baking friday :) Football Cookies and Cupcakes :) Birthday party for Mike this evening :)

Happy baking friday, and Happy birthday to my brother inlaw Mike! :) Happy Arrival of Super Wildcard weekend!!! :)



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, football themed baking friday adventure in the kitchen!!! :) This was lots of fun :) Celebrating spirited cheer of January, and the upcoming Super Wildcard football playoffs weekend! :) Holly and i did some baking today :) The kids are gonna return to baking next week :) They were with us in spriit today :) We're going to Mike's birthday party this late afternoon, evening :) You all will be with us in spirit :) We're so happy and excited to share in and celebrate these very special times with everyone :) Happy arrival of the 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 traditon :) Today Holly and i baked some football themed cookies and cupcakes :) it was lots of fun :) We're super excited, for all of the big playoffs games coming up :) super wildcard weekend is gonna be awesome! :) There's lots of great seasonal joys, festivities, and traditions :) We're enjoying a very special time celebrating with everyone :) You all warm our hearts, and bring us a lot of special joy :) We think of you and your family's often :) Wishing everyone continued joys of the season :)



We're ready for some football!!! :) Super Wildcard weekend is arriving! :) Hi angel friends! :) my family, Holly, and i hope everyone is doing well, healthy, and enjoying an awesome day! :) We think of you all often :) the month of January is in full swing, with lots of seasonal festivities, and traditions :) We're super pumped up and excited for the big Super Wildcard playoffs football gamees :) The playoffs season is very exciting :) 14 teams with dreams of superbowl glory! :) We're very happy and excited to celebrate the football playoffs season with everyone :) We love football, and are looking forward to seeing the games, all of the big plays, and seeing which teams advance to the superbowl next month :) We're less than a month away from superbowl sunday!!! :) woot yeah!!! :) We've been counting down the days until super wildcard weekend :) 6 big games :) Wishing all of the teams good luck, as they begin their playoffs season and journey :) We're gonna be having some gameday party's :) We love the spirited cheer and excitement of the playoffs games :) To celebrate the arrival of Super wildcard weekend, we're having a super fun ,football themed baking friday adventure today :) We look forward to hearing about everyone's gameday's, and sharing ours :) we're gonna watch all of the games, in the upcoming days :) it's gonna be awesome!!! :)



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! :)You all are very nice, and sweet :) Thank you angel friends, so very much! :) We've been looking forward to baking some awesome football goodies :) it's our favorite day of the week, and tradition :) it brings our hearts a lot of special joy and excitement, baking and getting to share our baking friday adventures with everyone :) 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 gathered a big bowl of goodies, and went outside :) i put lots of goodies in our backyard, bird sanctuary area for our nature friends :) they love their bakingfriday breakfast feasts :) awww! :) we have some very cold windchills forecasted here, for saturday morning. it could be, -10 to -20 windchill with gusty winds. we're all keeping warm. we've got possible snowfall here on sunday into monday. winter season has settled in. wishing everyone warmth, and safety, through these wintery days. we're so happy to be taking care of our nature friends, making sure they have plenty of goodies to enjoy during these winter months :)



It was a nice sweet spirited early morning :) we enjoyed a nice breakfast, and having hot teas, iced coffees, and water :) i began to gather our baking friday supplies, and football 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 spirited football theme :) Our kitchen looked awesome! :) Celebrating the arrival of super wildcard weekend :) we love our football decorations :) as the morning went on, we put some sports radio on, lots of great football talk this week :) Holly and i got ready to bake some football goodies :) We've been enjoying blossoming into our new year of baking friday's, and so excited for all of the adventures to look forward too :) our schools here were closed today ,due to staff shortages. Jenn, and family were busy today, getting ready to have us over for Mike's birthday party :) Aj (Alyssa's husband) is out of work, he hurt his back at the gym. the triplets and Brody were home with Aj. We hope his back fully heals. we believe next friday, will be a return to the normal schedule of baking friday with us baking around 3pm, and the kids coming over to help bake :)



Baking up a Game plan! :) Holly and i were all set, and ready to bake :) Each week, we love to use our nice baking 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 Holly and i were ready to bake some awesome football goodies :) Calling all cookie monsters! :) it's time to bake! bake! bake! :)



Holly and i began our super fun adventure :) baking friday teamwork! :) We first began by preparing the cupcakes :)We baked some nice vanilla cupcakes :) We were talking about baking friday, the upcoming football games :) Holly and i got our picture taken in the kitchen today :) We added the cupcakes ingredients into the bowl, and super stirred the ingredients :) The kids were all with us in spirit and you all were right there with us in spirit too :) We look forward to the kids returning to the baking friday adventures next week :) After super stirring the cupcakes mix, Holly and i put the cupcake mix into the baking cups, and into the baking pan, and then put the cupcakes into the oven to bake :) we love the scent of cupcakes baking in the oven :)



As the cupcakes were baking, we began to prepare the sugar cookies :) We love sugar cookies, they're one of our favorite cookies :) Holly and i added the ingredients including some vanilla extract into the cookie dough, and some melted butter too :) We stirred the cookie dough, it came out great :) i used butter to grease the baking pan, and Holly and i made the cookie dough into football shapes :) i then put the cookies into the oven to bake :) as the cupcakes and cookies were baking ,we did some cleaning up in the kitchen, and made some green colored frosting for the cupcakes :) the cupcakes and cookies finished baking, they baked nicely :) We took a break for a bit, while the cookies and cupcakes cooled down, and it was then time to decorate :) We love to decorate cookies, and cupcakes :) We used chocolate frosting to decorate the football cookies,and white frosting to make the football laces design on the cookies :) we used green and white frosting ,to decorate the football field cupcakes :) we added a D and S on 2 of the cupcakes, a special shoutout to you all, our dear angel friends :) The cookies and cupcakes look great! :) we're gonna bring some over to Jenn's and family's home for them :)



Holly and i had a fun time baking today :) i thanked Holly for helping bake :) We love our adventures, and have lots 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 nice 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 :) Football Cookies and Cupcakes, dedicated to our wonderful family, friends, to the football playoffs, and to the awesome 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 14th, 2022 :) Happy baking friday everyone! :)



We're enjoying an awesome, spirit soaring day! :) baking friday! :) awesome spirit of January! :) We love it!!! :) my family, Holly, and i are doing well, healthy, and in great spirits :) it was so much fun baking goodies today :) There's lots of great things going on, and many special memories being made :) We look forward to celebrating Mike's birthday this evening :) The weekend is arriving with lots of awesome spirit :) We love the weekend's! :) Happy Super Wildcard weekend! :) We're ready for some football!! :) hut! hut! hike!!! :) Wildcard weekend is one of the most exciting weekend's of the year :) We're super pumped up and excited, for the awesome playoffs games :) 6 big games saturday, sunday,and monday :) We look forward to having some super wildcard playoffs gameday party's :) Enjoying foods, snacks ,and drinks, lots of great gameday cheer :) Holly and i are going to have a popcorn movies marathon before tomorrow's games begin :) it's gonna be so nice, enjoying some movies, leading up to the football games :)


On sunday, we're celebrating my mom's and dad's anniversary ,and the 3rd anniversary of Holly living with us here in Connecticut :) We're gonna have some foods, snacks, drinks, celebrating throughout the day and watching football :) it's gonna be an awesome weekend celebrating, anniversary's, and watching football with everyone :) i look forward to sharing about our weekend festivities, celebrations, and pictures with everyone in my weekend journals :) There's lots more great things to look forward too :) Tonight, Holly and i are going to watch 2 new episodes of Most Haunted show :) We love our fun, friday night paranormal party night's :) You all warm our hearts, and brighten our days :) Thank you angel friends, so very much, for all that you do for us, for your wonderful love, care, support, warm well wishes, and for keeping us in your thoughts and prayers :) We deeply appreciate everything, with all of the love of our very happy hearts :) Big group happy sunny warm caring 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 spirited day :) Today, Holly, and i baked football themed cookies, and cupcakes for baking friday :) We love these very special, spirited fun times :) There's lots of great things going on, and many special memories being made :) We're celebrating Mike's birthday this evening :) We're very happy and excited to blossom into the weekend :) Holly and i are going to have a popcorn movies marathon tomorrow, and also watching football this weekend :) We love the playoffs, and are so excited to see the games :) the month of January is in full swing :) Thinking of you, our dear friend :)



my mom, Holly, and family says hi :) We hope everyone is doing well, healthy,and enjoying a really good baking friday, and a wonderful day :) We love you all bunches and bunches, our sweet dear wonderful guardian angel friends :) We're very heart happy, thankful, and blessed to have you all in our lives :) Thank you all for sharing in the joys of the season with us :) We're very happy and excited to blossom into super wildcard weekend, great football games, movies, and all of the joys of celebrating my parents Anniversary on sunday, along with Holly's 3rd anniversary of living here with us in CT :) We wish everyone a healthy, safe, and peaceful weekend :)



Happy baking friday!!! :) Calling all cookie monsters! :) are you ready for some playoffs football!! :) woot yeah!!! :) my family, Holly, and i are so happy, and excited to celebrate the NFL playoffs season with everyone :) The Super Wildcard weekend is arriving with lots of great spirit and excitement :) We love football, and are super pumped up and excited for all of the big games, for wildcard weekend :) there's 6 games scheduled, for saturday, sunday, and monday :) We're looking forward to having some football party's, cheering on the teams, enjoying foods, snacks,drinks, and gameday cheer :) it's gonna be awesome!!! : ) We love sharing our baking friday adventures with everyone :) To celebrate the Super Wildcard playoffs weekend, we're having a football themed baking friday adventure :) This is a picture of our kitchen all set up and decorated for our super fun adventure :) It's Team Flour vs Team Sugar! :) We're baking up a gameplan! :) We're baking Football themed cookies ,and Football themed cupcakes :) 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! :) cookie monsters unite! :) it's time to bake! bake! bake! :)
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Baking friday supplies :) We have a very special shoutout, and thank you for my niece Alyssa :) She picked up baking friday supplies :) it's very nice, and sweet of her :) 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 :)
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Greetings, from our kitchen to yours! :) Holly and i got our picture taken today :) The kids were with us in spirit, and you all are always right there with us in spirit during these very special, spirited fun times :)Sharing lots of smiles, and baking friday cheer! :)
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The NFL playoffs are all set :) i displayed my mini helmets on our football tray, the 6 Wildcard playoffs matchups are featured :)
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Baking friday teamwork! :) Preparing the goodies! :) baking up a gameplan! :) Football baking time! :) We're very excited to be enjoying our 2022 baking friday adventures, and looking forward to lots more :)
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Football Cookies and Cupcakes! :) come on over, for some baking friday goodies! :) Holly and i had a fun time baking goodies today :) We love these very special times, and all of the spirited cheer of the upcoming playoffs :) There's lots of great memories being made :) We're ready for some football! :) baking friday :)
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Replies

CoolGal
CoolGal

Hi Chris Glad you and your family are doing well and you and Holly enjoyed baking together. The cookies and cupcakes came out great and your decoration are fun festive and ready for a big football weekend. A very nice photo of you and Holly there. Suppose to drop down to 3 degrees here tonight. Hope you and your family are enjoying the birthday party, Thanks for all my nice hugs today Have a good night Hugs to all-Stephanie
cedarbrooke
cedarbrooke

Wow great job Chris & Holly! Very exciting display for Wild Card Weekend! Love it. Thanks so much! We will be there sharing all the celebrations this weekend! Hugs! Brooke & Henri
gratefulgrandma123
gratefulgrandma123

Hi Sweet Chris, Happy Baking Friday. I like the picture of you and Holly. It is a nice picture of the two of you & I like all your football collectibles & Baking Friday pictures. I hope u all have a nice time at Mike's bday party. I'm sorry that AJ hurt his back at the gym and he can't work. I hope he feels better. It is very scary that that happened. My son works out at the gym and it is a fear of mine that my son will hurt himself. That's nice u gave food to your nature animal friends. I hope u all have a nice evening. Hugs & love FF
bluemoon29
bluemoon29

What a great duo you are! Happy baking Friday Holly and Chris:). Love the picture of the two of you:)
Have a great weekend.
Lilysawyer
Lilysawyer

oh boy that is SO delicious looking, send some over to me. I loved the thumbs up you guys did. And the football helmets, I remember those from a long time ago. I loved how you have the teams playing there. I loved your baking Fri adventures today. :D
JeanCarlin
JeanCarlin

I’m glad that you and Holly enjoyed your baking Friday together and your cookies and cupcakes all look yummy :-)
I hope you both enjoy your football weekend and have fun celebrating all the anniversaries going on this weekend . Happy anniversary to mom and dad tomorrow and happy anniversary to Holly!
Lots of hugs for all
Jeannie
Squarley
Squarley

Wow look like a wonderful baking day loved your decorated table with the footballs and the helmets made it really special and the special thing is a picture of you and Holly together baking that is so sweet it touched my heart. Looking forward to spending so many more baking Fridays with you wish I was there to help Ethan’s cookies and cupcakes and everything looks so good Bruce said a big hello we’re trying hard to stay on the diet Bruce needs to lose weight it’s causing him pain he’s going to a specialist on the 27th I think it is we love sharing these days and pictures with you you don’t know how much joy it brings to our heart and we feel like we’re part of the family we love you all very much have a wonderful weekend I’ll be thinking of you love you all bunches!