baking friday :) Valentine's day Heart shaped cookies, football cookies, triple berry muffins :)

"now these smell like cookies! cookies in my tummy!"-my nephew Hunter 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, flour flying, Valentine's day themed baking friday adventure in the kitchen!!! :) this was so much fun!!! :) from our hearts and home to yours, we send our love, and happy friendship smiles :) we had an awesome fun time today, baking some goodies :) awww! we had a full baking friday crew, and Holly is enjoying some cookies, and a triple berry muffin we baked :) lots of great things going on,and many special memories being made :) our annual Valentine's day themed baking friday adventure :) 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 Valentine's day heart shaped cookies, pillsbury football themed cookies, and triple berry muffins :) it was so much fun! :) we're all digging in, enjoying the goodies :) the kids love to bring some goodies home with them :) it's such a special joy, sharing in, and celebrating special joys of the season with everyone :) the month of February is in full swing, and Valentine's day is coming up :) we love to have a Valentine's day themed adventure, the friday before Valentine's day :) we look forward to celebrating the special holiday with everyone :) there's so much more, to look forward too :)

my family, Holly, and i hope everyone is doing well, and enjoying a wonderful day :) we think of you all often, and are so happy, thankful, and blessed to have you all in our lives, and to be able to celebrate very special times like this, with everyone :) we've been looking forward to baking goodies :) it's been an awesome stretch of days, and we have lots of birthday's coming up, spring season right around the corner, and holiday's like valentine's day, st. patrick's day, easter, and lots more :) we're looking forward to all of the traditions, and festivities :) This morning, we had a sweet new day, rising and shining :) a special friday tradition i love very much is wishing my family, Holly, and friends, a happy baking friday, and sharing your lovely happy baking friday wishes with my family :) thank you everyone, so very much! :) You all are wonderfully nice, and sweet :)

it was a nice sweet, and spirited morning :) i love to bundle up for my early morning nature walk, and gathered a big bowl of goodies, for our nature friends, and went outside for my early morning nature walk :) i put lots of goodies in our backyard :) our nature friends love their baking friday breakfast feasts :) we had a nice breakfast, and had some gatorade, and i also brewed a cinnamon roll iced coffee :) cheers!!! :) i began to gather our baking friday supplies, and Valentine's day decorations, and went into our kitchen to begin setting up and decorating our kitchen, for our super fun adventure :) i love decorating with themes :) today, i decorated with red, and pink Valentine's day hearts, and decorations :) our kitchen looked great :) i'm so happy! :) for lunch today, Holly had some vegetables, brown rice, and pineapple, and i had some leftover Chinese food, glazed pork, and fried rice:) we all ordered Chinese food last evening :) Holly loves vegetable chop suey and rice :) Holly made some calls this afternoon, and set up some more appts :) She and my  mom, and i were talking, and my dad did some uber driving this afternoon :) he makes good money, doing uber driving :) i enjoyed some nice time here on ds, writing to friends :)

around 3pm, everyone began to come over :) Alyssa, Brodie, Colby, Jacob Brayden, Jenn, Mikey, and Hunter :) Kayla and Taylynn arrived home from school :) we were all hanging out, lots of great excitement in the air, as we were getting ready for baking friday :) Alyssa bought some pillsbury football themed sugar cookies, and also some triple berry muffins for us to bake :)She picked up some nice pink vanilla frosting with sprinkles too :) it's so nice of her:) we were all very excited, to bake goodies :) each week, we love to use our awesome baking friday supplies :) i wear my apron, and we use our oven mits, kitchen towels, cookie cutters, and all of our supplies that we've recieved from family and friends over the years :) these special supplies are always a big part of our baking, and cooking each week :) our kitchen was all set, 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! :) we first began by preparing the sugar cookies :) we love our sugar cookies recipe :) i said to Kayla, pick out the best egg ever :) she loves to pick out the eggs :) baking friday teamwork! :) the kids love to help :) they're great helpers :) they love to add the ingredients to the bowl :) it's so special to them,each having a job to do, like adding the butter, egg, flower, sugar :) they all get to select the spoons they want to use :) we were having so  much fun, preparing the sugar cookies :) Hunter smelled the cookie dough, and he said, "now these smell like cookies! cookies in my yummy!" hehe! :) my mom and Alyssa and Brodie came out into the kitchen, and Holly came upstairs to check in on the baking friday fun too :) this was awesome! :) you all are always right there with us in spirit :) my sister Jenn and Mike went to shop for a little while :) i used butter to  grease the baking pan, and we used our heart shaped cookie cutters, to make the shaped cookies :) we all put the cookies onto the pan, and i then put the cookies into the oven, to bake! :)

As the cookies were baking, we did some cleaning up i the kitchen, and got ready to put the football cookies into the oven :) the pillsbury football cookies are so neat, they're shaped like footballs :) Alyssa said, they were on sale at the supercenter walmart, for 99 cents :) the sugar cookies baked nicely, i brought them out of the oven to cool down :) Holly mentioned, she'd like a few plain sugar cookies, i set 3 aside in the bowl for her :) we got 2 pans ready to put the football cookies on, the kids had so  much fun putting the cookies onto the pans :) we were sharing lots of smiles :) i put the football cookies into the oven to bake :) while the cookies were baking, i washed, and cut some potatoes into home fries shape, for Holly and i to have with our dinner :) i also prepared some triple berry muffins mix, that Alyssa bought :) the football cookies baked quickly :) i brought the cookies out of the oven,to cool down :) i put the muffins into the oven to bake :)

We got ready to decorate the heart shaped Valentine's day themed cookies :) we used pink vanilla frosting for the cookies, and the frosting came with sugar crystals :)we put them on top of the cookies :) i took pictures of the cookies, and put 3 football cookies into the bowl for Holly with the plain sugar cookies :) we all began to dig in, enjoying some cookies :) when i brought the cookies to Holly, she said, "awww! thank you!" :) the triple berry muffins finished baking, i brought them out of the oven :) my mom, Alyssa, and Holly each had a muffin too :) awesome! :) i had a football cookie, and gonna have a sugar cookie with frosting this evening :) it was so much fun, baking the cookies, and muffins today :) i thanked Kayla and the kids for helping :) we love baking friday, and have many more super fun adventures to look forward too :) a very special shoutout for family and friends :) lots of awesome baking, and cooking this week :) we love hearing about the nice goodies, and foods you all cook, and bake :) We're with eachother in spirit, in our kitchens:) i wish we all could gather, and have a big baking friday picnic :) Valentine's day heart shaped cookies, football cookies, and triple berry muffins 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!!! :) February 8th, 2019 :) Happy baking friday everyone, and we wish everyone a happy upcoming Valentine's day :)

We're enjoying a wonderful day, and a great week :) baking friday! :) We love it!!! :) my family, Holly, and i are doing well,and are in great spirits :) There's lots of great things going on, and many special memories being made :) we love sharing in, and celebrating special times, with you and your family's :) the weekend is arriving with lots of great spirit :) we love the weekend's:) tomorrow, we're gonna go shopping at the dollar tree :) i'm going to buy some gifts, cards, goodies, and treasures:) it's gonna be so nice, shopping :) Holly and i are gonna watch a movie tomorrow:) We love our super fun, popcorn movie party's :) i'm also going to write cards this weekend :) 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 2 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 warm caring happy sunny friendship hugs :) 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 Valentine's day themed cookies, football sugar cookies, and triple berry muffins, for baking friday :) thinking of you, our dear friend :)

my mom says hi :) She says, "i hope everyone had a really good baking friday":) awww! :) She says, "have a nice weekend" :) 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 wonderfully safe, fun,and peaceful weekend :) we think of you all often:) we love hearing about your days :) it's been a great week, and so much more, to look forward too :)

Happy baking friday!!! :) calling all cookie monsters! :) it's time for our annual, heart-warming Valentine's day themed baking friday adventure :) my family, Holly, and i are so happy and excited to celebrate with you and your family's :) the month of february is in full swing,and Valentine's day is almost here :) we love celebrating the holiday's with everyone :) we sure do love our baking friday adventures, and sharing our adventures :) this is a picture of our kitchen all set up, and decorated, glowing with the spirit of Valentine's day, red and pink :) today, we're baking heart shaped sugar cookies, also some cool pillsbury football cookies, and triple berry muffins, that my niece Alyssa bought for us :) we're having so much fun enjoying our baking friday adventures :)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! :) cookie monsters unite! :) it's time to bake! bake! bake! :)

baking friday supplies! :) we have a very special shoutout, and thank you for my dear, and lovely mom, dad, and niece Alyssa :) they went to the stores this week, and picked up baking friday supplies :) it's very nice,  and sweet of them :) thank you mom,dad, and Alyssa! :) we all love to chip in each week, to get baking frday supplies :) we love this very special tradition in our lives :) 

Greetings, from our kitchen to yours :) Kayla, the kids,  and i got our picture taken in the kitchen today :) its a cool baking friday tradition :) You all are always right there with us in spirit :) happy baking friday smiles :) 

baking friday teamwork! :) the kids love to help :) they love to add the ingredients, super stirring, and of course, enjoying the goodies we bake :) sharing lots of happy baking friday smiles :)

Valentine's Day heart shaped cookies, and Pillsbury Football themed cookies :) come on over, for some baking friday goodies! :) Kayla, the kids, and i had a super fun time, baking goodies today :) we love these awesome times, and the spirit of the season :) there's lots of great things going on and many special memories being made :) baking friday :)