baking friday :) Onion Pretzels, and Brownies :) Fall Season Spirit in the air :)

"lets bake double the brownies!"-my nephew's Hunter, Brayden, Carter, Brody, Jacob, Colby, 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, classic fall season themed baking friday adventure in the kitchen! :) this was so much fun! :) We had some flour flying in the air, and sharing smiles, and seasonal cheer as we baked some goodies today :) The spirit of the fall season is all around :) 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 onion pretzels, and brownies :) it was lots of fun : )We love baking friday,and sharing our adventures, sharing in seasonal times, with this very special tradition we look forward too each week :)We're enjoying our fall season baking friday's, and looking forward to baking lots more goodies :) The goodies are very popular :) the kids went outside today, after baking goodies :) They're having fun enjoying the nice outdoors, fall season weather, and playing with their friends :)

Classic Fall Season Spirit in the air :) Hi angel friends :) my family, Holly, and i hope everyone is doing well, healthy,and enjoying a peaceful day :) We think of you all often, and love hearing from you : )The fall season is in full swing, with the season blossoming, lots of beautiful fall foliage, trees changing colors, and cool crisp air :) We love the spirit of the season, and all of the fall season festivities, and traditions that makes the season very special, and memorable, sharing in the season with family and friends :) We love fall season baking, it's one of our favorite joys :) We love welcoming family over, and friends with us in spirit :) As the weather's been getting chilly, it's a great time to bake some goodies, and cooking meals :) We have a whole season of fun baking friday adventures to enjoy :) We love counting down the days until it's time to bake :) We're very thankful, and blessed to have the baking friday tradition in our lives :) Thank you angel friends, for sharing in this very special tradition with us each week, and thank you all for your continued comforting and uplifting love, care, prayers, and support :) We deeply appreciate everything, with all of the love of our hearts :) We love you all bunches and bunches! :) Wishing everyone continued peaceful joys of the season, and month of October :) Happy friendship smiles :)

This morning, we had a peaceful new fall season day, rising and shining :) a very special friday tradition i love very much, is wishing Holly, our family, and our 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 a fun baking friday adventure :) The spirit of the fall season is all around :) it was a big nature evening and night, yesterday, i'd love to share about :) We went outside after 7pm, to see the northern lights :) it's a big nature event :) our sky was glowing red in many areas, and had streaks of red color in the sky ,it was absolutely amazing :) We were on our front steps, and also by the snowball bush :) it was very neat, seeing the northern lights :) it's first time we've seen the northern lights :) We were amazed by the sky, and also saw some stars too :) We're happy we got a chance to see the northern lights :) 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 fall season is blossoming, with lots of leaves, and trees changing colors :) We love the fall season, and all of the nature sights the season brings :) i gathered a nice bowl of goodies, and also wore my light jacket, as it was in the 30's here this morning, about 37 degrees. very chilly, and feels like classic fall season mornings :) i went outside for my nature walk :) our nature friends, and the october sunshine greeted me :) i love those golden warm beams of sunshine, as the glow upon the nature all around :) 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 :) We're happy our nature friends are enjoying visting our yard, and enjoying lots of goodies we put outside for them :) Our october flowers are doing well, we thankfully didn't recieve a frost/freeze here. We have our pumpkins to pick soon, and lots of morning glory flowers, roses, marigolds, cosmos, and more, blossoming :) We're enjoying the rest of the gardening season to the fullest, and planning to organize our garden areas in november, for next season :) It's so nice seeing the flowers blossoming, and the flowers enjoying the sunshine :) Holly and i look forward to lots more nature walks, all throughout the fall season :)

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, and had some treat :) i began to gather our baking friday supplies, kitchen decorations, and went out into our kitchen to begin setting upand decorating our kitchen, for our super fun adventure :) Today, i decorated with a fall season spirit theme :) our kitchen looks very nice :) it's fun decorating, it's a very special part of the baking friday tradition :) After decorating the kitchen, my mom, dad, Holly, and i enjoyed a car ride to the post office :) Holly had some important documents to ship, to get a copy of her birth certificate, so that she can get her photo ID renewed in the very near future :) We saw the ducks in the peaceful pond, and also saw lots of pumpkins at malerba's farm :) it was nice going to the post office, and seeing the beautiful nature sights, the trees changing colors, and the peaceful pond :) We look forward to going to the post office again in the very near future :) when we arrived home ,we put the sports radio on, we love tuning into all of the sports talk :) we look forward to a nice football sunday with lots of great games :) Around mid-day, we enjoyed a nice lunch, and during the early afternoon ,i enjoyed some nice time here on DS, and also match a big batch of pretzel dough, so that the dough could rise throughout the afternoon :)

After 3pm, Jenn and the kids came over, and the triplets and Brody came over :) We love welcoming everyone over for a fun baking friday adventure :) We're so glad, and thankful everyone came over, and us all gathering to bake goodies today, for a classic baking friday adventure :) We're having our annual fall season baking, and going to mix in some halloween baking in the upcoming weeks as we get closer to to the halloween holiday :) the kids are very excited, as they love halloween, and looking forward to trick or treating :) The spirit of the season is all around :) 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 :) We love to use our nice baking friday supplies, i wear my apron Holly gave me, and we use our nice oven mits ,kitchen towels, baking pans, and all of our supplies that we've recieved from family and friends over the years :) Our kitchen was all set, and we were ready to bake som goodies :) Calling all cookie monsters :) It's time to bake! bake! bake! :)

We began our super fun adventure :) baking friday teamwork :) We first began to prepare the brownies :) they're one of our favorite treats we bake :) the kids love to help,they're great helpers :) all of the kids were taking turns helping today :)Hunter and Jacob cracked open the eggs, Holly added the water, i added in the vegetable oil, and all of us were helping super stir the ingredients :) We were sharing smiles :) my mom and Jenn came out into the kitchen at times, and you all are always right there with us in spirit :) we love these very special, spirited fun times :) i used vegetable oil to grease the baking pan,and we poured the brownies mix into the pan, and i put the brownies into the oven to bake :)

We prepared the onion pretzels :) The pretzel dough had rised nicely throughout the afternoon :) i sliced the pretzel dough into portions, and we made the dough into nice pretzel shapes :) on the stove, i got some watering heating up on the cooking pot,and put the pretzels into the water, about 3 or 4 pretzels in the water at one time :) the water helps make the pretzels get bigger :) i used a metal spatula to put the pretzels onto a butter greased baking pan : )We melted butter in the measuring cup, and added dried onion flakes into the butter, and drizzled the butter/onion flakes onto the pretzels, along with some more onion flakes, plus some everything bagel seasoning for my mom's pretzels, she loves everything bagel seasoning :) i put the first pan of pretzels into the oven to bake :)

The goodies were baking nicely : )we did some cleaning up in the kitchen :) The brownies finished baking, i brought the brownies out of the oven to cool down :) i put another pan of pretzels into the oven to bake :) we love the scent of brownies, and onion pretzels :) These are 2 of our favorite treats/foods :) the pretzels baked nicely, i brought the pretzels out of the oven :) the brownies cooled down, i sliced the brownies, and took a picture of the goodies, and we all began to dig in :) The brownies and pretzels came out great :) i thanked the kids, and Holly for helping bake :) We look 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 the kitchens :) This is lots of fun,and very special :) i wish we all could gather, and have a big baking friday picnic :) Onion Pretzels, and Brownies, dedicated to our wonderful family, friends, and to the sweet spirit of the fall season :) We love you all, so very very much :) many great memories made, to always cherish and treasure :) baking friday, we love it! :) October 11th, 2024 :) Happy baking friday everyone :)

We brought my brother Charlie home today <3 we feel comforted, knowing he's home here, surrounded by family, love, and peace <3 my mom and dad have set up a very special memorial shelves in our addition, with Charlie's belongings, collectibles, keepsakes from his home, and his urn is on the shelve <3 We selected a wooden urn, with a beautiful tree and birds design. We'll forever be grateful, thankful, blessed, and appreciative of everyone's very special love, care, prayers, support, donations, contributions, to the gofundme page, everything, it all helps so very much,and has helped bring Charlie home here with us <3 Thank you all, our dear angel friends <3 Charlie will always be here with us, forever in our hearts, surrounded by family, love, and peace <3

It's a good day,baking friday, and spirit of the fall season :) my family, Holly ,and i are doing ok, and continuing with the good care :) it was so nice baking goodies today :) We love having classic baking friday adventures, family coming over, and sharing our adventure with friends :) We look forward to many more fun baking friday adventures :) We're so glad,my brother Charlie is home here with us, surrounded by family, love, and peace <3 We're very thankful for a peaceful stretch of days, and looking forward to blossoming into the weekend, with continued joys of the fall season :) 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, some gifts for Holly, plus some foods, snacks, drinks, and browsing at the seasonal items :) i look forward to sharing about our shopping adventure :) Holly and i are going to have a popcorn movies party, watching some cool movies, and gonna pick out a new movie to watch on saturday night :)

On sunday, we're going to watch football :) We love football sunday's :) We're going to prepare some nice foods, snacks, drinks, and watching football :) We're going to watch the Commanders vs Ravens game, and Patriots vs Texans games :) i look forward to sharing our weekend and pictures with everyone in my weekend journals :) Tonight, Holly and i are going to watch some shows :) Thank you angel friends, for always being there for us, for your comforting and uplifting love, care, prayers, and support :) it means the world to us :) We'll always be here for you too :) We deeply appreciate everything, with all of the love of our hearts :) Big group caring, happy sunny friendship hug :) We wish everyone a peaceful evening and night :)

-never lose hope :)

my mom, Holly, and our family says hello :) We hope everyone is doing well, healthy,and enjoying a peaceful day, and a really good baking friday :) We love you all bunches and bunches, our sweet dear wonderful guardian angel friends :) We think of you all often :) We're looking forward to sharing in many more times of the season with everyone :) We wish everyone a healthy, safe, and peaceful weekend :)

Happy baking friday! :) calling all cookie monsters! :) We're enjoying the fall season spirit, and baking some of our favorite goodies :) my family, Holly,and i love the baking friday tradition :) it's very special to us, welcoming family over, and our dear friends with us in spirit in the kitchen :) the fall season has settled in nicely, with chilly crisp air, trees changing colors, and that classic fall season spiit all around :) We love fall, and the joy the season brings :) We sure do love our baking friday adventures, and sharing our adventures with everyone :) We love to count down the days until it's time to bake :) Thank you all, for sharing in this very special tradition with us each week :) This is a picture of our kitchen all set up, and decorated for our adventure :) Today, the kids, Holly, and i are baking brownies, and onion pretzels, 2 of our favorite goodies :) Thank you angel friends, for joining us in our kitchen each week, and for welcoming us into your kitchens :) This is lots of fun and very special :) calling all cookie monsters :) it's time to bake! bake! bake! :)

A special thank you for Alyssa :) She picked up baking friday supplies this week :) it's very nice of her :) We love baking friday, and are very thankful, and blessed to have this very special tradition in our lives :)

Greetings, from our fall season kitchen to yours :) The baking friday crew gathered today :) 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 :) We love gathering, and sharing lots of smiles with baking friday cheer :)

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 look forward to many more fun adventures, a whole fall season of baking friday fun :)

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

Pretzel dough :) 

Onion Pretzels, and Brownies :) Come on over, for some baking friday goodies :) the kids, Holly,and i had a fun time baking goodies :) enjoying our fall season baking friday's,.sharing lots of smiles, and seasonal cheer, baking friday :)