baking friday :) Onion Pretzels, Sugar Cookies, Big Chocolate Chip Cookie :) New Year countdown! :)

"We love cookies!"- my nephew's Hunter, 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, and super sweet, happy countdown to new year's themed baking friday adventure in the kitchen!!! :) this was so much fun! :) we had the flour flying in the air today, and sharing lots of smiles, as we baked up some awesome goodies :) We're celebrating the awesome countdown to the new year :) 2020 is on it's way! :) We enjoyed a super fun year of baking friday adventures, and we're ready for many more super fun adventures in the new year! :) 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, Alyssa, the kids, and i baked onion pretzels, sugar cookies, and a giant chocolate chip cookie! :) it was so much fun! :) We're so happy and excited for all of the awesome times being shared :) The kids are having lots of fun playing with their gifts they got for Christmas :) we enjoyed a really sweet baking friday adventure today, and so excited for a whole new year approaching, 2020 :) We love this very special tradition in our lives, and are so happy, and thrilled to be able to share our adventures each week :) We're planning our 1st baking friday adventure of the new year next week, and lots more :) as winter season is settling in, we love baking lots of goodies :)

HAPPY COUNTDOWN TO NEW YEAR! :) 2020 is coming!!! :) Hi angel friends! :) my family, Holly, and i hope everyone is doing well, and enjoying a beautiful day :) it's that time of the year, January is approaching, and a brand new year will be arriving :) We're so happy, and excited to countdown to the new year, and celebrating in all of the joys with everyone :) it's a very exciting time, as a new year approaches :) We're so happy, thankful, and blessed, to have you all in our lives :) We wish everyone a wonderful time, counting down to 2020, and wishing everyone a healthy, and happy new year :) We're going to be home, on new year's eve, and holiday :) We look forward to having foods, snacks, drinks, and watching a movie on new year's eve :) it's been a big week, with all of the wonderful holiday festivities, and traditions :) Thank you angel friends, for sharing your Christmas holiday with us, and for all of your lovely comments :) We're so happy, and thrilled that everyone is enjoying our Christmas pictures :) We're loving the spirit of the season :) We look forward to sharing in, and celebrating a whole new year, with you and your family's :) We look forward to hearing about your new year's holiday and sharing ours :) We're gonna have a nice holiday dinner and looking forward to settling into 2020 with everyone :) We wish everyone a healthy, and happy new year :)

This morning, we had a wonderful new day, rising and shining :) a very special friday tradition i love very much ,is wishing my family, Holly, and friends a happy baking friday, and i share with my family and Holly, your wonderful happy baking friday wishes :) Thank you angel friends, so very much! :) You all are wonderfully nice, and sweet :) We've been enjoying the week, so very much, sharing in and celebrating the times of the holiday season, and all of the great times being shared :) We love this very special week, and looking forward to the arrival of the new year :) Holly and i have a special tradition each year, for new year's eve :) we love to watch the "Mr. Bean's new year's eve" special, and we also watch a movie on new year's eve :) it's gonna be so cool, watching on our couch, here in our living room, and all of the awesome joys of new year's holiday :) The kids have been enjoying their holiday vacation :) they've been enjoying their gifts, and playing video games, and games on their phone apps :) They are on holiday vacation, until next thursday :) it's an awesome time for them :)

We feel very blessed, and thankful, sharing in many awesome times of the season, with everyone :) As the new day was blossoming, i gathered a big bowl of goodies, and went outside for my early morning nature walk :) it's been a bit milder weather outside this week :) i put lots of goodies in the bird sanctuary area in our yard :) our nature friends love their baking friday breakfast feasts :) awww! :) there's been lots of bluejays, black birds, and sparrows in our area :) we love seeing our nature friends :) i've been putting extra goodies outside for them, all throughout the holiday season, and i look forward to many more nature walks, as the winter season settles in, and i look forward to taking lots of pictures to share with everyone :)

The morning was sweet peaceful :) my mom and Lisa went over to dunkins and burger king :) They got a breakfast burrito, and a blueberry iced coffee for me :) it's very nice, and sweet of them :) We enjoyed our breakfast :) Holly and i created a nice 2020 banner for our kitchen decorations :) We love counting down to the new year :) it was fun creating the 2020 banner :) i began to gather our baking friday supplies, and decorations, and went out into our kitchen to decorate, for our super fun adventure :) today, i decorated with a happy countdown to new year, 2020, theme :) our kitchen looks awesome! :) We've been having so much fun this year, baking lots and lots of goodies, all of our super fun baking friday adventures, many special memories made, and are so happy and excited to blossom into a whole new year, of baking friday fun, with 52 more adventures to look forward too in 2020 :) it's so much fun :) We're very happy, thankful, and blessed to have the baking friday tradition in our lives :) We look forward to baking lots more goodies in 2020 :) Around mid-day we prepared a nice lunch, and during the early afternoon, i enjoyed some nice time here on DS, writing to friends :)

Around 3pm, everyone began to come over for baking friday :) Alyssa, Jenn, and the kids :) the kids were so excited, as they brought some toys they got for Christmas :) we were all gathering around, lots of awesome spirit and excitement in the air :) We love these awesome times :) earlier ,i prepared some nice onion pretzel dough :) The dough had rised nicely in the fridge :) onion pretzels are very popular :) they're one of our favorite baked goodies :)we were gathering in our kitchen :) Today, Hunter and Colby wanted to help bake goodies :) We got our picture taken in the kitchen :) each week, we love to use our nice baking friday supplies we've recieved from family and friends over the years :) i wear my apron, and we use our oven mits, kitchen towels, and all of our supplies, are a big part of our baking, and cooking each week :) i love my new oven mits, and kitchen towel i got for Christmas :) our kitchen was all set and ready ,and we were ready to bake some awesome goodies :) calling all cookie monsters! :) cookie monsters unite! :) it's time to bake! bake! bake! :)

We began our super fun adventure! :) baking friday teamwork! :) We first began to prepare the sugar cookies :) we love extra buttery sugar cookies :) the kids love to help :) they're great helpers :) They love helping crack open the egg, and adding all of the ingredients into the bowl :) we were sharing smiles, preparing the goodies :) it's been an amazing year of baking friday adventures, and we're so excited for a whole new year coming up to share in :) We super stirring the sugar cookie dough :) We're so proud of the kids, and all of their great learnings about baking, and they love picking out goodies for us to make :) We're thinking of baking bagel pizza's next week :)i used butter to grease the baking pan, and we put the cookie dough into the pan, and put the cookies into the oven to bake :)

As the cookies were baking, we prepared the chocolate chip cookie kit that Alyssa and family gave me :) it prepares enough dough for a huge chocolate chip cookie that bakes in a nice mini cast iron skillet :) it's awesome cool :) i put the cookie dough in the skillet in the oven to bake :) we did some cleaning up in the kitchen, and then prepared the pretzels :) i sliced the pretzel dough, and we had some water heating up on a cooking pot on the stove :) the pretzel dough is really easy to make :) it's a cup of water, 1 packet of yeast, a quarter cup of white or brown sugar, a pinch of salt, and some dried onion flakes, and then adding in the flour until it's a nice dough :) we made the dough into pretzel shapes, and i put 2 or 3 pretzels at a time into the water on the stove :) The pretzel dough rises even more, when it's in the water :) i used a metal spatula to put the pretzels onto a baking pan, and we then drizzled melted butter on top of the pretzels :)

The sugar cookies and chocolate chip cookie finished baking :) i brought the cookies out of the oven to cool down, and put the pretzels into the oven to bake :) we love the scent of cookies, and pretzels baking :) our kitchen smelled great :) we were all hanging out :) my sister Jenn mentioned, that she was looking forward to having a nice onion pretzel :) the pretzels baked nicely for about 15 minutes, we baked them until their golden brown on top, and soft pretzels inside :) The pretzels came out great :) i took pictures of the goodies, and we all began to dig in :) we had so much fun baking the goodies :) i thanked Alyssa and the kids for helping bake :)

We love these awesome times, and are so excited to blossom into another super fun year of baking friday adventures :) there's so much more, to look forward too :) next week, we're going to have our first baking friday adventure of the new year, 2020 :) a very special shoutout, for family and friends :) lots of great baking, and cooking this week, with the Christmas holiday :) We love hearing about the nice goodies, and foods you all bake and cook :) We're 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, Sugar Cookies, and a huge Chocolate Chip Cookie, dedicated to our wonderful family, friends, to the wonderful times shared in 2019, and to all of the many more times to share in, in 2020 :) We love you all, so very very much! :) many great memories made, to always cherish and treasure :) baking friday! :) We love it!!! :) December 27th, 2019 :) Happy baking friday, and Happy new year everyone! :)

We're enjoying an awesome, spirit soaring day, and week! :) holiday season spirit! :) baking friday! :) Counting down to the new year! :) We love it!!! :) my family, Holly, 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're so happy and excited, sharing in, and celebrating in all of the joys of the week, and there's so much more to look forward too :) The weekend is arriving with lots of spirit, as the countdown to 2020 has began :) We're looking forward to going shopping tomorrow :) i'm going to buy some writing supplies, i also want to look at the hotwheels cars, and we're going to buy some treasures, for a friend's upcoming birthday :) we're gonna go to the post office on tuesday, this upcoming week :) We're gonna have a football party on sunday, and i'm also going to write some cards, and letters :) i ordered some printer ink on amazon, and gonna be able to print out some letters i write :) i'll be able to write letters quicker :) i look forward to sharing our weekend advenrtures, and pictures with everyone, in my weekend journal's :) There's many more awesome times to look forward too :) tonight, Holly and i are going to watch 2 episodes of most haunted show :)We love our friday night, paranormal party night's :) Thank you angel friends, so very much, for all that you do for us, and for the very special joy you all bring our days, and our lives :) We deeply appreciate everything, with all of the love of our hearts :) big group warm caring happy sunny friendship hug :) we hope everyone enjoys a great weekend, and a happy countdown to 2020, new year! :)

-never lose hope :)

To Wildthing, Peaceful Gentle Moments of the day :) Wildthing, it's an awesome spirit soaring day and week :) today, Alyssa, the kids, and i had a fun time baking onion pretzels, a chocolate chip cookie, and sugar cookies for baking friday :) We're so excited, to countdown to the new year, 2020 :) We're going shopping tomorrow, buying writing supplies, and looking forward to going to the post office next week :) Thinking of you, our dear friend :)

my mom says hello :) She says, "i hope everyone is having a really 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 peaceful day :) We're so happy and excited to countdown to the new year, with everyone :) There's so much more, to look forward too :) We wish everyone, a wodnerfully safe, fun, and happy weekend :)

Happy baking friday, and happy countdown to New Year, 2020! :) Calling all cookie monsters! :) celebration cheers! :) it's a sweet happy countdown to the new year, baking friday celebration!!! :) my family, Holly, and i are so happy and excited, to count down to the new year, and celebrating in all of the wonderful joys of the new year with everyone :) a brand new, fresh year coming up, to enjoy sharing together :) it's very exciting, as a new year approaches :) We've been having so much fun, celebrating the holiday season with you and your family's :) many very special memories being made :) We sure do love our baking friday adventures, and sharing our adventures with everyone :) it's been an incredible year of baking friday adventures, and we're so happy and thrilled to blossom into a whole new year of baking friday fun, with 52 more adventures in 2020 :) it's always an adventure in the kitchen :) There's so much more, to look forward too :) This is a picture of our kitchen all set up, and decorated for our super fun adventure :) Today, we're baking onion pretzels, sugar cookies, and chocolate chip cookie gift set i recieved for Christmas :) A very special thank you, for making our holiday season, very special, and memorable, and thank you everyone for joining us in our kitchen each week, and welcoming us into your kitchens, with all of the baking friday fun :) 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 niece Alyssa :) they went to the store today, and picked up some nice yeast, for the onion pretzels, for baking friday :) it's very nice and sweet of them :) Thank you mom, dad, and Alyssa, so very much! :) We all love to chip in and get baking friday supplies each week :)W e love this very special tradition in our lives :) we're also using the chocolate chip cookie baking kit that Alyssa and family gave me for Christmas :)

Greetings, from our hearts, home, and kitchen, to yours! :) the kids and i got our picture taken today in the kitchen :) it's a cool baking friday tradition :) You all are always right there with us in spirit :) We're so happy and excited, to blossom into another awesome fun year of baking friday adventures :)

Baking friday teamwork! :) preparing the goodies :) the kids love to help :) They're great helpers :) They get so proud, when they add the ingredients, super stirring, and of course, enjoying the goodies we bake :) Each year, we get the wonderful joy of getting to have 52 baking friday adventures, and we look forward to another 52 adventures in 2020, baking up lots of treats, and sharing lots of happy baking friday smiles :)

Onion Pretzels, Sugar Cookies, and big Chocolate Chip Cookie :) come on over, for some baking friday goodies! :) Alyssa, the kids, and i had lots of fun baking goodies today :) we love these special times, and all of the great memories being made :) we've had such an awesome fun year, of baking friday adventures, and are so happy and excited to blossom into a whole new year of baking friday fun in 2020 :) Sharing lots of smiles, and spirited cheer! :) baking friday :)

big chocolate chip cookie in cast iron skilled :) This is such a cool gift, that Alyssa and family gave me for Christmas :)