baking friday :) Homemade Potato Chips, and Chocolate Chip Cookies! :)

"We love these chips!" :) -my nephew's Colby, Brayden, Jacob, and Brody 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, Potato Chips sweet golden days of spring time themed baking friday adventure in the kitchen!!! :) This was so much fun! :)we had the flour flying in the air in the kitchen, and cooking lots of potato chips, and baking some nice goodies :) The spirit of the season is all around, with the golden days of spring time here :) 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 chip cookies, and made homemade potato chips :) it was so much fun! :) We love these very special,spirited fun times, and all of the great memories being made :) celebrating a sweet spring time of baking friday fun, as we get ready to countdown to summer season soon :) We're having so much fun enjoying our adventures, and today made one of our favorite and most popular goodies, potato chips :) The kids were ordering up the chips, 2nd and 3rd helpings! :)awesome! :) Holly and i each had a plate of chips too :) Sharing lots of smiles, and spirited cheer! :) Happy baking friday smiles :)



It's Potato Chips Time!!! :) Hi angel friends! :) greetings from our kitchen on this sweet spring day! :) my family, Holly, and i hope everyone is doing well, healthy, and enjoying a wonderful day :) We think of you all often ,and are very heart happy and excited, sharing in and celebrating these golden days of spring season with everyone ,with lots of seasonal festivities, and traditions that makes the season so much fun and very memorable with lots of great memories being made :) We're very happy and excited about lots of great things going on, with the golden days of spring season here, and the countdown to summer season beginning next month :) We love sharing in and celebrating the season with you all, our dear angel friends :) We're enjoying a super fun time ,enjoying our spring baking friday adventures, and sharing our adventures with everyone :) the kids have been looking forward to us making homemade potato chips :) The chips have become one of the most popular goodies we make :) the kids love the chips, with vinegar and salt :) We always use the whole 5 pounds of potatoes to make the chips :) We love when the kids help select the menu for baking friday :) Thank you angel friends, for sharing in this very special tradition with us each week and for making each day very special and memorable :) Wishing everyone continued joys of the season :) 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 :) awww! :) Thank you angel friends, so very much! :) We've been looking forward to our super fun adventure :) It's been a great stretch of days, and lots of nature blossoming all around, with flowers, trees,and more :) it's a very exciting time in the season, we're very happy and excited our garden is coming along ,flourishing :) 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 rain eased overnight,and is clear today :) i gathered a nice bowl of goodies, and went outside for my nature walk :) the replenished nature greeted me :) it's amazing ,how much the plants ,trees, and nature has grown, and with the sunshine returning, lots of spirit soaring growing, and glowing nature all around :) i put lots of goodies in our backyard, and in the bird sanctuary area for our nature friends :) They love their baking friday breakfast feasts :) aww! :)



We've been seeing lots of happy birds all around ,and hearing mockingbirds : )they sing and sing happily :) The spirit of the nature energy is incredible, especially during these golden days of the spring season :) Our plants ,fruit trees ,and flowers are doing well, growing and flourishing along with our raspberry bushes ,and grapevines :) our azalea flower bush is in full bloom, and our roses will be blossoming in June with the countdown to summer season :) we have snap peas sprouts, and all of our cucumber sprouts, zuchinni, and yellow squash sprouts in our greenhouse :) Holly and i are looking forward to planting our sunflowers, and flowers seeds :) There's lots of super fun gardening adventures to look forward too :) Happy spring nature smiles :)



It was a sweet spirited early morning :) we enjoyed our breakfast, and having some hot chamomile tea, water, 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 with a golden days of spring season theme :) our kitchen looks awesome! :) it's so much fun decorating :) As the morning went on ,we put the sports radio on, we love tuning into all of the sports talk :) The Celtics have a game on either sunday or tuesday ,for game 1 of the eastern conference finals in the nba playoffs :) go Celtics! :) Around mid-day, we enjoyed a nice lunch, and during the early afternoon, i enjoyed some nice time here on DS, and also went out into the kitchen to wash and slice potatoes into the shapes of potato chips :)



Around 3pm, triplets and Brody came over :) Jenn and family had a busy afternoon, and were with us in spirit :) Lots of great spirited excitement in the air, with the golden days of spring time here :) The kids are so happy and excited, we're making homemade potato chips today :) the chips are one of the most popular goodies we make :) The kids love the chips with vinegar and salt :) The kids have been enjoying some great adventures, including playing outside, spring baseball, and also enjoying their favorite video games :) they're all very excited about completing the school year in the upcoming weeks, and beginning a summer of fun adventures :) We look forward to all of our classic, summer time baking friday's, with lots of baking, cooking, and grilling :) 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 :) It's a cool baking friday tradition :) You all are always right there with us in spirit :) Each week, we love to use our nice baking friday supplies, that we've recieved from family and friends over the years :) i wear my nice apron that Holly gave me, and we use our nice oven mitts, kitchen towels, and all of our baking supplies are a big part of our baking ,and cooking each week :) Our kitchen was all set, and we were ready to bake some sweet 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! :) Today,all of the triplets, and Brody helped Holly and i :) We first began to prepare the chocolate chip cookies :) They're one of our favorite goodies :) We began to add the ingredients into the bowl :) The kids love to add in the ingredients, we also taste tested th chocolate chips :) We love chocolate chips :) We added in some extra melted butter :) We were talking about the upcoming summer season, the kids finish the school year soon, and are looking forward to summer time :) we've got lots of happy countdown to summer season themed baking friday adventures to look forward too :) We super stirred the cookie ingredients :) my mom cameout into the kitchen at times, and you all are always right there with us in spirit :) We were sharing lots of smiles, and great baking friday cheer! :) We love these awesome times :) i used butter to grease the baking pans,and we made the cookie dough into round shapes, and i put the first pans of cookies into the oven to bake :)



As the cookies were baking,we did some cleaning in the kitchen :) on the back of the stove, i had the frylater/deep fryer going :) i was adding potato chips into it, and made lots of potato chips for the first batch :) We were all hanging out :) The kids were ordering some plates of chips :) Holly and i got some plates for them, and added the chips onto the plates :) We then helped the kids put vinegar,and salt on top of the chips :) they love vinegar and salt :) We were making lots of potato chips, while the cookies continued to bake :) the kids had 2nd, and 3rd helpings of chips :) Holly and i each had a plate of chips too :) i like to put old bay seasoning on my chips :) The chocolate chip cookies finished baking, i brought the cookies out of the oven to cool down, the cookies baked nicely :)



We made some more potato chips, and then began to have some chocolate chips :) The cookies, and chips came out great! :) We'll definitely make lots more :) We had so much fun baking and cooking today :) i thanked the kids, and Holly for helping bake, and cook :) We're looking forward to lots more super fun baking friday adventures :) 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 :) Potato Chips, and Chocolate Chip cookies, dedicated to our wonderful family, friends, 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!!! :) May 17th, 2024 :) Happy baking friday everyone! :)



We're enjoying an awesome day! :) baking friday! :) sweet spring time spirit! :) 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 :) The weekend is arriving with lots of awesome spring time spirit :) We're very happy and excited! :) 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 treats for Tiger, also some foods, snacks, candy, drinks, and gonna browse at the hotwheels, dvds, and seasonal items :) It's fun browsing around the store :) Holly and i are going to have a fun, popcorn movies party tomorrow :) We picked out some cool movies to watch, and going to watch a new movie on saturday night :) We're also going to do some gardening, keeping up with the sports, and watching TWD dvds on sunday :) it's going to be a great weekend :) i look forward to sharing our weekend adventures, and pictures 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 :) Wishing everyone a great weekend :)



There's so much more to look forward too, as the month of May and the spring season continues on :) Flowers sprouting, and blossoming, and that classic spring time spirit :) Spring 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 season with everyone :) the nba playoffs in full swing :) Lets Go Celtics! :) 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 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 day! :) Today, the kids, Holly ,and i had a fun time baking chocolate chip cookies, and homemade potato chips 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 blossom into the weekend, with shopping, movies, gardening, and sports :) The spirit of the spring season is all around :) Thinking of you, our dear friend :)



my mom, Holly,and family says hello :) We hope everyeone is doing well, healthy, enjoying a wonderful day ,and a really good baking friday :) awww! :) 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 a very special time, sharing in and celebrating these golden days of the spring season with everyone :) Thank you angel friends, for making each day very special, and memorable :) We wish everyone a healthy, safe, and peaceful weekend :)



Happy baking friday! :) Calling all cookie monsters! :) it's the sweet classic and golden days of spring time! :) my family, Holly, and i are very happy and excited! :) We're enjoying a very special, and super fun time sharing in and celebrating the spirit of spring season with everyone, and all of the seasonal festivities, and traditions that makes the season very special, and memorable :) There's so much to enjoy this time of the year :) We love baking friday, and all of the great joy it brings us each week, getting to share our adventures, baking, cooking, and grilling :)We sure do love our baking friday adventures, 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 chocolate chip cookies, and making homemade potato chips :) 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! :) 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 went shopping this week and picked up baking friday supplies :) it's very nice and sweet of her :) Thank you Alyssa, so very much! :) We appreciate all of the nice baking friday supplies she gets for us all :) We all love to chip in each week, to get the baking friday supplies :) We love this very special tradition in our lives :)
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Greetings, from our 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 thankful to have the baking friday tradition in our lives :) We look forward to baking each week :) We love seasonal baking, cooking, spring/summer grilling, and looking forward to lots more adventures all throughout the seasons :) We're so happy and excited, for all of our spirited fun, Spring time baking friday adventures :) Baking, Grilling, and Cooking! :)
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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 and cook :) We're so proud of the kids, and all that they're learning about baking, and cooking :) We love when the kids help select the goodies for the baking friday menu :) We're very happy and excited for all of our baking friday adventures each month, all throughout the year :) Sharing lots of smiles, and spirited baking friday cheer :)
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The kids and Holly love to make funny faces! :) hehe! :)
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Homemade Potato chips and Chocolate Chip Cookies! :)Come on over, for some baking friday goodies! :) The kids, Holly, and i had lots of fun baking and cooking today :) We're loving our spring time adventures,and all of the excitement building up to the countdown to summer season soon :) Sharing lots of smiles ,and spirited cheer :) baking friday :)
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Replies

CoolGal
CoolGal

Hi Chris Glad you Holly and your family are doing well and enjoyed baking. So nice the boys and you and Holly had a fun time. The chips and cookies look great. Your kitchen decorations look so nice with a Spring theme. I know you're looking forward to a great weekend with shopping and your movies and shows. Thanks for all my nice hugs today Have a good evening. Hugs to all there-Stephanie
Lilysawyer
Lilysawyer

oh boy what a great day you guys had. The cookies and chips look so delicious. Have a fun Sat. Dollar store and movie Sat. Hugs
gratefulgrandma123
gratefulgrandma123

Nice pictures sweet Chris. Everything looks great. I love how u cut the potatoes. I hope u all enjoy and happy baking Friday. Hugs and love
JeanCarlin
JeanCarlin

Always enjoy seeing your baking Friday pics, you and Holly and the boys always seem to be having so much fun and your goodies always look yummy.
I hope you and Holly enjoy your shopping trip to the dollar tree today and your movie marathon tonight. Take care and have a really good weekend.. hugs Jeannie
Squarley
Squarley

Hello my baking team loved the pictures the table was set up beautifully the chips and cookies are overwhelming I want one so bad love sharing your cooking days of baking and birthdays and everything everybody look good and happy smiling just warms my heart Bruce loves looking at the pictures he said to say a big hello this is a busy weekend with Bruce working in betting on the race and hoping to go see my brother in so we hope you all are doing well we send our love and lots of hugs and looking forward to the next baking day love you all!