baking friday :) Football Cupcakes, and Popcorn :) ready for gametime! :)

"we want a mountain of chocolate frosting on our cupcakes! :) -my nephew's Hunter, Jacob Colby, Brayden and Mikey said that 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, football time baking friday adventure in the kitchen!!!:) this was so much fun!!! with the football spirit soaring in the air, like a touchdown pass!!! woot yeah!!! we're gearing up for championship sunday, and the countdown to superbowl time!!! :) it's an awesome time, as we are days away from championship sunday, and getting ready for all of the excitement :) we love these special times, and are having a spirited day :) 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 and i baked football cupcakes, and made popcorn :) they sure do love the popcorn popper!!! :) awww!:) this was such a super fun adventure! :) We're getting ready for our annual championship sunday football party :) it's gonna be awesome!!! it's one of our favorite days of the year, championship sunday :) 2 classic games, and dreams of superbowl glory :) we look forward to celebrating with everyone :) good luck to the Patriots, Chiefs, Saints, and Rams :) it's time for some championship football :) 

my family, Holly, and i hope everyone is doing well, keeping warm, and enjoying a peaceful day :) We've been keeping an eye on the weather, tracking the storm that's coming. we have snow, and ice in our forecast on saturday night, into sunday.e it'll be a good day to be home, keeping warm, and enjoying the football games :) everyone in the path of the storm, we hope and pray for everyone to be safe, and to have warmth. we'll be home all day on sunday :) 

This morning, we had a sweet new day, rising and shining :) it's been a huge week, with lots going on. :) we're all doing well, and resting up, after the week, and our big travels on wednesday :) it's so nice resting up :) Holly is doing well :) She and i got into a great routine, with our days :) we have breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snack together :) i made rice, vegetables, sweet potatoes, and we also had fruit cup, and a vanilla cupcake :) She's recieving calls from backus here, and getting invites to call/visit, to make appts, and she also is getting some things in order, like her new mailing address, and things :) i've been helping her, she's doing really well :) She's met my family, and is getting on so great with them :) She met Jenn, Hunter, and Mikey today :) Awww!!! :) We all say hi, and thank you all, for your wonderful support, well wishes, and encouragement :) We're so happy, and excited, all going really well :) Holly wants to go shopping with us tomorrow :) She's been doing well, with unpacking, and organizing :) i bought a mini fridge for us on walmart.com :) it's awesome!!! :) and Alyssa and Aj are giving us a coffee table :) we're all feeling very relaxed too :) it just feels to natural, and well :) Holly and i are so tight, and close, and she's same way with my family too, and she also is so appreciative you all too, our dear angel friends :) Your support, well wishes, encouragement i share with her, it's helping her a lot :) She accomplished a lot today, and yesterday, and is doing really well :) We're so glad, and thankful :) 

We had a sweet morning :) i gathered a nice big bowl goodies for our nature friends, i bundled up, for my early morning nature walk :) our nature friends love their baking friday breakfast feasts :) awww!!! :) i saw some birds this morning :) we're all gearing up for the upcoming winterstorm on sunday. i was hanging out with my mom ,Lisa, and Alyssa this morning :) Holly got up around 7:30am :) i woke up around 5:15am this morning :) i enjoyed some nice time with Holly, and time here on ds, writing to friends :) it was such a sweet morning, and getting ready for baking friday :) Holly met Jenn annd Hunter this morning :) 

During the early afternoon, i enjoyed some nice talks with Holly, and time here on DS :) i've been enjoying sharing our journey of the week with everyone :) around 3pm, everyone began to arrive for baking friday :) we were getting all set, and ready :) earlier, Holly and i enjoyed a nice lunch together :) i went out into our living room, everyone was gathering around :) Holly was resting up, but did come up to see Mikey, she met Mikey for the first time :) awww!:) Holly went to watch some tv, and we were all in the kitchen, getting ready to bake :) we got our picture taken in the kitchen :) it's a cool baking friday tradition :) each week, we love to use our baking friday supplies 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 our baking and cooking each week :) our kitchen was all set, and ready, and we were ready to bake some goodies :) calling all cookie monsters! :) cookie monsters unite! it's time to bake! bake! bake! :) 

we began our super fun adventure! :) we first began by preparing the chocolate cupcakes :) Kayla went to visit with her boyfriend today, but was with us in spirit :) Mikey wanted to help, and he got to pick out the best 2 eggs :) my mom,and Jenn came out into the kitchen too, and you all are always right there with us in spirit :) we began to add the ingredients to the bowl :) the kids ove to help!:)baking friday teamwork!:) the kids are great helpers :) they get so proud, when they add the ingredients, and super stirring :) i got the baking pan, and baking cups, and we adding the chocolate cupcake mix into the cups, and baking pan, and i put the cupcakes into the oven to bake! :) We were all talking about the day, the kids have been doing really well with school. :) Taylynn got a nice award at school :) she's in junior high school now :) 

As the cupcakes were baking, we got the popcorn popper, and began to make some popcorn :) We love popcorn, the kids are so excited to see the popcorn popping :) they all love to take turns, pulling the lever for the popcorn to fall into the popcorn dish :) we made lots of batches of popcorn :) everyone got popcorn, and i made a bowl of popcorn for Holly :) she loves popcorn :) the cupcakes finished baking :) i brought them out of the oven to cool down :) we all did some cleaning up in the kitchen, and got ready to decorate the cupcakes :)

We're enjoying a great day! :) baking friday, we love it!!! :) my family, Holly, and i are doing well, and are in good spirits :) it was so nice baking goodies today, and making popcorn :) it's a wintery day. we're all keeping warm :) it's been a huge week, with lots going on. Holly is continuing to settle in :) She made some calls today to places in our city, to help set up appts, she needs :) she's doing much better :) She's been unpacking some more items too :) we watched some youtube videos, and an episode of American pickers on the history channel :) we're gearing up for a big weekend. :) tomorrow, we're gonna go shopping at the dollar tree, and maybe walmart too :) We also gonna do some more organizing :) it's been so nice, Holly settling in,and getting to meet my family :) we want to watch a movie on saturday night and gonna watch the football games on championship sunday :) Alyssa and Aj are gonna give s a nice coffee table :) we look forward to sharing our weekend adventures, and pictures with everyone, in my weekend journals:) there's many more great things to look forward too :) it's felt like a long time, but tonight, Holly and i are gonna watch a brand new episode, of Most Haunted show :) we are so happy, and thrilled, to return to having our 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 warm caring happy warm friendship hugs. keep warm, and safe everyone, that has wintery weather coming. We hope everyone enjoys a wonderfully safe,fun, and happy weekend :)

-never lose hope :) 

To Wildthing, Peaceful Gentle moments of the day :) Wildthing, today, the kids, and i baked football cupcakes, and made popcorn, for baking friday :) Holly is doing well, and continuing to settle in :) 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 good weekend everyone" :) we love you all bunches and bunches, our sweet dear wonderful guardian angel friends :) We hope everyone is doing well, keeping warm, and enjoying a nice day :) we wish everyone a wonderfully safe, fun,and happy weekend :) we look forward to the big championship sunday football party :) it's gonna be awesome :)

Happy baking friday!!! :) Calling all cookie monsters! :) are you ready for some football!!! :) we're so happy and excited, blossoming into the weekend, and getting set for the big upcoming AFC and NFC title games :) it's one of the best sports days of the year, the classic, championship sunday :) 2 teams will advance to the superbowl :) to celebrate the big weekend, of sports, today we're having a football themed baking friday adventure :) we have lots of family, friends, who love football :) this is a picture of our kitchen all set up and decorated for our super fun adventure :) Today, we're baking football cupcakes, and also making some popcorn :) it's a baking gameplan! :) woot!! yeah!!! we're ready for the big games! :) 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 football fans! :) it's time to bake! bake! bake! :) 

 

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 baking friday supplies :) We love this very special tradition in our lives :)  

baking friday teamwork! :) the kids love to help, and they get so proud, when they add the ingredients, and super stirring, and of course, enjoying the goodies we bake :) happy baking friday smiles:) 

 

Football cupcakes, and Popcorn! :) come on over, for some baking friday goodies! :) the kids and i had a fun time baking goodies, and making sme more popcorn today :) we love these awesome times, and sharing in all of the joys with everyone :) it's almost time for championship sunday :) baking friday :)