baking friday :) Smores, and Chocolate Chip Cookies :) Golden days of Summer :)

"we love smores, lets make SMORE!!!"- my nephew's Brody, Hunter, Jacob ,Colby, Brayden, Carter, 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, Golden days of Summer time themed baking friday adventure! :) We had the whole baking friday crew together today, sharing lots of smiles and spirited cheer as we baked lots of goodies, and made some smores :) The kids are so happy, they love these 2 goodies we made today :)We had our baking friday adventure about an hour early today :) We're all hanging out ,and excited to enjoy these golden days of summer time with everyone :)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 chocolate chip cookies, and made smores :) We had 6 chocolate bars, lots of graham crackers, marshmallows,and were ready to make the most smores we've ever made! :) A great summer of fun baking friday adventures, and many special memories being made :) Thank you angel friends, for sharing in this special tradition with us each week :) Happy baking friday smiles :)

Sweet Golden days of Summer time baking, as we get ready to countdown to the month of September :) Hi angel friends :) my family, Holly ,and i hope everyone is doing well,healthy, and enjoying a great day :) We love hearing from you, and we think of you all often :) We're very glad, and thankful to be getting back to a really good balance with our days,and keeping with our daily routines ,and traditions :) Everyone's support, warm well wishes, and prayers is very comforting, and uplifting :) Thank you angel friends :)We're very blessed, and thankful to have you all in our lives :) my mom's continuing to feel better, and making good healing progress :) She's in good spirits, and has been walking around a bit more :) She's having a good stretch of days :) We're very proud of her and her strength :) We're all easing back into some normal,balanced days :) We've been having a great summer of baking friday adventures, lots of baking, cooking, grilling, and sharing lots of smiles and spirited cheer :) a few weeks ago we made smores, and got a very special request from the kids to make more smores :) We love smores, they're one of our favorite treats :) We're enjoying these golden days of summer time, as the month of September approaches,and soon we'll be beginning our happy countdown to fall season ,themed baking friday adventures :) Thank you angel friends, for all that you do for us, and for sharing in the season with us :) We appreciate you all very much,and we love you all bunches and bunches :) Sending our love, super big happy sunny warm caring friendship hugs, and sunny sunflower smiles, 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, 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're very thankful for a good stretch of balanced days :) Wednesday we really began to feel like our days are getting back to normal :) 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 sunshine has returned today :) We love seeing the sunshine glowing into our window and curtains :) i gathered a nice bowl of goodies ,and went outside for my nature walk :)

Our nature friends, plants ,and sunrise sunshine greeted me :) 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 :) There's lots of happy nature friends visiting our yard, and neighborhood :)We love seeing them :) it's very neat to see the position of the sun in the sky, it looks like the sun is transitioning back to the east, to become the fall season sun in the next month :) We've been enjoying the cooler weather,it feels like a hint of early september days weather :) our plants,and flowers are doing well, growing and flourishing :)We have lots of tomatoes growing ,and string beans :)The sunflowers, and other flowers are blossoming : )there's a beautiful wave of color of summer flowers shining all around our yard, and garden :)We love seeing our snowball bush ,and roses continuing to blossom :) We're enjoying the gardening season very much ,and looking forward to enjoying sharing in the rest of the season with everyone :) it brings us lots of great joy getting to share our adventures and garden with everyone :) happy sunny nature, and gardening season smiles :)

It was a nice peaceful early morning :)we enjoyed our breakfast,and having some hot chamomile tea, vanilla iced coffee, and water :) Tiger girl enjoyed her breakfast,and some treats :) we love our breakfast time :) 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 happy golden days of summer time theme :) our kitchen looks very nice :) it's lots of fun decorating :) around mid-morning ,we put our favorite sports radio on :) Lots of great football talk, leading up to the upcoming season :)We're very excited for all of the upcoming football games, and those classic football sunday party days :) we love 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 :)

Around 2:30pm, Jenn and the kids came over :) The triplets and Brody have been here today, my mom and Taylynn are hanging out with them in our upstairs living room :) We love welcoming everyone over on baking friday :)The kids are enjoying their summer vacation, and beginning to get ready for back to school soon :)We're very happy the kids have enjoying their summer vacation :) we've been having lots of fun enjoying our summer time baking friday adventures, and soon will be getting into our september/fall season baking friday's :) 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 :) my mom takes the picture of us each week :) 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 kitchen was all set, and we were ready to bake some nice goodies :) Sweet Summer time baking, Cooking,and Grilling :) Calling all cookie monsters :) 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 :)We had the whole baking friday crew together today :) We first began to prepare the chocolate chip cookies :) They're one of our all time favorite goodies :) the kids love to add the ingredients into the bowl :) We always taste test the chocolate chips, they're awesome :) Brayden cracked open the egg today :) We were sharing lots of smiles, and spirited cheer :) the kids are enjoying the rest of their summer vacation, and were talking about some cool video games they've been enjoying playing this summer season :) We super stirred the ingredients, we always add some extra melted butter into the cookie dough :) i got some baking pans ready, i used butter to grease the pans, and we made the dough into round cookie shapes :) i put the 2 pans of cookies into the oven to bake :)we did some cleaning up in the kitchen :)

It was time for some SMORES! :) The kids love smores :) Holly and i got the graham crackers, chocolate, and marshmallows all set on plates :)The kids all lined up in the kitchen, and 2 kids at a time ,got to make their own smores :) we helped the kids put the plates into the microwave, they love to see the marshmallow getting huge when it's in the microwave :) we made lots and lots of smores :) The kids were having 2, and 3 smores :) They love them! :) my mom and Jenn were hanging out in the living room with Taylynn, and the kids were going back and forth, from the kitchen and living room :) We made some more smores :) The cookies finished baking ,i brought the cookies out of the oven to cool down :)

The Cookies baked nicely :) We all began to dig in :) Holly and i put together a nice plate of 2 smores, and 3 cookies, for our microwave to have some this upcoming weekend :) We had so much fun baking goodies ,and making smores today :) i thanked the kids, and Holly for helping bake :) We love these very special, spirited fun times :) We have lots more super fun baking friday 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 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 :) Smores, and Chocolate Chip Cookies ,dedicated to our wonderful family, friends, and to the awesome spirit of the golden days of summer time :) We love you all, so very very much :) many great memories made, to always cherish and treasure :) baking friday, we love it! :) August 22nd, 2025 :) Happy baking friday everyone! :)

We're enjoying a nice day :) baking friday, and sweet golden days of summer time spirit :) my family, Holly ,and i are doing ok, and continuing with the good care :)We're very glad, and thankful my mom is making good healing progress :) it was lots of 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 :) Tomorrow, my dad is gonna give Holly and i a ride to the dollar tree :) We're going to stock up on some nice items, and browsing around at the seasonal items :) Holly and i are going to have a fun popcorn movies party :)We love this special weekly tradition :)We picked out some cool movies, and going to watch a new movie on saturday night :) on sunday, we're going to have a TWD party, and also gonna enjoy some time in our yard, and garden this weekend :) i look forward to sharing our weekend adventures, and pictures with everyone in my weekend journals :) There's lots to look forward too :) Tonight, Holly and i are going to watch some episodes of 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 great 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 excited to share in the rest of the summer season with everyone :) We wish everyone a healthy, safe,and peaceful weekend :)

Happy baking friday :) Calling all cookie monsters :) The golden days of the summer season are here :) my family, Holly ,and i love sharing in the season with everyone, and this very special weekly tradition :) We're having a great summer of baking friday adventures, with baking, cooking, and grilling :) 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 chocolate chip cookies, and making smores :) 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 almost 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 golden days of Summer 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 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 :) Sweet Summer Time baking, grilling, 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 love helping teach the kids how to bake and cook goodies and foods :) plus our chillin n grillin baking friday's this time of the year :) we're so happy the kids love to help pick the baking friday menu :) We love baking friday, and are very excited for a whole summer season of baking friday fun, with many great memories being made :) Sweet summer time spirit! :)

Smores and Chocolate Chip Cookies :) Come on over, for some baking friday goodies! :) The kids, Holly ,and i had a fun time baking goodies :) We're having lots of fun enjoying our summer time adventures, sharing lots of smiles, and spirited cheer :) baking friday :)