baking friday :) Football Cupcakes, and Sugar Cookies :) Football Time, with spirited cheer :)

"We love football, cookies ,and cupcakes!"- my nephew's Hunter, Brody, Jacob ,Colby ,Brayden, Carter ,and Mikey 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, and super sweet, football themed baking friday adventure in the kitchen! :) This was lots of fun ,and football spirited! :) We're ready for some baking, and some football, with the big football playoffs beginning :) We had the flour flying in the air like footballs flying in the air, and sharing lots of smiles and spirited cheer as we baked some goodies :) Happy football playoffs season! :) Team Sugar vs Team Frosting! :) 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 football themed cupcakes, and sugar cookies :) it was lots of fun :) We love these very special, spirited fun times, and all of the great memories being made :) we're looking forward to the big football playoffs games, and seeing which teams advance, and make it to superbowl 59 in February :)it's a very exciting time in the new year, with the year blossoming :) We love seasonal baking, and so excited to cheer on the teams in the upcoming games :) Thank you angel friends, for sharing in this very special tradition with us each week :) Happy baking friday smiles :)

Football Time Baking! :) Team Sugar vs Team Frosting! :) Celebrating the football playoffs :) Super Wildcard weekend is arriving! :) We're ready for some baking ,and football! :) Hi angel friends :) my family, Holly, and i hope everyone is doing well, healthy, keeping warm, and enjoying a nice day :) We think of you all often ,and we love hearing from you :) We're enjoying sharing in the blossoming of the new year with everyone, with lots of seasonal festivities and traditions :) We're having lots of fun enjoying our baking friday adventures, and have been looking forward to a fun football theme today, to celebrate the football playoffs ,beginning with the upcoming super wildcard weekend :) We love football, and have another football themed adventure, our annual Superbowl themed baking friday in February to look forward too also :) We're very excited for the upcoming games, and lots more baking friday adventures as the new year continues to blossom :) Lots of winter time baking, and cooking :) We're pumped up and excited, for the 6 big games coming up, seeing which teams advance to the next round of the football playoffs :) it' vey exciting :) We're looking forward to cheering on our Washington Commanders team :) We're very blessed, and thankful to have you all in our lives, and to be able to share in lots of special times with you all :) It brings us lots of great joy, hearing about your days, adventures, sharing ours, and getting to share our baking friday adventures each week :) Thank you angel friends, for always being here for us, and for sharing in the season with us :) We love you all bunches and bunches :) Wishing everyone continued joys of the season :) Happy sunny caring friendship smiles :)

This morning, we had a sweet new day, rising and shining :) A very special friday tradition i love very much, is wishing Holly, our family, and friends a happy baking friday, and i share with Holly and our family ,your sweet happy baking friday wishes :) Thank you angel friends, so very much :)You all are very nice, and sweet :)We've been looking forward to our super fun adventure ,baking some football goodies, and getting ready for the football games this upcoming weekend :) The playoffs are here :) 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 :) The winds thankfully eased overnight, and we have slightly warmer temperature forecasted for today, in the upper 30's :) it's a relief ,especially after some very cold and windy days. we're thankful our trees are ok in our backyard, and our power has remained on throughout the week :) i gathered a nice bowl of goodies, and went outside for my nature walk :) our nature friends, and the sunrise sunshine greeted me :)

it's so nice seeing our nature friends, and the sunny nature sights that glow :) We're keeping an eye on the forecast ,we have some light snowfall in our forecast for tomorrow. i put lots of goodies on the bird feeders, and in the bird sanctuary area for our nature friends :) They love their baking friday breakfast feasts :) our winter nature friends are visiting, we see lots of birds and squirrels during winter :) it's very special to us ,getting to put lots of goodies outside for them, and helping them through the wintery cold months of the year, we love our nature friends :) Holly and i put a new suet cake outside yesterday afternoon :) The suet is very popular, our nature friends love it :) We have the suet feeders near our snowfall bush :) We're looking forward to lots more nature walks, and adventures, all throughout the winter season :) Happy sunny Janury nature smiles :)

It was a peaceful early morning :) We enjoyed our breakfast, and having some hot chamomile tea, water, and vanilla iced coffee :) Tiger girl enjoyed her breakfast :) i began to gather our baking friday supplies, football 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 football theme, in spirit of the football playoffs season :) our kitchen looks awesome :) as the morning went on, we put the sports radio on, we love tuning into their friday football preview, of the upcoming weekend's games :) 6 big games this weekend in the wildcard round ,it's gonna be a great weekend of football :) Around mid-day, we enjoyed a nice lunch, and during the early afternoon, i enjoyed some nice time here on DS :)

Around 3pm, Jenn and the kids came over, and Brody and the triplets came over :) lots of great spirited excitement in the air, the new year has settled in, and the winter season is in full swing :)We love our winter time baking friday adventures :) it'sa pure joy, welcoming everyone over for baking friday :) We love these very special tradition :) We're all excited for our adventures throughout the season, and the football playoffs beginning this weekend :) We thought it would be cool this week, to celebrate the super wildcard football playoffs ,to have a football themed baking friday adventure ,and we also have our annual superbowl themed baking friday next week :)We love football, and the excitement this time of the new year brings, football playoffs :)We all gathered in the kitchen :) The kids love to select their spots at the kitchen counter :) The kids, Holly, and i got our picture taken :) it's a special baking friday tradition :) You all are always right there with us in spirit in the kitchen :) my mom takes the picture of us each week :) We love to use our nice baking friday supplies, i wear my nice apron Holly gave me, and we use our nice oven mits, kitchen towels, baking pans, and all of our baking supplies that we've recieved from family and friends over the years :) Our kitchen was all set, and we were ready to bake some nice football goodies :) Calling all cookie monsters :) 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 sugar cookies :) They're one of our favorite goodies to bake over the years :) We bega to add the ingredients into the bowl :) Brody cracked open the egg, he was so proud :) We added some extra butter into the cookie mix, and began to super stir :)we're very proud of the kids, and all that they're learning about baking, and cooking :) we got the cookie dough all set, and ready :) i used butter to grease the baking pans,and we made the cookie dough into football shapes, and put the cookies onto the pans, and i put the cookies into the oven to bake :)

As the cookies were baking, we began to prepare the cupcakes :)We used chocolate cake mix :) Hunter and Carter cracked open the eggs :) We added all of the ingredients into the bowl, and began to super stir :)We w ere sharing lots of smiles, and cheer :) Hunter and Mikey are predicting, the Chiefs to win the superbowl : )They're Chiefs fans :) my mom came out into the kitchen at times, and you all are always right there with us in spirit in the kitchen :) i used butter to grease the cupcakes baking pans, and we poured the cake mix into the baking pans :) the sugar cookies finished baking, i brought the cookis out of the oven to cool down :) i put the cupcakes into the oven to bake :)

We did some cleaning up in the kitchen, and were hanging out :) once the cookies cooled down, we decorated the cookies :) we spread chocolate frosting on the cookies, and then used white frosting to make the football laces on the cookies, the cookies came out great :) i took a picture of the cookies, and we all began to dig in :) The cupcakes finished baking, i brought the cupcakes out of the oven to cool down :) we put the cupcakes onto another pan, and a cool quick cooling trick, is putting the cupcakes into the freezer for about 5 minutes :)they cool down nicely :) we decorated the cupcakes, with chocolate and white frosting :) The cupcakes came out great :) we all began to dig in :) The goodies came out great :)

We had lots of fun baking the cupcakes, and cookies :) i thanked the kids, and Holly for helping bake :) We're looking forward to many more super fun baking friday adventures, all throughout the season :) a very special shoutout for family and friends :) Lots of great baking, and cooking this week :)We love hearing abotu 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 Cupcakes, and Football Sugar Cookies, dedicated to our wonderful family, friends, and to the sweet 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 10th ,2025 :) Happy baking friday everyone :)

It's a sweet day, with baking friday, and the spirit of the season all around :) my family, Holly, and i are doing ok, and continuing with the good care :) it was so much fun baking goodies today :) We love these very special, spirited fun times ,and all of the great memories being made :) the weekend is arriving with lots of great seasonal spirit :) Super wildcard weekend, with lots of football :) We love the weekend's :) Tomorrow, we're gonna go shopping at the dollar tree :) We love shopping there :) We're going to buy some snacks, drinks, and browsing around the seasonal items, hotwheels, and more :) We're gonna stock up on some BBQ chips, and sprite soda :) Holly and i are going to have a fun, popcorn movies party, we picked out some cool movies :) We're also going to watch the Texans vs Chargers and Steelers vs Ravens games :) on sunday, we're going to have a football party, with 3 more playoffs games, Bills vs Broncos, Eagles vs Packers, and Commanders vs Bucs :)

Holly and i are going to cook cheeseburgers, with all of the fixings, lettuce, pickles, ketchup, mustard, and also going to bake fries, also some snacks, and drinks :) We look forward to cheering on our Washington Commanders team on sunday night :) There's also a game on monday night, Rams vs Vikings :) Football playoffs time :) We're very excited for all of the games :) it's gonna be a nice day and weekend :) i look forward to sharing our weekend adventures, and pictures with everyone in my weekend journals :) Holly and i have our table, and living room all decorated for the football playoffs :) Tonight, we're going to watch 2 episodes of Most Haunted show :) Thank you angel friends, for all that you do for us, and for always being here for us :) We appreciate you all very much ,and will always be here for you all too :) Big group caring, happy sunny warm friendship hug :) We wish everyone a nice peaceful evening and night :)

-never lose hope :)

my mom, Holly, and our family says hello :) We hope everyone is doing well, healthy, enjoying a nice day, and a really good baking friday :) We love you all bunches and bunches, our sweet dear wonderful guardian angel friends :) You all are always in our thoughts, prayers, and in our hearts :) We're enjoying sharing in the season with everyone, and all of the seasonal festivities, and traditions :) We wish everyone a healthy, safe, and peaceful weekend :)

Happy baking friday :) Calling all cookie monsters! :) We're ready for some football playoffs :) it's Team Sugar vs Team Frosting :) my family, Holly, and i are enjoying blossoming into the new year with everyone, and sharing in the spirit of the season :) Lots of seasonal festivities, and traditions :) We're very excited for the football playoffs, it's that time in the new year ,with the playoffs season, and the excitement of the games and seeing which teams advance to the superbowl in february :) We're looking forward to cheering on our Washington Commanders team in the playoffs :) We've been looking forward to celebrating the arrival of the playoffs, with baking some football goodies :) We sure do love our baking friday adventure, and sharing our adventures with everyone :) This is a picture of our kitchen all set up and decorated for our super fun adventure :) Today, we're baking football cupcakes, and football themed sugar cookies :) Thank you angel friends, 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 :) A special thank you for Alyssa :) Alyssa went to the stores, and picked up baking friday supplies this week :) it's very nice of her :) We all love to chip in to get the supplies :) We love baking friday, and are very thankful, and blessed to have this very special tradition in our lives :)

Greetings, from our kitchen to yours :) The baking friday team and crew :) The kids, Holly, and i got our picture taken in the kitchen :) it's a very special tradition :) We love welcoming everyone over, for these fun adventures :) You all are always right there with us in spirit, in the kitchen :) it's our favorite tradition :) We love gathering, and sharing lots of smiles with spirited baking friday cheer :) Sweet seasonal winter time baking and cooking :)

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 very proud of the kids, and all that they have learned about baking, and cooking :) They love to help Holly and i in the kitchen :) We love helping teach the kids how to bake and cook goodies and foods :) We love baking friday, and are very excited for a whole new year of fun baking friday adventures all throughout 2025, with many great memories being made :)

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

Football Cupcakes, and Sugar Cookies :) Come on over, for some baking friday goodies :) The kids, Holly,and i had lots of fun baking goodies :) We love these very special, spirited fun times, sharing lots of smiles, and spirited cheer, celebrating the football playoffs, baking friday :)