baking friday :) Chocolate Chip Cookies, Blueberry Muffins, and homemade Dill Pickles! :)

"We love cookies and pickles!" :) -my nephew's 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, spirit soaring, flour flying, summer time themed baking friday adventure in the kitchen!!! :) This was so much fun! :) we had the flour flying in the air, and our kitchen smells like dill pickles, as we made a big batch of pickles today, during cucumbers from our garden :) sharing lots of smiles, and spirited summer time 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 Kayla, Alyssa, the kids, and i baked chocolate chip cookies, blueberry muffins, and made 6 jars of homemade dill pickles :) We're loving the summer time sunshine, energy, and excitement in the air, as the summer season is glowing :) there's lots of great things going on :) We're so excited to try the homemade pickles we made today :) we're having an amazing growing season with the cucumbers, and will definitely be making more soon :)

sweet classic, and golden summer time! :) a season of traditions, and festivities :) my family, Holly, and i hope everyone is doing well, and enjoying a beautiful day :) we're enjoying a very special time, celebrating the joys of summer season with everyone :) it's been a big summer season, with lots of adventures, spirit soaring times, nature walks, gardening, birthday's, and so much more, with many great memories being made :) the season is in full swing, and there's so much more to look forward too :)We're having an awesome season of baking friday adventures :) We're so proud, using goodies from our garden, as a part of our baking friday adventures :) Throughout the week, The kids have been asking when's baking friday? :) awww! :) we love counting down this very special day and tradition :) Thank you angel friends, for celebrating with us :)

This morning, we had a beautiful new day, rising and shining :) The summer sun is shining wonderfully :) i love to wish my family, friends, and Holly a happy baking friday, and i share with them, your lovely happy baking friday wishes :) Thank you angel friends, so very much :) You all are so nice, and sweet :) We've been looking forward to our super fun adventure, and making fresh homemade dill pickles :) it's become a summer time tradition, for us to make homemade pickles :) my niece Alyssa's favorite, is dill pickles, she even likes to drink pickle juice! :) we love pickles with salads, with sandwiches, or for snacking :) we're having an amazing growing season for cucumbers :) we're so excited! :) we love going on cucumber treasure hunts in our garden :) the cucumbers plants are growing wild :) it's a very exciting joy, seeing the cucumbers and all of the plants, growing very well :)

As the new day was blossoming, i gathered a big bowl of goodies, and went outside for my early morning nature walk :) i put lots of goodies in our backyard, for our nature friends :) they love their baking friday breakfast feasts :) awww! :) the birds have been visiting our yard often :) We love to see them :)The nature energy is incredible, with sunshine, the plants growing wild, and lots of our nature friends out and about :) i was taking in the peaceful joys of the early morning, sun rising up, and checking in on our plants :) they're doing really well, growing and flourishing with the season :) i saw some more cucumbers growing, the popcorn plants, and sunflowers plants are growing very tall, lots of popcorn cobs growing :) it's an awesome time in the season :) We feel a wonderful sense of joy, and excitement :) We're enjoying the gardening season, very much :)

The morning was glowing with summer time excitement! :) i made a blueberry iced coffee, and we enjoyed a nice breakfast :) Cheers!!! to the joys of summer time! :) i began to gather baking friday supplies, and 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 nature/garden theme, flowers :) our kitchen looked great! :) we have some nice jars, we've got some canning jars, and other jars that had pickles/banana peppers in them, that we saved, to add the cucumbers into later on today :) we love saving jars, for when we make pickles :) i cooked some zucchini with our lunch, and we went outside to pick some more yellow squash :) We're having such a wonderful growing season :) it's a beautifully sunny day :) During the early afternoon, i enjoyed some nice time here on DS, writing to friends :) Friday's are so nice, and a very exciting day :)

after 2pm, i washed the cooking pot, and i sliced some cucumbers, and began to fill the jars with the cucumber slices :) i cut the cucumbers into 2 kinds, classic chips style, and spears style pickles :) around 3pm, Alyssa, Colby, Brayden, Jacob, and Brodie came over :) lots of great spirit, and excitement in the air :) The kids were so excited, as cookies are one of their favorite goodies we bake :) Jenn, Mike, Carter, Mikey, and Hunter went on an adventure in Rhode Island today, they visited a lake :) they were with us in spirit today :) We were all gathering around, and getting ready to bake some goodies, and making some homemade dill pickles :) on the stove, i had the dill pickles juice cooking, water, vinegar, and the dill pickles seasoning :) my niece Alyssa was smelling the pickles juice cooking, she said, "i can't wait to try some!" :) Each week, we love to use our baking friday supplies, that we've recieved from family and friends over the years :) i wear my apron, and we use our oven mits, kitchen towels, and all of our supplies, are a big part of the baking friday fun each week :) Our kitchen was all set, and ready, and we were ready to make some awesome goodies :) calling all cookie monsters! :) it's time to bake! bake! bake! :)

We began our super fun adventure! :) We first began by preparing the chocolate chip cookies :) we're so happy, my niece Alyssa has been joining in on the baking friday fun :) She loves to help bake :) we all picked out the best egg ever today, and were beginning to add the ingredients into the big bowl :) baking friday teamwork! :) the kids love to help! :) They're awesome helpers :) they all love to select their spot at the kitchen counter, and they love to each be in charge of one of the ingredients to add into the bowl :) We were adding in the ingredients, and super stirring :) We love these awesome times, and sharing lots of smiles :) You all are always right there with us in spirit, in our kitchen :) my mom was coming out into the kitchen today too :)

i used some vegetable oil to grease the baking pans, and we put the cookies onto the pans, and i put the cookies into the oven to bake! :) as the cookies were baking, we cleaned the counter, and got ready to prepare the blueberry muffins :) we used the jiffy blueberry muffins mix :) We added the muffins mix, an egg, and some half and half cream milk, and super stirred it :) i got the baking pans, for the muffins, and added in the baking cups, and we added the blueberry muffins mix into it :) We were having so much fun preparing the goodies :) we love these awesome times :) i put the muffins into the oven to bake :)
We got the jars of cucumbers out of the fridge, and Alyssa and i added some spoons, and butterknifts into the jar, to help keep the jar ok, when we were gonna add the pickles juice into the glass jars :) i used a laddle to pour the boiling pickles juice into the jars of cucumbers, and used an oven mit to hold the jars as i put the tops onto the jars :) We made 6 jars of pickles :) awesome!!! :) the pickles should be ready in a day or two :) We love fresh homemade pickles, they're great with salads, sandwiches, and for snacking :)

The chocolate chip cookies, and blueberry muffins baked nicely :) i brought the goodies out of the oven to cool down, and took pictures of the goodies :) We all began to dig in :) we had some chocolate chip cookies, and Holly had a blueberry muffin :) we also can't wait to try the homemade pickles :) Alyssa and the kids are gonna bring a jar home, and we're gonna give a jar of pickles to Jenn and family when they visit :) We had so much fun baking goodies today, and making pickles :) i thanked Kayla, Alyssa, and the kids for helping bake and cook :) We have many more super fun 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 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, Blueberry Muffins, and Homemade Dill Pickles, 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 26th, 2019 :) happy baking friday everyone! :)

We're enjoying an awesome day! :) baking friday, summer time spirit, we love it!!! :) my family, Holly, and i are doing well, and are in great spirits :) We're so happy, thankful, and blessed to have the wonderful opportunity, to enjoy very special times like this, with everyone, sharing in, and celebrating the awesome joys of summer time :) The weekend is arriving with lots of sunshine spirit :) We love the weekend's :) Tomorrow, we're gonna go shopping at the dollar tree :) We're going to buy some gifts, goodies, and treasures :) Holly and i are going to tend our plants, and enjoying some nature walks, and gonna watch a movie on saturday night :) on sunday, we're going to have a birthday party celebration for my brother Bobby's girlfriend Stacy :) i look forward to sharing our weekend adventures, celebrations, and pictures with everyone, in my weekend journals :) There's many 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 :) You all are wonderfully nice, sweet, and very caring :) We deeply appreciate everything, with all of the love of our hearts :) big group happy sunny caring sunflower friendship hug :) We hope everyone enjoys a beautiful weekend :)

-never lose hope :)

To Wildthing, Peaceful Gentle Moments of the day :) Wildthing, it's an awesome day :) Today, Kayla, Alyssa, the kids, and i baked chocolate chip cookies, blueberry muffins, and made homemade dill pickles, for baking friday :) Thinking of you, our dear friend :)

my mom says hi :) She says, "i hope everyone is having a really good baking friday" :) awww! :) She says, "have a nice weekend" :) We love you all bunches and bunches, our sweet dear wonderful guardian angel friends :) We hope everyone is doing well, and enjoying a great day :) we wish everyone a wonderfully safe, fun, and happy weekend :) The summer season is in full swing, and lots of great things going on, and many special memories being made :) Cheers!!! to the awesome joys of summer time! :)

Happy baking friday!!! :) Calling all cookie monsters! :) it's sweet classic, and golden summer time! :) my family, Holly, and i are having so much fun, celebrating the summer season with everyone :) there's lots of festivities, traditions, and celebrations that makes summer time so much fun :) We're treasuring all of the great memories being made :) We're having an awesome gardening season, growing lots of flowers, and fresh goodies in the garden :) We're having our biggest season ever, with growing lots of cucumbers :) We sure do love the summer season, and sharing our baking friday 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, blueberry muffins, and also making fresh homemade dill pickles :) We're so proud to be using cucumbers from our garden, to make pickles :) dill pickles are one of our favorite foods :) 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! :) 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 niece Alyssa :) they went shopping, and picked up baking friday supplies :) it's very nice, and sweet of them :) Thank you mom, dad, Alyssa, so very much! :) We all love to chip in each week, to get baking friday supplies :) We're so happy, and thankful to have this very special tradition in our lives :)

Cucumbers, Dill Seasoning, Vinegar :) Lets make some pickles! :)

Greetings, from our kitchen to yours! :) 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 :) Happy baking friday smiles :)

Baking friday teamwork! :) preparing the goodies! :) the kids love to help! :) they're great helpers :) They love adding the ingredients, super stirring, and of course, enjoying the goodies we bake :) Sharing lots of happy baking friday smiles :)

Chocolate Chip Cookies, Blueberry Muffins, and homemade Dill Pickles :) come on over, for some baking friday goodies! :) Kayla, Alyssa, the kids, and i had lots of fun baking goodies, and making homemade pickles today :) We love these awesome times, and all of the great memories being made :) The summer season is in full swing, lots of festivities, and traditions :) Spirited fun, baking friday :)