baking friday :) Sugar Cookie Blossoms. Gingerbread Cookies, Peppermint Bark, and Potato Chips! :)

"it's Christmas time! ho ho ho! Santa Claus is coming to town!"- my nephew's Hunter, Brody, Carter, Jacob, Brayden, Colby, 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, festive Christmas themed baking friday adventure in the kitchen! :) this was so much fun! :)we had the flour flying in the air in the kitchen, like snowflakes falling from the December sky! :) Dj Jolly Holly was in the kitchen today, playing Christmas songs! :) Lots of festive spirit and excitement in the air :)We made 4 goodies today! :) one of our biggest baking friday adventures! :) We're counting down to Christmas holiday, sharing lots of smiles and spirited cheer! :) 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 sugar cookie blossoms with hershey's kisses, gingerbread cookies, we also made peppermint bark, and potato chips :) it was lots of fun :) the goodies are very popular :) everyone is enjoying the goodies :) We love these very special, spirited fun times, and all of the great memories being made :) Dj Jolly Holly was playing Christmas songs in the kitchen today :) Holly wore her nice Grinch sweatshirt that lights up, and also wearing her Christmas earrings :) Happy countdown to Christmas! :) Thank you angel friends, for sharing in this very special tradition with us each week :) Happy baking friday smiles :)

Sweet Christmas Time Baking and Cooking! :) Greetings from our North Pole Kitchen! :) Santa Claus is coming to town! :) Jingle Bells! :) Jingle Bells! :) it's Christmas Time! :) Hi angel friends :) it's looking a lot like Christmas, all around :) 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 enjoying a special time sharing in the holiday season with everyone, and sharing in all of the seasonal festivities, and traditions :) We're counting down to Christmas holiday, with some festive Christmas time baking :) it's one of our favorite seasonal traditions :) There's lots of great goodies and treats we love to enjoy during Christmas time :) it's lots of fun baking, and cooking :) The spirit of the season is all around :) You all make the holiday season very special for us :) We love hearing about your seasonal festivities, traditions, and sharing ours :) We're all with eachother in spirit :) Wishing everyone a happy countdown to Christmas :) Thank you angel friends, so very much for sharing in the season with us, and for the special holiday season joy you all bring us :) We love you all bunches and bunches :) Sending our love, our most warmest caring happy sunny friendship hugs, and happy holiday smiles, from our hearts and home to yours :) Wishing everyone continued joys of the holiday 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 wonderfully nice ,and sweet :) We've been looking forward to our super fun adventure :) 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 :) We've got some rain and winds in our forecast. it thankfully wasn't stormy outside this early morning. our weather has warmed up :) i gathered a nice bowl of goodies, and went outside for my nature walk :) our nature friends greeted me :) lots of snow and ice has melted overnight,and in recent days as the temperature's been doing up. we could recieve some snowfall on tuesday during Christmas week :) i put lots of goodies on the bird feeders, and in the bird sanctuary area forour nature friends :) they love their baking friday breakfast feasts :) they're also enjoying the suet cakes in our front yard :) We love our nature friends,and giving them lots of goodies, especially during the holiday season :) Holly and i are looking forward to lots more nature walks, and seeing if it snows during Christmas week :) Happy December nature smiles :)

it was a nice peaceful early morning :)We enjoyed our breakfast, and having some hot chamomile tea, water, and ginger ale :) Tiger girl enjoyed her breakfast, she had dry food, pate wet food, and some treats :) We're very glad, and thankful Tiger girl is feeling much better, eating well, and drinking water :) She's a very happy cat :)We love her :) 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 festive Christmas theme :) our kitchen looks very nice ,and festive :) it's lots of fun decorating :) as the morning went on, we put our favorite sports radio on :) We love tuning in to all of the sports talk, they have their football preview on friday's :) We're looking forward to a great footaball weekend :) Around mid-day, we enjoyed a nice lunch, and during the early afternoon, i enjoyed some nice time here on DS :)

Around 3pm, Jenn and the kids came over, and Brody and the triplets came over :) we love welcoming everyone over :) Lots of great festive Christmas time spirit in the air :) the kids are very excited for Christmas :) They've got some great wishlists :) We love our Christmas time baking friday's, and all of the Christmas goodies and treats :) The kids are looking forward to the upcoming Christmas holiday vacation from school :) They love their video games, and Brody loves collectible toys :) Hunter and Carter recently mentioned they like mini skateboard collectibles :)We love getting some cool gift ideas from the kids :) 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 Christmas apron Holly made for me featuring our favorite Christmas movies, and we use our nice Christmas oven mits, kitchen towels, baking pans, and all of our baking supplies that we've recieved from family and friends over the years :) Our north pole holiday kitchen was all set, and we were ready to bake some nice Christmas goodies :) Sweet Christmas Season and December baking :) Calling all cookie monsters and Santa Claus :) It's time to bake! bake! bake! :)

We began our super fun adventure! :) baking friday teamwork! :)The kids are great helpers, they love to help : )We first began to prepare the gingerbread cookies :) their one of our favorite goodies :)We made the cookie dough really good, with molasses, ginger, cinnamon, butter ,water, flour, salt, and brown sugar :) We super stirred the ingredients :)We were talking about Christmas :) Hunter said, he and family have a tradition of going to see christmas lights ,and then watching Christmas movies, while enjoying foods ,snacks, and drinks :) the kids are also enjoying lots of Christmas time festivities at school ,including projects, crafts ,watching movies :) the gingerbread cookie dough came out great :) The kids each got a plate, and used the gingerbread people shaped cookie cutters to make lots of cookies :) i used butter to grease the baking pans :)We made 2 pans of gingerbread cookies, including round shape gingerbread cookies :) i put the cookies into the oven to bake :)

We love the scent of gingerbread cookies baking :) We then prepared the peppermint bark :)We used the microwave to melt the vanilla white chocolate chips, and we crunched up the candy canes :) we put the crunched up candy canes into the melted chocolate, and stirred :)we poured the peppermint bark into a baking pan, and put the peppermint bark into the fridge to chill :) Dj Jolly Holly was playing Christmas songs, lots of festive Christmas spirit in the air :) we love Christmas songs :)a special thank you for Holly for playing the Christmas songs for us all :) on the stove, i had some vegetable oil heating up in the cooking pot, and added in potato chips :) i washed, and sliced the potatoes earlier :) i made 3 batchs of the potato chips :) The kids were so excited ,they love potato chips :)

We prepared a nice batch of sugar cookie dough : )my mom came out into the kitchen at times ,and you all are al ways right there with us in spirit in the kitchen :) We were sharing lots of smiles ,and spirited cheer :) Hunter cracked open the egg ,we super stirred the sugar cookie mix :)The gingerbread cookies came out great, i brought the cookies out of the oven to cool down ,and put the sugar cookies into the oven to bake :) We did some cleaning up in the kitchen, and were hanging out :) We put some vanilla frosting into a zip lock bag, and used it to decorate the gingerbread cookies :) the cookies came out great :)We used our nice Christmas platters to put the goodies on :) The kids all enjoyed some potato chips with vinegar and salt :)

The sugar cookies finished baking :) i brought the cookies out of the oven to cool down :) Holly and i unwrapped the hershey's kisses, and put the hershey's kisses on top of the cookies :) the cookies came out great ;) we checked in on the peppermint bark, it hardened in the fridge :) i used a big spoon to crunch apart the peppermint bark, there's lots of nice peppermint bark :) i like to add peppermint bark into my hot chocolate :) We all began to dig in :) The goodies all came out great :) it was one of our biggest baking friday adventures ,making 4 goodies :) We had so much fun baking and cooking :) i thanked the kids and Holly for helping bake and cook :)We have many more super fun baiking 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 :) Sugar Cookies Blossoms, Gingerbread Cookies, Peppermint Bark, and Potato Chips, dedicated to our wonderful family, friends, and to the wonderful spirit of the Christmas season :) We love you all, so very very much :) many great memories made, to always cherish and treasure :) baking friday, we love it! :) December 19th, 2025 :)Happy baking friday everyone :)

We're enjoying a nice day :) baking friday ,and sweet holiday season spirit :) my family, Holly, and i are doing ok, and continuing with the good care :) it was lots of fun baking goodies today :) One of our biggest baking friday menu's we've had :) We love these very special, spirited fun times, and all of the great memories being made :) The weekend is arriving with lots of hoiday season spirit :) We love the weekend's :) Tomorrow, we're gonna go Christmas shopping at the dollar tree :) We love shopping there :)We're going to buy some Christmas gifts, finishing up our Christmas shopping, also some nice treats for Tiger, some snacks, and drinks :)We love browsing around the store :) We're very glad, and thankful l Tiger girl is feeling much better,and doing very well :) Holly and i are going to have a fun, popcorn Christmas movies party :) We're gonna watch some of our favorite Christmas movies, and going to watch a new movie on saturday night :)on Football sunday ,we're going to have a football party :) We're gonna prepare a nice gameday meal, and having snacks, and drinks :) We look forward to watching lots of football :) it's gonna be a great weekend :) i look forward to sharing our weekend adventures and pictures with eveyone in my weekend journals :) There's lots to look forward too :) Tonight, Holly and i are going to watch most haunted show :)We love our fun, friday night paranormal party nights :) 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 nice 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 enjoying a special time sharing in the holiday season with everyone :) We wish everyone a healthy, safe, and peaceful weekend :)

Happy baking friday :) Calling all Cookie monsters and Santa claus! :) it's sweet Christmas time :) my family, Holly, and i are very excited, sharing in the holiday season with everyone, with all of the seasonal festivities and traditions that brings lots of special joy, and great memories :) one of our favorite joys about the holiday season, is all of the baked goodies and treats :)We sure do love our baking 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 sugar cookie blossoms with hershey's kisses, gingerbread cookies with frosting, homemade potato chips, and also making peppermint bark :) 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 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 North Pole holiday 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 Festive Christmas time baking, and cooking, celebrating the holiday season :) Dj Jolly Holly is in the kitchen, playing Christmas songs! :)

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 :) we're so happy the kids love to help pick the baking friday menu :) We love baking friday, and are very excited for all of our Christmas season baking friday's :) Happy Holiday's, from our hearts and home to yours :)

Holly loves her Grinch sweatshirt that lights up, and i love my Christmas apron she made for me :)

Sugar Cookie Blossoms, Gingerbread Cookies, Peppermint Bark, and Potato Chips :) Come on over ,for some baking friday goodies :) The kids, Holly ,and i had lots of fun baking goodies :) We love these very special, spirited fun times ,sharing lots of smiles, and festive Christmas time spirit :) baking friday :)