baking friday :) Chocolate Chip Cookies, and Pickled Banana Peppers :) Summer Time! :)

"Chocolate chip cookies, and summer time!"- my nephew's Hunter, Mikey, Brayden, 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, classic summer time themed baking friday adventure in the kitchen!!! :) This was so much fun!!! :) We had the flour flying in the air in the kitchen today, sharing lots of smiles, and spirited cheer, as we baked up some awesome goodies ,and also did some pickling today :) For the very first time during a baking friday adventure, we pickled banana peppers! :) The summer season is rockin and sunhine rollin with lots of spirited cheer! :) 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 pickled banana peppers :) it was so much fun! :) Mikey joined in on the baking friday fun today :) he's so excited, for his upcoming birthday, he's turning 10 on August 10th :) Mikey began to bake with us when he was 1 and a half years old :) it was so much fun baking goodies today, and pickling banana peppers from our garden :) We love this time of the year, so very much, and all of these very special times being shared :) We're all digging in, these cookies are awesome!!! and we can't wait to try the banana peppers :) our spirits are soaring with summer time! :)

Golden Summer Days!!! :) 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, with lots of summer time festivities, traditions, and celebrations :) it's that time of the year, summer time spirit and excitement in the air :) the scent of BBQ Grills cooking foods, the joys of summer flowers glowing in the garden, fruits and vegetables growing, the sounds of lawnmowers and the scent of fresh cut grass, and lots of happy nature friends out and about, from birds, to butterflies, bumble bees, and lots more :) it's a super spirited time in the season! :) We're soaking up the summer time spirit, and cherishing all of the great memories being made :) we're having so much fun, and a very special time celebrating the season with everyone :) You all make the season very special, and memorable for us :) We love summer time :) These are some amazing, golden days of the season :) We're having an awesome summer of super fun baking friday adventures :) The kids are so excited, for their upcoming birthday's in August, and lots more summer time adventures :) As we share in, and celebrate very special times of the season together, we're all with eachother in spirit :) Iced coffee cheers!!! to the wonderful joys of summer time! :)

This morning, we had an awesome new day, rising and shining :) A very special baking 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 adventure :) We love sharing our adventures with everyone :) it's so much fun counting down to baking friday, the arrival of the weekend, and enjoying all of the awesome summer time spirit :) We're so very happy, and proud to be using some nice banana peppers from our garden today, as a special part of our baking friday adventure :) we love gardening ,and harvesting fresh garden goodies :) it's one of our favorite joys :) Holly and i had lots of fun picking the banana peppers yesterday, and have been looking forward to teaching the kids how to pickle banana peppers, using the mustard seeds, celery seeds, vinegar, and salt recipe :) We love banana peppers, they're one of our favorite foods :) We put banana peppers in our salads, on our sandwiches/wraps :) delicious! :) We're super excited to be harvesting fresh goodies from our garden :) nature ,and gardening is very rewarding :)

As the new day was blossoming, 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 been an awesome stretch of summer days :) lots of seasonal excitement, and spirit :) we love hearing about your days, adventures, and sharing ours :) i gathered a big bowl of goodies this morning, and went outside for my early sunrise nature walk :) it's lower humidity, and our air quality has improved here :) We're so glad, and thankful :) i put lots of goodies in our backyard, bird sanctuary area, for our nature friedns :) They love their baking friday breakfast feasts :) awww! :) it's been very nature active in our yard, and garden, with lots of our nature friends visiting :) it was so neat, seeing the butterfly yesterday, and also lots of birds and ladybugs visiting, plus our snowball bush is very popular area for the bees, as they love to pollenate the snowball bush blossoms :) our snowball bush looks incredible, in full bloom :) it's an amazing time in the gardening season :)

i checked in on our plants this morning :) They're all doing very well, growing and flourishing :) We're so happy and excited to see everything growing wild, our fruit trees are doing great, and we have lots of vegetables growing in our garden : )We're going to be picking some more yellow squash ,cucumbers, and snap peas :) We're loving the joys of gardening, and harvesting :) We have pumpkins, gourds plants, tomatoes growing, lots of string beans, and peppers plants :) we have 13 banana peppers plants this year, it's gonna be our biggest harvest of banana peppers :) We have lots of beautiful flowers blossoming, our tallest sunflower has blossomed, beautiful burgundy and yellow petals, it's amazing to see it towering tall in the garden, spirit dancing in the summer sunshine! :) We have lot of flowers blossoming all around our yard, and garden :) zinnia's, morning glory flowers, petunia's, marigolds, daisies, wildflowers, and lots more :) our popcorn plants have grown very tall, the plants are taller than us! :) we're loving the season, and getting lots of wonderful enjoyment, enjoying our gardening adventures, and sharing them with everyone :) Holly and i are gonna do some gardening tomorrow, and also harvesting more garden goodies :) i want to make some cucumber sandwiches, and wraps :) We'll be picking our first zuchinni of the season, and also cooking more yellow squash :) There's lots more great nature, and gardening adventures to look forward too :) Happy nature, and gardening season smiles :)

it was a sunny sweet spirited early morning :) We enjoyed our breakfast, and had some tea, water, and iced coffee :) 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 the baking friday tradition each week :) today, i decorated our kitchen with a spirit soaring summer time theme :) Our kitchen looked great! :) As the morning went on, we put some sports radio on, and also checked out some collectibles online, i'm going to be ordering a new coin soon :) Holly and i went outside to water our plants, and around mid-day, enjoyed a nice lunch :) During the early afternoon, i enjoyed some ncie time here on DS, writing to friends :)

Around 2:30pm, Alyssa brought the kids over, and around 3pm, Jenn and the kids came over :) Lots of great summer time spirit, and excitement in the air :) We love these awesome times :) The kids are having a great summer, and are looking forward to their birthday celebrations in august :) The kids love to select their sports, at the kitchen counter :) we all got our picture taken :) it's a cool baking friday tradition :) 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 baking friday 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! :) it's time to bake! bake! bake! :)

We began our super fun adventure! :) baking friday teamwork! :) We first began to prepare the chocolate chip cookies :) Today, Hunter, Mikey, and Colby helped Holly and i bake :) We were so excited to bake the cookies, and pickling banana peppers :) We began to add the ingredients into the big bowl :) The kids get so proud, adding the ingredients :)We got some flour flying in the ai rin the kitchen today! :) it's so much fun, these awesome times, sharing lots of smiles, and spirited cheer :) my mom, Alyssa, Jenn, and Carter came out into the kitchen at times :) You all are always right there with us in spirit, during these special times :) we began to super stir the cookie dough :) chocolate chip cookies are one of our favorite goodies :) We always like to try some of the chocolate chips before adding them into the bowl :)

We were having so much fun preparing the cookie dough :) We add a little extra melted butter into the cookie dough :) i got some baking pans, and used butter to grease the pans, and we made the cookie dough into round shapes, and put the cookies onto the baking pans, and i put the cookies into the oven to bake! :) as the cookies were baking, we did some cleaning up in the kitchen, and the kids were going back and forth, from the kitchen and living room :) on the stove, i had the nice vinegar/spices cooking, for the banana peppers :)

Pickling Banana peppers :) i've been browsing online for some nice recipes, for banana peppers :) We have lots of peppers plants in our garden, and it's so neat to see the peppers growing :) i washed, and sliced the banana peppers into ring shape :) Holly and i put the banana peppers into 2 jars :) in a cooking pot, we added in 2 cups of vinegar, a teaspoon of mustard seeds, a teaspoon of celery seeds, and a half teaspoon of salt :) it began to cook nicely :) i put a butterknife in the jars, to protect the jars when the banana pepper juice was ready to be poured into the jars :) once the vinegar/spices came to a bowl, i poured the juice into the jars, and used my oven mit to hold the jars as i put the lids on top of the jars :) We now have 2 jars of banana peppers :) we love pickling ,and are looking forward to making lots more :) there's another recipe, similar, that calls for sugar to be added :) We'll try that recipe this summer too, for banana peppers :) Holly made 2 nice labels for the banana peppers jars :)

The Chocolate Chip cookies finished baking, i brought the cookies out of the oven to cool down :) once the cookies cooled down, we all began to dig in :) The cookies came out great! :) i thanked the kids, and Holly for helping bake :) my mom, Jenn, and Alyssa took the kids outside after baking friday, the kids went swimming :) We had so much fun baking goodies today, and pickling banana peppers :) We love these very special times :) We have lots more super fun baking friday adventures to look forward too as the summer season continues on :) 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 so much fun, and very special :) i wish we all could gather and have a big baking friday picnic :) Chocolate Chip Cookies, and Pickled Banana peppers :) Dedicated to our wonderful family, friends, and the awesome spirit of the summer season! :) We love you all, so very very much! :) many great memories made, to always cherish and treasure :) baking friday! :) We love it!!! :) July 23rd, 2021 :) Happy baking friday everyone! :)

We're enjoying an awesome, and spirit soaring 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, for all of the great summer time festivities, and traditions :) There's lots of great things going on, and many special memories being made :) it was so much fun baking goodies today :) We love these very special times :) There's lots of great summer time spirit, as the weekend arrives :) We love the weekend's :) Tomorrow, Holly and i are going to have a super cool popcorn movies marathon party :) We're going to watch some cool movies, and having foods, snacks, and drinks :) on sunday, we're going to have a TWD marathon :) We're gonna enjoy some nature walks, tending our plants, and writing this weekend too :) Holly and i look forward to trying the banana peppers we pickled today :) it's gonna be an awesome 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 ia re going to watch some spook-tacular episodes of Most Haunted Show :) We love our fun, 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 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 celebrating the month of July, as summer season continues to blossom and shine :)

-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 chocolate chip cookies, and also pickled banana peppers, for baking friday :) We love these very special times, and sharing in all of the great spirit of the season :) We're looking forward to blossoming into the weekend, enjoying movies, our show, nature walks, and gardening :) The summer season is shining bright with all of the awesome summer time flowers blossoming :) 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 and bunches, our sweet dear wonderful guardian angel friends :) We hope everyone isdoing well, healthy, and enjoying a great day! :) We're loving the summer season,and all of the festivities, and traditions :) There's so much more, to look forward too as the season continues on :) We wish everyone a health, safe, and peaceful weekend :)

Happy Baking Friday!!! :) Calling all cookie monsters!!! :) it's sweet classic, and golden summer time! :) We love it!!! :) my family, Holly, and i are so very happy, excited, and thrilled! :) We're enjoying a very special time, sharing in, and celebrating the awesome joys, traditions, and festivities of the summer season with everyone :) it's that time of the year, the scent of BBQ grills cooking foods, the great nature and gardening joys as lots and lots of flowers are blossoming, fruits, and vegetables growing, the sounds of lawn mowers and the scent of fresh cut grass, and so much more :) There's so many great things to enjoy each day, during summer time :) We're so happy and excited! :) 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 making pickled banana peppers :) We're so proud to be using banana peppers from our garden :) We love harvesting fresh garden goodies :) We're having an awesome summer of baking friday adventures :) Thank you everyone, so very much, for joining us in our ktichen 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 also our garden :) my mom and dad went out to shop this week, and picked up some baking supplies :) it's very nice, and sweet of them :) Thank you mom and dad, so very much! :) Holly and i picked banana peppers from our garden, and are so happy and excited to make pickled banana peppers today :) We all love to chip in each week, to get the baking friday supplies :) We love this very special tradition in our lives :) We're very proud banana peppers from our garden are a part of our baking friday adventure today :)

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 of smiles, and spirited cheer! :) We were ready to bake! :)

Baking friday teamwork! :) preparing the goodies! :) The kids love to help! :) They get so proud, adding the ingredients, super stirring, and of course enjoying the goodies we bake :) we're loving our summer time baking friday adventures :) it's such a fun time of the year :) We're very proud of the kids, and all that they're learning about baking, cooking, grilling, and canning goodies like pickled banana peppers today :)

Preparing the pickled banana peppers :) we saved seeds from the banana peppers, that we'll dry and plant next year in our garden :) 

Chocolate Chip Cookies, and Pickled Banana Peppers! :) come on over, for some some baking friday goodies! :) The kids, Holly, and i had a super fun time baking goodies, and pickling peppers today :) We're loving the summer season, and all of the very special times being shared, and great memories being made :) baking friday :)

a special thank you for Holly, for making these nice pickled banana peppers labels :)