baking friday :) Onion Pretzels, and Chocolate Chip Cookies :) Spring time spirit! :)
"we love these baked goodies!"- my nephew's Hunter, Jacob, Brody, Jacob, Brayden, Mikey, and Carter 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, 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 sharing lots of smiles and spirited cheer as we baked some awesome goodies :) We made a double batch of onion pretzels, they're one of the most popular goodies we bake :) We're loving our spring time baking friday's, and very excited for lots more adventures all throughout the season :) Sharing lots of smiles, and spirited 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 :) it was lots of fun :) We love these very special, spirited fun times, and all of the great memories being made :) the goodies are very popular :) We may begin to make a triple batch of onion pretzel dough! :) We love the pretzels, and all of the goodies :) Thank you angel friends, for sharing in this very special tradition with us each week :) Happy baking friday smiles :)
Sweet Spring Time Baking! :) Hi angel friends :) my family, Holly, and i hope everyone is doing well, healthy, and enjoying a great day :) We love hearing from you, and we think of you all often :) We're enjoying a special time sharing in the blossoming of the spring season with everyone ,with all of the seasonal festivities, and traditions :) lots of spring time nature sprouting and blossoming ,Easter season coming up, and all of the great memories being made :) We love the spirit of the season :) we're having lots of fun enjoying our spring time baking friday adventures :) We love seasonal baking and with spring time here, cooking ,and grilling foods :) there's lots of nice recipes, and themed adventures, especially Easter in the upcoming weeks :) it's one of our favorite joys, getting to bake and sharing our adventures with everyone :) We're very blessed, and thankful to have you all in our lives :) Thank you angel friends, for all that you do for us ,and for sharing in the season with us :) We appreciate you all :) We love you all bunches and bunches :) We're very excited to share in many more spirit soaring times with everyone, all throughout the season :) sending our love, our warmest caring happy sunny friendship hugs, and smiles across the miles, from our hearts, and home to yours :) Wishing everyone continued joys of the season :)
This mornng ,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 wonderfully nice and sweet :) We're very blessed ,and thankful to have this very special tradition in our lives :) 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 :) We're enjoying the blossoming of spring season, as the month of april is settling in :) There's lots of great nature that shines this time of the year :) i gathered a nice bowl of goodies, and went outside for my nature walk :) Our nature friends greeted me :) we recieved some rain here overnight, the rain thankfully eased by this morning :)The rain is helping lots of nature sprout, and blossom :) 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 daffodils are blossoming, and our tulips, hyacinth's, tiger lillies, and forsithia flower bush are doing well :)We're very excited for all of the blossomig spring nature, and our upcoming gardening adventures as the spring season continues to shine :) Happy spring nature smiles :)
it was a nice peaceful early morning :)we enjoyed our breakfast, and having some vanilla iced coffees, hot chamomile tea,and water :) 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 blossoming spring theme :) our kitchen looks great :) It's lots of fun decorating throughout the seasons :) As the morning went on, we put the sports radio on :) We love tuning in, to all of the sports talk : )Around mid-day, we enjoyed a nice lunch, and during the early afternoon, i enjoyed some nice time here on DS and also prepared some onion pretzel dough :) it's a very nice and easy dough :) Water, yeast, onion flakes, sugar, vegetable oil, and flour :)i mixed the ingredients together :) The dough rises nicely as the afternoon continues on :) i made a nice double batch of pretzel dough, as the pretzels are very popular :)
Around 3pm, Jenn and the kids came over, and Brody and the triplets came over :) We love welcoming everyone over :) Lots of great spirit and excitement in the air, with the spring season blossoming :) The kids are looking forward to Easter vacation later on this month :) We love Blossoming into all of the Easter season festivities and traditions with everyone :) it's a great time in the season, and many more spirit soaring times to look forward too :) We're enjoying our spring time baking friday adventures :) it brings us lots of great joy, baking, grilling, cooking, and getting to share our adventures :) There's lots of nice seasonal festivities, and traditions that brings lots of great memories :) 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 prepared the onion pretzels :) Brody wanted to help make some of the pretzels ,he was so proud, making the pretzel dough into pretzel shapes :)Pretzels are one of his favorite foods/snacks :) i got some water heating up in a cooking pot on the stove, and used a metal spatula to put take the pretzels out of the water :) The pretzels get larger in the hot water :) i put the pretzels onto a butter greased baking pan, we had 2 pans all set :) we melted butter in the measuring cup, and added in the dried onion flakes :) we drizzled the butter/dried onion onto the pretzels ,and made some everything bagel seasoning pretzels too, my mom and the kids love those pretzels :) i put the 2 pans of pretzels into the oven to bake :) we love the scent of the pretzels baking in the oven :)
As the pretzels were baking, we began to prepare the chocolate chip cookies :) Hunter, Jacob ,Colby, Mikey,and Carter were helping Holly and i prepare the chocolate chip cookies :) Hunter cracked open the egg, and we began to super stir the ingredients :)we were sharing lots of smiles, and spirited cheer :) my mom and Jenn came out into the kitchen at times, and you all are always right there with us in spirit in the kitchen :) The onion pretzels, baked nicely for about 20 minutes, they came out great :)i brought the pretzels out of the oven to cool down, and we got 2 other baking pans ready :) i used butter to grease the baking pans :) We made the cookie dough into cookie shapes, and i put the cookies into the oven to bake :) We did some cleaning up in the kitchen, and were hanging out :) The kids were going back and forth, from the kitchen and living room, and also went outside to play :) i took a picture of the pretzels, and we all began to dig in :) the pretzels are delicious :) the cookies baked nicely, i brought the cookies out of the oven to cool down :) we all enjoyed some chocolate chip cookies ,after the cookies cooled down a bit :) It was so much fun baking goodies today :) i thanked the kids and Holly for helping bake goodies :) We have many more super fun baking friday adventures to look forward too :) a very special shoutout for family and friends :) Lots of great baking, and cooking this week :) W elove 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 :) Onion Pretzels, and Chocolate Chip 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! :) April 4th, 2025 :) Happy baking friday everyone :)
We're enjoying a great day :) baking friday, and sweet spring time spirit :) my family, Holly, and i are doing ok, and continuing with the good care :) it was lots of 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 spring time spirit :) We love the weekend's :) Tomorrow, we're gonna go shopping at the dollar tree :)we love shopping there, it's our favorite store :) We're going to buy some treats for Tiger, some snacks, drinks, and browsing at the seasonal items, hotwheels collectibles :) our dollar tree has been adding new items :) Holly and i are looking forward to having a fun, popcorn movies party :) We picked out some cool movies to watch, and gonna watch a new movie on saturday night :) On Sunday, we're going to have a TWD party, cooking some foods, and having snacks and drinks :) i'm also going to enjoy some writing time this weekend :) i look forward to sharing our weekend adventures,and pictures 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 all that you do 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 great day,and a really good baking friday :) We love you all bunches and bunches, our sweet dear wonderful guardian angel friends :) We're enjoying sharing in the spring season with everyone, and looking forward to sharing in many more special times, as the season continues to shine :)We wish everyone a healthy, safe, and peaceful weekend :)
Happy baking friday :) Calling all cookie monsters! :) We're celebrating Spring time cheer, with some sweet seasonal baking :) The month of April is blossoming! :) my family, Holly, and i are enjoying a special time sharing in the spring season with everyone, and all of the seasonal festivities, traditions, and excitement as spring blossoms :) it's a very exciting time in the season :) We're loving our spring time baking friday's, and the joy it brings us, getting to share our adventures with everyone :) We love the spirit of the season and all of the great memories being made :) 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 :) 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 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 new 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 love these very special, spirited fun times, and sharing lots of smiles and seasonal cheer :) baking friday :)


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Hi Chris Glad you Holly and your family are doing well enjoying a fun baking Friday The pretzels and cookies look great Glad the boys always have fun with you and Holly. Your kitchen decorations look very nice with a Spring/Mr. Sun theme. Happy to hear you're looking forward to a nice weekend with shopping movies and nature walks too. Thanks for all my nice hugs today Have a good evening Hugs to everyone-Stephanie
Every Friday you turn your kitchen into a bakery and It looks so good, especially the cookies and the pretzels! There's alot of love in your home.... Those are the luckiest kids in the world. hugs
What a team!! Hugs to you all. I made brownies this week and thought of you:).
I’ve been so busy fixing up one of my rental properties. I haven’t had time to read journals. Hoping to be less busy soon! Hugs to everyone:)
Oh boy look at all those GOODIES. I love how the baking crew had a great time baking. I wish I was there. Please send me some of thes wonderful goodies my way. Yum! Hugs
Oh wow...your baking crew has grown up a lot in the six months that I was away! Great pictures of all of you! It's nice to see Mr. Cool Sunflower, too. : ) I'm glad you had a fun time! Have a wonderful weekend! Love and hugs.
Looks like you and Holly and the boys had a fun baking Friday and those pretzels and cookies. Sure do both look yummy.
I just love Holly’s shirt with a beautiful sunflower on it, it’s a happy T-shirt :-)
I hope you and Holly have lots of fun shopping at the dollar tree today and enjoy your movie marathon tonight…hugs :-)
Hi Chris, The boys have got so big. It looks like everyone had a fun day baking. Im sure it was even more fun eating it. Have a lovely weekend.
Well, Chris finally got here. The table looks so nice and springy like it. Boys look like they had a great time and glad you had some help teen baking team was together the pretzels and the cookies so I love to be there helping you out hoping things get better here sending love and hugs to you and the family tell Holly we said hello. We miss talking to you. Talk soon. Love you bunches.