baking friday :) Shortbread Cookies, Brownies, Potato Chips, and Onion Rings :)

"wow! We're making a lot of goodies!"- my nephew's Hunter, Brayden, Mikey, Colby, and Jacob 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, classic, good ole baking friday fun, themed baking friday adventure in the kitchen!!! :) we baked up some awesome treats, and sharing lots of smiles :) we had the oven going, and the frylator going today, as we baked and cooked some of our favorite goodies :) we made 4 goodies today, including some awesome brownies for Kayla :) a very special request from her :) we wish you all could come over, for some baking friday goodies :) We're all with eachother in spirit :)

We sure do love our baking friday adventure, and sharing our adventure with everyone :) keeping with the tradition, a wonderfully wholesome tradition :) today, Alyssa, the kids, and i baked some nice shortbread cookies, brownies, and made potato chips and onion rings :) it turned into a big baking friday party in the kitchen :) we love these very special times, and all of the great memories being made :) We cherish and treasure the special joy of being able to bake ,and sharing our adventures :)

Blossoming into spring time baking! :) Hi angel friends! :) Big warm caring happy sunny friendship hugs, sent with our love :) my family, Holly, and i are thinking of you and your family's :) wehope and pray, that you all are well, in good health, and enjoying a nice day :) You all are always in our thoughts, prayers, and in our hearts :) Thank you angel friends, for all of your heart-felt hugs, comments, messages, and for the wonderful uplifting comfort, you all bring our days, and our lives :) We're very happy, thankful, and blessed to have you all in our lives :) your friendships are very special to us, and means the world to us :) we're so happy, and thankful to have special traditions, like baking friday in our lives :) it brings us a nice balance, and comfort, especially during these current times. We're all doing well, and taking things day by day :) going with the flow of how the days are rolling. You all are giving us a wonderful strength, hope, and helping us keep balanced :) A big special thanks, for always be here for us :) We'll always be here for you and your family's too :)

This morning, we had a sweet new day, rising and shining :) one of my favorite cool baking friday traditions, is wishing my family, Holly, and friends a happy baking friday :) i share with my family and Holly, your sweet happy baking friday wishes :) awww! :) You all are so nice, sweet, and very thoughtful :) Thank you angel friends, so very much :) We love to look forward to our baking friday adventure :) the excitement to our adventures builds up, throughout the week :) the kids love to ask each day, "how many days until baking friday?" :) awww! :) the kids also love to be in charge of the ingredients, and each having cool jobs like who's in charge of the flower, who adds the eggs, the butter, and more :) We love this very special tradition, and the great joys it brings our hearts, and so happy and thankful it brings joy to your hearts too, our dear angel friends, our family of friends across the miles :) You all are always right there with us in spirit, during our adventures :)

As the new day was blossoming this morning, the spring birds were singing :) They've been singing so happily in the mornings :) sweet nature tunes, serenading us into the days :) i gathered a big bowl of goodies, and went outside for my early morning nature walk :) our nature friends were waiting for me :) i spotted the squirrels, and birds over by the bird sanctuary area :) i put lots of goodies in this area of our yard, on the feeders, tables, tree branches, and even some on the ground near the trees :) it's an awesome area, and perfect for our nature friends to gather goodies :) they love their baking friday breakfast feasts :) awww! :) i saw lots of birds, and squirrels around : )the nature energy is amazing, as spring season begins to blossom :) we love our daffodils, hyacinth's, and all of our plants :) our trees are showing signs of growth : )We're hoping for a big growing season, for our fruit trees :) We have apples, pears, and a peach tree, along with lots of grapevines and raspberry bushs :) it's gonna be so nice, blossoming into the new g ardening season soon :)

it was a sweet early morning :) we enjoyed a nice breakfast, and also had some hot teas, and iced coffees :) We've been taking very good care, building up our immune systems :) having oranges, and we also have vitamin c, i bought halls defense vitamin c drops at the dollar tree :) we also love to have ramen noodle soups, we add garlic powder, ginger powder, and onion flakes :) wishing us all, the best of good health, peace, and comfort :) i began to gather our baking friday supplies, and decorations, and went out into our kitchen to begin setting up and decorating our kitchen, for our super fun adventure :) i love to decorate :) i used my new kitchen towels, and oven mits i recieved for my birthday, to decorate our kitchen :) we love all of our baking supplies :) our kitchen looked so nice :) We've been keeping in tune with family across the miles :) Holly texted with her brother, and we all have been keeping in touch with family and friends across the miles :) we enjoyed a nice lunch, and during the early afternoon, i enjoyed some nice time here on DS, writing to friends :)

Around 3pm, Alyssa and the kids, and Jenn and the kids came over :) we were all getting ready to bake and cook :) Lots of great spirit, and excitement in the air, on baking friday :) i'm wearing my new, "this is my baking shirt", that i recieved for my birthday :) i love it :) 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 :) these special supplies, are a big part of our baking, and cooking each week :) earlier, i prepared some batter dip, for the onion rings, and also prepared some potatos and sliced the potatoes into the chips :) everyone loves the potato chips :) our kitchen was ready, and we were all set to make 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 all love to chip in, helping baking :) my mom, Alyssa, Jenn, Carter, and Kayla came into the kitchen at times today, and were so excited to join in on the baking friday fun :) it's been a few weeks, since we've had a big baking friday crew, and it was so nice, having many join in to bake today :) on the stove, in the frylator, i had some potato chips frying :) Taylynn and Mikey love potato chips with salt and vinegar :) they were excited we were making some :) we also had lots of nice onion rings to fry :) i made the homemade batter dip, with flour, half and half cream milk, 2 eggs, garlic, salt, and pepper :) the batter dip is really good :)

We were sharing smiles, baking :) today, we were all chipping in with the baking friday teamwork :) You all are always right there with us in spirit, during our adventures :) we began to prepare the shortbread cookies :) the kids love to help :) they get so proud, when they add the ingredients, and super stirring :) the cookies mix came in a nice cookies kit, with confectionary sugar :) We made the cookies into round shapes, and i used vegetable oil to grease the cookies, and put the cookies into the oven to bake :)

Lots of potato chips were finishing frying, i put some vinagar and salt into a bowl, and we brought the potato chips and salt n vinegar into the living room, Taylynn and Mikey were so excited, they started to dig in :) We made lots of onion rings, my sister Jenn, Alyssa, and Holly love the onion rings, i was putting the onion rings into a bowl, for them to enjoy :) i brought some onion rings to Holly :) She was so happy, and Jenn and Alyssa enjoying onion rings too :) we were all enjoying the awesome spirit of baking friday :)
The shortbread cookies finished baking, i brought them out of the oven to cool down, and a bit later, we put the cookies into the bowl of confectionary sugar :) Kayla had a special request, for us to make the fudge brownies :) we made the brownies for her, they came out awesome :) awww! :) it was so nice, us all hanging out, and enjoying this awesome adventure today :) through all times, we need these special times, and moments :)

all of the goodies came out great, and are going fast :) hehe! :) we're cookie monsters :) i thanked Alyssa, the kids, and everyone, for hanging out, having fun baking :) it was a good ole classic, baking friday adventure :) we have many more super fun adventures to look forward too :)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 with eachother in spirit, in our kitchens :) This is so much fun, and very special :) i always wish we all could gather, and have a big baking friday picnic someday :) Shortbread Cookies, Brownies, Onion Rings, and Potato Chips, dedicated to our wonderful family, friends, and to the wonderful spirit of the spring season :) We love you all so very very much! :) many great memories made, to always cherish and treasure :) baking friday! :) We love it! :) March 27th, 2020 :) Happy baking friday everyone! :)

We're enjoying a nice day! :) baking friday! :) we love it!!! :) my family, Holly, and i are doing well, and are in good health, and keeping in good spirits :) We're taking good care, keeping with our daily routines, and traditions, best we can during these current times. it was so nice, baking goodies today :) We love our adventures and all of the special memories being made :) The weekend is arriving :) Tomorrow, we're going to go shopping at the dollar tree, for a little while :) we're gonna buy some cards, gifts, treasures, and gonna stock up a bit, on some items, foods, and beverages. :) We'll keep safe, and being careful :) We're keeping strong with everyone :) Holly and i are going to watch a movie on saturday night, one of my new dvds i recieved for my birthday :) we're gonna have a TWD marathon party on sunday, leading up to the new episode on sunday night :) i look forward to sharing our weekend adventures, and pictures with everyone in my weekend journals :) there's lots more special 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 comfort, strength, and peace, you all bring to our days and our hearts :) You all are wonderfully nice, sweet, and very caring :) We deeply appreciate everything, with all of the love of our hearts :) big group warm caring comforting sunny friendship hug :) keep safe, and take good care, everyone :) we wish everyone a peaceful weekend :)

-never lose hope :)

To Wildthing, Peaceful Gentle Moments of the day :) Wildthing, its a nice day :) today, Alyssa, the kids, and i shortbread cookies, and made onion rings, potato chips and fries for baking friday :) thinking of you, our dear friend :)

my mom says hello :) She says, "i hope everyone is doing well" :) She says, "i hope everyone had a good baking friday, and enjoys a nice weekend" :) Awww! :) We love you all very much, our sweet dear wonderful guardian angel friends :) We hope everyone is doing well, in good health,and having a good day :) keep safe, and taking good care :) we wish everyone a peaceful weekend :)

Happy baking friday! :) calling all cookie monsters! :) blossoming into spring time, with some cool, fun, awesome, good ole fashioned baking friday fun! :) my family, Holly, and i are so thankful, for special traditions in our lives :) it always brings such a joy, comforting peace, and balance to our weeks :) We're blossoming into some spring time baking :) There's lots of great recipes :) one of our favorite joys, is hearing about the foods, and goodies you all bake and cook :) we're with eachother in spirit, in our kitchens :) 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 :) it's so much fun decorating :) i'm displaying some of my new kitchen towels, and oven mits :) we love our baking friday supplies :) Today, we're baking shortbread cookies, and making onion rings, and potato chips :) 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! :) cookie monsters unite! :) it's time to bake! bake! bake! :)

baking friday supplies! :) We all had baking friday supplies from our recent shopping trips :) we all love to chip in each week, to get the baking friday supplies :) We love this very special tradition in our lives :)

Greetings, from our kitchen to yours :) The kids and i got our picture taken in the kitchen today :) it's a special baking friday tradition :) We're so thankful, for special traditions like this :) It uplifts our spirits, and brings us lots of smiles :) You all are always right there with us in spirit in our kitchens :) Happy baking friday smiles :)

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 :) sharing lots of happy baking friday smiles :)

The kids love to be funny :) 

Shortbread Cookies, Brownies, Onion Rings, and Potato chips :) Alyssa, the kids, and i had a fun time baking and cooking today :) We love these special times, sharing in heart-felt moments with family and friends :) Sharing lots of smiles, and many great memories being made :) baking friday :)