baking friday :) SnickerDoodles Christmas Cookies, and Candy Cane Bark Treats :)

"We love the snow! Christmas time!"- my nephew's Mikey, Hunter, and Jacob said that today, during baking friday! :)

baking friday! :) calling all cookie monsters and santa claus! hehe! :) cookie monsters and santa claus! hehe! :) cookie monsters and santa claus unite!!! :) it's baking friday! :) oh my! :)a super fun, flour flying, Christmas celebrations themed baking friday adventure in the kitchen!!! :) this was so much fun!!! :) We had the flour flying, sharing smiles, and Christmas time cheer! :) "oh the weather outside is snowy and delightful, and our christmas hearts glowing brightful, and since it's gonna snow, LETS BAKE! LETS BAKE! LETS BAKE!!! :) woot!!! :) The snow is beginning to arrive, and it's gonna be another winter wonderland, on this sweet classic, and golden day 15 of the Christmas season! :) the festive spirit is all around, and Santa Claus is coming to town!!! :) 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 Kayla, the kids, and i baked Christmas Snicker Doodle Cookies, and made Candy Cane Bark Treats :) it was so much fun, and we're loving the holiday season spirit, festivities, and traditions :) Jenn, Mikey, and Hunter just brought home a plateful of goodies, and may make some hot chocolate and putting some candy cane bark treats in the hot chocolate :) i'm gonna make a hot chocolate this evening too : )We have snowfall in our forecast, and gonna wake up to another winter wonderland :) We love this time of the year, and are having so much fun, celebrating the holiday season with you and your family's :)

my family and i hope everyone is doing well, and enjoying a beautiful day :) It's a sweet time in the holiday season :) We've been looking forward to our super fun baking friday adventure :) our 3rd adventure of the holiday season :) it's an awesome time, for all of the festivities, and traditions :) Thank you angel friends, for making this time of the year, so much fun ,festive, and joyful for my family and i :) As we enjoy all of these awesome times, we're with eachother in spirit :) Jenn called Santa claus earlier (A Santa Claus recording on the phone), and all of the kids gathered around, and listened to the special message from Santa Claus! :) awww! :) We were all gathering around, and cherishing in the awesome moments of all of the smiles, spirit, and cheer being shared :)

This morning, we had a sweet new day, rising and shining :) on the 15th day of Christmas season, baking friday brought to us, lots of smiles, cheerful times, and 2 plates of Christmas treats!!! :) woot!!! :) We've been enjoying all of the holiday season baking, baking lots of treats, and enjoying the great memories being made :) i love wishing my family and friends a happy baking friday, and i share with my family, all of your lovely happy baking friday wishes :) You all are so nice, and sweet :) Thank you angel friends, so very much :) Lots of great excitement has been building up, as we enjoy the awesome countdown to Christmas holiday :)it's been a very festive stretch of days, and weeks, with lots of holiday traditions, decorating, glowing lights, baking, and lots more :)

it was a sweet morning, as the new day was blossoming :) we knew we'd be having some snowfall arriving later on, up to 2 inches of snow :) it's gonna be the 3rd time since last saturday, where we've had snowfall :) it's so festive, and wonderful to see, the winter wonderland sights :) it's very Christmasy :) i began my day with a nice nature walk :) i bundled up warmly, it was very wintery cold this morning, it felt like 0 degrees outside. i brought a big bowl of goodies outside, for our nature friends :) they love their baking friday breakfast feasts :) We love giving our nature friends lots of treats, especially during this time of the year :) the treats help them a lot :)

i came back indoors, made a nice hot tea, cheers!!! to family, friends, and the awesome spirit of the festive holiday 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 :) my family and i love our nice christmas holiday season baking supplies :) our nice aprons, oven mits, kitchen towels, cookie cutters, all of our supplies :) they're a big party of our holiday season baking friday adventures :) our kitchen looked awesome, all set up and decorated :) i went with my mom and dad to the bank briefly, i withdrawed my earnings, and came back home :) my mom and dad went back out to shop, and i made a nice lunch :) During the early afternoon, i enjoyed some nice time here on ds, writing to friends :)

After 2pm, Alyssa came over :) Kayla arrived home from school, and Alyssa went to pick up the triplets and Taylynn at school :) Jenn, Mikey, and Hunter came over :) We were all gathering around, lots of great excitement, as we were getting ready to bake goodies, and make candy treats :) You all are always right there with us in spirit, in our kitchen :) We love baking friday and it brings us so much joy, and happiness to be able to share our adventures with everyone :) our kitchen was all set, and we were ready to get the flour flying in the air, like snowflakes falling from the sweet holiday season sky! :) calling all cookie monsters and Santa claus! :) it's time to bake! bake! bake! :)

We began our super fun adventure! :) we first began, to prepare the snicker doodles cookies :) they are a nice recipe, and calls for cream of tartar to be added to the ingredients :) the cookies are a lot like sugar cookies :) we got our picture taken in the kitchen, it's a cool baking friday tradition :) We were wearing santa claus hats, and our aprons :) i said to Kayla, pick out the best egg ever! :) She loves to pick out the eggs :) we were all very excited, adding the ingredients into the bowl :) there's lots of festive spirit, and the kids are so excited for Christmas :) they can't wait! :)the kids love to help :) they're great helpers :) Kayla and i are so proud of them :) Kayla's a great helper too :) Today, Hunter wore the snowman apron that Kayla use too wear, when she was about 7 years old :) awww! :) it makes us so proud, that the kids love the baking friday tradition, and love to bake goodies :)

baking friday teamwork! :) The kids were helping us super stir the ingredients :) we were getting the flour flying in the air! hehe! : )our new pup Blue was in the kitchen too, he was excited to see us all baking cookies :) i used some vegetable oil to grease the baking pan, and we got ready to make the snicker doodles cookie dough into nice Christmas shapes :) we love using our Christmas cookie cutters :) we made, Trees, Angels, Bells, Stockings, shaped cookies :) we made 2 nice pan fulls of cookies :) we dipped each cookie into sugar and cinnamon :) i put the cookies into the oven to bake! bake! bake! :)

As the cookies were baking, we did some cleaning up in the kitchen :) the kids came back and forth, from the kitchen to the living room :) Kayla and i got ready to prepare the candy cane bark treats :) We crunched up some candy canes, and melted white chocolate chips :) We then poured the crunched candy canes into the melted chocolate, and stirred it, and then poured the chocolate and candy canes into the baking dish, and i put the dish into our fridge to chill :) the candy hardens really fast :)

The cookies finished baking, they came out great! :) As the cookies were cooling down, my sister Jenn called Santa claus on the phone :) they have a special recording from santa claus :) The kids were so excited, as they heard Santa's message on the phone! :) awww! :) a fun Christmas festivity :) The candy cane bark treats were all set :) i used a knife to break the candy into pieces, and put the candy into these nice red and white, baking cups :)the candy treats are really good, and are great for a treat, or adding to hot chocolate :) The candy, and cookies came out really good :) i thanked Kayla and the kids for helping bake :) We had so much fun baking the cookies, and making the candy :) We have lots more holiday season baking friday fun to look forward too, with our Christmas celebrations baking friday next week, and then our new year's celebrations baking friday :) We love this time of the year :) a very special shoutout, to 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 :) our dear friend Shirley (Squarley) mentioned that she and her husband Bruce, are baking, and cooking, for their annual Christmas party :) We're with eachother in spirit, in our kitchens :) This is so much fun and very special :) Snicker Doodles Christmas Cookies, and Candy Cane Bark Treats, dedicated to our wonderful family, friends, and to the festive magical 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 15th, 2017 :) Happy baking friday, and Christmas smiles, and cheer from our hearts and home to yours :)

We're enjoying an awesome festive day! :) baking friday! :) snowing!!! :) We love it!!! :) my family and i are doing well, and are in great spirits :) There's lots of great things going on, and many pecial memories being made :) We love this time of the year, and the wonderful joys of the holiday season :) it's been a festive week, with holiday mailings, snowfalls, baking, and lots more :) The weekend is arriving with lots of great spirit :) We're gonna go to the dollar tree tomorrow, Christmas shopping :) i've got some great gift ideas, and also gonna browse for some treasures :) it's gonna be lots of fun shopping :) There's a chance we may go to walmart this weekend too :) i'd love to browse around at the hotwheels, and Christmas aisles :) i'm going to do some writing this weekend too :) i look forward to sharing our weekend adventures, and pictures with everyone in my weekend journals :) There's many more great things to look forward too :) Tonight, Holly and i are gonna watch a special 90 minute episode of Most Haunted :) We love our fun, friday night, paranormal party night's :) Thank you angel friends, so very much, for all that you do for us :) You all are wonderfully nice, sweet, and very caring :) We deeply appreciate everything, with all of the love of our hearts :) BIG GROUP WARM HOLIDAY FRIENDSHIP HUG :) We hope everyone enjoys a wonderful weekend :)

-never lose hope :)

To Wildthing, Peaceful Gentle Moments of the day :) Wildthing, it's an awesome festive day! :) Today, Kayla, the kids, and i baked Christmas cookies, and made candy cane bark treats, for baking friday :) Thinking of you, our dear friend :)

my mom says hi :) She says, "i hope everyone is having a really good baking friday" :) She says, "have a nice weekend" :) Awww! :) We love you all bunches and bunches, our sweet dear wonderful guardian angel friends :) We hope everyone is doing well, and enjoying a beautiful day :) We wish everyone a wonderfully safe, fun, happy, and festive weekend :) We love hearing about your holiday season festivities, and traditions :)

Happy baking friday! :) Calling all cookie monsters and Santa Claus! :) it's sweet classic, and festive Christmas time!!! :) it's snowing outside, holiday season cheer, Christmas time is here! :) LET IT SNOW! LET IT SNOW! :) "oh it's sweet brightful and delightful weather for an awesome baking friday adventure with you!!!" :) We're so happy and excited! :) my family and i are having so much fun, celebrating the holiday season with everyone :) There's lots of great joys, and special times being shared :) We love all of the festivities, and traditions :) It's a wonderful time for some baking :) We have some snowfall outside, it's so nice, and Christmasy :) This is a picture of our kitchen all set up, and decorated for our super fun adventure :) We love holiday season baking, and all of the wonderful warmth of the home, snowing outside, and lots of christmas spirit in the air :) We sure do love our baking friday adventures, and sharing our adventures with everyone :) it's looking a lot like Christmas :) 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 and santa claus! :) it's time to bake! bake! bake! :)

We have a very special shoutout, and thank you, for my dear, and lovely mom and sister Lisa :) They went shopping and picked up baking friday supplies :) it's so nice, and sweet of them :) Thank you mom and Lisa, so very much! :) We all love to chip in each week, to get baking friday supplies :) We love this very special tradition in our lives :)

Christmas Smiles! :) We love our Christmas decorations and our baking friday supplies :) they're a big part of our holiday baking season :) The spirit of Christmas is all around :) We love this wonderful time of the year :)

Happy Holiday greetings, from our hearts and home to yours :) Kayla, the kids and i got our picture taken in the kitchen today :) it's a cool baking friday tradition :) We love sharing smiles, laughs, holiday cheer :) Happy baking friday smiles :)

Preparing the goodies! :) baking friday teamwork! :) We're so happy and excited! : )getting the flour flying in the air in the kitchen, like the snowflakes flying in the sky outside :) We're baking some yummy treats! :) the kids love to help! :) they're great helpers :) they get so proud, when they add the ingredients, and super stirring :) baking friday, we love it! :)

Christmas Snicker Doodles Cookies, and Candy Cane Bark Treats :) come on over, for some baking friday holiday goodies :) Kayla, the kids, and i had lots of fun today, baking cookies and making treats :) the holiday season is in full swing, with lots of great things going on, and many special memories being made :) we're having so much fun, celebrating the holiday season with you and your family's :) Christmas time smiles, and holiday cheer! :) baking friday :)

hi angel friends! :) in my journal on saturday, i'm going to share about some very special Christmas gifts, and treasures my family and i recieved :)