baking friday :) Onion Pretzels, Lemonade, and Hotdogs! :) Chillin n Grillin! :)

"lemonade! lemonade! lemonade!" :) my nephew's Hunter, Colby, Jacob, Brayden, Brody, 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 kitchen in the kitchen, and sharing lots of smiles and spirited cheer! :) We made 3 different goodies today, including homemade lemonade! :) The kids were all lining up to get some nice lemonade! :) They had so much fun helping squeeze the lemons! :) We're loving these spirited fun times of summer season! :) 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, grilled hotdogs, and made homemade lemonade :) it was so much fun! :) The kids were so excited to each get their own bowl and lemon, to squeeze lemon juice into :)They turned it into a lemon squeezing contest! :) hehe! :) Lots of great fun and smiles being share :) We're all digging in, enjoying the goodies :) Hunter was the master griller today, as he was using the grilling tongs to check in on the grilling hotdogs :) Awesome fun times, and sweet classic, and golden summer time spirit!!! :) We love it!!! :)

Summer Time Chillin n Grillin! :) Hi angel friends! :) Happy Golden days of summer time! :) my family, Holly, and i hope everyone is doing well, healthy,keeping cool, hydrated, and enjoying a great day! :) We think of you all often :) We're very heart happy and excited, sharing in and celebrating an awesome summer season with everyone :) There's lots of great things going on, with the season in full swing :) We love the spirit soaring festivities and traditions, that makes the season so much fun and very memorable :) We're having so much fun enjoying our summer time baking friday adventures, and the great memories being made :) Today's adventure was a special request from Hunter ,to make homemade lemonade, and grilling hotdogs :) We're very happy, thankful, and blessed to have this very special tradition in our lives :) Thank you all, our dear angel friends for making each day very special and memorable for us :) We love you all bunches and bunches! :) Happy Summer Time Smiles! :)

This morning, we had an awesome new day rising and shining :) A very special friday tradition i love very much ,is wishing our family, Holly, and friends a happy baking friday,and i share with my family and Holly, your sweet happy baking friday wishes :) awww! :) Thank you angel friends, so very much! :) You all are wonderfully nice, and sweet :) We've been looking forward to our super fun, chillin n grillin themed baking friday adventure :) as the new day was blossoming ,i was up early enjoying some nice time here on DS, writing to friends and getting ready for my early morning nature walk :) The gardening season is in full swing ,and lots of summer nature shining bright :) i gathered a big bowl of goodies and went outside for my nature walk :) i put lots of goodies in our backyard, bird sanctuary area for our nature friends, where we have lots of bird houses, and bird feeders :) our nature friends love their baking friday breakfast feasts :)Awww! :) We love the summer time nature that glows all around, as these golden days of summer season are here :) There's lots of great natur sights to see each day :)

Our plants, and garden are doing well, growing and flourishing :) We're very happy and excited, enjoying the gardening season :) We have lots of beautiful flowers blossoming, and we have lots of fruits ,and vegetables growing :) it's a very neat time in the season :) Holly and i are enjoying picking lots of fresh garden goodies to enjoy sharing with our family :) we wish you all were our neighbors, we'd share fresh garden goodies with you all ,our dear angel friends :) it brings our hearts a lot of very special joy that everyone is enjoying our gardening adventures, picture ,seeing our garden grow and flourish throughout the season :) Holly wants to make a cool zuchinni "boat" meal, she's gonna look up some recipes :) maybe we could make one next week ,as a special part of our baking friday adventure :) We're enjoying the gardening season very much ,and looking forward to lots more adventures as the season continues on :) Lots of happy nature friends, like bumble bees and butterflies visiting our yard, and garden Happy summer garden smiles :)

It was a sweet spirited early morning :) We enjoyed our breakfast, and having some hot tea, water, and iced coffee :) i began to gather our baking friday supplies, 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 cool chillin n grillin theme, with mr. Cool Sunshine joining the kitchen decorative display :) our kitchen looked awesome, and cool! :) As the morning went on, we gave our plants a good early watering and put some sports radio on :) Holly and i made some iced teas in the nice water bottles she got for us at the dollar tree, and we washed, sliced a lemon and put lemon slices in our iced tea :) We love iced tea with lemonade :) We enjoyed a nice lunch around mid-day, and during the early afternoon i enjoyed some nice time here on DS, writing to friends and also made 2 batches of onion pretzel dough ,so that the dough could rise nicely :)

Around 3pm, Jenn and the kids came over, and Aj brought the triplets, and Brody over :) Lots of great spirited excitement in the air, with the summer season in full swing :) The kids are having an awesome summer vacation, with lots of super fun adventures :) We're so happy for them :) They love summer time :) We've been enjoying a super fun time enjoying our summer time baking friday adventures :) We love this very special tradition in our lives :) We began to gather in our kitchen :) The kids love to select their spots at the kitchen counter :) the kids, Holly, and i got our picture taken in the kitchen :) It's a cool baking friday tradition :) You all are always right there with us in spirit, in our kitchen :) Each week, we love to use our nice baking friday supplies that we've recieved from family and friends over the years :) i wear my nice apron that Holly gave me, and we use our nice oven mits, kitchen towels, and all of our supplies, are a big baking of our baking and cooking each week :) our kitchen was all set, and we were ready to bake some awesome goodies :) Calling all cookie monsters! :) Cookie monsters unite! :) it's time for some chillin n grillin, and time to bake! bake! bake! :)

We began our super fun adventure! :) baking friday teamwork! :) the kids love to help! :) They're great helpers! :) all of the kids joined in on the baking friday fun today! :) Brody, Carter, Hunter, Mikey, Colby, Jacob, and Brayden :) We first began to prepare the homemade lemonade :) on the stove, i got 1 cup of water and 1 cup of sugar heating up to make the syrup for the lemonade :) We washed the lemons ,and i sliced the lemons in half :) all of the kids, each got a bowl, and multiple slices of lemon to squeeze :) The kids were having so much fun squeezing the lemons :) we said, the goal is to get 1 cup of lemon juice :) we had the measuring cup, and the kids were pouring their bowl of lemon juice they squeezed into the measuring cup :) Lots of great spirited excitement in the air :) my mom came out into the kitchen and you all were right there with us in spirit, our dear angel friends :) we were sharing lots of smiles :) our kitchen smelled like lemon scent! :)

The syrup (water and sugar) was boiling on the stove, i put the cooking pot in different area of the stove to let it cool for a few minutes, and we poured the lemon juice into the pitcher, and then added in the syrup, and then filled the rest of the pitcher with water, and stirred it :) the kids were so excited! :) We put the pitcher of lemonade into the freezer to chill :) We then got ready to grill some hotdogs :) We used our George Foreman grill, and began to grill 16 hotdogs :) We had 2 packs of hotdogs :) Hunter was o proud, to be the master griller :) he was using the metal tongs to turn the hotdogs, and closing the grill to get the hotdogs cooked well :) Everyone was looking forward to having a hotdogs :) i took a picture of the hotdogs grilling on the foreman grill :)We all had some hotdogs, they're such a great summer time food :)

We began to get ready to make the pretzels :) i made 2 batches of dough ,as the pretzels are very popular :) The ingredients are very nice :) 1 cup of water, 1 packet of yeast ,i added in about a half quarter cup of sugar, onion flakes, some canola oil, and flour :)i got some water heating on the stove, for the pretzels to go into for a minute :) We made the dough into the shapes of pretzels, and i used the metal spatula to boil the pretzels for 1 minute each :) i used butter to grease the baking pan, and put the pretzels on the pan :) We melted butter, and added onion flakes into the melted butter, and drizzled the butter/onion flakes onto the pretzels, and an extra sprinkle of onion flakes onto the pretzels, and i then put the pretels into the oven to bake :) The pretzels were baking nicely :) We did some cleaning up in the kitchen, and got ready to have some lemonade :)

The kids all lined up for lemonade, they all got some lemonade, and Holly and i had some lemonade too :) it came out great! :) Wow!!! :) it's awesome!!! :) The kids already want us to make more! :) The pretzels baked for a good 20 minutes, they finished baking :) i brought the pretzels out of the oven to cool down :) i took a picture of the pretzels, and we all began to dig in :)The pretzels came out great! :) they're one of our favorite foods to bake :) We had so much fun baking, cooking ,and grilling today :) i thanked the kids, and Holly for helping bake :) We love these awesome fun times, and all of the great memories being made :) We have many more super fun baking friday adventures to look forward too as the summer season continues on :) A very special shoutout for family and friends :) Lots of great baking, cooking ,and grilling this week :) We love hearing about the nice foods, and goodies you all bake, cook, and grill :) 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, Lemonade, and Hotdogs, dedicated to our wonderful family, friends, and to the awesome spirit of the summer season! :) We love you all, so very very much! :) many great memories made, to always cherish and treasure :) baking friday! :) We love it!!! :) August 5th, 2022 :) Happy baking friday everyone! :)

We're enjoying an awesome, spirit soaring day! :) Baking friday! :) Golden days of Summer Season! :) We love it!!! :) my family, Holly,and i are doing well, healthy, and in good spirits :) it was so much fun baking goodies today :) There's lots of great things going on, and many special 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're going to buy some foods, snacks, candy, and drinks :) We love shopping there :) Holly and i are gonna have a fun popcorn movies party :) We picked out some awesome movies to watch :) on sunday ,we're going to have a TWD marathon, tending our plants this weekend and also gonna enjoy some writing time :) it's gonna be a great weekend :) i look forward to sharing our weekend adventures, and pictures with everyone in my weekend journals :)

There's lots more great things 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, so very much, for all that you do for us, for your wonderful love, care, support, warm well wishes, and for keeping us in your thoughts and prayers :) We deeply appreciate everything, with all of the love of our very happy hearts :) Big group happy sunny warm caring Sunflower friendship hug and Summer Smiles :) We wish everyone, a nice peaceful evening and night, and wishing everyone continued joys of these golden days of summer season :)

-never lose hope :)

To Wildthing, Peaceful Gentle Moments of the day :) Wildthing, we're enjoying an awesome spirit soaring day! :) Today, the kids, Holly,and i baked onion pretzels, grilled hotdogs, and also made homemade lemonade for baking friday :) We love these very special, spirited fun times :) The weekend is arriving with lots of summer spirit :) Tomorrow, we're gonna go shopping at the dollar tree, watching movies, tending our plants, and also gonna enjoy some weekend writing time :) Thinking of you, our dear friend :)

my mom,Holly, and family says hi :) We hope everyone is doing well, healthy, enjoying a great day,and a really good baking friday :) awww! :) We love you all bunches and bunches,our sweet dear wondeful guardian angel friends :) We think of you all often :) You all are always in our thoughts, prayers, and in our hearts :)We're very happy and excited to continue to share in and celebrate lots more spirit soaring times of the season with everyone :) We wish everyone a healthy, safe, and peaceful weekend :)

Happy baking friday!!! :) Calling all cookie monsters! :) It's time for some classic, summer time chillin n grillin! :) The summer season is in full swing :) my family, Holly, and i are very happy and excited! :) We're enjoying a very special time, sharing in and celebrating the summer season with everyone :) The season is shining bright, and there's lots of seasonal festivities and traditions bringing lots of great memories :) We're so excited to have another chillin n grillin adventure today :) 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, the kids, Holly, and i are baking onion pretzels, grilling hotdogs, and making homemade lemonade :) Thank you everyone, so very much 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! :) Cookie monsters unite! :) it's time for some chillin n grillin, and it's time to bake! bake! bake! :)

Baking friday Supplies! :) We have a very special shoutout, and thank you for my niece Alyssa :) She went shopping this week, and picked up some awesome baking friday supplies :) it's very nice and sweet of her :) Thank you Alyssa, so very much! :) We appreciate her very much, picking up the supplies :) We all love to chip in each week, to get baking friday supplies :) We love this very special tradition in our lives :)

Greetings, from our kitchen to yours! :) The kids, Holly, and i got our picture taken in the kitchen today :) it's a cool baking friday tradition :) You all are always right there with us in spirit, during these very special, spirited fun times :) sharing lots of smiles,and spirited cheer! :) we love baking friday ,and it's very special to our hearts getting to share in this very special tradition with everyone each week :)

Baking friday teamwork! :) Preparing the goodies :) 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 enjoying our summer time baking friday adventures so very much! :) The kids are having fun each taking turns, hosting baking friday, by picking out goodies they want to bake :) We're so proud of the kids, and all that they're learning about baking ,cooking, and grilling :)

Squeezing the lemons! :) 

we made our goal of 1 cup of lemon juice! :) 

Grilling hotdogs! :) 

The kids lining up for lemonade! :) 

Onion Pretzels, Lemonade, and Hotdogs! :) Come on over, for some baking friday goodies! :) the kids, Holly,and i had so much fun baking ,cooking ,and grilling today :) We love these awesome times ,and all of the great summer time memories being made :) Celebrating the sweet spirit of the season! :) baking friday :)