baking friday :) Onion Bagels, and Football Cupcakes :) Seasonal Cheer! :)

"We love chocolate frosting cupcakes!"- my nephew's Mikey, Hunter, Jacob, Brayden, and Colby said that today, during baking friday! :)

baking friday! :) calling all cookie monsters! :) hehe! :) cookie monsters! :) hehe! :) cookie monsters unite!!! :) it's bakign friday!!! :) oh my! :) a super fun, flour flying, football themed baking friday adventure in the kitchen!!! :) this was so much fun!!! :) celebrating sweet seasonal cheer, and had the flour flying in the air like footballs, as we baked up some awesome goodies today! :) We're getting ready for the football playoffs this weekend, and continued joys of the blossoming new year :) my sister Jenn was ready for an onion bagel, hot right out of the oven! :) 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, Alyssa, the kids, and i baked some onion bagels, and football cupcakes :) it was so much fun! :) the goodies are going very fast! :) hehe! :) We're cookie monsters! :) we love these awesome times :) We're so excited, for all of the seasonal cheer :) Kayla helped the kids crack open the eggs today! :) awww! :) We're having an awesome day, and loving the spirited excitement in the air :) The goodies are flying fast out of the kitchen, like a football flying fast in the air! :) it's football time! :) foods, snacks, drinks, and spirited cheer, with family and friends :)

Awesome times of the month of January! :) Hi angel friends! :) my family, Holly, and i hope everyone is doing well, and enjoying a beautiful day :) We're so happy and excited, for all of the great things going on, and many special memories being made :) The month of January, and the new year is settling in, with lots of great spirit and excitement :) we love celebrating the times of the season with you and your family's :) We're getting ready for an awesome football weekend, with 4 big divisional round football games, with the winners advancing to the historic, and classic championship sunday next week :) We're looking forward to celebrating the big games, and upcoming superbowl :) the month of January is in full swing :) We're so happy, thankful, and blessed, to have you and your family's in our lives, and to be able to share in, and celebrate special times with everyone :) We're enjoying an awesome start to the new year, and our baking friday adventures of 2020 :)

This morning, we had a sweet 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 them, your lovely happy baking friday wishes :) You all are so nice, and sweet :) Thank you angel friends, so very much :) We've been looking forward to baking some goodies :) this very special tradition brings our hearts lots of joy :) we love cupcakes, and bagels, and since the onion pretzels are very popular, we thought it would be awesome to bake some onion bagels :) We love the awesome joys of baking :) We've been getting some great use, from our new baking friday supplies we recieved for Christmas :) Jenn and family are so happy we used our peanut butter cookie sandwich baking pan last week :) It's an awesome joy, getting the kitchen cozy warm, and baking some nice wintery time treats :) With football playoffs in full swing, we thought it would be a great time to bake some football cupcakes :)

As the morning was blossoming, i gathered a big bowl of goodies, and went outside for my early morning nature walk :) i put the goodies in our backyard, for our nature friends :) they love their baking friday breakfast feasts :) awww! :) it's gonna be getting warmer outside here, this weekend, it could reach 60 degrees, which is an amazing high temperature, for this time of the year. :) i heard some happy bluejays outside our window this morning :) it's been very nature active outside, with lots of our nature friends visiting :) we're only a couple months away from spring time :) it's incredible :) We love the months, and seasons, and all of the times we get to share with everyone as the year goes on :)

It was a sweet peaceful, and spirited morning :) we enjoyed a nice brreakfast, and had some iced coffees :) cheers!!! :) it's been a wonderful stretch of days, and we've been counting down to our baking friday adventure, and football weekend :) i began to gather our baking friday supplies, and decorations, and went out into our kitchen, to begin to set up and decorate our kitchen, for our super fun adventure :) Today, i decorated with a cool football theme :) our kitchen looked awesome! :) we love our football decorations :) in the upcoming week's, we'll be having our annual superbowl themed baking friday adventure :) around late morning, we prepared a nice lunch, and during the early afternoon, i enjoyed some nice time here on DS, writing to friends :)

Around 3pm, Alyssa and the kids came over, and Jenn and Mike and the kids came over :) Jenn and Mike had some errands to run :) We were all gathering around, lots of great spirit, and excitement in the air :) We love these special times :) We got our picture taken in the kitchen :) You all are always right there with us in spirit, during these times :) We're loving our new year's baking friday adventures :) the kids are enjoying a great start to the 2nd half of the school year :) we're so proud of them :) they love to count down to our baking friday adventures each week :) when they come over on monday or tuesday, wednesday, they count the days :) awww! :) 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 get the flour flying in the air in the kitchen :) 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 chocolate cupcakes :) baking friday teamwork! :) Kayla helped teach the kids how to crack open the eggs :) i said to the kids, "Kayla cracked open her first egg, when she was 6 years old" :) awww! :) Kayla joins in on the baking friday fun from time to time :) We all love this awesome spirited fun tradition :) the kids get so proud, when they add the ingredients to the bowl, and super stirring :) we were sharing lots of smiles :) the kids are learning a lot about baking :) we're very proud of them :) Alyssa brought Brodie out into the kitchen :) he's gonna be a baker in training soon :) aww! :)

We used vegetable oil to grease the cupcakes baking pan, and then added the cake mix into the baking pan :) the kids were doing awesome :) in recent weeks, it's gotten very wild in the kitchen at times, and today the kids were all in tune, and it was a much more peaceful atmosphere than in recent weeks, it's so nice, the great organization times when we bake, and everyone is happy :) We love these spirited times :) baking friday! :) woot!!! :) i put the cupcakes into the oven to bake :) We did some cleaning up in the kitchen, and got ready to bake the bagels :)

Earlier, i prepared some onion bagel dough :) here's the recipe :) 1 cup of water, 1 packet of yeast. 2 tablespoons of white sugar, a pinch of salt, onion flakes, and then adding/stirring in flour, until it became a really nice dough :) i put the dough into the fridge to rise :) The dough has rised nicely :) i cut the dough into portions, and we then made each portion of dough, into a short rope shape, and then put the dough into a circle, and pinched the dough around to connect it into a bagel shape :) We made a plateful of bagels :) i had some water heating up on the stove, and we put the bagels into the water, one at a time :) We were doing awesome :) my mom came out into the kitchen at times today :)

i used butter to grease the baking pan, and put the bagels into the pan :) we then melted butter, and added onion flakes into the melted butter, and we drizzled the melted butter/onion flakes onto the bagels, added more onion flakes on top, and i put garlic powder on top of one of the bagels for Holly :) The cupcakes had finished baking, i brought them out of the oven to cool down :) i then put the bagels into the oven to bake :)

We were all hanging out, doing some cleaning up in the kitchen :) once the cupcakes finished cooling down, it was time to decorate them :) we made football themed cupcakes, using the chocolate frosting, and white frosting to make the football laces on the cupcakes :) the cupcakes came out great :) the bagels finished baking, Jenn and Mike returned from doing errands, Jenn saw me bringing the bagels out of the oven, and she wanted the first onion bagel :) she was so happy to pick the first bagel :) i took pictures of the cupcakes, and bagels, and all began to continue to dig in, enjoying the goodies :)

The onion bagels, and football cupcakes came out great :) We had so much fun baking goodies :) We'll definitely bake lots more goodies :) We're already getting some requests to bake some more onion bagels :) awesome! :) i thanked Alyssa, and the kids for helping bake :) We had so much fun baking the goodies, and are looking forward to many 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 :) i wish we all could gather and have a big baking friday picnic :) Onion Bagels, and Football Cupcakes, dedicated to our wonderful family, friends, and 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 10th, 2020 :) Happy baking friday everyone! :)

We're enjoying an awesome day! :) baking friday! :) blossoming into the football weekend! :) we love it!!! :) my family, Holly, and i are doing well, and are in great spirits :) There's lots of great things going on, and many special memories being made :) the weeknd is arriving with lots of awesome spirit :) tomorrow's my 13th anniversary of being here on DS :) i'm so excited to celebrate with everyone :) it's been a wonderful stretch of days, with special times being shared, with family, friends, and nature :) we're loving the spirit of the season :) Tomorrow, we're going to go shopping at the dollar tree :) We love shopping there :) We're going to buy some gifts, cards, and snacks :) i'm going to do some writing this weekend :) we're also going to have some football party's :) 2 big games on saturday and 2 big games on sunday :) football!!! :) We're going to enjoy some foods, snacks, and drinks :) it's gonna be an awesome weekend :) i 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 :) tonight , Holly and i are going to watch 2 episodes of most haunted :) we love our friday night, paranormal party night's :) Thank you angel friends, so very much, for all that you do for us, and for brightening our days :) 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 sunny friendship hug :) We hope everyone enjoys a wonderful weekend :)

-never lose hope :)

To Wildthing, Peaceful Gentle Moments of the day :) Wildthing, it's an awesome day :) today, Alyssa, the kids, and i baked onion bagels, and cupcakes with frosting, for baking friday :) we're very excited for a spirited fun weekend, shopping, and football party's :) thinking of you, our dear friend :)

my mom says hi :) She says, "i hope everyone is having a really good baking friday" :) Awww! :) We love you all bunches and bunches, our sweet dear wonderful guardian angel friends :) We hope everyone is doing well, and enjoying an awesome day :) we wish everyone, a wonderfully safe, fun, and happy weekend :) We think of you and your family's often, and are so happy and excited, to celebrate many more special times with everyone :) happy weekend! :)

Happy baking friday!!! :) calling all cookie monsters, and football fans! :) We're celebrating the awesome joys of january! :) my family, Holly, and i are so happy and excited! :) The month of January is in full swing, the new year is blossoming, and we're into the winter time baking :) we love baking lots of goodies, especially during winter season :) The NFL playoffs are currently going on, with 4 games this weekend :) We look forward to the games, and seeing which teams advance :) football party's! :) We love celebrating and sharing in all of these awesome times with you and your family's :) 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 football cupcakes, and onion bagels :) it's so much fun decorating our kitchen with themes :) Everyone who is watching football this weekend, we hope everyone enjoys the games :) The Superbowl is coming up soon :) 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 dear and lovely mom, dad, and niece Alyssa :) they went shopping and picked up baking friday supplies :) it's very nice, and sweet of them :) Thank you mom, dad, and Alyssa, so very much! :) We all love to chip in each week, to get the baking friday supplies :) We love this very special traditon in our lives :)

Greetings, from our hearts, home, and kitchen to yours! :) The kids and i got our picture taken in the kitchen today :) it's a cool baking friday tradition :) You all are always right there with us in spirit in our kitchen :) lots of awesome spirit, and baking friday excitement :) we love it! :) Happy baking friday smiles! :)

Baking friday teamwork! :) preparing the goodies! :) the kids love to help :) they're great helpers :) They love adding the ingredients, super stirring, and of course, enjoying the goodies we bake :) Sharing lots of baking friday smiles ;) We're loving blossoming into the new year, with baking fiday adventures :)

Onion Bagels and Football Cupcakes! :) Come on over, for some baking friday goodies! :) Alyssa, the kids, and i had a super fun time baking goodies :) We love these special times, and all of the great joys, as the new year continues to blossom :) We're so happy and excited to share in, and celebrate many more times :) football playoffs, new year fun! baking friday :)