baking friday :) Chocolate Cupcakes, and Onion Pretzels :) a whole new year of baking friday fun! :)

"We love chocolate and cupcakes!"- my nephew's Hunter and Carter 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, flour flying, and super sweet, happy new year, 2024 baking friday adventure in the kitchen!!! :) This was so much fun! :) we had the flour flying in the air, sharing lots of smiles, and celebrating lots of spirited cheer, as we baked up some awesome goodies, celebrating our first baking friday adventure of the new year! :) Holly created an awesome 2024 banner for our kitchen! :) 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 had a fun time baking chocolate cupcakes, and onion pretzels :) we love these very special, spirited fun times, and all of the awesome spirit of the blossoming new year :) We're very happy, thankful, and blessed to have this very special tradition in our lives :) Happy baking friday smiles :)

A Whole new year of fun baking friday adventures! :) Hi angel friends! :) my family, Holly,and i hope everyone is doing well, healthy, keeping warm, and enjoying a wonderful day! :) We think of you all often :) wishing everyone safety, and warmth, through the upcoming wintery weather. They're calling for lots of snowfall here, saturday night into sunday, 6 to 12 inches of snow. We're getting ready, keeping warm, and looking forward to a nice peaceful weekend, with seeing the winter wonderland scenes outside our windows :) it'll be a great weekend to enjoy some foods, snacks, hot drinks, like hot chocolate, and tea, and watching movies, and football :) a cozy weekend to celebrate the first weekend of the new year! :) we're very heart happy and excited, sharing in and celebrating with everyone, these very special times of the blossoming new year with everyone :) the new year is settling in nicely, with some sweet January times :) You all make these times very special, and memorable for us :) We're very happy and excited, to begin a whole new year, of fun baking friday adventures :) It's our favorite day and tradition :) it's very special to us, getting to share our adventures :) We love counting down the days until it's time to bake, and baking lots of our favorite goodies, and trying new recipes too :) it's very exciting, a whole new 52 adventures to share in this year, each friday with lots of great memories being made :) Thank you angel friends, for sharing in this very special tradition with us each week :) Wishing everyone continued joys, of the blossoming new year :) Happy friendship 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're enjoying sharing in the first week of the new year :) it's been a nice stretch of days, settling into the new year, and also getting ready for the upcoming snowfall on saturday night into sunday morning. it's gotten wintery cold outside in recent days,and feels like classic winter time. We're all keeping warm :) we're very thankful for our furnace :) 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 :) i bundled up warmly,gathered a nice bowl of goodies, and went outside into the winter time nature, for my nature walk :) our nature friends greeted me :) it's so nice ,seeing our nature friends :) We love taking good care of them, especially during these older months of the year. i put lots of goodies in our backyard, bird sanctuary area for our nature friends :) They love their baking friday breakfast feasts :) aww! :) i saw some happy sparrows visiting our yard :) we have some bird houses in our backyard, we hope the birds take up shelter, in the bird houses, especially during winter season. We sometimes seed straw/sticks in the entrance area of the bird houses, that makes us believe the birds are using the houses, for shelter :) We love our nature friends, and the joy they bring us throughout the year :) Happy nature smiles :)

It was a sweet early morning :) We enjoyed a nice breakfast, and having some hot tea with peppermint candy, water, sprite soda, and vanilla iced coffee :) 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 our kitchen, with an awesome happy 2024 theme :) our kitchen looks great! :) A very special thank you for Holly! :) She created an awesome 2024 new year banner :) she's very creative :) it's so much fun decorating :) Holly loves her arts and crafts :) As the morning went on, we put the sports radio on, we love tuning into the sports talk :) big football weekend coming up, it's gonna be great! :) Around mid-day, we enjoyed a nice lunch, and i enjoyed some nice time here on DS, and also made some nice onion pretzel dough :) it's very nice easy recipe, and the pretzel dough rises during the afternoon :)

Around 3pm, Jenn and the kids came over :) Aj has the day off from work, and is hanging out with the kids playing video games at home :) they were with us in spirit :) the kids have returned to school, and are doing very well :) we're very proud of the kids :) We're very happy and excited, for our whole new year of super fun baking friday adventures :) it's very exciting, our first adventure of 2024 :) We all began to gather in our kitchen :) The kids love to select their spots at the kitchen counter :) The kids, Holly ,and i got our picture taken :) You all are always right there with us in spirit :) 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 goodies beginning a whole new year of baking friday adventures! :) 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 to prepare the cupcakes :) they're one of our favorite treats :) Hunter and Carter helped Holly and i bake today :) We added in the cupcakes mix, water, vegetable oil, and eggs :) We began to super stir! :) my mom came out into the kitchen at times :)She was watching the kids for Jenn and Mike, they went shopping :) we made a big batch of the cupcake mix, and made about 12 cupcakes, using some cupcakes bakers, and a 2nd pan :) We were sharing lots of smiles, and spirited cheer :) You all are always right there with us in spirit, during these very special, spirited fun times :) We were sharing some funny jokes, we went with the seaside theme :) funny jokes, like "what do you see, when it's sunny and raining under the water? a rainbow trout! hehe! :) Also, "who do you go too when you're trying to mail something from the sea?A Seal! (Seal the envelope), "how do you call someone from the ocean? a shell-phone!" hehe! :) We were sharing lots of smiles and laughs :) i put the cupcakes into the oven to bake :)

as the cupcakes were baking, we began to prepare the onion pretzels :) The pretzel dough rised nicely :) i sliced the pretzel dough into portions, and got some water heating up on the stove :)we made the dough into nice pretzel shapes, and added the pretzels one at a time into the water, and used a metal spatula to take the pretzels out of the water, and put them onto a nice butter greased baking pan :) we melted some butter, and drizzled the butter on the pretzels, and sprinkled dried onion flakes onto the pretzels, and made 2 everything bagel spice, pretzels for my mom ,and put the pretzels into the oven to bake :) we did some cleaning up in the kitchen, and were hanging out :) The cupcakes finished baking, and the pretzels baked for about 20 minutes, the cupcakes, and pretzels baked nicely :) i brought the goodies out of the oven to cool down :) We got ready to decorate the cupcakes :) We spread chocolate frosting on the cupcakes, and Hunter added sugar sprinkles on the cupcakes :)

We had so much fun baking goodies today :) i thanked the kids ,and Holly for helping bake :) We're very happy and excited, for lots more baking friday adventures, all throughout the season ,and year :) i took pictures of our adventure today, kitchen decorations ,and will upload the pictures as soon as DS picture upload feature is working :) 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 Cupcakes, and Onion Pretzels, dedicated to our wonderful family, friends, and to the wonderful 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 5th, 2024 :) Happy baking friday everyone! :)

We're enjoying an awesome day! :) baking friday, and sweet spirit of the blossoming new year! :) We love it!!! :) my family, Holly, and i are doing well, healthy,and in good spirits :) it was so much fun baking goodies today :) We love these very special, spirited fun times, and all of the great memories being made :) We're so happy and excited, to blossom into the first weekend of 2024 :) We love the weekend's :) Tomorrow, we're gonna go shopping at the dollar tree :) We're very excited to shop, buying some foods, snacks, drinks, treats for Tiger girl, and also gonna browse at the writing supplies, dvds, and seasonal items :) We love the dollar tree :) Holly and i are going to have a fun, popcorn movies party :) We look forward to watching some cool movies, including some sports movies, and a new movie on saturday night :) Sunday is football sunday! :) woot yeah!! :) We're very excited to have a football party, enjoying foods, snacks, drinks, and all of the great gameday cheer :)

it's gonna be a big football weekend, as lots of teams are playing for playoffs spots, and playoffs seedings :) we look forward to celebrating the big football weekend :) We're also keeping an eye on the weather forecasts, about the winterstorm coming, preparing for the wintery weather. we're gonna stock up on a few items at the dollar tree, batteries, and more, just incase, and going to boil some eggs, just incase there's power outages, we'd be able to have some eggs in the fridge to have :) will keep everyone updated on the winter storm.it's gonna be an awesome weekend with all of the shopping, movies, and football :) i look forward to sharing our weekend adventures with everyone in my weekend journals :) Tonight, Holly and i are going to watch 2 episodes of most haunted show :) We love our fun, friday night paranormal party night's :)

There's so much more to look forward too, as the new year blossoms, and the season continues to shine :) The winter season is filled with lots of awesome seasonal festivities, traditions, and birthday celebrations to share in :) We love the special times, and celebrations from month to month as the year goes on :) We're so happy to celebrate all of the excitement of the new year, 2024 :) The football season is in full swing with lots of great games, plus basketball season too :) We love cheering on the teams! :) We cherish and treasure, the many special memories being made :) We're very happy, thankful, and blessed, to have you all in our lives, and to be able to share in these very special times of the season with you all :) Thank you angel friends, so very much, for all that you do for us, for comforting us, uplifting our spirits, brightening our days, and for the very special joy you all bring our hearts :) We deeply appreciate everything, with all of the love of our hearts :) Big group happy sunny caring sunflower friendship hug :) We wish everyone a nice peaceful evening and night :)

-never lose hope :)

To Wildthing, Peaceful Gentle Moments of the day :) Wildthing, we're enjoying an awesome day! :) Today, the kids, Holly, and i had a fun time baking chocolate cupcakes, and onion pretzels, for baking friday : )We love these very special, spirited fun times, and looking forward to lots more adventures :) We're very excited for the weekend, shopping, watching movies, football, and lots of nature, with the possible snowfall :) The spirit of the blossoming new year is all around : )Thinking of you, our dear friend :)

my mom, Holly, and family says hi :) We hope everyone is doing well, healthy, enjoying a wonderful day, and we hope everyone is having a really good baking friday :) awww! :) We love you all bunches and bunches, our sweet dear wonderful guardian angel friends :) We think of you all often :) We're enjoying a very special time, sharing in and celebrating the blossoming of the new year with everyone :) Thank you angel friends, for making each day very special, and memorable :) We wish everyone a healthy, safe, peaceful,and happy weekend :)

Hi angel friends, the very first pictures i'll be sharing with everyone as soon as DS has the picture upload feature fixed, is pictures of our baking friday adventure today :)