baking friday :) Chocolate Chip Cookies, and Onion Pretzels :) Winter time baking :)

"We love these awesome goodies"- my nephew's Hunter, Brayden, Brody, Jacob ,Colby, Carter ,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 sweet, happy new year themed baking friday adventure in the kitchen :) this was lots of fun! :) We had the flour flying in the air in the kitchen ,sharing lots of smiles and spirited cheer as we baked some awesome goodies :) our first adventure of 2025 :) 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 onion pretzels, and chocolate chip cookies :) it was lots of fun :) We love these very special, spirited fun times and all of the great memories being made :) our winter time baking friday's :) the goodies are very popular :) everyone is digging in ,enjoying the cookies and pretzels :)We'll definitely be baking lots more :) Happy baking friday smiles :)

Sweet Winter Time Baking! :) Blossoming into a whole new year, of baking friday fun! :) Hi angel friends :) my family, Holly, and i hope everyone is doing well, healthy, and enjoying a peaceful day :) We love hearing from you, and we think of you all often :)We're enjoying blossoming into the new year with everyone, and sharing in the continued joys of the season :) The new year is settling in nicely :) We've been looking forward to our first baking friday adventure of the new year :) it's our favorite day and tradition :) We're excited to enjoy our winter time baking friday's, with lots of baking, cooking, and many great memories being made :) We love sharing our adventures,and all of the joy that our adventures brings throughout the seasons of the year :) it's very special to us, getting to share our adventures :) Thank you angel friends, for sharing in this special tradition with us each week,and for all of thre great joy you all bring us :) We're very blessed, and thankful to have you all in our lives :) We love you all bunches and bunches :) Wishing everyone continued joys of the season, as the new year continues to blossom :) Happy sunny caring friendship smiles, sent with lots and lots of love, from our hearts and home to yours :)

This morning, we had a sweet new day, rising and shining :) a very special friday tradition i love very much, is wishing Holly, our family, and our friends, a happy baking friday,and i share with Holly and our family, your sweet happy baking friday wishes :) Thank you angel friends, so very much :) You all are very nice, and sweet :)We're enjoying sharing in the holiday week with everyone :) We love January, it's a special month, with lots of nice times to share in :) 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 wintery cold outside, with some winds at times. we're all keeping warm, it's a great day for some baking, and cooking :) i bundled up warmly, gathered a nice bowl of goodies, and went outside for a nice early morning nature walk :) our nature friends,and the sunshine greeted me :) i love seeing the nature sights glowing, as the new day is blossoming :) i put lots of goodies on the bird feeders, and in the bird sanctuary area for our nature friends :) They love their baking friday breakfast feasts :) i saw some bluejays, and sparrows :) it's been a nice nature active week, with our nature friends visiting :) Holly and i have been enjoying some nice nature walks during the afternoon too :) We're looking forward to many more nature adventures :) We've been seeing birds soaring over ,and during the late afternoon, during sunset, we can begin to see some stars begin to glow in the sky, it's neat to see :) nature is a big part of our days and our lives :) Happy sunny nature smiles :)

It was a sweet peaceful early morning :) We enjoyed our breakfast, and having some hot chamomile tea, water, and vanilla iced coffee :) Tiger girl enjoyed her breakfast :) i began to gather our baking friday supplies, kitchen decorations, and went out into our kitchen to begin to set up and decorate our kitchen, for our super fun adventure :) Today, i decorated with a 2025 new year theme :) our kitchen looks great :) it's lots of fun decorating :) As the morning was going on, we put the sports radio on, we're happy our favorite sports radio is back :) They have their football preview on friday's, we love tuning in, and are looking forward to a great football weekend,and upcoming playoffs :) Around mid-day, we enjoyed a nice lunch,and i also prepared some nice onion pretzel dough :) i made a double batch of the dough, as the pretzels are very popular :) We love to make lots of pretzels :) The dough rises nicely as the day goes on :) during the early afternoon, i enjoyed some nice time here on DS :)

Around 3pm, Jenn and the kids came over, and Brody and the triplets came over :) The kids returned back to school yesterday, after having a fun holiday vacation last week :) They enjoyed their vacation very much,and all of the cool items they recieved for Christmas :) We've been looking forward to our first baking friday adventure of the new year, as 2025 blossoms :) We love welcoming everyone over to visit :) Lots of great seasonal spirit in the air, as the winter season has been settling in. We love winter time baking ,and cooking :) Lots of great recipes,and trying new recipes :) it's very exciting ,a whole new year of baking friday adventures to look forward too :) it brings us lots of great joy, getting to share our adventures :) We all gathered in the kitchen :) The kids love to select their spots at the kitchen counter :) The kids, Holly, and i got our picture taken :) it's a special baking friday tradition :) You all are always right there with us in spirit in the kitchen :) my mom takes the picture of us each week :) We love to use our nice baking friday supplies, i wear my nice apron Holly gave me, and we use our nice oven mits, kitchen towels, baking pans, and all of our baking supplies that we've recieved from family and friends over the years :) Our kitchen was all set, and we were ready to bake some nice goodies :) 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 :) We first began to prepare the chocolate chip cookies :) lots of great baking friday spirit and excitement in the air :) We had the flour flying in the air in the kitchen today :) We added all of the ingredients into the bowl, including first taste testing the chocolate chips :) We began to super stir the ingredients :)We were sharing lots of smiles :) my mom came out into the kitchen at times, and you all are always right there with us in spirit in the kitchen :) We made a nice batch of cookies dough :) i used butter to grease the baking pans, and we made the cookie dough into round shapes,and i put the cookies into the oven to bake :)we love the scent of chocolate chip cookies baking :)

We began to prepare the onion pretzels :) the pretzel dough rised nicely during the afternoon :) i made a nice double batch of pretzel dough this week, with water, 2 packets of yeast, sugar, vegetable oil, dried onion flakes, and flour :) i got some water heating up on the stove, and sliced the dough into portions :) making the dough into pretzel shapes is fun :) i put the pretzels into the water, the water helped make the pretzels get larger :) i used butter to grease the baking pans :) i used a metal spatula to put the pretzels onto the pans, and we melted some butter, with onion flakes :) we drizzled the butter/onion on top of the pretzels, and made some everything bagel seasoning pretzels for my mom ,she loves the everything bagel seasoning :) The chocolate chip cookies finished baking ,i brought the cookies out of the oven to cool down ,and i put the pretzels into the oven to bake :) The pretzels were baking nicely :)

We did some cleaning up in the kitchen,and were hanging out :) i took a picture of the cookies, and we all began to dig in :) the cookies came out great :) The pretzels baked nicely, for about 15 minutres,we love pretzels, they bake so nicely :) i brought the pretzels out of the oven to cool down, and we all began to dig in :)The pretzels and cookies are very popular :) i love to dip my pretzel into ranch salad dressing :)the goodies are awesome, we'll definitely bake lots more :) i thanked the kids and Holly for helping bake :) We had so much fun baking :) We're excited for lots more super fun baking friday adventures, all throughout the season :) A very special shoutout for family and friends :) Lots of great baking, and cooking this week :) 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 :) Chocolate Chip Cookies and Onion Pretzels, dedicated to our wonderful family, friends,and to the sweet 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! :) January 3rd, 2025 :) Happy baking friday everyone! :)

It's a sweet day, with baking friday,and blossoming into new year times :) my family, Holly, and i are doing ok, and continuing with the good spirits :) it was so much fun baking goodies today, our first baking friday adventure of the new year :) We love these very special, spirited fun times and all of the great memories being made :) The weekend is arriving with lots of seasonal spirit :)We love the weekend's :) Tomorrow, we're gonna go shopping at the dollar tree :) we love shopping there :) We're going to buy some greetings cards, snacks, drinks, and browsing at the hotwheels, and seasonal items :) Holly and i are going to have a fun, popcorn movies party, watching some cool football movies, and enjoying some popcorn, snacks, and drinks :) On Sunday, we're going to have a football party :) We're excited to watch football, and enjoying foods, snacks, drinks, and all of the spirited gameday cheer, and seeing the nfl playoffs standings after sunday's games :) It'll be an all-day football party, it's gonna be awesome :) Holly and i are going to wear our Washington Commanders shirts :) it's gonna be a nice weekend :) i look forward to sharing our weekend adventures, and pictures with everyone in my weekend journals :) We're gonna enjoy our friday evening dinner :) Tonight, Holly and i are going to watch Most Haunted show :) Thank you angel friends, for all that you do for us, and for the special joy you all bring us :) We appreciate everything, and are very blessed, and thankful to have you all in our lives :) Big group caring, happy sunny warm friendship hug :) We wish everyone a peaceful evening and night :)

-never lose hope :)

my mom, Holly, and our family says hello :) We hope everyone is doing well,healthy, enjoying a peaceful day, and a really good baking friday :) We love you all bunches and bunches, our sweet dear wonderful guardian angel friends :) We think of you all often :)We're enjoying blossoming into the new year with everyone, with lots more to look forward too :) We wish everyone a healthy, safe, and peaceful weekend :) Happy first weekend of 2025 :)

Happy baking friday! :) Calling all cookie monsters! :)We're blossoming into a whole new year, of baking friday fun! :) my family, Holly, and i are excited to share in all of the times of the new year with everyone, and a whole new year of baking friday adventures :) we love to bake, cook, grill,and with the winter season here, it's a great time for some seasonal baking and cooking :) We sure do love our baking friday adventures, and sharing our adventures with everyone :) it brings us lots of great joy :) This is a picture of our kitchen all set up, and decorated for our super fun adventure :) Today, we're baking onion pretzels, and chocolate chip cookies :) Thank you everyone, 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! :) it's time to bake! bake! bake! :)

baking friday supplies :) A special thank you for Alyssa :) Alyssa went to the stores, and picked up baking friday supplies this week :) it's very nice of her :) We all love to chip in to get the supplies :) We love baking friday, and are very thankful, and blessed 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 :) it's a very special tradition :) We love welcoming everyone over, for these fun adventures :) You all are always right there with us in spirit, in the kitchen :) it's our favorite tradition :) We love gathering, and sharing lots of smiles with spirited baking friday cheer :) Sweet seasonal winter time baking and cooking :)

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 very proud of the kids, and all that they have learned about baking, and cooking :) They love to help Holly and i in the kitchen :) We love helping teach the kids how to bake and cook goodies and foods :) We love baking friday, and are very excited to begin a whole new year of fun baking friday adventures all throughout 2025, with many great memories being made :)

The kids and Holly love to make funny faces! :) hehe! :) 

Chocolate Chip Cookies, and Onion Pretzels :) Come on over, for some baking friday goodies :) The kids, Holly, and i had lots of fun baking goodies today :) We love these very special, spirited fun times, and looking forward to many more adventures, all throughout the new year :)sharing lots of smiles, and spirited cheer, baking friday :)