baking friday :) Peanut Butter Blossoms Cookies, and Peppermint Bark :) Christmas time baking! :)

"Jingle Bells! Jingle Bells we love chocolate!" -my nephew's Brayden, Jacob ,and Brody 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 festive sweet, Christmas time themed baking friday adventure in the kitchen!!! :) This was so much fun!!! :) We had the flour flying in the air in the kitchen, playing Christmas songs, and sharing lots of smiles, as we baked some awesome goodies! :) We're so happy and excited, for our annual Christmas time baking friday's!: ) We love these very special times, and the festive spirit in the air! :) 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 peanut butter blossoms cookies, and made peppermint bark :) it was so much fun! :) We love these very special, spirited fun times, and all of the great memories being made :) it's so much fun baking Christmas goodies, and sharing in all of the festive cheer :) Thank you angel friends, for sharing in the season, and for sharing in this very special tradition with us each week :) Happy baking friday smiles! :)

Christmas Time Baking!!! :) Hi angel friends! :) my family, Holly, and i hope everyone is doing well, healthy, and enjoying a wonderful day :)Season's greetings, from our hearts ,and holiday home to yours :) We're very heart happy and excited :) We're enjoying a very special time, sharing in and celebrating the holiday season with everyone, and all of the sweet festivities, and traditions that brings lots of great joy :) It's a very exciting time in the season, with lots of decorating, Christmas lights, shopping, baking, cooking, and enjoying Christmas movies, and specials :)There's so much to enjoy this time of the year :) We're very happy, thankful, and blessed to have you all in our lives, and to be able to share in and celebrate these wonderful times of the season with you all :) You all make make the season very special, and memorable for us :) We cherish and treasure all of the wonderful memories being made :) We're so happy and excited, to bake lots of Christmas goodies this season :) Christmas time baking is one of our favorite traditions :) There's lots of great recipes :) We're having so much fun sharing our holiday home with everyone :) The festive spirit of the holiday season is all around :) We wish everyone continued joys of a wonderful holiday season :) Sending lots and lots of love, and happy friendship smiles across the miles, from our hearts and holiday home to yours :)

We love the holiday season spirit :) This morning, we had an awesome 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 sweet happy baking friday wishes :) awww! :) Thank you angel friend, so very much! :) You all are very nice, and sweet :) We've been looking forward to our annual Christmas time baking friday adventures :) We have lots of very special memories of baking goodies over the years :) our Christmas themed baking friday adventures are some of our favorite of the year :) 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 :) it's been a nice stretch of festive days, enjoying our holiday home, lights, decorations, and my Christmas town :) it's a very special time in the season :) We love hearing about your holiday season festivities, traditions, and sharing ours :) i began to get ready for my early morning nature walk :)

We've been hearing lots of happy nature friends outside, including red cardinals, bluejays, and more :) i gathered a nice bowl of goodies, and went outside for my nature walk :) it was a chilly cold early morning, that feels like winter season is arriving. it's type of weather that makes me want to have some hot tea, and hot chocolate :) i put lots of goodies in our backyard, bird sanctuary area for our nature friends :) they love their baking friday breakfast feasts :) awww! :) We're hoping for a snowfall, or two, this holiday season :) We love when it snows, during the holiday season :) We're so happy to see lots of our nature friends visiting, this time of the year :) our winter time nature friends have been arriving :) we see lots of bluejays, black capped chickadees, and bluejays this time of the year, with some woodpeckers visiting too :) Holly and i are very happy and excited to enjoy lots of nature walks, adventures, all throughout the season :) Happy nature smiles :)

It was a sweet spirited early morning :) We enjoyed our breakfast, and having some hot tea with peppermint candy, water, sprite soda, and iced coffee :) i began to gather our baking friday supplies, and 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 festive Christmas theme :) our kitchen looks great! :) we love our wonderful Christmas oven mits, kitchen towels, and decorations :) it's so much fun decorating, it's a very special part of baking friday :) As the morning went on ,we put the sports radio on, we love all of the sports talk, football, basketball, and their holiday shows :) it's awesome! :) We look forward to a fun football party on sunday :) around mid-day, we enjoyed a nice lunch, and during the early afternoon, i enjoyed some nice time here on DS :)

Around 3pm, Brody and the triplets came over :) Jenn and the kids were with us in spirit. Jenn and Mike are having car issues, and weren't able to come over, but hopefully all will be ok, and will be able to come over next week :) Lots of great spirited excitement in the air, with the holiday season here :) We love our annual Christmas time baking friday adventures, and all of the festive spirit in the air :) We love baking lots of our favorite Christmas goodies, and trying new recipes too :) The kids are very excited for Christmas time, and making their Christmas presents wishlist :) We all 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 the kitchen :) Each week, we love to use our nice baking friday supplies, that we've recieved from family and friends over the years :) with Christmas time here, we're using our holiday supplies :) i wear my nice Christmas apron Holly designed for me ,featuring our favorite Christmas movies, and we also use our Christmas oven mits, kitchen towels, and all of our supplies, are a big part of our baking, and cooking each week :) Our kitchen was all set, and we were ready to bake some festive Christmas 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 peppermint bark :) The kids love to help! :) They're great helpers :) Holly and i wore masks in the kitchen today, as Brody has been up and down with his health this week, and has had a fever at times, and a cough, but thankfully is feeling better. he wanted to help a little bit in the kitchen, and we thought it would be best to wear our masks :) We got the candy canes ready :) We unwrapped the candy canes, and put the candy canes into the bowl, and began to crush the candy canes into smaller pieces :) Brayden and Jacob were helping Holly and i, and Brody joined in a bit too :)Holly brought her kindle tablet upstairs, and had some Christmas music playing :) Lots of great festive spirit in the air :) my mom came out into the kitchen at times, and you all were right there with us in spirit :) We melted the white chocolate chips in a bowl, in the microwave,and stirred the chocolate chips, and then added in the peppermint candy canes :) We stirred the chocolate and candy canes, and then put the chocolate/candy into a pie baking dish, and then put the peppermint bark into the fridge :) We love peppermint bark, i like to add it into hot chocolate :)

We began to prepare the peanut butter blossoms cookies :) They're one of our favorite cookies, especially during Christmas time :) We added the peanut butter cookies ingredient into the bowl, and got the flour flying in the air, like snowflakes in the holiday season sky :) We were sharing lots of smiles, and spirited cheer as we super stirred the peanut butter cookies ingredients : )We were listening to Christmas songs, we have lots of awesome favorites :) the kids were singing jingle bells :) i used butter to grease the baking pan, and we made the cookie dough into round shapes, and put the cookies onto the baking pan :)i used a fork to press the cookies, and then put the cookies into the oven to bake :)

As the cookies were baking ,we did some cleaning up in the kitchen ,and checked in on the peppermint bark :) it came out great :) i used a spoon to carefully break the peppermint bark into smaller pieces :) the peppermint bark is awesome! :) The peanut butter cookies finished baking :) i brought the cookous of the oven to cool down, and we put the hershey's kisses chocolates on top of the peanut butter cookies :) i took pictures of the goodies, and we all began to dig in :) The peanut butter blossoms, and peppermint bark came out great! :) We had so much fun baking the goodies, and are looking forward to lots more Christmas time baking, all throughout the holiday season :) i thanked the kids, and Holly for helping bake :) We love baking friday, and are very excited for many more super fun 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, in 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 8th, 2023 :) Happy baking friday everyone! :)

We're enjoying an awesome, festive, and fun day! :) baking friday! :) Spirit of Christmas time! :) We love it!!! :) my family, Holly, and i are doing well, healthy, and in good spirits :) 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 love Christmas time and sharing in all of these very special times with everyone :) The weekend is arriving with lots of holiday season spirit :) We love the weekend's :) Tomorrow, we're gonna go Christmas shopping at the dollar tree :) We're going to buy Christmas gifts, food, treats for Tiger, we're also going to browse at the toys, gifts, dvds, and holiday decorations :) it's gonna be lots of fun shopping :) We love the dollar tree :) Holly and i are gonna have a fun, and festive popcorn Christmas movies party :) We look forward to watching some Christmas movies ,and having foods, snacks, and drinks :) We're also going to write Merry Christmas cards this weekend :) On Sunday, we're going to have a football party :) my mom might make corn chowder, and we have cornbread we could bake too :) it's gonna be a festive, fun ,and awesome weekend! :) i look forward to sharing our weekend adventures, and pictures with everyone in my weekend journals :) Tonight, Holly and i are going to watch 2 episodes of most Haunted show :) We love our fun, friday night paranormal party night's :) The holidy season spirit is all around :)

There's so much more to look forward too, as the holiday season and month of December continues to shine :) The season is filled with lots of awesome seasonal festivities, traditions, and birthday celebrations to share in :) We love the special times, and celebrations from month to month as the year goes on :) We're so happy to blossom into the holiday season with everyone :) Christmas time, decorating, and so much more :) The football season is in full swing with lots of great games, plus basketball season too :) We love cheering on the teams! :) The holiday season is here :) We cherish and treasure, the many special memories being made :) We're very happy, thankful, and blessed, to have you all in our lives, and to be able to share in these very special times of the season with you all :) Thank you angel friends, so very much, for all that you do for us, for comforting us, uplifting our spirits, brightening our days, and for the very special joy you all bring our hearts :) We deeply appreciate everything, with all of the love of our hearts :) Big group happy sunny caring sunflower friendship hug :) We wish everyone a nice peaceful evening and night :)

-never lose hope :)

To Wildthing, Peaceful Gentle Moments of the day :) Wildthing, we're enjoying an awesome day :) Today, the kids, Holly,and i had a fun time baking Christmas peanut butter blossoms cookies, and made peppermint bark, for baking friday :) We love these very special, spirited fun times :) We're loving the spirit of the holiday season :) We're looking forward to Christmas shopping tomorrow, watching Christmas movies, and writing Christmas cards :) Sharing lots of holiday times :) Thinking of you, our dear friend :)

my mom, Holly, and family says hello :) We hope everyone is doing well, healthy, enjoying a wonderful day, and a really good baking friday :) awww! :) We love you all bunches and bunches, our sweet dear wonderful guardian angel friends :) We think of you all often :) We're very heart happy and excited, sharing in and celebrating the holiday season with everyone :) We love the spirit of the season, and all of the seasonal festivities, and traditions :) We wish everyone a healthy, safe, festive,and peaceful weekend :)

Happy baking friday! :) Calling all cookie monsters and Santa Claus! :) it's time to bake Christmas goodies! :) my family, Holly ,and i are very happy, and excited! :) We love sharing in and celebrating the holiday season with everyone :) There's lots of sweet, and festive traditions, and festivities this time of the year, that brings lots of great joy, and many very special memories :) You all make the season very special for us :) Wishing you all, continued joys of the holiday season :) one of our favorite Christmas time traditions, is baking, and cooking :) 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 peanut butter blossoms cookies, and making peppermint bark :) 2 of our favorite Christmas goodies :) 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 fu and very special :) Calling all cookie monsters! :) 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 baking friday supplies :) it's very nice and sweet of her :) Thank you Alyssa, so very much! :) We appreciate all of the nice baking friday supplies she gets for us all :) We all love to chip in each week, to get the baking friday supplies :) We love this very special tradition in our lives :)

We love our Christmas baking cookbooks :) 

Greetings, from our holiday kitchen to yours! :) The north pole baking friday crew! :) Brody, 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, during these very special, spirited fun times :) we're very happy and thankful to have the baking friday tradition in our lives :) We look forward to baking each week :) We love seasonal baking, cooking, and looking forward to lots more adventures all throughout the seasons :) We're so happy and excited, for a festive and fun season of Christmas time baking friday adventures :)

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 and cook :) We're so proud of the kids, and all that they're learning about baking, and cooking :) We love when the kids help select the goodies for the baking friday menu :) We're very happy and excited for all of our baking friday adventures each month, all throughout the year :) Sharing lots of smiles, and spirited baking friday cheer :) We love baking Christmas goodies :)

Christmas songs! :) 

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 goodies :) We love christmas time baking, and all of the spirited fun times being shared,celebrating the festive spirit of the season :) baking friday :)

Christmas town is rockin n jingle bells rollin, with lots of festive Christmas time spirit! :)