baking friday :) Onion Pretzels, and Chocolate Chip Cookies :) Sweet cool times! :)

"these pretzels are the best!"- my nephew's Brody, Hunter, Jacob, Colby, Brayden, Carter, and Mikey said that today, during baking friday! :)

baking friday! :) Calling all cookie monsters! :) hehe! :) 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, and spirit soaring :)we had the flour flying in the air in the kitchen today, and sharing lots of smiles and spirited cheer as we baked some awesome goodies :) One of our favorite goodies, onion pretzels! :)the pretzels are very popular, and going fast! :) We're ready to blossom into the memorial day holiday weekend :) 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 :)We're very blessed, and thankful to have this very special tradition in our lives :) Thank you angel friends, for sharing in this very special tradition with us each week :) Happy baking friday smiles :)

Sweet Seasonal baking and cooking as we blossom into the Memorial day holiday weekend :) Hi angel friends :) my family, Holly, and i hope everyone is doing well, healthy, and enjoying a nice day :) We love hearing from you, and we think of you all often :) Wishing everyone a healthy, safe, and peaceful, memorial day holiday weekend :)We love sharing in these special times with you all :)We're all with eachother in spirit :) the spirit of the season is all around, with lots of seasonal festivities and traditions to enjoy :)We're very blessed, and thankful to have you all in our lives ,and appreciate all of the joy you all bring us :) We're enjoying sharing in the season with everyone, and having lots of fun enjoying our spring time baking friday adventures :) We'll be beginning our happy countdown to summer season themed adventures very soon :) We love baking lots of our favorite goodies, and trying new recipes too :)We're also thinking of having a cool and fun, Carnival themed baking friday adventure during summer time, with baking, cooking, and even some fun games with prizes to be won :) it would be awesome fun :)There's lots to look forward too :) Thank you angel friends, for sharing in the season with us, and for making each day special :) We love you all bunches and bunches! :) Sending our love, super big happy sunny warm caring friendship hugs, and smiles across the miles, from our hearts, and home to yours :) Wishing everyone continued joys of the 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 wonderfully nice, and sweet :) We've been looking forward to our super fun adventure :) 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 sunshine has returned today, it's so nice seeing the sunshine, our windows and curtains glowing from the sunshine :) We've been looking forward to the sunshine, and seeing our plants soaking up the sun :) i gathered a nice bowl of goodies ,and went outside for my nature walk :)

Our nature friends, and the sunshine greeted me :) it's a great joy seeing the sunny weather, especially after a couple days of clouds ,rain ,and winds. We're looking forward to lots more gardening adventures :) i put lots of goodies on the bird feeders, and in the bird sanctuary area forour nature friends :) They love their baking friday breakfast feasts :) our plants ,flowers, and fruit trees are doing well, continuing to grow and flourish :)our plants love the sunshine ,and enjoying all of the nice sunshine today :) We have lots of sprouts growing in our greenhouse, we'll be tranplanting the plants into our garden soon :) We also have lots of nice flowers seeds to plant into our garden soon :) We love getting more and more into the gardening season, and with some nice weather forecasted ,it's gonna make for some great days to garden :)our new tomato plants have settled into the soil, in the planters :)We're hoping for a big growing season for vegetables, fruit ,and lots of beautiful flowers :) We love sharing our garden, and adventures with everyone :) There's lots of fun adventures to look forward too :) Happy sunny nature, and spring gardening season 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, and some treats :) 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 our kitchen with a seasonal spring theme :) our kitchen looks great and spring spirited :) it's lots of fun decorating, and is a special part of the baking friday tradition :) as the morning went on, we put our favorite 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 :) i made a double batch of the dough, using 2 packets of yeast :)We love the pretzels, they're very popular :) the dough came out great :) i first mix the yeast with 1 cup of water, and i stir it, and then i add in some sugar, vegetable oil, and dried onion flakes, and i then add in flour until it's a nice good dough :) i cover the bowl/dough with aluminum foil in the fridge ,and 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 :) it's very exciting and spirit soaring, everyone gathering :) the kids are always very excited to see eachother ,and visiting :) They're doing great in school, and are looking forward to summer vacation next month :) They love summer time adventures :) We're having lots of fun enjoying our spring time baking friday's, and looking forward to counting down to Summer season, and all of our Summer themed adventures :) 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 during the afternoon :) i got some water heating up in a cooking pot on the stove, and i sliced the dough into nice portions :)we then rolled the dough into thin strips of dough, and made the dough into pretzels shapes :) i used a metal spatula to put 2 pretzels at a time into the boiling water, the water helps the pretzels get larger :) i put the pretzels onto the butter greased baking pan, and we then melted butter, and added onion flakes into the butter ,and drizzled the butter and onion onto the pretzels ,and made some everything bagel seasoning pretzels too, as they've become very popular :) we had 2 pans of pretzels to bake :) i put the pretzels into the oven to bake :)

We love the scent of pretzels baking :) while the pretzels were baking, we began to prepare the chocolate chip cookies :) they're one of our favorite goodies :)Lots of kids were helping bake goodies today :) we added the ingredients into the bowl, we always taste test the chocolate chips :) Carter cracked open the egg :) We super stirred the ingredients :)We were sharing lots of smiles :) The kids are very excited for the upcoming summer seaon :) my mom came out into the kitchen at times, and you all are always right there with us in spirit in the kitchen :)

The onion pretzels finished baking, i brought the pretzels out of the oven :) the pretzels bake for about 20 minutes :) we made the cookie dough into nice cookie shapes, and put 2 pans of cookies into the oven to bake :) we were hanging out ,and did some cleaning in the kitchen :) The kids were coming back and forth, from the kitchen, living room, and some of the kids went outside to play :) we all began to enjoy some pretzels, they came out great :) The chocolate chip cookies baked nicely, i brought them out of the oven to cool down :) we all began to dig in :) Holly and i love to put together a small plate of cookies to bring downstairs for us, for the weekend :) It was so much fun baking goodies today :) i thanked the kids, and Holly for helping bake :)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 :)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 :) Onion Pretzels and Chocolae Chip Cookies, dedicated to our wonderful family, friend, and to the sweet spirit of the spring season : )We love you all, so very very much! :)many great memories made, to always cherish and treasure :) baking friday, we love it! :) May 23rd, 2025 :) Happy baking friday everyone!: )

We're enjoying a great day :) baking friday ,and sweet spirit of the season :) 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 times, and all of the great memories being made :) The weekend is arriving with lots of seasonal spirit :)We love the weekend's :) We're very excited to share in the memorial day weekend with everyone :) Tomorrow, we're gonna go shopping at the dollar tree :) We love shopping there :)We're going to browse around the store, hotwheels, garden supplies, and buying some snacks, drinks, and more :) Holly and i are going to have a fun, popcorn movies party :) We picked out some cool movies to watch, and gonna watch a new movie on saturday night :) We're hoping for some nice weather this upcoming weekend, that will be good for gardening :) We're gonna tend our plants :) We're also gonna have a TWD party :)it's gonna be a nice holiday 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 2 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 making each day special :) 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 nice day, and a really good baking friday :) 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 sharing in the season with everyone, and looking forward to many more spirit soaring times, as we get ready to countdown to summer season soon :) We wish everyone a healthy, safe, and peaceful weekend :)

Happy baking friday :) Calling all cookie monsters! :) sweet spring time baking, and cooking :) my family, Holly ,and i are very excited, sharing in the golden days of spring time with everyone, and all of the seasonal festivities, and traditions that makes the season very special, and memorable :)The memorial day holiday weekend is coming up, and the upcoming countdown to summer season :) There's lots of great things to enjoy this time of the year :) 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, grilling, and cooking :)

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 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 all of the great memories being made :) We're very excited for lots more adventures, all throughou the season :) Shairng lots of smiles, and spirited seasonal cheer :) baking friday :)