baking friday :) Onion Pretzels, and Hotdogs :) Summer time Chillin n Grillin :)

"We love chillin, grillin, and baking!"-my nephew's Hunter, 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, Summer time Chillin n Grillin themed baking friday adventure in the kitchen! :) This was so much fun! :) We had the flour flying in the air today, sharing lots of smiles and spirited cheer as we grilled and baked goodies today :)We're very happy and excited for a whole summer of super fun adventures to share in :) 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 grilled hotdogs :) it was lots of fun! :) The Grill Master Hunter was very happy to grill some hotdogs on the foreman grill today :) Lots of summer time spirit and excitement in the air :) We love baking friday, and sharing in this very special tradition with everyone each week :) We're going to have our annual 4th of July themed baking friday adventure next week :) Thank you angel friends, for sharing in this very special tradition with us :) Happy baking friday smiles :)

Summer Time Chillin and Grillin! :) Hi angel friends :) The spirit of summer season is all around :) 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 very happy and excited, to share in continued joys of the blossoming summer season with everyone :) There's lots of summer time festivities,and traditions that makes the season very special, and memorable :)We love these early days of summer, as the season is blossoming, and beginning our summer of super fun baking friday adventures :) We love this very special tradition, and the joy, and excitement it brings us, enjoying summer time baking, cooking, grilling ,and getting to share our adventures with everyone :) We're having our first Chillin n Grillin themed baking friday adventure of the season today :) Thank you angel friends, for sharing in the season with us, and for the special joy you all bring us :) We love you all bunches and bunches, and appreciate you all very much :) Sending our love, super big happy sunny caring friendship hugs, and sunny sunflower smiles from our hearts and home to yours :) Wishing everyone continued joys of the summer 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 :) it's been a nice stretch of days, and we're so happy friday is here, arrival of the weekend, and lots of summer time spirit all around :) we love the spirit of the season :) 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 had some nice replenishing rainfall yesterday morning :)We're very thankful for the rain, and the cooler, comfortable weather :) our plants soaked up lots of sunshine this week, and are super growing into these early days of summer time :) it's so much fun checking in on the plants, and seeing their growing progress :) We love the gardening season :) i gathered a nice bowl of goodies, and went outside for my nature walk : )

Our nature friends, plants ,and our garden greeted me :) it's been a very active nature week, with lots of our nature friends visiting :)We love seeing them, and giving them lots of goodies ,and water throughout the week :) We've been refilling the bird bath for them :) 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 feast :) i saw some bluejays and Mr. nut squirrel visiting our yard this morning :) they're very happy, enjoying the goodies :) Our plants, flowers, and fruit trees are doing well, growing and flourishing :) The plants have grown a lot, as the summer season continues to blossom :) It's very neat, to see how much the plants have grown :) We have pears, apples, raspberries, grapes growing ,and our snap peas ,string beans, vegetable plants are growing wild :) We're so excited, our garden is flourishing with the spirit of summer nature all around :) We love seeing butterflies, and bees visiting our yard and garden :) our day lillies, and tiger lillies are blossoming ,we also have lots of daisies blossoming :) The sunflowers are growing taller, and we also have lots of other flowers growing, it's gonna be a summer of flower blossoms :)We love the great joy ,and excitement nature and gardening brings :) We love sharing our garden, and adventures with everyone :) Thank you angel friends, for sharing in the season with us :) Happy sunny nature, and summer 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 enjoued 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 with a cool summer time theme :) our kitchen looks great :) it's lots of fun decorating,and is a very special part of the baking friday tradition :) As the morning went on, we put our favorite sports radio on, we love tuning in and keeping up with our favorite sports news :) Around mid-day, we enjoyed a nice lunch, and during the early afternoon, i enjoyed some nice time here on DS, and also made some homemade pretzel dough :) it's a very nice and easy recipe, flour, 1 cup of water, yeast, vegetable oil, onion flakes, and sugar :) The dough rises nicely as the afternoon goes on :)

Around 3pm, Jenn and the kids came over :) We love welcoming everyone over :) Jenn and family had a fun time camping last week :) Alyssa and family are on vacation at Virginia beach this week :) they've been keeping in contact, and are having a fun vacation :) they are with us in spirit today :) Lots of great summer time spirit and excitement in the air, with the summer season blossoming :) We're so happy the kids are having a fun summer vacation, and we're very happy and excited for all of our summer time baking friday adventures to share in :) We love summer time, and all of the great memories being made :) 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 :) Sweet Summer time baking, Chillin n Grillin! :) 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 had rised nicely during the afternoon :) i sliced the dough into portions :) We began to make the dough into pretzels shapes :) Hunter, Mikey ,and Carter love nature, and fishing :) Holly and i showed them the pictures of the gray tree frog that visited our yard and garden the other day : )They loved seeing the pictures :) They love to go fishing, Holly and i were sharing some funny fish jokes, like "which fish can build a house? A hammer-head shark", and which fish can see a rainbow, Rainbow Trout :)We were sharing lots of smiles :) my mom came out into the kitchen at times, and you all are always right there with us in spirit in the kitchen :) i had some water heating up on the stove, i put the pretzels 2 at a time in the water, the water helps the pretzels get larger :) i used butter to grease the baking pan, and used a metal spatula to take the pretzels out of the water and onto the baking pan :) We then melted some butter, added in onion flakes, and we drizzled the butter/onion onto the pretzels, and Hunter sprinkled some more onion flakes onto the pretzels :) i then put the pretzels into oven to bake :) We love the scent of onion pretzels baking :)

It was time for some Chillin n Grillin :) Hunter used the tongs and grilled hotdogs on the Foreman grill :) he's so proud , grilling the hotdogs, and mentioned about how he was grilling hotdogs during the camping adventure he and family had last week :) he did a great job, grilling the hotdogs :)we were all hanging out, and did some cleaning in the kitchen :) my mom, Jenn, Mikey , and Carter went outside, and Hunter and Taylynn were playing the video games in the living room :) The pretzels baked nicely for about 20 minutes :) i brought the pretzels out of the oven to cool down :) we all began to dig in :)The pretzels and hotdogs came out great :) i thanked the kids, and Holly for helping bake and grill :) We had lots of fun baking and grilling today, and so excited for many more super fun baking friday adventures all throughout the summer season, including our annual 4th of July themed baking friday adventure next week :) 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 Hotdogs, dedicated to our wonderful family, friends, and to the awesome spirit of summer time :) We love you all, so very very much :) many great memories made, to always cherish and treasure :) baking friday, we love it! :) June 27th, 2025 :) Happy baking friday everyone :)

We're enjoying a great day :) baking friday ,and sweet summer time spirit, we love it :) 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 summer time spirit :) 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, plus some snacks, candy, drinks, and going to browse at the hotwheels, arts and crafts, and seasonal items :) it's gonna be fun shopping :)Holly and i are going to have a fun, popcorn movies party :) We've picked out some cool movies, and gonna watch a new movie on saturday night :) On Sunday, we're going to have a TWD party ,and also going to spend time in our yard and garden :) It's gonna be a great weekend :) i look forward to sharing our weekend adventures, and pictures with everyone in my weekend journals :) 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 sunflower 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 very happy and excited to share in many more spirit soaring times with everyone, as the usmmer season continues to blossom :) We wish everyone a healthy, safe, and peaceful weekend :)

Happy baking friday! :) Calling all cookie monsters! :) it's sweet summer time! :) my family, Holly, and i are very happy and excited, sharing in these early days of the blossoming summer season :) We love the seasonal festivities, and traditions to share in :)We love counting down the days until it's time to bake :) 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 grilling hotdogs :) 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 my mom and dad for picking up baking friday supplies this week :) We love baking friday, and are very thankful, and blessed to have this very special tradition in our lives :)

Greetings, from our Summer 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 Summer Time 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 chillin n grillin baking friday's this time of the year :) 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 summer season of baking friday fun, with many great memories being made :) Blossoming into Summer Time! :)

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

The grill master Hunter grilling hotdogs :) 

Onion Pretzels, and Hotdogs :)Come on over, for some baking friday goodies! :) The kids, Holly ,and i had lots of fun, baking, and grilling :) We love these awesome fun times, sharing lots of smiles, and spirited seasonal cheer :) baking friday :)