baking friday :) Smores Monkey Bread, and Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars! :)

"We're baking cookies, and making smores!"- my nephew's Hunter, Mikey, Colby, Jacob, and Brayden 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 summer time sweet, welcome summer season themed baking friday adventure in the kitchen!!! :) this was so much fun, and very special! :) Celebrating the spirit of summer time, baking up some awesome treats! :) We baked smores monkey bread for the first time today :) the goodies came out great! :) everyone's digging in! :) it's a baking friday celebration as we blossom into the summer season! :) 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, Alyssa, the kids, and i baked smores monkey bread, and chocolate chip cookie bars :) it was so much fun! :) We used the nice smores monkey bread recipe that our dear and lovely friend Stephanie (Coolgal) gave us :) The treats are awesome and going fast! :) hehe! :) we're cookie monsters! :) we love this very special tradition, and all of the great memories being made :) The spirit of summer season is all around :) the kids went outside to play after baking today, they love the trampoline and basketball hoop :) it's feeling like summer season :)

THE SWEET SPIRIT OF THE SEASON!!! :) SUMMER TIME!!! : ) Hi angel friends! :) my family, Holly, and i hope everyone is doing well, and enjoying a beautiful day :) We're so happy ,and excited to blossom into the summer season with everyone, sharing in all of the heart-felt times, seasonal traditions and festivities :) it's that time of the year, awesome warm weather, sunshine, nature, gardening, BBQ cookouts, adventures, and summer seasonal cheer :) We love it!!! :) We're so happy and thrilled to blossom into the new season with everyone :) There's lots of great joys about the summer season :) it's very exciting, as a new season begins, and all of the excitement of the sharing of these special times that makes summer time memorable :) our plants, and gardens are flourishing, and lots of awesome times being shared with family and friends :) it's feeling like, and looking like, sweet classic and golden summer time :) We look forward to hearing about all of your summer festivities, traditions, and sharing ours :) One of our favorite joys, is our summer time baking friday adventures :)

This morning, we had a beautiful new day, rising and shining :) The birds were up early this morning, singing happily :)the spirit of the season is all around :) 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 lovely happy baking friday wishes :) aww! :) You all are wonderfully nice, and sweet :) We've been looking forward to our super fun adventure, and blossoming into a whole new season of baking friday fun :) i'm so happy and excited to share with everyone, about an awesome new baking friday supply i recieved as a very special gift :) Holly surprised me! :) She designed, and ordered a very special gift for me, a baking friday apron! :) it's very nice, and sweet of her :) She got it for me, as a special early anniversary gift, as she and i are getting ready to celebrate our 9th anniversary of being together :) The apron says, "Happy baking friday, with Chris and Crew" :) Awww! :) i love my new apron, and i'm so happy and excited to wear it :) a very special thank you, for Holly :) She's so proud, i'm gonna wear my new apron :) it's green :) it's awesome, and such a wonderful gift :)

As the new day was blossoming, i was up early, and gathering a big bowl of goodies for our nature friends, and went outside for my early morning nature walk :) the weather's been warming up, and it's feeling like, and looking like summer season :) we've had lots of nature friends visiting our yard, garden, and neighborhood :) it's amazing, the nature energy, and how it shines and glows all around :) i put lots of goodies in our backyard, bird sanctuary area for our nature friends :) they love their baking friday breakfast feasts :) awww! :) i was walking around our yard, taking in the sweet nature sights and sounds :) i checked in on our plants, they're doing really well, growing and flourishing :) we have some more potato sprouts, and our plants are growing very nicely, as the season continues to settle in :) it's amazing, to see how much the plants have grown :) Holly and i love our gardening adventures, and nature walks, and are so happy to blossom into some more :) it's a thrilling time in the season, with all of the nature :) we've been seeing ladybugs, butterflies, dragonflies, lots of birds, squirrels :) it's nature amazing out there :) we love this time of the year, and all of the many special gardening season memories being made :)

It was a sweet spirited morning :) we enjoyed a nice breakfast, i made oatmeal with an apple cinnamon cereal bar, and a blueberry iced coffee :) Cheers! to family, friends, good health, nature, and the awesome spirit of the season :) 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 :) Today, i decorated with a cool welcome summer theme :) our kitchen looked awesome, sunny and bright :) Around mid-morning, Holly and i went outside for another nature walk, and tended our plants, giving them a nice watering :) We love tending our plants, and seeing them grow and grow :) we enjoyed a nice lunch around mid-day, and during the early afternoon, i enjoyed some nice time here on DS, writing to friends :) We love hearing about your days, and sharing in the special joys of the season :)

Around 3pm, Alyssa, Jenn, and the kids came over :) lots of great spirit, and excitement in the air, as we were getting ready to bake some awesome treats :) Each week, we love using our nice baking friday supplies that we've recieved from family and friends over the years :) i wore my awesome new apron that Holly gave me, and we use our nice oven mits, kitchen towels, and all of our baking friday supplies are a big part of our baking, and cooking each week :) our kitchen was all set and ready, and we were ready to bake 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! :) The kids love to help :) They're great helpers :) they get so proud adding the ingredients, and super stirring :) we first began to prepare the chocolate chip cookie bars :) These were so popular last week, everyone wanted us to bake some more :) We used the betty crocker cookies mix :)we added in some butter, and 1 egg :) the kids were super stirring :) Holly was hanging out with us in the kitchen : )We were sharing smiles, and lots of baking friday cheer :) little Brodie, little Carter, and my mom, and sister Jenn came out into the kitchen too :) You all are always right there with us in spirit, during these very special times :) We were having fun prepare the cookies bars :) i used vegetable oil to grease the baking pan, and we poured the cookies mix into the pan, and i put the cookie bars into the oven to bake :)

Smores Monkey Bread! :) We love the awesome recipe our dear friend Stephanie (Coolgal) shared with us :) We used vegetable oil to grease a baking pan :) we then used 2 cans of biscuits :) we broke the biscuits in half, and then dipped the biscuits into melted butter, and then dipped the biscuits into the crumbled graham crackers :) we then put the biscuits into the baking pan, and then sprinkled in some marshmallows and hershey's chocolate mini bars :) it looked so good, and was ready to bake! :) we put the smores monkey bread into the oven to bake :) As the goodies were baking, the kids were having a fun time playing some video games in the living room, and we did some cleaning up in the kitchen :)

The Cookie bars finished baking, i brought them out of the oven to cool down :) The smores monkey bread baked so nicely too :) i made some extra smores for Holly, with just the graham crackers and marshmallows, as she doesn't eat chocolate, she was so happy to have some smores without the chocolate :) i took some pictures of the goodies and we all began to dig in :) The goodies came out great! :) the kids went outside to play :) We had so much fun baking goodies today :) i thanked the kids and Alyssa for helping bake : )We love these awesome times, and all of the great memories being made :) We have many more super fun baking friday adventures to look forward too :) a very special shoutout for family and friends :) lots of great baking, cooking ,and BBQ Grilling this week :) Summer time :) We love hearing about the goodies and foods you all bake, cook, and grill : )We're with eachother in spirit, in our kitchens :) i wish we all could gather and have a big baking friday picnic :) Smores Monkey Bread and Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars, dedicated to our wonderful family, friends, and to the awesome spirit of the season :) we love you all so very very much! :) many great memories made, to always cherish and treasure :) baking friday! :) We love it!!! :) June 19th, 2020 :) Happy baking friday everyone! :)

We're enjoying an awesome day! :) baking friday! :) Summer time! :) We love it!!! :) my family, Holly, and i are doing well, and in good spirits :) it was so much fun baking goodies today :) we're enjoying the week very much, and all of the very special times being shared with family and friends :) lots of great memories being made :) We're looking forward to sharing in many more times, as the summer season arrives :) The weekend is arriving with lots of spirit :) Tomorrow, Holly and i are going to do some gardening, tending our plants, and also going to have a movies marathon, leading up to our popcorn movie party :) on sunday, Father's day, we may have a BBQ cookout, and we're going to tend our plants, and also having a TWD marathon, some writings, and i may order some coins online :) i'm having fun browsing at the coins, collectibles :) i look forward to sharing our weekend, and pictures with everyone in my journals :) There's many more awesome times to look forward too :) Tonight, Holly and i are going to watch an episode of Most Haunted, and Ghost Adventures :) we love our fun, paranormal party night's :) keep healthy, safe, and strong :) we're so happy, thankful, and blessed to have you all in our lives :) Thank you angel friends, so very much, for all that you do for us, and for the very special heart warming joy, comfort, and peace, you all bring our hearts, our days, and our lives :) You all are wonderfully nice, sweet, and very caring :) We deeply appreciate everything, with all of the love of our hearts :) big group happy sunny warm caring sunny sunflower friendship hug, and iced coffee cheers! :) We look forward to sharing in many more very special times, adventures, and all of the seasonal traditions and festivities with family, friends, nature, and the wonderful spirit of the season :) We hope everyone enjoys a safe, and wonderful weekend :)

-never lose hope :)

To Wildthing, Peaceful Gentle Moments of the day :) Wildthing, it's an awesome spirit soaring today :) Today, Alyssa, the kids, and i baked smores monkey bread, and also baked some chocolate chip cookie bars, for baking friday :) We love our adventures :) our plants are continuing to do very well, growing, and flourishing with the season :) we're so happy and excited to blossom into the weekend, with some more nature walks, gardening, and enjoying some movies :) Thinking of you, our dear friend :)

my mom says hi :) She says, "i hope everyone is doing well, and having a good baking friday" :) Awww! :) We love you all bunches and bunches, our sweet dear wonderful guardian angel friends :) We hope everyone is doing well, and enjoying a great day :) we wish everyone a safe, peaceful, and happy weekend :) We're so happy, thankful, and blessed to have you all in our lives :) You all warm our hearts, and brighten our days :)

Happy baking friday!!! :) Summer Time is here! :) Calling all cookie monsters! :) it's time for some sweet classic, and summer time fun! :) We're ready for a whole new season of baking friday adventures! :) my family, Holly, and i are so happy and excited about the new season, and sharing in all of the special times, festivities, and summer time traditions with everyone :) it's that time of the year, summer nature, gardening, adventures, BBQ cookouts, and seasonal cheer! :) We sure do love our baking friday adventures, and sharing our adventures with everyone :) The summer season is beginning to arrive, with lots of awesome spirit : )We're celebrating the arrival of summer, with a very special baking friday adventure today :) This is a picture of our kitchen all set up, and decorated for our super fun adventure :) Today, we're baking smores monkey bread, and chocolate chip cookie bars :) Thank you everyone, for joining us in our kitchen each week, and for welcoming us into your ktichens :) This is so much fun, and very special :) calling all cookie monsters! :) cookie monsters unite! :) it's time to bake! bake! bake! :)

i created this cool summer banner :)

Holly gave me this awesome new apron she designed :) thank you Holly! :) i love it!!! :)

Baking friday supplies! :) We have a very special shoutout, and thank you for my dear and lovely mom, dad, and niece Alyssa :) they made some store runs this week, and picked up some nice baking friday supplies :) it's very nice, and sweet of them :) Thank you mom, dad, and Alyssa, so very much! :) We all love to chip in each week, to get baking friday supplies :) We're so happy, and thankful to have 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 cool baking friday tradition :) You all are always right there with us in spirit in our kitchen :) Sharing lots of happy baking friday smiles :) We love this very special tradition in our lives :)

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 loving our summer time baking friday adventures :) it's always a super fun adventure in the kitchen :)

Garden friend cat joined us in the kitchen! :) he says hi :) awww! :) 

Smores Monkey Bread, and Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars! :) come on over for some awesome baking friday goodies :) we had lots of fun baking goodies today :) We're all digging in, the goodies came out great! :) We're so happy and excited to be blossoming into summer time, and looking forward to many more adventures, enjoying our favorite tradition, baking friday :)