baking friday :) Peanut Butter Blossoms Cookies, and Peppermint Bark :) Holiday baking :)

"We love candy canes and chocolate"- my nephew's Brody, Hunter, Carter, Brayden, Jacob, Colby ,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, Christmas themed baking friday adventure in the kitchen! :) This was lots of fun, and holiday spirit soaring :) beginning our Christmas themed baking friday adventures, making some of our favorite Christmas time goodies and treats :) We love these very special, spirited fun times, sharing lots of smiles, and spirited cheer :) Come on over, for some baking friday goodies :)

We sure do love our baking friday adventure, and sharing our adventures with everyone :) keeping with the tradition ,a wonderfully wholesome tradition :) Today, the kids, Holly, and i baked peanut butter blossoms cookies, and made peppermint bark, with candy canes and chocolate :) it was lots of fun :)we're excited to bake lots of Christmas goodies and treats, throughout the holiday season :) We're very blessed, and thankful to have the baking friday tradition in our lives :) The goodies we made today are very popular :) i like to put a little peppermint bark in my hot chocolate :) we've got a whole season of Christmas themed baking friday's to enjoy sharing in :) Thank you angel friends, for sharing in this very special tradition with us each week :) Happy baking friday smiles :)

Christmas Time Baking :) Greetings, from our hearts, and holiday home to yours :) 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 :)We're enjoying sharing in the holiday season with everyone, and all of the seasonal festivities and traditions that makes the season very special and memorable :) decorating, baking, cooking,Christmas movies, and seeing Christmas lights, and so much more :) We love the spirit of the season ,and very special times being shared with family and friends :) one of our favorite Christmas time traditions ,is baking and cooking :) lots of great recipes, Christmas goodies ,and treats :)We've been looking forward to our Christmas themed baking friday adventures :) We love hearing about your seasonal festivities, traditions ,and sharing ours :) We've got our Christmas lights lit, our Christmas tables glowing ,and our holiday kitchen cozy warm ,and smells like Christmas cookies :) We're very thankful, and blessed to have you all in our lives :) Thank you angel friends, for sharing in the season with us, for all that you do for us ,and for sharing in this very special tradition with us each week :) It brings us lots of joy getting to share our baking friday adventures :) We're excited for a whole season of baking, cooking, sharing in heart warming times :) We love you all bunches and bunches :) Wishing everyone continued joys of the holiday season :) Happy friendship smiles :)

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 love the holiday season, and all of the Christmas time festivities, and traditions :) We've been enjoying some Christmas movies this week, and decorating our home for the holiday's :)We love seeing our Christmas town tables, displays, and lights glowing :) We look forward to continuing to display decorations as the season continues on :) 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 :) The snowfall was neat yesterday,and during the late afternoon ,we had a snow squall here, it looked like a snowglobe outside :)

We're keeping warm, and are very thankful our furnace is working well :) we have some very cold and windy weather in our area, with temperatures forecasted to remain below freezing here today. it's a good indoors day, and a good day for some baking ,and cooking :) i bundled up warmly, gathered a nice bowl of goodies, and went outside for a brief nature walk :) our nature friends, and the sunrise sunshine greeted me :) the winds whoosh whoosh this time of the year, and makes this whistle like sound when the wind whooshing through the tree branches, it's feeling like ,and looking like winter season arriving. 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 :) it's been an active nature week ,with lots of birds, and squirrels visiting our yard, and neighborhood :) i wasn't outside for too long ,as the windchill was about 14 degrees this morning. we're so glad our nature friends have lots of goodies to gather and enjoy :) We hope the winds ease ,and the weather warms up more, for some more nature walks :) Happy nature smiles :)

it was a nice peaceful early morning :) We enjoyed a nice breakfast,and having some hot chamomile tea, water, and vanilla iced coffee :) i began to gather our baking friday supplies, Christmas kitchen 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 nice festive Christmas theme :) our kitchen looks festive ,and very nice for the holiday's :) our Christmas kitchen decorations are some of my favorite to decorate :) As the morning went on, we put the sports radio on :) we love tuning into the sports talk, their Christmas talks, and also their football preview for this upcoming sunday's games :) We're looking forward to a great football sunday :) Around mid-day, we enjoyed a nice lunch, and during the early afternoon ,i enjoyed some nice time here on DS :)

Around 3pm,Jenn and the kids came over, and Brody and the triplets came over :) Lots of great holiday season spirit in the air :)The kids are very excited for Christmas time, their upcoming Christmas vacation, and opening presents on Christmas :)We've been looking forward to our super fun, Christmas themed baking friday adventures :) We love baking, and have lots of favorite Christmas recipes, cookies, cupcakes, and lots more :) We love making at least 2 or 3 goodies each week, especially during Christmas season :) We love the spirit of these holiday season times being shared with family and friends :) 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 :) Holly and i wore our elf shirts :)  We love to use our nice baking friday supplies, i wear my nice Christmas themed apron Holly made for me, and we use our nice Christmas oven mits, kitchen towels, baking pans, and all of our supplies that we've recieved from family and friends over the years :) Our holiday kitchen was all set, and we were ready to bake some Christmas goodies :) Calling all cookie monsters and Santa Claus :) It's time to bake! bake! bake! :)

We began our super fun adventure! :) baking friday teamwork! :) The kids love to help, they're great helpers:) they get so proud ,adding in the ingredients :) We first began to prepare the peppermint bark :) We love candy canes :) We opened up the candy canes,taking the candy canes out of the plastic wrappers, and then put the candy canes into a zip lock bag, i used a large spoon to crunch the candy canes into smaller pieces :) We put the white chocolate chips into a bowl, and heated up the chips in the microwave :) i stirred the chips, and continued to heat up the chips until they were melted :)We added in the crunched candy canes pieces, and super stirred the chocolate and candy canes pieces, and then put the mix into a baking pan, and put the peppermint bark into the fridge to cool down :) we were looking forward to trying the peppermint bark, it's one of our favorite Christmas time treats :)

We began to prepare the peanut butter blossoms :)We added in the ingredients, and began to super stir :) my mom and Jenn were hanging out in the living room, and Mikey joined us in the kitchen today, and you all are always right there with us in spirit in the kitchen :) We got the peanut butter cookies dough ready :)We were shairng lots of smiles, talking about Christmas time :) i used butter to grease the baking pan ,and we made the cookie dough into round shapes, and Holly used the fork to make the criss-cross design on top of the cookies, and i put the cookies into the oven to bake :) The cookies were baking nicely, we love the scent of peanut butter baking :)We did some cleaning up in the kitchen ,and brought out the peppermint bark, it had cooled down nicely in the fridge :)

We put the peppermint bark into a zip lock bag, and i used a large spoon to break apart the peppermint bark into smaller portions :) Brayden, Holly,and i put the piecs of peppermint bark into Christmas themed baking cups, and took a picture of the peppermint bark, and we all began to dig in :) The peppermint bark came out great :) the peanut butter blossoms cookies finished baking ,i brought the cookies out of oven to cool down, and we put the hershey's kisses on top of the cookies :) i took a picture of the cookies ,and we all began to dig in :) the peanut butter blossoms cookies, and peppermint bark came out great :) i thanked the kids and Holly for helping bake :) We had lots of fun baking the goodies, and 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 the goodies and foods you all bake and cook :)We're all with eachother in spirit, i our kitchens :) This is so much fun and very special :) i wish we all could gather and have a big baking friday picnic :) Peanut butter blossoms cookies, and Peppermint bark, dedicated to our wonderful family, friends, and to the wonderful spirit of the holiday season :) We love you all ,so very very much :) many great memories made ,to always cherish and treasure :) baking friday, we love it! :) December 6th, 2024 :) Happy baking friday everyone :)

It's a nice day, with baking friday, and sweet holiday season spirit :) my family, Holly, and i are doing ok ,and continuing with the good care, enjoying a good balance with our daily routines ,and weekly traditions :) It was so much fun baking Christmas goodies today :) We love these very special, spirited fun times, and all of the great memories being made :) We look forward to lots more holiday season baking :) The weekend is arriving with lots of holiday season 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 treats for Tiger, Christmas cards, gifts, snacks, candy, and drinks : ) We're gonna browse around at the hotwheels, and Christmas items :) Holly and i are going to have a popcorn Christmas movies party, watching a movie on saturday night, we're also going to write Christmas cards this weekend :) On Sunday, we're going to have a football party :) We love football sunday :)We're going to make some baked french bread pizza, and also having some snacks, drinks, and watching football, enjoying all of the great gameday spirit :) it's gonna be a nice weekend :) i look forward to sharing our weekend adventures, and pictures with everyone in my weekend journals :) We're going to light our Christmas lights, enjoying our Christmas town tables, and putting up some more Christmas decorations :) 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 the special joy you all bring us :) We appreciate you all very much :) Big group caring, happy sunny warm friendship hug :) We wish everyone a peaceful evening and night :)

-never lose hope :)

my mom, Holly, and our family says hello :) We hope everyone is doing well, healthy,enjoying a great day,and we hope everyone is enjoying a really good baking friday :) We love you all bunches and bunches, our sweet dear wonderful guardian angel friends :) We think of you all often, and you all are always in our thoughts, prayers, and in our hearts :) We're enjoying sharing in the holiday season with everyone, and all of the seasonal festivities, and traditions :) We wish everyone a healthy, safe, and peaceful weekend :)

Happy baking friday, and Happy Holidays :) Calling all cookie monsters! :) it's time for some Christmas season baking :) my family, Holly,and i are excited to share in the holiday season with everyone, and all of the seasonal festivities, and traditions :) We love the very special times being shared with family and friends with us in spirit :) it's our favorite holiday season joy :) There's so much to enjoy during the holiday's :) one of our favorite Christmas time traditions, is baking, and cooking :) Lots of Christmas goodies, and treats :) We're beginning our Christmas themed baking friday's 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 super fun adventure :) i love decorating our kitchen with a Christmas theme :) Today, we're baking peanut butter blossoms cookies, and making peppermint bark with candy canes and chocolate :) 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 :) it's time to bake! bake! bake! :)

baking friday supplies :) A special thank you for Alyssa :) She 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 holiday season 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 :) We love gathering, and sharing lots of smiles with spirited baking friday cheer :) Christmas 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 look forward to many more fun adventures, a whole Christmas season of baking friday fun and many great memories being made :) Season's greetings, and happy holiday's from our hearts and home to yours :)

Hunter, Holly, and i :) 

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

Peanut butter blossoms cookies, and Peppermint Bark :) come on over, for some baking friday goodies :) The kids, Holly ,and i had a fun time baking today :) We love these special, spirited fun times, baking lots of Christmas time goodies and treats, sharing lots of smiles and spirited holiday season cheer :) baking friday :)