baking friday :) Peanut Butter Cookie Bars :) Holly and i baked goodies today :) Summer smiles :)

Happy baking friday, from Holly, Chris, and our family! :)



baking friday! :) Calling all cookie monsters! :) hehe! :) Cookie monsters! :) hehe! :) Cookie monsters unite!!! :) it's baking friday! :) oh my! :) A sweet, and fun, golden days of summer time themed baking friday adventure! :) Sharing smiles, and sweet baking friday memories, as Holly and i baked some goodies today :) The kids are on summer adventures, and were with us in spirit,and you all are always right there with us in spirit in our kitchen, during our adventures :) my mom joined Holly and i in the kitchen today :) We're enjoying these golden days of summer time with everyone, and looking forward to lots more spirit soaring times :) Come on over, for some baking friday goodies! :)



We sure do love our baking friday adventures,and sharing our adventures :) keeping with the tradition, a wonderfully wholesome tradition :) Today, Holly and i baked peanut butter cookie bars :) The goodies came out great! :) Jenn and family are on a summer camping adventure,and Alyssa and Aj both have the day off from work, and are spending the day with the kids :) There was a chance going into the afternoon, that Alyssa and the kids were gonna come over for the adventure, we were awaiting their updates, and were originally gonna bake chocolate chip cookies, but when Alyssa updated my mom ,we decided to bake penaut butter cookie bars :) They all were with us in spirit today :) The kids are finishing up the rest of their summer vacation, and returning to school in the upcoming weeks :) Holly and i had a baking friday adventure this afternoon :)



Celebrating the Golden days of summer time! :) Hi angel friends! :) my family, Holly, and i hope everyone is doing well, healthy, and enjoying a wonderful day :) We think of you all often :)We'e very happy and excited, sharing in and celebrating these golden days of the summer season with everyone, with the continued joys of the seasonal festivities, and traditions :) it's amazing, how we're halfway to September, and soon we'll be beginning a spirited countdown to the fall season, and baking friday's 17th anniversary next month :)We love celebrating the spirit of the season,and treasuring all of the great memories being made :) We're having lots of fun enjoying our summer themed baking friday adventure :) We love counting down the days until it's time to bake :) it's very special to us, getting to share our adventures :) The month of August is in full swing, with many beautiful flowers blossoming, and the nature shining all around :) The golden days of the season are some of the best, with remembering special memories over the years, and many new memories being made :) We're very happy, thankful, and blessed to have you all in our lives, and getting to share in these great times with you all :) Thank you angel friends, for sharing in the season with us, and for making each day very special, and memorable :) We love you all bunches and bunches! :) Wishing everyone continued joys of the season :) Happy sunny friendship smiles :)



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 our friends a happy baking friday, and i share with my family and Holly, your sweet happy baking friday wishes :)awww! :) thank you angel friends, so very much! :) You all are very nice, and sweet :) 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've been seeing lots of happy nature friends visiting our yard, and garden, it's very exciting to see them :) We're hoping to spot some hummingbirds visiting our yard too :) The golden days of summer time nature shine bright, especially during these times of the month of August :) i gathered a nice bowl of goodies, and went outside for my nature walk :) the sunrise sunshine, and our nature friends greeted me :) we're enjoying the cooler, comfortable weather in the mornings, it's refreshing :) the sun was glowing orange this morning, and had a pinkish glow to it during the evening yesterday :) i put lots of goodies in our backyard, bird sanctuary area for our nature friends :) They love their baking friday breakfast feasts :) awww! :)



Our plants, flowers, and garden are doing well, growing and flourishing :) it's so nice, and a great joy, seeing our flowers blossoming, we have lots of sunflowers, and many varieties of flowers blossoming all around our yard, and garden :) the sunflowers, daisies, and morning glory flower days of summer time are here :) all of the flowers brighten our yard, and garden with the beautiful colors of summer :) We're very happy and excited, enjoying the gardening season, and sharing our garden, and adventures with everyone :) Holly and i have been enjoying seeing lots of happy bees landing on the flowers :) it's a spirit soaring time in the season, and lots of great memories being made :) Holly and i look forward to lots more nature walks, and gardening adventures all throughout the season :) Happy sunny summer nature, and gardening season smiles :)



It was a sweet spirited early morning :) We enjoyed our breakfast,and having some hot chamomile tea, water, and vanilla iced coffee :) 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 :) i love to decorate :) it's a very special part of the baking friday tradition each week :) i decorated our kitchen today, with a cool golden days of summer theme :) our kitchen looked awesome! :)as the morning went on, we put the sports radio on :) We love tuning into all of the sports talk :) Last night, Holly and i watched some cool youtube videos, and also watched some of the Patriots vs Eagles preseason football game :) We're so excited football season is almost here :) around mid-day, we enjoyed a nice lunch, and during the early afternoon, i enjoyed some nice time here on DS :)



This afternoon,Holly and i enjoyed a fun time baking peanut butter cookie bars :) We enjoyed super stirring in the ingredients,and talking about baking friday,and sharing some baking friday memories from over the years :) my mom was hanging out with us in the kitchen, and you all were right there with us in spirit :) We added some extra peanut butter into the bowl :) i used some butter to grease the baking pan :) Holly and i added the peanut butter cookie dough into the pan, and spread the dough evenly into the pan,and i put the cookies into the oven the bake :) We were hanging out, talking with my mom, and also cleaned the counter area :) We baked the peanut butter cookie bars for a good 25 minutes, our kitchen smelled like peanut butter, we love it :) i brought the cookie bars out of the oven to cool down :) once they cooled down a bit, i sliced the cookie bars, and took a picture of the cookie bars, and we began to dig in :) The cookies came out great! :) i thanked Holly for helping bake the cookie bars, and we thanked my mom for hanging out with us in the kitchen :) We look forward to many more super fun baking friday adventures,and welcoming the kids, baking friday crew over to visit next week :) a very special shoutout for family and friends, lots of great baking, and cooking this week :) We love hearing about the nice 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 cookie bars, dedicated to our wonderful family,friends, and to the awesome spirit of the 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 16th, 2024 :) Happy baking friday everyone! :)



We're enjoying an awesome day! :) baking friday! :) Sweet summer time spirit! :) We love it!!! :) my family, Holly, and i are doing well, healthy, and in good spirits :)Holly and i enjoyed baking goodies today :) We love these very special, spirited fun times, and all of the great memories being made :) the spirit of the summer season is all around :) The weekend is arriving with lots of seasonal spirit :) We love the weekend's :)We're very happy and excited! :)Tomorrow, we're going to shop at th dollar tree :) We love shopping there :) We're going to buy some treats for Tiger, we're also going to buy some foods, snacks, candy, drinks, and browsing around at the seasonal items, including the new fall/halloween season items, decorations, and hotwheels :) Holly and i are going to have a fun, popcorn movies party, watching summer themed movies :) We're going to pick out a new movie to watch saturday night :) On sunday, we're going to watch TWD dvds, and also gonna tend our plants, enjoying some nature walks, and writing this weekend :) it's gonna be a great weekend :) i look forwad 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 :) We wish everyone a nice peaceful weekend :)



There's so much more to look forward too, as the month of August blossoms and the summer season continues on :) The month of August is an awesome month :) Gardening season in full swing, Flowers growing, and blossoming, and that classic seasonal spirit :) 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 celebrate all of the excitement of the season with everyone :) Celebrating the 2024 NBA Champions this year, the Boston Celtics!!! :) 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 warm 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, Holly and i baked peanut butter cookies for baking friday :) We love these very special, spirited fun times, and all of the great memories being made :) We're very excited to blossom into the weekend, with shopping, watching movies, nature walks, and writing :) The spirit of the season is all around :) Thinking of you, our dear friend :)



my mom, Holly, and our family says hello :) We hope everyone is doing well, healthy, and 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 happy and excited, sharing in these golden days of the summer season with everyone :) The season is shining, and lots of great memories being made :) We wish everyone a healthy, safe, and peaceful weekend :)



Happy baking friday, and golden days of summer time! :) calling all cookie monsters! :) it's sweet classic, and golden days of summer season! :) my family, Holly, and i are very happy and excited! :) We're enjoying a very special time, sharing in and celebrating the summer season with everyone, and all of the great joys the season brings :) We're having lots of fun enjoying our summer themed baking friday's, with lots of baking, cooking, and grilling :) The spirit of the season is all around, with lots of exciting festivities, traditions 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 for our super fun adventure :) i love decorating our kitchen, it's a very special part of the baking friday tradition :) Today, we're baking peanut butter cookies :) 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! :)
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Baking friday supplies! :) We have a very special shoutout and thank you for my niece Alyssa :) She picks up some nice 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 :) A special thank you also for my mom, for the nice peanut butter :) 
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Greetings, from our summer time kitchen to yours! :) It's Summer Time! :) The baking friday crew! :) 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, summer grilling, and looking forward to lots more adventures all throughout the seasons :) We're so happy and excited, for all of our spirited fun, Summer season themed baking friday's :) Baking, Grilling, and Cooking! :)
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baking friday teamwork! :) preparing the peanut butter cookie bars :)
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Happy baking friday smiles, Holly and i! :)
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Peanut butter cookie bars! :) come on over, for some baking friday goodies! :) Holly and i enjoyed a nice time baking cookies :) The kids were all with us in spirit :) We're looking forward to many more super fun adventures,all throughout the season, sharing lots of smiles and spirited cheer :) baking friday :)
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Happy summer garden smiles! :) hi angel friends, i'd love to include some spirit soaring nature/garden pictures of the week :) our plants, and garden are doing very well, growing and blossoming :) it's a very exciting time in the season :) 


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CoolGal
CoolGal

Hi Chris Glad you Holly and your family are doing well and enjoyed baking. The peanut butter bars look great. i know you're looking forward to the baking Friday crew returning next week, Your kitchen decorations look very nice with a summer/sunflower theme. You and Holly look happy in your photo there. Your sunflowers and other flowers look awesome in your photos. Thanks for all my nice hugs today. Have a good evening. Hugs to everyone-Stephanie
Lilysawyer
Lilysawyer

I'm glad the Baking Fri went on as usual, albeit with the baking crew away on other adventures. The peanut butter bars look great, send some my way. :D
bluemoon29
bluemoon29

Great job!! Delicious peanut butter bars! Yummy;). You two make a great team:). I hope the rest of the team have a fun time!

I’ve been busy getting my house all ready for fall. I painted a wall in my kitchen a golden yellow and hung some wallpaper border. I’ve been rearranging furniture and pulling out quilts and having so much fun!!

Hugs to you and Holly:)
JeanCarlin
JeanCarlin

Hi Chris, sorry that none of the kids could be with you yesterday for your Friday baking adventure but at least you and Holly still baked and your peanut butter cookie bars look yummy. Hopefully next week the boys will be with you again..
Thanks, as always, for sharing some amazing nature pics, I just love that sunflower and the marigolds, they are bright spot in my day.
I hope you and Holly enjoy your shopping at the dollar tree today and your movie marathon tonight.
I’m actually going to work today, it’ll be the first time all week, wish me luck
Have a good weekend, hugs Jeannie
Squarley
Squarley

Hello my lovely friend so glad to see you. What wonderful pictures today I love the Bengal tiger you had on the table. Very exciting and watching you and Holly cook sorry the boys weren’t there to help but you guys did a good job and adding some extra peanut butter wish I was there with you. Would love to help you cook. Hope mom was in there with you too. Tell mom and everyone and Holly we said hello. Hope you have a nice weekend. Bengals are playing today at 1 o’clock so got that on. Will be celebrating my grandson’s birthday tomorrow. Love you all bunches. Can’t wait to talk Wednesday. Have a great weekend. :)