baking friday :) Chocolate Chip Cookies, and Triple Berry Muffins :) Countdown to Spring! :)

"we're baking double the goodies, lets have some chocolate chips!"- my nephew's Hunter, Jacob, Colby, Brody ,Carter, 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 sweet, happy countdown to Spring themed baking friday adventure in the kitchen! :) This was so much fun! :) Sharing lots of smiles and spirited cheer, with an early baking friday adventure today :) We welcomed Holly back into the kitchen today :)We were chanting ,"Welcome back Holly!" :) She's so happy! :)We baked some nice goodies today, and enjoying a sweet spirited day :) The kids have the day off from school :) We baked goodies this early afternoon :) We're very excited to countdown to the spring season with everyone :) 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 triple berry muffins :) it was lots of fun :)We love these very special, spirited fun times,and all of the great memories being made, as we count down to the spring season :) Thank you angel friends, for sharing in this very special tradition with us :) The spring season is on it's way, and the spirit of March is in the air :) Happy baking friday smiles :)



Sweet March Spirit :) Happy Countdown to Spring! :) Hi angel friends :) my family, Holly, and i hope everyone is doing well,healthy, and enjoying a nice day :) We love hearing from you, and we think of you all often :)The month of March is in full swing, with lots of sweet seasonal festivities and traditions that brings lots of great joy, and special memories being made :) March is my favorite month of the year :) We're very excited, to share in many more spirit soaring times with everyone, as the month continues to shine ,and very soon the spring season will be arriving :)We're looking forward to all of the spring nature sprouting ,and blossoming very soon :)We're enjoying our happy countdown to spring, themed baking friday adventures :) We love to bake, cook, and sharing lots of smiles in the kitchen :)A big welcome back to the kitchen, for Holly! :) She returned to the kitchen with us today :) She's doing much better, and making great healing progress after her recent dental surgery. She's very happy to join us all in the kitchen :) The baking friday crew :) We're planning lots of baking friday adventures, including our annual St. Patrick's day themed baking friday next week, and lots more, all throughout the spring season :) Thank you angel friends, for sharing in the season with us, and for all that you do for us :) We appreciate you all very much :) We love you all bunches and bunches :) Wishing everyone continued joys of the season, and the month of March :) Sending our love, our most warmest caring happy sunny friendship hugs, and smiles 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 wish 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've been looking forward to our super fun adventure :) it's been a nice stretch of days,and lots of spirited excitement of the month of March :) i was up early this m orning ,enjoying some nice time here on DS, writing to friends and getting ready for my early morning nature walk :) it got very windy here last night into this month, with some huge windgusts. We're very thankful our power has remained on. We're hoping the winds ease very soon. We're so excited spring is on it's way :) i gathered a nice bowl of goodies, and went outside for my early morning nature walk :) our nature friends, and the march sunrise sunshine greeted me :) it's been very nature active, with lots of our nature friends visiting, and soon our spring nature friends will be arriving for a big flourish of spring nature blossoming all around :) i put lots of goodies on the bird feeders, and tossed some goodies over into the bird sanctuary area, it was very windy, when it's this windy, i don't go into the bird sanctuary area, as there's lots of trees, branches, and i keep safe over by the bird feeders area :) our nature friends are enjoying the goodies :) they love their baking friday breakfast feasts :) Holly and i are looking forward to lots more nature walks, and the upcoming gardening season with lots of adventures :) Happy sunny march nature smiles :)



It was a nice peaceful early morning :) We enjoyed our breakfast, and having some hot chamomile tea, water, and i had some 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 setting up and decorating our kitchen for our super fun adventure :) Today, i decorated with a nice countdown to spring theme :) our kitchen looks great :) as the morning went on, we put the sports radio on, we love tuning in to all of the sports talk :) we enjoyed a nice lunch :)



Around 11am, Jenn and Mike brought the kids over, and my mom was babysitting Brody and the triplets, as they had the day off from school today :) my mom also babysat Carter, Hunter, and Mikey, Jenn and Mike went shopping for Carter's birthday tomorrow :) Lots of great seasonal spirit in the air :) We love welcoming everyone over :) We're so happy Holly has made great healing progress, and is able to return to the kitchen with us today, for a fun baking friday adventure :) Welcome back Holly! :) We're very excited, blossoming into a fun countdown to spring season, with our baking friday adventures, and all of the seasonal festivities, and traditions :) 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 :)They're one of our favorite goodies :)We began to add the ingredients into the bowl :) we were talking about spring time ,birthday's :) Hunter cracked open the egg :) we love to taste test the chocolate chips :) we added in the sugar, flour ,chocolate chips, and some butter, included some melted butter :)We began to super stir the ingredients :)We were sharing lots of smiles :) my mom was coming out into the kitchen at times ,and you all are always right there with us in spirit in the kitchen :) We made a big batch of the cookie dough :) i used butter to grease the baking pans, and we made the cookie dough into round shapes, and put the cookies on the baking pans, and i put the cookies into the oven to bake :)



As the cookies were baking, we began to prepare the triple berry muffins :) We used the packs of mixed berry muffins mix :) We poured the muffins mix into the bowl and a cup of milk :)We super stirred the muffins mix, and i used vegetable oil to grease the muffins pans :) We poured the muffins mix into the pans, and put the pans on top of the stove :) The chocolate chip cookies finished baking ,i brought the cookies out of the oven to cool down, and put the muffins into the oven to bake :) As the muffins were baking, we did some cleaning up in the kitchen ,and i took a picture of the chocolate chip cookies, and we all began to dig in :)The cookies came out great :) The muffins baked nicely for about 15 minutes, they baked nicely too :) i brought the muffins out of the oven to cool down :) we all were hanging out :)The kids were going back and forth, from the kitchen and living room :) i took a picture of the muffins, and lots of us began to enjoy some muffins :) They came out great :) We had so much fun baking goodies today :) it was neat having an early baking friday adventure :) i thanked the kids and Holly for helping bake :) We have many more super fun baking friday adventures to look forward too :) 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 the 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 Triple Berry Muffins, 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! :) March 7th, 2025 :) Happy baking friday everyone :)



We're enjoying a great day, baking friday, and sweet spirit of March, we love it :) my family, Holly, and i are doing ok, and continuing with the good care :) 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 early :)We love shopping there :)We're going to buy some treats for Tiger, some snacks, birthday cards, a gift bag,and browsing around the seasonal items, and hotwheels :) We're gonna go to Jenn's and family's house tomorrow afternon, to celebrate Jenn's and Carter's birthday's :) You all will be with us in spirit :) We're very excited to celebrate, we have some nice cards, and gifts for Jenn and Carter :) Holly and i are going to have a fun, popcorn movies party, watching some movies early, and during the evening and picking out a new movie to watch on saturday night :) on sunday ,we're going to have a TWD party :) i'm also gonna enjoy some writing time, and browsing collectibles this weekend :) It's gonna be a great weekend :) i look forward to sharing our weekend adventures, and pictures with everyone in my weekend journal's :) Tonight, Holly and i are going to watch our most haunted show :) We love our friday night, paranormal party night's :) Thank you angel friends, so very much, for always being here for us and for the special joy you all bring us :) We appreciate you all very much, a nd ill always be here for you all too :) Big group caring, happy sunny warm friendship hug :) We wish everyone a nice peaceful evening and night :)



-never lose hope :)



my mom, Holly, and our family says hello :) We hope everyone is doing well, healthy, enjoying a nice day, and a really good baking friday :) We love you all bunches and bunches, our sweet dear wonderful guardian angel friends :) You all are always in our thoughts, prayers, and in our hearts :) We're enjoying a very special time, sharing in the month of March with everyone, and very excited for many more seasonal festivities, and traditions to share in :) We wish everyone a healthy, safe, and peaceful weekend :)



Happy baking friday :) Calling all cookie monsters :)We're celebrating sweet March baking, and cooking :) The spirit of the season is all around :) my family, Holly, and i love the month of March, and sharing in all of the seasonal festivities, and traditions with everyone :) We sure do love our baking friday adventures, and sharing our adventures with everyone :) We're very excited, counting down to the spring season with everyone :) This is a picture of our kitchen all set up and decorated :) Today, we're baking chocolate chip cookies, and triple berry muffins :) Thank you angel friends, 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! :)
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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 :)
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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 baking and cooking :)
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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 for a whole new season of baking friday fun, with many great memories being made :)
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Hunter cracked the egg open on top of the stick of butter, it's the egg-scellent tower of butter! :) 


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


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after baking today, Hunter and Jacob had some popcorn, they added chocolate chip cookies into the popcorn! :)


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Chocolate Chip Cookies, and Triple Berry Muffins :) come on over, for some baking friday goodies :)The kids, Holly, and i had a fun time baking goodies :)We love these very special times, sharing lots of smiles and spirited cheer, countdown to spring season, baking friday :) 


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CoolGal
CoolGal

Hi Chris Glad you Holly and your family are doing well enjoying a nice baking Friday. The cookies and muffins came out great. Happy the boys had some fun and Holly returned to the kitchen today Your kitchen decorations look great with a Spring theme. Wishing all of you a nice weekend enjoying all your activities. Thanks for all my nice hugs today, Have a good evening. Hugs to everyone-Stephanie
bluemoon29
bluemoon29

Looks DELICIOUS!! Welcome back Holly:). So glad she’s doing well. You guys did a great job! So much fun with an extra day off from school:)

I’m going to bake a birthday cake for a friend tomorrow. You’re all so inspiring. Thanks for sharing your joy:). Hugs to everyone:).
Lilysawyer
Lilysawyer

Hello to Holly, I am glad she rejoined the baking crew. Oh boy you guys had so much fun. Lol, I loved the egg and butter tower. Everything turned out so yummy. Send me some, please. :D
gratefulgrandma123
gratefulgrandma123

Happy Baking Friday. I'm glad u all had fun in the kitchen & I'm so glad Holly was well enough after her surgery to join you in the kitchen. We missed her last week & it was so nice to see her & all of you. Your goodies u all made look very nice & good & I hope u all enjoy. I'm sorry Bruce & Shirley r having health problems. My prayers r with them to feel better. I hope u all have a fun time celebrating Jenn & Carter's birthday & they have a happy birthday. Tu for sharing all of your nice pictures. Everything looks so nice. Have a nice weekend. Hugs & love
JeanCarlin
JeanCarlin

Wow, looks like you had the whole crew yesterday, it’s good to see Holly back in the mix and I’m sure everyone had a good time. As usual your muffins in your cookies, both look yummy and I wish I would’ve been there to taste them. :-)
Happy birthday to Jen and Carter, I hope they both enjoy their birthday celebrations today.
I hope you and Holly have fun shopping at the dollar tree today and watching movies tonight:-)
Wishing you all a wonderful weekend…..hugs
Squarley
Squarley

Hi Chris, love seeing the pictures look like you had a great baking crew. Looks like a lot of fun and a lot of good food. We should do miss everything going on just trying to get through the days. Tell everyone we said hi and happy birthday to the birthday kids or whoever had birthdays Trying to keep up with you. Glad I got to see your pictures. Look forward to talking to you next week love you bunches your friends from Kentucky Shirley and Bruce.