friday, and baking some of our favorite goodies :) It's a great time of the year :) 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 :) Thank you angel friends, for your wonderfully heart warming comments :) Holly and i are very happy, and delighted that everyone enjoyed our anniversary journal, and pictures :) Holly and i enjoyed a great time celebrating :) i cooked some nice fried zuchinni,and also a zuchinni omelet yesterday evening, we also had some Chinese food :) it was a great dinner :) my mom and dad had some fried squash, they love it! :) We'll definitely be making lots more :)

As the new day was blossoming this morning, i began to get ready for my early morning nature walk :) i gathered a big bowl of goodies, and went outside :) Lots of ur nature friends were visiting this morning :) i put lots of goodies in our backyard, bird sanctuary area for our nature friends :) They love their baking friday breakfast feasts :) aww! :) We love our nature friends :) i saw birds, and mr. nut squirrel visiting our yard :) the nature is spirit soaring this time of the year :) i walked over to our garden areas to check in on our plants :) it's a great time in the gardening season :) Our plants, and garden are doing very well, growing and flourishing :) it's amazing to see how much the plants have grown :) We have lots of nice vegetables and fruits growing, and our flowers plants are doing awesome :) We're very happy and excited to see everything doing great :)We love gardening ,it brings us a lot of spirit soaring joy and excitement :) We look forward to harvesting more fresh garden goodies, and seeing lots more flowers blossoming :) our snowball bush is blossoming ,and we have some more roses blosoming :) it's very exciting ,checking in on the plants :) we're very proud of the plants, our yard, and garden :) We're having lots of fun sharing our gardening adventures, and pictures with everyone :) We're gonna tend our plants today, giving them a good watering and also gonna do some gardening this weekend :) Happy summer gardening season smiles :)

It was a sweet early morning :) We enjoyed a nice breakfast, and having some hot tea, 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 a cool summer time theme :) our kitchen looked awesome! :) as the morning went on, we put some sports radio on, and also went outside to water our plants : )around mid-day, we enjoyed a nice lunch :) 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 and excitement in the air, as the summer season is in full swing :) The kids are enjoying the summer season,and having lots of adventures :) They've been planning some more summer festivities, as the season continues on :) We're so happy for the kids, and that they're having a fun, great summer :) We all began to gather inour 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 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 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're great helpers! :) We first began by preparing the chocolate chip cookies :) They're one of our favorite treats :) the kids were all cheering, and love to each have an ingredient to add into the bowl :) Brody cracked open egg this week, Hunter added the sugar, Colby added the butter, Brody added in the flour,Jacob and Brayden added in the chocolate chips :) of course we always love to eat some chocolate chips before adding the rest into the bowl : )we were having lots fun, sharing lots of smiles :) my mom, Jenn, and Lisa were coming into the kitchen at times,and you all are always right there with us in spirit in the kitchen :) We're so happy,thankful, and blessed to have baking friday in our lives :) The kids were doing awesome, super stirring the ingredients :)we added in a bit more butter and flour,and the batch of cookie dough was all set :) i used butter to grease the baking pan,and we began to add the cookie dough onto the pan :) We're so proud of the kids, and all that they're learning about baking ,and cooking :) i put the cookies into the oven to bake! :)

Ice cream party Time!!! :) as the cookies were baking, we began to get ready to have some ice cream cones :) The kids love jokes :) i thought it would be fun to add a cool carnival aspect to the ice cream party :) i remember the carnvals when i was a kid, and they'd have a sign that said, "you have to be this tall in order to go on the ride", so i thought it would be funny, to put my hand way up, and said, "You have to be this tall to get ice cream!" hehe! :) The kids said,"Hey!!! we are that tall! Brody stood on a chair, and then Mikey put his arm up, and said, "i'm that tall!" and then all of the kids put their hands up, and suddenly were all tall enough to get ice cream! :) hehe! :) the kids, Holly and i were all laughing! :) The kids all got to take their turn, to select which ice cream wanted :) we had chocolate and vanilla ice cream :) Hunter choose, "the 5 stacks/scoops of ice cream cone", it's now become baking friday legendary! : )hehe! :)

The kids were so happy and exciting, getting their ice cream cones :) Holly and i,and my sister Lisa had an ice cream cone too :) some of the kids came out to get more ice cream, Brody and some of other kids had a 2nd ice cream cone :) The chocolate chip cookies finished baking, i brought them out of the oven to cool down :) i took a picture of the cookies, and we all then began to dig in :) The cookies came out great! :) We love chocolate chop cookies :)we had so much fun baking cookies today and having ice cream cones :) we love these awesome ,spirited fun times :) i thanked the kids and Holly for helping bake :) next week, we're going to bake some chicken tortilla tacos, and also baking other goodies too :) There's lots more super fun baking friday adventures to look forward too :) 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 everyone bakes, cookies,and grills :) We're all with eachother inspirit, in our kitchens :) This so much fun and very special :) i wish we all could gather and have a big baking friday picnic :) Chocolate Chip Cookies,and Ice Cream Cones, 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!!! :) July 15th, 2022 :) Happy baking friday everyone! :)

PRAYERS REQUEST. Hi angel friends, we have a very special prayers request, for our dear friend Stephanie (Coolgal). Stephanie is going through some things with her health,and needs our thoughts and prayers, and healing energy. You all are family to us here on DS <3 we care deeply about everyone. You all are always inour thoughts, prayers, and in our hearts. We'll always be here for you all,anytime you need us,and will do anything we can to help,and being there to comfort,and uplift spirits.please keep Stephanie in our thoughts and prayers, and please send healing energy. Thank you angel friends ,so very much! :) big group, caring, comforting friendship hug :) my new picture on my DS page, is a picture of Mr. Cool Sunflower :) Stephanie loves Mr. Cool Sunflower,and i wanted to upload the picture of it to help uplift her spirits. <3 We love you all very much! Stephanie, wishing you the very best with your health. We're with you <3

We're enjoying a great day! :) baking friday! :) spirit of summer time! :) We love it!!! :) my family, Holly,and i are doing well, healthy, and in good spirits :) it was so much fun baking goodies today, and enjoying some ice cream cones :) 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, we're gonna go shopping at the dollar tree :)We're gonna buy some foods,snacks,drinks, and browsing at the dvds,and hotwheels :) Holly and i are going to have a fun popcorn movies party :) on sunday, we're gonna have a TWD party,and also going to tend our plants this weekend,watering our plants,and gonna pull weeds, freshening up our gardens :) i'm going to have a writing day on sunday, we're gonna have a mega mailing week, monday through super wednesday :) Kayla's birthday is tomorrow, and Lisa's birthday is sunday : )they have made some plans for their birthday's, we're gonna give them some envelopes and gift bags :) It's gonna be a great weekend :) 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 going to 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 :) Happy arrival of the weekend! :)

-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 also had some ice cream cones for baking friday :) We love these very special, spirited fun times :) Celebrating summer time cheer :) Lots of great memories being made :) We're very happy and excited to blossom into the weekend :) We're gonna go shopping,watching movies,our show, and also gonna tend our plants,and garden :) the spirit of the summer season is all around :) Thinking of you,our dear friend :)

my mom, Holly, and family says hello :) We hope everyone is doing well, healthy, enjoying a great day, and a really good baking friday :) awww! :) we love you all bunches and bunches, our sweet dear angel friends :) We'll always be here for you all :) Thank you all, for the very special joy you all bring our hearts :) We wish everyone a healthy, safe,and peaceful weekend :) We're very happy and excited to share in and celebrate lots more special times of the season with everyone as the summer season continues to shine :)

Happy baking friday!!! :) Calling all cookie monsters! :) it's sweet classic, and golden summer time! :) my family, Holly,and i are very happy and excited! :) we're enjoying sharing in and celebrating the summer season with everyone :) There's lots of great seasonal festivities and traditions, that makes the season so much fun, and memorable :) Thank you all,for sharing in the awesome times of the season with us :) 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 chocolate chip cookies, and having some more ice cream cones :) The ice cream cones were very popular last week, and the kids wanted us to have more ice cream this week :) 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 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, 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 spirited baking friday cheer! :) Holly had a migraine this morning, and is feeling better,thankfully :) she was hanging out with us in the kitchen,and wanted to help :) a very special thank you for Holly :)

Baking friday teamwork! :) preparing the goodies! :) The kids love to help! :) They're great helpers :) They get so proud, adding the ingredients into the bowl, super stirring, and of course enjoying the goodies we bake :) We're loving our summer time baking friday adventures :)

Holly took a picture of me helping the kids super stir the ingredients :) 

Chocolate Chip Cookies, and Ice Cream Cones! :) Come on over, for some baking friday goodies! :) The kids, Holly and i had a super fun time baking goodies, and having ice cream cones today :) We love these very special, spirited fun times and all of the great memories being made :) Celebrating summer time cheer :) baking friday :)

Ice cream party!!! :)

Hunter and Jacob! :) 

Taylynn, Mikey, and Colby! :) 

Brody and Brayden! :)