baking friday :) Strawberry Cupcakes :)

"Lets bake some cupcakes!"- my little nephew's Mikey, Brayden ,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, and spirit of summer time, themed baking friday adventure in the kitchen!!! :) this was lots of fun, and a sweet time baking :) We had an amazing summer of baking friday adventures and now with September, fall season right around the corner :) We're counting down to the sweet baking friday's of the fall season :) Sharing lots of smiles, laughs, and great fun times :) come on over, to enjoy 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, Mikey, Colby, Jacob, Brayden, and i baked some strawberry cupcakes :) We've been having an amazing summer of baking friday adventures :) as Kayla, Taylynn, and Mikey get ready for the big upcoming school year, we're gearing up for the month of September  and fall season :) next week, we want to begin our countdown to fall, themed baking friday adventures, baking some of our favorite fall season treats :) We're looking forward to all of the festivities, traditions, and celebrations with you all :) 

my family and i hope everyone is doing well, and enjoying a great day :) This morning, we had a sweet new day rising and shining :) i love to wish my family and friends a happy baking friday :) i share your lovely happy baking friday wishes with my family :) Thank you angel friends, so very much! :) You all are very nice, and sweet :) my niece Alyssa was visiting this morning, and she mentioned about having some strawberry cake mix and frosting, and wanted to know if we wanted to bake cupcakes today :) i said, "Sure!" :) She mentioned she's bring over the baking supplies later on today :) sweet! :) 

i began my day with a nice nature walk :) i gathered a nice bowl of goodies, and went outside to put the goodies around our yard, for our nature animal friends :) they love their baking friday breakfast feasts :) Awww! :) i checked in on our plants :) They're doing amazing! :) We have a halloween pumpkin growing in our garden :) the pumpkin is growing larger, and i also see some gourds growing too :) the plants continue to thrive, and are doing really well :) i love to see the flowers, plants, popcorn cobs growing :) it's an amazing time in the gardening season :) 

i began to gather some nice decorations, for our kitchen :) i decorated with a nice sunflowers theme today :) i love decorating our kitchen :) it looked so nice :) i prepared a nice lunch :) i had chicken with zuchinni, cucumbers, and 2 small baked potatoes :) lunch was delicious! :) i enjoyed another nature walk around mid-day, and i tended our plants :) i gave our plants a really good watering :) it's a bit more humid outside here today, than earlier in the week. The plants enjoyed the water :) It's incredible to see how many flowers are blossoming :) i love when the butterflies and bumble bees are visiting our garden too :) i saw this huge "preying mantis" insect on our snowball bush :) It's 2nd year in a row, where i've seen one of those :) Lots of great nature all around :) 

During the early afternoon, i enjoyed some nice time here on DS, writing to friends :) Alyssa and the triplets came over after 2pm, and Jenn, Mikey, and Hunter came over around 3pm :) We were all gathering around in the living room, and went out into the kitchen :) the kids love baking friday :) on other days when the triplets visit, they always ask, "is it baking friday yet?" :) awww! :) i put finishing touches on getting our kitchen set for our super fun adventure :) Each week, we love to use our nice baking friday supplies we've recieved from family and friends over the years :) we love our nice aprons, oven mits, kitchen towels, and all our baking supplies :) these awesome supplies, are always a special part of our cooking and baking each week :) our kitchen was all set, and we were all set to bake :) calling all cookie monsters! :) cookie monsters unite! :) it's time to bake! bake! bake! :) 

We began our super fun adventure :) we got our picture taken in the kitchen :) it's a cool baking friday tradition :) little Hunter has been coming out into the kitchen, to join in on the baking friday fun :) today he got to join in and did some super stirring! :) i said to Kayla, "pick out the best 2 eggs ever!" :) She selected the eggs :) it's amazing how Kayla begins high school on monday :) it seems like yesterday when she was only 6 years old, and we had just began our baking friday adventures :) the years really fly by. Kayla and i love to teach the kids about baking, and cooking :) 

We were sharing some smiles, as we added in the cake mix, water, melted butter, and eggs :) The kids all get their spots at the counter, and they all get a spoon, and they get so proud and excited to help out :) they love to help :) We've been teaching them about baking, and very soon, will introduce them to some more recipes, and more baking projects, especially during the fall season/halloween themed baking friday adventures :) We were having lots of fun baking :) baking friday teamwork! :) Little Hunter joined in, and helped stir the cupcake mix :) he was smiling, and loves to wave to us :) awww! :) 

Kayla and i helped the kids put the strawberry cake mix into baking cups, and i then put the cupcakes into the oven to bake! bake! bake! :) our kitchen smelled like strawberry cupcakes! :) We took a little bread, we did some cleaning in the kitchen :) the kids love to go to play their video games :) they got some cool games :) the cupcakes finished baking nicely :) i brought the cupcakes out of the oven to cool down :) Once the cupcakes were cooled down, it was time to frost them : )We used the nice strawberry frosting :) the kids were ready for some cupcakes! :) awww! :) 

We had lots of fun baking today :) i thanked Kayla and the kids for helping bake :) We love our adventures, and are looking forward to many more super fun baking friday adventures to look forward too :) we're gonna begin our September, countdown to fall season themed baking friday's next week :) A very special shoutout to family and friends :) Lots of awesome cooking, and baking this week :) We love hearing about the nice goodies you all cook and bake :) We're with eachother in spirit in our kitchens :) i wish we all could gather to have a baking friday picnic :) Strawberry Cupcakes, dedicated to our wonderful family, friends, and to the awesome spirit 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 26th, 2016 :) Happy baking friday everyone! :)

We're enjoying an awesome day! :) baking friday, we love it! :) my family and i are doing well, and are in great spirits :) i've been regaining my voice after losing my voice in recent days to a sore/scratchy throat. i'm slowly getting back to 100% :) It's been an awesome week, with  lots of great things going on, and many special memories being made :) The weekend is arriving with lots of spirit :) We're very happy and excited! : )We're going shopping tomorrow at the dollar tree store :) It's gonna be so nice, shopping :) i want to buy some nice greetings cards, treasures, and gonna browse around :) i'm going to write some cards this upcoming weekend too :) i look forward to sharing about our weekend adventures, nature, and gardening, in my weekend journals :) There's many more great things to look forward too :) Tonight, Holly and i are going to watch 2 awesome 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 :) You all are wonderfully nice, sweet ,and very caring :) We deeply appreciate everything, with all of the love of our hearts :) BIG GROUP HAPPY FRIENDSHIP HUG :) We hope everyone enjoys a wonderful weekend :)

-never lose hope :) 

To Wildthing, Peaceful Gentle Moments of the day :) Wildthing, today, Kayla, the kids, and i baked some nice muffins for baking friday :) thinking of you, our dear friend :) 

my mom says hi :) She says, "i hope everyone had a good baking friday" :) awww! :) We love you all very much, our sweet dear friends :) We hope everyone is doing well, and enjoying a beautiful day :) We wish everyone a wonderfully safe, fun, and happy weekend :) 

i uploaded a picture of the strawberry cupcakes we baked on my profile/main page :)