baking friday :) Onion Pretzels, Chocolate Chip Cookies, Hotdogs :) Winter time spirit :)

"Lets bake, cook, and grill!"- my nephew's Hunter, Brody, Jacob, Colby, 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, winter time baking, cooking, and grilling adventure in the kitchen! :) This was so much fun! :) We had the flour flying ,sharing lots of smiles, and spirited cheer, as we made 3 goodies today :) Grill Master Hunter was grilling hotdogs in the kitchen! :) a baking friday first, grilling hotdogs during winter time! :) We love these special times, and all of the great memories being made :) 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, chocolate chip cookies, and also grilled hotdogs :) it was lots of fun :) We love these very special, spirited fun times, sharing lots of smiles, and spirited cheer with lots of great memories being made :)We're enjoying our winter time baking friday's :) we had a big baking friday menu today :) the goodies are very popular! :) Thank you angel friends, for sharing in this very special tradition with us each week :) Happy baking friday smiles :)

Sweet Winter time baking, cooking ,and grilling! :) Hi angel friends :) my family, Holly, and i hope everyone is doing well, healthy, keeping warm, and enjoying a nice day :) We love hearing from you, and we think of you all often :) The month of January and the winter season is in full swing :)We're enjoying sharing in the season with everyone ,enjoying lots of simple joys that bring joy throughout the days and week's :) We're enjoying our winter time baking friday adventures, with some fun baking ,cooking ,and today grilled some hotdogs too, using the George Foreman grill :) We love when the kids help select the menu for baking friday :) We love counting down to our adventures :) We're enjoying our seasonal baking friday's, and with the nfl football playoffs in full swing, it's gonna be so much fun having our annual Superbowl themed baking friday adventure in february, right before the big superbowl :) There's lots of great things going on, and many special memories being made :) We're very blessed, and thankful to have you all in our lives, and to be able to share in these times with you all :) Thank you angel friends, for all that you do for us, and for the special joy you all bring us :) We appreciate you all, and we love you all bunches and bunches :) Sending our love, and our most warmest caring happy sunny friendship hugs, 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 very nice, and sweet :) We've been looking forward to our super fun adventure today :) it's been a nice stretch of days, celebrating anniversaries yesterday, and 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 a light snowfall here overnight, and more snowfall is forecasted for sunday into monday, it could be our first big snowfall of the winter season. We're keeping warm, and getting ready for the snowfall. i bundled up warmly this morning, gathered a big bowl of goodies, and went outside for my nature walk :) our nature friends, and the sunrise sunshine, along with the moon still visible in the sky, greeted me :) i love when the moon is still visible in the sky in the early mornings :) 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 :) i've been putting lots of penauts, hazelnuts, and sunflower seeds outside this week, plus our nature friends are enjoying the suet cakes :) We recieved a light snowfall, it looks like classic winter season all around ,with the winter nature sights. We love seeing our nature friends visiting our yard to gather goodies :) Holly and i ar elooking forward to lots more nature walks ,and adventures all throughout the season :) happy sunny January 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 nature/football 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, Holly and i put the sports radio online :) We love tuning into all of the football talk :) They have their football preview on friday's, for the weekend's games :)we're looking forward to cheering for our Washington Commanders team, in the playoffs, and watching all 4 football games this weekend :) it's gonna be very exciting :)around mid-day, we enjoyed a nice lunch, and i also made some homemade pretzel dough :) The dough rises nicely :) i enjoyed some nice time here on DS this early afternoon :)

Around 3pm, Jenn and the kids came over, and Brody and the triplets came over :) We love welcoming everyone over, and gathering for these super fun adventures :) We're enjoying blossoming into our new year baking friday's, lots of winter time seasonal baking, cooking , and today some grilling too :) a very special request from Hunter for us to grill hotdogs, using the George Foreman grill :) We love when the kids help select the menu for baking friday :) it's a great time in the new year, the month of January is in full swing, and winter season baking days are here :) We love counting down to our baking friday adventures each week :) 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 football 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 onion pretzels :)The dough rised nicely during the afternoon :) i got some water heating up on the stove, and sliced the pretzel dough into portions :) We made the dough into pretzel shapes :) i put 3 pretzels at a time, in the water in a cooking pot :) The water helps the pretzels get larger :) i used butter to grease the baking pan :) We had lots of helpers in the kitchen today :) Hunter, Mikey, Jacob, and Brayden were helping bake :) Holly and i love when the kids join in :) Carter and Brody were hanging out in the kitchen with us :) i used a metal spatula to put the pretzels onto the baking pans, and we melted some butter ,and added in the dried onion flakes, and we then drizzled the butter/onion on top of the pretzels : )We sprinkled some more onion flakes, and also some everything bagel seasoning on a few of the pretzels ,and i put the pretzels into the oven to bake :) The pretzels are very popular ,everyone was looking forward to enjoying some pretzels :)

We began to prepare the chocolate chip cookies :) They're also one of our favorite goodies to bake :)we added the ingredients into the bowl, and taste tested the chocolate chips, we love chocolate chips :) Mikey cracked open the egg today :) We were sharing lots of smiles :) 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 :) We super stirred the cookie dough :) i was checking in on the pretzels, the 2 pans of pretzels baked nicely, they bake so nice, with the pretzels crispy on the outside, and soft inside the pretzel :) i brought the pretzels out of the oven to cool down :) We got the cookie dough all set :) we put the pretzels onto a plate ,and got the pans ready, greasing the pans with butter ,and made the cookie dough into round shapes :) i put the 2 pan of chocolate chip cookies to bake :) We did some cleaning up in the kitchen, and got ready for some winter time grilling :)

Hunter was so excited ,to grill hotdogs, he's the Grill master :) We used the George Foreman grill :) Hunter was using the grilling tongs, adding the hotdogs onto the grill. :) Hunter was helping Jacob with helping grill the hotdogs :) We grilled 8 hotdogs :) it's a baking friday first for us, grilling hotdogs during winter time : )We all began to dig in, enjoying some hotdogs, and onion pretzels :) The goodies are very popular :) The chocolate chip cookies finished baking ,i brought the cookies out of the oven to cool down :) We were hanging out :) Once the cooked cooled down, we all began to dig in :) The cookies came out great :) i thanked the kids ,and Holly for helping bake :) We had so much fun, baking ,cooking ,and grilling today :) We're looking forward to many more super fun baking friday adventures, all throughout the winter season :) 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, Chocolate Chip cookies, and Hotdogs, dedicated to our wonderful family, friends, and to the wonderful 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! :) January 17th, 2025 :) Happy baking friday everyone :)

It's a great day, with baking friday, and sweet seasonal 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 times, and all of the great memories being made :) 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 shopping there :) We're going to buy some foods, snacks, treats for Tiger, plus going to buy some more football plates, trays, supplies, and browsing at the hotwheels, and seasonal items :) Holly and i are going to have a fun popcorn football movies party, watching our favorite football movies leading up to the big divisional round playoffs football games :) Chiefs vs Texans, Commanders vs Lions, Eagles vs Rams, and Bills vs Ravens :) the winners advance to the legendary and epic Championship Sunday next weekend :) it's gonna be very exciting :) We look forward to cheering for our Washington Commanders team :) Holly and i are going to cook a pizza on saturday evening ,and going to cook bean and cheese burritos with queso cheese, and tortilla chips on football sunday :) We look forward to sharing in the football weekend with everyone :) Holly and i are going to wear our Commanders shirts and beanies hats tomorrow, lots of football gameday spirit :) 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 :) Thank you angel friends, for all that you do for us, and for always being here for us :) We appreciate you all, 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 sharing in many more times :) We wish everyone a healthy, safe, and peaceful weekend :)

Happy baking friday :) Calling all cookie monsters! :)We're enjoying some winter time baking, cooking, and grilling today :) my family, Holly, and i are enjoying sharing in the season with everyone, as the month of January and winter season is in full swing :) We love the seasonal festivities, and traditions that brings us lots of joy, and special memories :) 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 chocolate chip cookies, Onion pretzels, and also grilling hotdogs, using the George Foreman grill :) we love seasonal adventures, and enjoying our winter time baking friday's :) 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 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 winter time baking 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 :) We love baking friday, and are very excited for a whole new year of fun baking friday adventures all throughout 2025, with many great memories being made :)

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

Hunter, the Grill Master! :) 

Hunter giving Grilling tips! :) 

Onion Pretzels, Chocolate Chip Cookies, and Hotdogs :) Come on over, for some baking friday goodies :) the kids, Holly, and i had lots of fun baking, cooking, and grilling today :) We love these very special, spirited fun times, sharing lots of smiles, and spirited cheer :) baking friday :)