baking friday :) Onion Pretzels, and Chocolate Chip Cookies :) Blossoming spring time! :)

"Mega Pretzels, and Chocolate Chips!"- my nephew's Hunter, Colby ,Brody, Jacob ,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, Blossoming Spring time themed baking friday adventure in the kitchen! :) this was lots of fun! :)We had the flour flying in the air, and sharing lots of smiles and spirite cheer as we baked goodies ,including our biggest batch of pretzels we've ever baked! :) The pretzels are so popular, we baked 2 pans of the pretzels! :) a mega batch! :) celebrating spring time seasonal spirit and cheer :) 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 Chocolate chip cookies :) We love these very special, spirited fun times, and all of the great memories being made :) the pretzels and cookies are very popular :) After we finished baking, the kids went outside to play,and are enjoying some pretzels, and cookies :) We love baking friday,and looking forward to many more super fun adventures,all throughout the season :) Thank you angel friends, for sharing in this very special tradition with us each week :) Happy baking friday smiles :)

Sweet Blossoming Spring Time! :) Hi angel friends :) my family, Holly ,and i hope everyone is doing well,healthy, and enjoying a wonderful day :) We love hearing from you, and we think of you all often :)We're enjoying sharing in the blossoming spring season with everyone ,and all of the spirit soaring excitement of the seasonal festivities,and traditions that brings lots of joy :) The spirit of the season is all around ,with flowers and trees blossoming ,nature friends out and about, and gardening season beginning :) It brings us lots of great joy getting to share in the season with everyone :) We treasure all of the great memories being made :) We're enjoying our spring time baking friday adventures, with baking, cooking ,grilling, and sharing lots of smiles and spirited cheer :) We're happy and excited to share in many more spirit soaring times with everyone, as the season continues to shine :) Thank you angel friends, for sharing in the season with us, and for all that you do for us :) We appreciate you all, and we love you all bunches and bunches :) Sending our love, super big happy sunny warm caring friendship hugs, and smiles :) Wishing everyone continued joys of the blossoming spring season :)

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 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're enjoying sharing in the week, it's been a great stretch of nice sunny warm days,and lots of spring nature blossoming all around :) we love hearing the birds outside, it feels like sweet classic and golden spring time :) Warm weather, and sunshine :) it's helping the spring nature blossom all around :) We love it :) 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 :) There's lots of nature friends out and about , with the warmer weather :) It's forecasted to be in the low 80's here today :) i gathered a nice bowl of goodies and went outside for my nature walk :) our nature friends,and the nice warm spring weather ,and nature greeted me :) it's been a very nature active week, with lots of blossoming nature, and lots of nature friends visiting :) 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 plants, fruit trees, and flower bushes are doing well, continuing to grow and blossom :) it's a very exciting time in the spring season :) Holly and i are very excited about the garden work and organizin g we did this week,and looking forward to lots more next week, and planting our garden :) nature, and gardening brings us lots of great joy :) Happy sunny spring nature smiles :)

It was a nice 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, 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 nice spring theme :) our kitchen looks great :) it's lots of fun decorating :) around mid-morning, we put our favorite sports radio on :) We love tuning in ,and all of the news about the nfl draft :)We're keeping up with the draft,and also hoping the Celtics have a big win tonight :) Around mid-day, we enjoyed a nice lunch, and during the early afternoon, i enjoyed some time here on DS, and also made some homemade pretzel dough :) it's a very nice, easy recipe :) the dough rises nicely as the afternoon goes on :)

Around 3pm, Jenn and the kids came over, and Brody and the triplets came over :) We love welcoming everyone over, for a super fun baking friday adventure :) The kids had a great Easter vacation last week, and are doing well in school :) it's amazing ,how fast the year is going by, before we know it, it'll be summer vacation time for the kids :) They're enjoying the warmer weather ,and playing outside :) We're having lots of fun enjoying our spring time baking friday adventures, with lots of baking ,cooking, grilling, and sharing in all of the spirited excitement of the season :) 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 goodies :) Spring time baking! :) 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 Onion pretzels :) The dough rised nicely, we had a huge batch of the dough :)we use too use 1 cup of water, and then 2 cups, but today i made the dough with 2 and a half cups of water, our biggest batch of pretzels we've ever made :) i got some water heating up on the stove, for the pretzels :) i sliced the pretzel dough into portions, we made 24 pretzels today :) the pretzels are fun to make :) after the pretels soak in the boiling water for a minute, i use the metal spatula to put the pretzels onto the baking pans :) We filled 2 baking pans with pretzels today :) We melted butter, added in some dried onion, and drizzled the butter/onion on the pretzels, along with more onion flakes, and also made 7 of the everything bagel seasoning pretzels :) i put the pretzels into the oven to bake :)

As the pretzels were baking ,we began to prepare the chocolate chip cookies :) Hunter and Colby were helping Holly and i today,and the other kids were going back and forth, from the kitchen and living room :) We added the ingredients into the bowl, and taste tested the chocolate chips :) We began to super stir the ingredients :) The cookie dough came out great :) i was checking in on the pretzels :) The pretzels were baking nicely :)We were sharing lots of smiles and spirited cheer :) my mom came out into the kitchen at times, and you all are always right there with us in spirit in the kitchen :) The 2 pans of pretzels finished baking ,i brought the pretzels out of the oven to cool down :) We had some pretzels bake soft, and some baked with a crispy pretzel crust :)

We were hanging out, and did some cleaning in the kitchen :) we all began to enjoy some pretzels, they came out great :) The kids went outside to play : )The chocolate chip cookies finished baking ,i brought them out of the oven to cool down :) We brought the plate of cookies outside, the kids were so happy and excited :)We had so much fun baking goodies todya :) 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 abou 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 :) Onion Pretzels, and Chocolate Chip Cookies, dedicated to our wonderful family ,friends, and to the sweet spirit of blossoming spring time :) We love you all, so very very much! :) many great memories made, to always cherish and treasure :) baking friday ,we love it! :) April 25th, 2025 :) Happy baking friday everyone :)

We're enjoying a sweet day :) baking friday, and sweet spring time spirit :) 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 time and all of the great memories being made :) The spirit of spring is all around, as the season continues to blossom :) The weekend is arriving with lots of seasonal spirit :)We love the weekend's :) Tomorrow, we're gonna go shopping at the dollar tree :)We love browsing around the store :)We're going to buy some treats for Tiger girl, plus some snacks, drinks, writing supplies, and browsing around at the hotwheels, and seasonal items :) It's gonna be lots of fun shopping :) Holly and i are going to have a fun ,popcorn movies party :) We picked out some cool movies, and going to watch a new movie on saturday night :) on sunday, we're going to have a TWD party, and also going to spend some time in our yard, and garden :) it's gonna be a nice weekend :) i look forward to sharing our weekend adventures, and picture with everyone in my weekend journals :) There's lots to look forward too :) Tonight, Holly and i are going to watch some episodes of most haunted show :)We love our fun, friday night paranormal party night's :) Thank you angel friends, for always being here for us, and for the special joy you all bring 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 wonderful day, and a really good baking friday :) We love you all bunches and bunches, our sweet dear wonderful guardian angel friends :)We're enjoying a very special time, sharing in the blossoming spring season with everyone :) the spirit of the season is all around, with lots more great things to look f orward too :) We wish everyone a healthy, safe, and peaceful weekend :)

Happy baking friday :) Calling all cookie monsters! :) it's sweet blossoming spring time :) my family ,Holly, and i are enjoying a very special time sharing in the spring season with everyone ,and all of the seasonal festivities, and traditions that makes the season a very special one :) Lots of beautiful spring nature blossoming :) We love the spirit of the season :) We're celebrating blossoming spring season, with some super fun adventures :)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 Onion Pretzels, and Chocolate Chip 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 spring time kitchen to yours :) The baking friday 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 seasonal 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 baking and cooking :) Spring time is here! :)

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 :) plus our spring/summer grilling foods :) we're so happy the kids love to help pick the baking friday menu :) We love baking friday, and are very excited for a whole spring season of baking friday fun, with many great memories being made :)

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

Onion Pretzels, and Chocolate Chip Cookies :)Come on over, for some baking friday goodies! :) The kids, Holly ,and i had lots of fun baking goodies :)We're having lots of fun enjoying our spring time adventures :) Sharing lots of smiles, and spirited cheer :) baking friday :)

Second pan of pretzels :)