baking friday :) Christmas Cupcakes, Snickerdoodle Cookies, and Christmas Tree Cookies! :)

"Santa Claus is coming, to town!"- my nephew's Colby, Jacob, and Holly and i said that today, during baking friday! :)

baking friday! :) Calling all cookie monsters and Santa Claus! :) hehe! :) Cookie monsters and Santa Claus! :) hehe! :) Cookie monsters and Santa Claus unite! :) it's baking friday!!! :) oh my! :) A super fun, and super Christmas time spirit, Merry Christmas themed baking friday adventure in the kitchen!!! :) This was so much fun! :) We had the flour flying in the air in the kitchen, and sharing lots of smiles as we baked up some awesome goodies! :) We even heard Santa Claus' and his reindeer's sleigh bells! :) Lots of spirited festive fun, and many great memories being made! :) Happy Christmas holiday weekend! :) 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 Christmas cupcakes with sprinkles, Christmas tree cookies, and snickerdoodle cookies :) it was so much fun! :) We love these very special, spirited fun times ,and all of the great memories being made :) Christmas time is here! :) We all heard the famous Christmas sleigh bells today! :) It's a very special Christmas time tradition :) i carry a silver bell in my pocket, and during baking friday ,i ring the bell and Holly and i mention to the kids, we hear Santa Claus and his reindeer on our rooftop! :) they get so excited! :) it's sweet classic, and golden Christmas time! :)

SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN! :) CHRISTMAS SMILES AND CHEER! :) Hi angel friends! :) my family, Holly, and i hope everyone is doing well, healthy,and enjoying a wonderful day :) Twas the Evening before Christmas Eve! :) Wishing everyon a wonderful upcoming Christmas holiday weekend :) We're very happy, excited, and thrilled to share in and celebrate the holiday weekend with everyone :) There's lots of wonderful Christmas time cheer, and festive spirit in the air :) As we all get ready to celebrate the holiday weekend, we're all with eachother in spirit :) We're very happy.thankful, and blessed to have you all in our lives :) We're having so much fun, and a very special time sharing in the holiday season with everyone :) Enjoying our holiday home ,trees, lights, cards, decorations, and all of the festive moments that are bringing many wonderful memories :) We've been enjoying our Christmas time baking friday adventures, baking some awesome goodies and treats :) Thank you all, our dear angel friends, so very much for making our Christmas season very special, and memorable :) Wishing everyone many continued joys, of a very happy,blessed, and Merry Christmas, and a holiday weekend filled with joyful moments :) Season's greetings, from our hearts, and holiday home to yours :)

This morning, we had a great 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 :) awww! :) Thank you angel friends ,so very much! :) You all are very nice, and sweet :) we're loving the Christmas week, and all of the spirited festive cheer :) it's been a great stretch of days, and a very happy countdown to Christmas :) We're enjoying a very sweet time ,opening our Christmas mail, enjoying our holiday home, lighting our Christmas lights for the evening, and enjoying the glow of our Christmas trees and decorations :) Last night, Holly and i had our very special tradition of watching Mr. Bean's Christmas special, and also watched a video tour of the Miracle on 34th Street, Baltimore, Maryland holiday homes, lights decorations :) We love watching thse special each year :)

i was up early this morning, blossoming into the new day, enjoying some nice time here on DS, writing to friends :) we had some very stormy weather here arrive overnight. it was very windy, and raining, the wind gusts were wild. Thankfully our power remained on. We're keeping everyone in our thoughts, and prayers, that are experiencing stormy weather. wishing everyone safety, warmth,and comfort :) We hope and pray the stormy weather eases. it's gonna be getting arctic air cold here this holiday weekend, with temperatures in the low 20's. We're keeping warm ,safe, and it's a great day to bake goodies today :) i went outside very briefly for my nature walk, only a few minutes to put goodies in our backyard, for our nature friedns :) They love their baking friday breakfast feasts :) We look forward to the calmer weather returning, with some nice sunshine :)

It was sweet spirited early morning :) We enjoyed a nice breakfast, and having some hot tea with peppermint candy cane, water, and iced coffee :) Lisa and Alyssa brought us some nice iced coffees :) it's very nice, and sweet of them :) i began to gather our baking friday supplies, Christmas 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 a festive Merry Christmas theme :) Our kitchen looked awesome! :) i love decorating ,it's so much fun! :) i've been enjoying an awesome time decorating our kitchen this holiday season :) i love the sweet moments, when i take a picture of our kitchen all set up and decorated, knowing it's the first picture in our baking friday journal each week :) As the morning went on, we put some Christmas movies on :) Around mid-day, we enjoyed a nice lunch :) During the early afternoon, i enjoyed some nice time here on DS, writing to friends :)

Around 3pm, Brody, and the triplets came over :) Jenn and family had some shopping to do today, and were with us in spirit :) lots of great Christmas cheer and spirit in the air :) The kids are very happy and excited about Christmas, their Christmas vacation has began :) i remember when i was a kid, Christmas vacation was always so much fun, as we got to open presents, and enjoy our presents, and went back to school in early January :) We're looking forward to giving the kids their Christmas presents :) Lots of awesome Christmas season times being shared and great memories being made :) 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 in the kitchen :) it's a cool baking friday tradition :) You all are always right there with us in spirit, during these very special, spirit soaring times :) Each week, we love to use our nice baking friday supplies, and decorations we've recieved from family and friends over the years :) i wore my nice Christmas apron Holly created for me, featuring themes from my favorite Christmas movies, and we use our nice Christmas 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 Christmas goodies :) Calling all cookie monsters! :) Cookie monsters unite! :) it's time to bake! bake! bake! :)

We began our super fun adventure! :) We first began to prepare the cupcakes :) We love cupcakes :) The kids love to help! :) They get so proud, adding the ingredients :) We began to add the ingredients into the bowl :)We were shairng smiles, and talking about Christmas holiday :) We also were singing Christmas songs today :) Colby and Jacob both cracked open eggs, and we began to super stir the ingredients :) While the kids were stirring the cupcakes mix, i rang the silver bell in my pocket, we all heard it, and the kids eyes lit up as Holly and i talked about Santa and his reindeer on the roof, and also a cool addition to this cool tradition, my mom had the washer going in the hallway, and it was making a sound ,and we said, "it's the reindeer kicking the roof!" hehe! :) we were sharing lots of smiles :) my mom came out into the kitchen at times, and you all were right there with us in spirit in our kitchen :)

We prepared the cupcakes baking pan, i used butter to grease the pan ,and we began to add the cupcakes mix into the pan :)i then put the cupcakes into the oven to bake :) As the cupcakes were baking, we got ready to bake the pillsbury Christmas tree cookies :) Alyssa got 2 packages of these nice cookies :) i used butter to grease the pan, and we added the first batch of cookies onto the pan, and put the cookies into the oven to bake :) We did some cleaning up in the kitchen, and got ready to prepare the snicker doodles cookies :) They are very similar recipe like sugar cookies, except adding cream of tartar spice into the ingredients :) We prepared the snickerdoodle cookies :) in a bowl, we added some sugar, and cinnamon :) We made the cookies into round shapes, and dipped the cookies into the cinnamon and sugar, and put the cookies onto a baking pan :)

The first batch of Christmas tree cookies and cupcakes finished baking :) i brought the goodies out of the oven to cool down :) i then put another 2 batches of cookies into the oven to bake :) We were all hanging out :) The cupcakes finished cooling down, we spread green frosting onto the cupcakes, and then added sprinkles onto the cupcakes :) They came out great! :) the snickerdoodle cookies, and the rest of the christmas tree cookies finished baking, they baked nicely :) i took some pictures of the goodies, and we then began to dig in :) The cupcakes, and cookies came out great! :)

We had so much fun baking the goodies :) We love these very special, and spirited fun times :) i thanked the kids ,and Holly for helping bake goodies :) We had so much fun baking Christmas goodies this season ,and are looking forward to baking lots more goodies, next week, and a whole new year of super fun baking friday adventures to share in :) 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! :) Christmas Cupcakes, Snickerdoodle cookeis, and Christmas tree cookies, dedicated to our wonderful family, friends, and to the wonderful spirit of the holiday season :) We love you all, so very very much! :) many great memories made, to always cherish and treasure :) baking friday! :) We love it!!! :) December 23rd, 2022 :) Happy baking friday, and Merry Christmas Everyone! :)

We're enjoying an awesome, super fun, and festive day! :) baking friday! :) Christmas time spirit and cheer! :) 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, super fun times, and all of the great memories being made :) it's Christmas time! :) the weekend is arriving with lots of Christmas spirit :) We love the weekend's, and are very happy and excited to share in and celebrate the wonderful, Christmas Eve ,and Christmas holiday's with everyone :) Tomorrow, we're gonna have a popcorn Christmas movies party in the morning, and having a football party during the afternoon :) We're also having our annual Christmas Eve party here at home :) We're going to have foods, snacks. drinks, cookies, hot chocolate, and enjoying the glow of our holiday home, trees, lights, cards, and decorations :) my mom's going to scratch her lottery tickets Christmas wreathe on Christmas Eve :)

On Christmas holiday, we're going to open presents, going to Jenn's and family's house to bring them gifts, and we're going to have family over to visit on Christmas holiday :) We're planning to have a nice Christmas ham dinner :) it's gonna be a wonderful weekend ,with lots of festive spirit, and excitement :) We look forward to hearing about your holiday weekend ,and sharing ours :) i'll be sharing all about our Christmas holiday weekend festivities, traditions, celebrations, in my weekend journals, with lots of pictures to share :) Wishing everyone a very merry ,blessed, and happy Christmas weekend :) We cherish and treasure your very special friendships, and getting to share in and celebrate these very special times with you all, our dear angel friends :) It's gonna be a weekend filled with christmas time cheer, festive moments, and spirit soaring excitement :)

it's such a sweet, fun, and exciting time in the holiday season :) The holiday season is in full swing :) There's so much more to look forward too, as the holiday season shines :) Tonight, Holly and i are going to watch a special Christmas episode of Most haunted show :) We love our fun, friday night paranormal party night's :) 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, 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 warm caring friendship hug :) We wish everyone a nice peaceful evening and night :) Wishing everyone continued joys of a wonderful holiday season :) Happy Christmas weekend! :)

-never lose hope :)

To Wildthing, Peaceful Gentle Moments of the day :) Wildthing, we're enjoying awesome, and super fun, festive today :) the kids, Holly,and i baked Christmas cupcakes, snickerdoodle cookies, and christmas tree cookies for baking friday :) we love these very special, spirited fun times, and all of the great memories being made :) We're very happy and excited to celebrate Christmas Eve, and Christmas holiday this weekend ,with family, friends, spirited cheer, and all of the very special moments :) watching Christmas movies, football, and celebrating a wonderful Christmas :) You're always with us in spirit, during these very special times :) Thinking of you, our dear friend :)

my mom, Holly, and family says hello :) Merry Christmas Wishes ,for a wonderful weekend :) We hope everyone is doing well, healthy, and enjoying a wonderful day :) awww! :) We love you all bunches and bunches, our sweet dear wonderful guardian angel friends :) We think of you all often :) We're very heart happy and excited, sharing in and celebrating a wonderful Christmas season with everyone ,with many great memories being made :) You all make these times very special, and memorable for us :) We wish everyone a healthy, safe, very happy, blessed,and Merry Christmas weekend :)

Happy baking friday! :) Calling all cookie monsters! :) It's Christmas Time! :) Santa Claus is coming, to town!!! :) my family,Holly,and i are very happy and excited to share in and celebrate the big Christmas holiday weekend with everyone :) Twas the evening before Christmas Eve! :) There's lots of festive Christmas spirit in the air, and lots of Christmas time festivities and traditions that makes the season so much fun, very special, and memorable :) We're loving the season with everyone :) Wishing everyone a wonderful upcoming Christmas holiday weekend : )We're cherishing and treasuring all of the sweet Christmas time moments :) We're having so much fun enjoying our Christmas season baking friday's :) 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 are baking Christmas cupcakes, Christmas tree cookies, and Snickerdoodle cookies :) 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 and Santa Claus! :) It's time to bake! bake! bake! :)

Baking friday Supplies! :) We have a very special shoutout, and thank you for my niece Alyssa :) She went shopping this week,and picked up baking friday supplies :) it's very nice and sweet of her :) she found some great sales on some Christmas baking supplies :) sweet!!! :) Thank you Alyssa, so very much! :) We all love to chip in each week, to get the baking friday supplies :) We love this very special tradition in our lives :)

Greetings, from our holiday kitchen to yours! :) The baking friday crew! :) The kids, Holly, and i got our picture taken in the kitchen :) it's a cool baking friday tradition :) You all are always right there with us in spirit, during these very special, spirited fun times :) We're very happy and excited, enjoying our season of festive and fun, Christmas baking friday adventures :) Sharing lots of smiles, and festive spirited holiday cheer! :)

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 so proud of the kids, and all that they're learning about baking, and cooking :) We love the holiday season, and baking lots of Christmas goodies :) Our Christmas baking friday's are some of our favorite adventures of the year :) We've been sharing some funny Christmas jokes :) The Santa Claus Reindeer Bells are ringing in the kitchen today! :) Santa Claus is coming to town! :) Sweet christmas cheer and traditions! :) next week we'll be having a special new year's countdown, themed baking friday! :)

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

Christmas Cupcakes, Snickerdoodle Cookies, and Christms Tree Cookies! :) Come on over, for some baking friday goodies! :) The kids, Holly, and i had so much fun baking goodies today :) We love these awesome spirited fun times, and looking forward to many more adventures, counting down to 2023, and a whole new year of baking friday fun :) baking friday :)