baking friday :) Our first Chocolate Chip Cookie Pizza, and Onion Pretzels :)

"lets bake the first ever cookie pizza!"- my nephew's Hunter, 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, and super sweet, golden days of summer time themed baking friday adventure in the kitchen! :) This was lots of fun! :) Welcoming Hunter back into the baking friday kitchen with lots of spirited cheer! :) We had a baking friday first today, baking our first ever, cookie pizza! :) the kids were so excited, they came up with the cool idea to put the cookie dough on a pizza pan, and also to slice the cookie into the shape of pizza slices! :) They're ordering up some slices of cookies! :) We love these awesome fun, spirited times, sharing lots of smiles and seasonal cheer :) 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 a chocolate chip cookie pizza, and onion pretzels :) it was lots of fun :) We're having lots of fun enjoying our summer time baking friday adventures, and making a cookie pizza for the first time today :) The kids are so proud of creating the cookie pizza :) They want us to bake more, including seasonal themes, like halloween, and christmas cookie pizza's, and lots more :) We welcomed Hunter back into the kitchen today :) he's been healing well from his recent ankle surgery. we're so glad, and thankful he's healing well :) there's lots of seasonal times being shared, and many great memories being made :) Thank you angel friends, for sharing in this very special tradition with us each week :) Happy baking friday smiles :)

Spirit Soaring Summer Time! :) the month of August is shining bright with lots beautiful nature :) hi angel friends :) my family, Holly, and i hope everyone is doing well, healthy, and enjoying a wonderful day :) We love hearing from you and we think of you all often :)We're enjoying sharing in the summer season with everyone, with all of the seasonal festivities and traditions that brings lots of joy and great memories being made :) the month of August is in full swing :) Lots of summer time spirit all around :) We love these awesome times of the season, and having a great season of gardening, and our baking friday adventures :) We're very blessed, and thankful to have you all in our lives, and to be able to share in the season with you all :) We love hearing about your seasonal festivities, traditions, adventures, and sharing ours :) Thank you angel frends, for making each day special, and for sharing in the season with us :) We love you all bunches and bunches, and appreciate you all very much :) Sending our love, super big happy sunny warm caring friendship hugs, and our best well wishes, from our hearts and home to yours :) 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, andi 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 :) it's been a nice stretch of days, with lots of summer spirit all around :) 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're in the middle of a heat-wave stretch of days here with temperatures reaching into the 90's with the heat index. we hope everyone who is experiencing hot weather, is keeping cool and hydrated :) We've been drinking more water this week :) it's a great time in the gardening season, with lots of nature flourishing and blossoming :)i gathered a nice bowl of goodies, and went outside for my nature walk :)

Our nature friends, sunrise sunshine, and our plants greeted me :) the plants love to soak up the summer sunshine :)We've been seeing lots of nature friends visiting our yard and garden :) The bees have been in the garden early :) i saw some bees pollenating our string beans plants this morning :) 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 :) We recieved the 2 bags of bird seeds i ordered on ebay :) Holly and i are gonna refill all of the feeders with seeds :) Our plants, fruit trees, and flowers are doing well, growing and flourishing :)We're looking forward to picking some more fresh garden goodies, including snap peas, string beans, and more cucumbers :) our pumpkin plants are doing great, and we have lots of morning glory flowers blossoming each day :) We also have more zinnia's, and flowers blossoming in our front yard :) We love the gardening season and sharing our garden and adventures with everyone :) our snowball bush and rose bushes are shining in our front yard, and sunflowers growing :) It's some of the most exciting times in the gardening season, with flowers growing, blossoming, and vegetables, fruit growing :)We've got some replenishing rain in our forecast for tonight, it'll be replenishing for the plants, trees, and nature :)Happy sunny summer nature, and gardening season smiles :)

It was a nice peaceful early morning :) We enjoyed our breakfast, and having some vanilla iced coffee, hot chamomile tea, and water :) Tiger girl enjoyed her breakfast, and some treats :) We love our breakfast time, it's a special part of our days :) 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 theme :) our kitchen looks awesome :) it's lots of f un decorating :) it's a special part of the baking friday tradition :) As the morning went on, we put some sports radio on, we love tuning in and keeping up with our favorite sports :) Around mid-day, we enjoyed a nice lunch, and during the early afternoon, i enjoyed some nice time here on DS :)

This afternoon, Jenn and the kids came over, and Brody and the triplets came over :) We love welcoming everyone over :) Lots of summer time spirit and excitement in the air with the summer season in full swing :) The kids are having a fun summer vacation, and looking forward to the upcoming birthday celebrations :) We love sharing in all of these spirited summer times with everyone, and lots of great memories being made :) We're having lots of fun enjoying our summer time baking friday adventures :) With lots of summer time baking, grilling, and cooking :) We all gathered in the kitchen :) The kids love to select their spots at the kitchen counter :) 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 :) 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 summer time kitchen was all set, and we were ready to bake some goodies :) Sweet Summer time baking! :) 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 :) Earlier, i made a nice batch of pretzel dough :) it's really nice and easy reicpe :) The dough rised nicely as the afternoon went on :) i cut the dough into portions, and we made the dough into pretzels shapes :) i had some water heating up on the stove, i put the pretzels into the water (3 at a time), the water makes the pretzels larger :) i used butter to grease a baking pan :)We melted some butter, and added onion flakes into the butter, and drizzled the butter/onion onto the pretzels, and also sprinkled everything bagel seasoning onto some of the pretzels, and i put the pretzels into the oven to bake :)

The kids were very excited to come up with the cool idea to make a cookie pizza :) We began to add the chocolate chip cookie ingredients into the bowl, we taste tested the chocolate chips, we love chocolate :) We were sharing lots of smiles :) talking about summer, baking friday and the kids are very exicted for their upcoming birthday's :) You all are always right there with us in spirit in the kitchen :) We added some melted butter into the bowl, and began to super stir the ingredients :) the kids were so excited for us to use the pizza pan, we used butterspray to grease the baking pan, and the kids spread the cookie dough onto the pan :) We also added mini m&m's on top of the cookie pizza, for the toppign :) i then put the cookie pizza into the oven to bake :) The kids were so excited, and looking forward to having some cookie pizza: )

We enjoyed some onion pretzels, and did some cleaning in the kitchen :) we were hanging out :) it's so nice, Hunter returned to the baking friday kitchen to day :) the cookie pizza finished baking, it baked nicely :) i brought the cookie pizza out of the oven to cool down :) We then used a pizza slicer to slice the cookie into many portions, and the kids all ordered a slice of cookie pizza :) it's a baking friday first for us, baking a cookie pizza :) everyone is enjoying the cookie pizza and pretzels :) it was so much fun baking the goodies :) i thanked the kids and Holly for helping bake :) We're looking forward to many more super fun baking friday adventures :)A very special shoutout for family and friends :) Lots of great baking, and cooking this week :) We love hearing about 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 :) Chocolate chip cookie pizza, and onion pretzels, dedicated to our wonderful family, friends, and to the awesome spirit of 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 7th, 2026 :) Happy baking friday everyone :)

We're enjoying a nice day :) baking friday and sweet spirit of summer time :) 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 :) it's our favorite store :) We're going to buy some foods, snacks, drinks, candy, and more :)We love to browse around the store, hotwheels, fall and halloween decorations, and lots more :) i look forward to sharing about our shopping adventure :) Holly and i are going to have a fun, popcorn movies party :) We love this special weekly tradition :)We're gonna watch some cool movies, and watching a new movie on saturday night :) on sunday, we're gonna go to the triplets birthday party at Alyssa's and family's house :) You all will be with us in spirit :) We're also looking forward to spending time in our garden, tending our plants :) it's gonna be a great weekend :) i look forward to sharing our weekend adventures, celebrations, and pictures with everyone in my weekend journals :) there's lots to look forward too :) Tonight, Holly and i are gonna watch 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're very blessed, and thankful to have you all in our lives :) 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 wonderful 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 seasonal times with everyone, with the summer season shining bright :) We wish everyone a healthy, safe, and peaceful weekend :)

Happy baking friday :) Calling all cookie monsters! :) it's sweet classic and golden days of summer time! :) my family, Holly, and i are very excited, enjoying sharing in the summer season with everyone :) We love the spirit of the season, and having lots of fun enjoying our summer time baking, grilling, and cooking :) There's so much to enjoy this time of the year, and lots of great 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 :) Today, we're baking chocolate chip cookie pizza, and onion pretzels :) 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 Summer time kitchen to yours :) The baking friday crew :) 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 :)

Welcome back Hunter! :) 

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, cook, and grilling goodies and foods :) We're so happy the kids love to help pick the baking friday menu :) We love baking friday, and are very excited for all of our fun summer time baking friday adventures, baking, grilling, and cooking :)
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the kids love to make funny faces! :) hehe! :) 

Chocolate Chip Cookie Pizza, and Onion Pretzels :) come on over, for some baking friday goodies :) The kids, Holly, and i had lots of fun baking goodies :) We love these awesome fun times, and all of the excitement of the summer season :) Sharing lots of smiles, and spirited seasonal cheer :) baking friday :)