baking friday :) Onion Pretzels, Pumpkin Cookies, and Lemonade! :)

"we're making pretzels, cookies, and lemonade!"- my little nephews Mikey, Brayden, Jacob, and Colby 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, flour flying, spring celebrations themed baking friday adventure in the kitchen!!! :) This was so much fun! :) We baked up some awesome spring time fun today, as we made some of our favorite treats! :) We're into the spring season spirit, with lots of great things going on, and cherishing, treasuring all of the heart-felt times, and special memories being made :) awww! :) come on over, for some awesome 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 Kayla, Mikey, Brayden, Jacob, Colby, and i baked pumpkin cookies, onion pretzels, and made homemade lemonade :) we're so happy and excited! :) i'm gonna have a nice onion pretzel, and iced cold lemonade this evening :) CHEERS!!! :) We love this very special day, and tradition :) the spirit of spring is blossoming all around :) it's a day of nature, baking, and even a little gardening too! :)woot! :) lots of great spirit, and excitement in the air :)
my family and i hope everyone is doing well, and enjoying a great day! :) We've got some sweet sunshine in our area today, and the spring nature is blossoming all around :) we love the spring season ,and are having lots of fun celebrating it with everyone :) You all are so nice, sweet, and very thoughtful :) Thank you all so very much, for your lovely happy baking friday wishes :) i share your wishes with my family, as i wish them a happy baking friday each friday :) We've been looking forward to baking some nice goodies, and also enjoying making some homemade lemonade :) We have a very special shoutout and thank you for my mom, dad, and sister Lisa :) they went shopping, and picked up some baking friday supplies :) It's very nice, and sweet of them :)
This morning, we had a beautiful new morning ,rising and shining :) i love going out early, with a nice big bowl of goodies for our nature animal friends :) they love their baking friday breakfast feasts :) i was checking in on our plants, and garden :) we have lots of nice seedlings sprouting in our greenhouse, and planters :) Lots of exciting nature, all around, as the birds are singing happily :) it was an awesome morning :) i began to gather our baking friday supplies, and decorations, and went out into our kitchen to decorate :) today, i decorated with a nice spring theme, sunflowers :) our kitchen looked awesome! :) i prepared a nice lunch, baked sweet potato, regular potato, and some mashed sweet potatoes, lunch was delicious! :)
i went outside for a nice mid-day nature walk, and did a little gardening work too :) i got our biggest garden area more organized too :) i planted some gourds seeds, and put more sunflower seeds and breads on the bird feeders, for our nature animal friends :) During the early afternoon, i enjoyed some nice quality time here on ds, writing to friends :) i went back out into our kitchen around 3pm, to put the finishing touches on our kitchen preparations for our super fun adventure :) i began to squeeze 4 lemons, for lots of nice lemon juice, and on the stove, i got some nice water and sugar heating up, for the lemonade syrup :) Alyssa and the triplets came over, and Jenn, Mikey, and Hunter came over too :) Kayla and Taylynn arrived home from school, after 3pm :) We were all gathering around, and so excited about baking friday :)
Each week, we love to use our nice aprons, oven mits, kitchen towels, and all our baking friday supplies we've recieved from family and friends, over the years :) we get lots of great use, from our supplies, when we cook and bake :) Our kitchen was all set and ready, and we were all set, and ready to bake! :) calling all cookie monsters! :) cookie monsters unite!!! :) it's time to bake! bake! bake! :) We began our super fun adventure! :) The kids love to help, and they each get their chair, stool, and we begin to add the ingredients to the big bowl :) my mom had some nice pumpkin cookies mix, for us to make some cookies :) i said to Kayla, "pick out the best egg ever, and a stick of butter" :)
baking friday teamwork! :) the kids get so proud, when they get to add the ingredients to the bowl :) they're learning a lot about baking :) Kayla, Mikey, and i have been teaching Brayden, Colby, and Jacob about baking goodies, and they are so happy, each week, even on days when it's not friday, and they visit, they say, "chris, we bake!" awww! :) it's awesome! :) We love baking goodies :) It's such a fun and awesome tradition :) We were having lots of fun, sharing smiles :) You all are always right there with us in spirit in the kitchen :) we super stirred the cookie dough, and then i used butter to grease the baking pan :) we put lots of cookies on the pan, and i put the cookies into the oven to bake! bake! bake! :)
As the pumpkin cookies were baking, i finished up making the homemade lemonade :) in a nice bottle container, i poured the lemon juice, the water/sugar syrup, with some slices of lemon, and then added water :) i put the lemonade into the fridge to chill :) i love lemonade, and have been looking forward to having some :) we began to prepare the pretzels :) We love our pretzels recipes we use, to make the pretzels :) It's 1 cup of water, 1 packet of yeast, a little vegetable oil, little salt and sugar, and we then add flour to it, until it's a nice dough :) little Hunter was coming out into the kitchen, he loves seeing the baking friday excitement, and he loves cookies :) i said, "Hunter, cookie man! we baking a cookie for you" :) he was smiling! :) awww! :)
We made the nice pretzels, and on the stove, i got some water heating up to put the pretzels into :) The first batch of pumpkin cookies finished baking :) i took the cookies out of the oven to cool down, and got the baking pan ready to put the pretzels on :) my mom was in the kitchen, and she said, "how about adding some onion flakes on the pretzels" :) i said, "awesome! it sounds great!" :) we melted some butter to drizzle onto the pretzels, and then put some onion flakes on the pretzels :) i put the pretzels into the oven to bake! :) We were all having so much fun, the kids were running around :) we did some cleaning up in the kitchen :)
The pretzels and 2nd batch of pumpkin cookies finished baking nicely :) We all began to dig in! :) hehe! :) i tried a pretzel, they are so good! :) The kids all went outside, to play on the new trampoline, and went in the front yard, with my mom, sister Jenn, and niece Alyssa :) i thanked everyone for helping bake :) We had so much fun baking today, and the treats came out really godo :) We love baking friday, and looking forward to many more super fun adventures :) a very special shoutout to family and friends :) Lots of cooking, and baking this week :) We love hearing about the nice meals, treats, and goodies you all bake and cook :) We're with eachother in spirit, in our kitchens :) Onion Pretzels, Pumpkin Cookies, and Lemonade, dedicated to our wonderful family, friends, and to the beautiful spirit of spring season :) We love you all so very very much! :) many great memories made, to always cherish and treasure :) baking friday! :) we love it!!! :) April 29th, 2016 :) Happy baking friday everyone! :)
here's the recipe for the lemonade :)
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/32385/best-lemonade-ever/
here's the recipe for the pretzels :) 
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/84220/moms-pretzels/
We're enjoying a wonderful day! :) baking friday! :) we love it!!! :) my family and i are doing well, and are in great spirits :) there's lots of great things going on, and many special memories being made :) we love the spirit of the spring season, and sharing in, celebrating heart-felt moments with everyone :) The weekend is arriving with lots of spirit, and excitement :) Tomorrow, we're gonna go shopping :) i'd love to go to the dollar tree, and walmart :) i'm going to buy some gifts, goodies, treasures, and gardening supplies :) it's gonna be lots of fun shopping :) on sunday, we may have a rainy day, with some chilly temperatures. if it's chilly outside, i'll definitely have a writing day :) i look forward to sharing our weekend adventures, and pictures with everyone in my journals :) i hope to do some gardening this upcoming weekend :) There's lots of great things to look forward too :) tonight, Holly and i are going to watch 2 episodes of Most Haunted show, on youtube :) We love our friday night, paranormal party night's :) Thank you angel friend,s so very much, for all that you do for us :) You all are wonderfully nice, and sweet : )We deeply appreciate everything, with all of the love of our hearts :) BIG GROUP HAPPY SUNSHINE HUG :) We hope everyone enjoys a wonderful weekend :)
-never lose hope :)
To Wildthing, Peaceful Gentle Moments of the day :) Wildthing, it's a great day, enjoying some nice baking :) Kayla, the kids, and i baked some nice pretzels, and pumpkin cookies for baking friday :) Thinking of you, our dear friend :)
my mom says hi :) She says, "i hope everyone had a good baking friday" :) awww! :) We love you all bunches and bunches, our sweet dear wonderful guardian angel friends :) We hope everyone is doing well, and enjoying a great day :) We wish everyone a wonderfully safe, fun, and happy weekend :)
Happy baking friday! :) calling all cookie monsters! :) It's time for some spring time cheer, baking!!! :) woot!!! :) We love the spring season, and getting more and more into the season, as the month of May approaches, we love the joys of the season, and celebrating in all of these special times with everyone :) There's lots of great things going on, and many special 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 for our super fun adventure :) Today, we're baking some homemade pretzels and pumpkin cookies :) We love getting the flour flying in the air in the kitchen :) i look forward to having a pretzel, and pumpkin cookie this evening :) 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 to bake! bake! bake! :)
Baking friday supplies! :) We have a very special shoutout, and thank you for my dear, and lovely mom, dad, and sister Lisa :) they went shopping, and picked up baking friday supplies :) It's so nice, and sweet of them :) thank you mom, dad, and Lisa, so very much! : )We all love to chip in each week to get baking friday supplies :) We love this very special tradition in our lives :) Happy baking friday smiles :)
Greetings, from our kitchen to yours! :) Kayla, the kids, and i got our picture taken in the kitchen today :) It's a cool baking friday tradition :) we love sharing lots of smiles in the kitchen, baking some awesome treats :)
baking friday teamwork! :) Preparing the goodies :) We love the awesome excitement of baking friday, sharing lots of smiles, and baking friday teamwork :) the kids love to help, and they get so proud, when they get to add the ingredients into the bowl, super stirring, and they look forward to enjoying some nice goodies :)


bake! bake! bake! :) We had the opinion pretzels baking nicely in the oven! :)
Pumpkin Cookies, Onion Pretzels, and Lemonade! :) come on over, for a spring time baking friday feast! :) Kayla, the kids, and i had lots of fun today, baking some onion pretzels, pumpkin cookies, and made some homemade lemonade :) i'm gonna have a pretzel and iced cold lemonade this evening :) It's gonna be awesome! :) We love baking friday, and sharing our adventures with everyone :) cherishing, and treasuring all of the great memories being made :) baking friday! :) we love it! :) April 29th, 2016 :) Happy baking friday everyone! :)