Happy Cool Thursday! :) Christmas Gifts, Goodies, Cookies, and Treasures! :) Sweet Day! :)

Happy Cool Thursday and Happy Countdown to Christmas! :) We're enjoying a sweet festive day! :) baking Christmas cookies, Christmas gifts and treasures, celebrating holiday season cheer, and looking forward to a wonderful upcoming Christmas holiday weekend! :) We're very happy and excited! :) We're getting ready for the Christmas holiday :) Twas 3 days until Christmas! :) We're having so much fun and a very special time sharing in and celebrating the holiday season with everyone :) There's lots of great things going on and many wonderful memories being made :) Today, Holly and i baked some christmas cookies for the nice cookies platters/dishes we're putting together for family for Christmas :) We baked gingerbread cookies, and sugar cookies with sprinkles:) We're very heart happy and excited to give the cookies platters to our family :) it was awesome baking the cookies :) We've also got a super fun Merry Christmas celebrations themed baking friday adventure planned for tomorrow :) Holly and i had a sweet time ,surprising my mom with the lottery tickets Christmas wreathe :) awww! :) my mom's so happy and excited! :) She loves her wreathe! :) our hearts are glowing like Christmas lights! :) We put the wreathe on our family Christmas tree today, for my mom :) She's gonna scratch the lottery tickets during our annual Christmas eve party :) it's a very special Christmas time tradition :) We hope she has some big wins! :) We're rockin around our Christmas tree, with all of the festive spirit :) We've had the sports radio on, Christmas movies, and enjoying some hot chocolate :) We're keeping warm, and safe. we have very stormy weather beginning here, with rain and heavy winds forecasted for this evening, tonight,and into tomorrow. we've charged up our batteries, just incase of power outages. wishing everyone safety, and warmth, through the storm. Holly and i are gonna watch some cool Christmas lights themed videos on youtube tonight :)We're very happy and excited! :) We recieved awesome Christmas gifts, goodies, and treasures :) aww! :) Tiger's having a fun Christmas week! :) She's having fun playing with her toys, and enjoying some treats :) Thank you angel friends, so very much for sharing in the season with us :) Enjoying a sweet, festive day with family, friends, baking christmas cookies, enjoying our holiday home, and the wonderful spirit of the season :) Tomorrow's baking friday! :) Calling all cookie monsters! :) Cookie monsters unite! :) it's almost time to bake! bake! bake! :)



Christmas time Preparations, and festive spirit of the season! :) hot chocolate cheers!!! :) Twas 3 days until Christmas holiday! :) Hi angel friends! :) my family, Holly, and i hope everyone is doing well, healthy,and enjoying a nice day :) We're rockin around our christmas tree today, with a spirited festive cookies baking day, cool special christmas deliveries, and surprising my mom with her lottery tickets Christmas wreathe! :) The Christmas weeks in full swing, with lots of seasonal festivities and traditions :) We're loving the Christmas week with everyone, and all of the sweet seasonal sharings :) It's an awesome time in the season,and the excitement is building up to the big Christmas holiday in 3 days :) Holly and i baked some christmas cookies today :) We're putting together some nice cookies dishes/platters for family :) We're also keeping safe, and warm indoors. it's getting stormy outside. keeping everyone in our thoughts, and prayers, that is experiencing stormy weather. wishing everyone safety, warmth,and comfort through the storms. We're very hopeful everyone will be ok, and we hope power will remain on. keep safe through the stormy weather everyone. We've been charging up some batteries today, just incase of power outages. We've got a fun Christmas themed baking friday adventure planned for tomorrow, and upcoming Christmas holiday weekend :) We love you all bunches and bunches, our dear angel friends, and are having so much fun ,and a very special time sharing in and celebrating the holiday season with everyone :)


This morning ,we had a great new day rising and shining :) It's been a sweet festive stretch of days, with lots of awesome holiday season cheer :) We love hearing about your days, adventures, and all of your seasonal festivities, traditions ,and sharing ours :)We're all with eachother in spirit :)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 been keeping a close eye on the forecast. they're calling for lots of rain ,and also heavy winds here, that could be up to 50 to 60mph gusts of winds. we love taking care of our nature friends, and i wanted to make sure they have plenty of goodies before the stormy weather arrives. i gathered a nice bowl of goodies, including peanuts, sunflower seeds, popcorn, and went outside for my nature walk :) i put lots of goodies in our backyard, for our nature friends :) They love gathering the goodies :) The squirrels were in the trees, and all around our backyard :) i tossed a few peanuts over in the area near our fruit trees, and tossed a few peanuts on top of our shed :) The squirrels get so excited, to gather the goodies :) i also put lots of goodies in the bird sanctuary area in our backyard :) it warms our hearts, knowing that our nature friends have lots of goodies to enjoy, and that they're stocking up their nests/homes for winter time :) i made a nice hot tea with peppermint when i came indoors, from my nature walk :)



It was a sweet peaceful early morning :) We enjoyed our breakfast, and having some hot tea, water, and iced coffee :) cheers! to the sweet spirited and joyful times of the holiday's :) Holly and i called our friend Shirley (Squarley) for a nice Christmas week talk :) it was so nice talking :) we also put some sports radio on, they're having their Christmas show today, the sports radio is awesome ,lots of sports talk ,and also the hosts talk about Christmas, favorite cookies, recipes, movies, and they play Christmas songs too, each time they come back from the commercial break :) it's awesome! :) Holly and i love the Zolak and Bertrand, with Hardy show, and we also tune into the Felger and Mazz with Murray radio show :) we're loving their Christmas themed radio show today :)



Christmas Cookies, and Cool Lottery Tickets Wreathe Surprise! :) Holly and i have been looking forward to baking some Christmas cookies :) Today, we baked some nice gingerbread cookies, and sugar cookies with sprinkles :) it was awesome fun, and very sweet spirited :) We have some sweet christmas themed platters, dishes, to put the cookies on : )We're giving the cookies as gifts :) it's very special to our hearts, getting to give cookies to family :) We also had a few leftover cookies for our cookies dish : )We made some hot chocolate :) Holly and i had a special Christmas surprise for my mom :) Today, we put her lottery tickets Christmas wreathe on our family christmas tree upstairs :) my mom is so happy and excited, and was very surprised to see the wreathe :) She loves it!!! :) aww! :) our hearts are glowing like Christmas lights! :) my mom's looking forward to scratching her lottery tickets, during our annual Christmas Eve party on saturday :) We hope she has some big wins! :) Merry Christmas smiles :) We'd love to take this time ,to share with everyone about some awesome Christmas gifts we recieved :)



Merry Christmas Wishes, sent with lots and lots of love, from Virginia! :) awww! :) This is so very wonderfully heart warming, very special, and Christmas awesome!!! :) my family, Holly, and i are very happy and excited! :) We're enjoying a very special and super fun time sharing in and celebrating the Christmas season with everyone :) You all bring us sweet holiday season joy :) We're very happy and delighted to share with everyone, about some awesome Christmas gifts, and treasures we recieved, from our dear and lovely friends, Judy (Ladybug7), Denny, and their family :) awww! :) We're smiling lots, opening our Christmas mail, and sharing in these very sweet, festive joyful times with everyone :) Lots of Christmas season moments, and very spcial memories being made :)


Judy, Denny, and their family sent us, an awesome TWD 2023 Calendar! :) This is super cool! :) The calendar features some classic characters from TWD show :) Holly and i love TWD, and are so thrilled about the spin-off shows beginning in 2023 :) We look forward to enjoying our calendar all throughout the new year, 2023 and having TWD party's! :) Judy and Denny also sent me, an awesome, Washington Commanders history themed t-shirt! :) wow!!! :) this is super cool! :) The shirt honors the team, from their original name, to their current name :) It's awesome! :) i'm gonna wear my new Commander shirt on gamedays! :) woot yeah!!! :) i love my shirt, and Holly and i love our TWD calendar :) This is very nice, sweet, and generous of them :) We'll always treasure, these very special gifts :) it's very sweet, thoughtful, and generous of Judy and Denny :) We're very happy, thankful, and blessed to have you all in our lives :) Sharing lots of Christmas smiles all season :) Judy, Denny, family, my family, Holly,and i thank you all so very much! :) We deeply appreciate everything :) Sending lots and lots of love, happy friendship smiles,and Merry Christmas Wishes :)



Merry Christmas Wishes, sent with lots and lots of love, from Michigan! :)Awww! :) This is so very wonderfully heart warming, very special and Christmas sweet! :) my family, Holly ,and i are very happy and excited! :) We recieved a very special Christmas delivery, from our dear, and lovely friends, Laurie (Laurie32), Ed, and their family :) Awww! :) We're very heart happy and excited! :) We're having so much fun opening our Christmas mail :) This is such a sweet joy, and bringing our hearts lots of smiles :)Laurie, Ed, and family sent us, a wonderful swiss colony gifts and goodies basket :) wow! :) This is wonderful! :) The basket is beautiful, it's a nice red and green basket, with holly berries on the basket :)



The gift basket is filled with lots of delicious goodies :) cheeses, petite fours cakes, summer sausages, cheeses, chocolate covered peanuts, honey roasted peanuts, mustards, and more! :) this is wonderful! :) We love these nice goodies and treats, and will enjoy them throughout the holiday season :) We love swiss colony treats, they're so nice, and these treats will be great to enjoy while watching shows movies, and football :) This is very nice ,sweet, and generous of them :) We love our wonderful gifts and goodies basket, and will always treasure these special gifts :) The basket will always be a very special part of our Christmas decorations each year :) Laurie, Ed, family, my family, Holly, and i thank you so very much! :) We deeply appredciatre everything :) Sending lots and lots of love, happy friendship smiles, and Merry Christmas Wishes :)



We're enjoying a sweet festive day! :) baking Christmas cookies ,having some hot chocolate, and enjoying the wonderful spirit of the holiday season :) we love it! :) my family, Holly,and i are doing well, healthy,and in good spirits :) it was so nice baking some cookies today, and enjoying a nice phone call with a friend :) We're all keeping warm,and safe indoors, and hoping power remains on tonight and tomorrow. keeping everyone in our thoughts and prayers :) Holly and i are gonna watch some Christmas lights themed videos on youtube tonight, it's a very special tradition we have :) Tomorrow's baking friday! :) We're very happy and excited to bake Christmas cookies, and Christmas cupcakes :) We love sharing our adventures :) We're also looking forward to the upcoming weekend, with Christmas eve, movies, football, our annual Christmas eve party, and celebrating Christmas holiday with everyone on sunday :)


it's such a sweet, fun, and exciting time in the holiday season :) The holiday season is in full swing :) There's so much more to look forward too, as the holiday season shines :) We're very happy,thankful,and blessed, to have you all in our lives, and to be able to share in these very special times of the season with you all :) Thank you angel friends, so very much ,for all that you do for us, for comforting us, uplifting our spirits, and for the very special joy you all bring our hearts :) We deeply appreciate everything, with all of the love of our hearts :) Big group, happy sunny warm caring friendship hug :) We wish everyone a nice peaceful evening and night :) Wishing everyone continued joys of a wonderful holiday season :)



-never lose hope :)



To Wildthing, Peaceful Gentle Moments of the day :) Wildthing, we're enjoying a festive fun day :) Holly and i baked Christmas cookies for family :) We also surprised mom, with her Christmas lottery tickets wreathe :) We're loving the sweet spirit and excitement of the season ,and all of the great memories being made :) We're very excited to bake Christmas goodies tomorrow, and blossoming into the Christmas holiday weekend :) Thinking of you, our dear friend :)



my mom, Holly, and family says hi :) We hope everyone is doing well, healthy, and enjoying a great day :) awww! :) We love you all very much, our sweet dear wonderful guardian angel friends :) You all are wonderful friends, and bring us lots of very special spirit soaring joy :) We're loving the holiday season ,sharing in all of the sweet festive times with everyone :) Happy countdown to Christmas! :)



Merry Christmas Wishes, sent with lots and lots of love, from Virginia! :) awww! :) This is so very wonderfully heart warming, very special, and Christmas sweet! :) Holly and i love our awesome TWD Calendar for 2023, and i love my awesome Washington Commanders football t-shirt, that our dear and lovely friends Judy (Ladybug7), Denny,and family sent us :) We'll always treasure, these very special gifts, and treasures :) Judy, Denny, family, Holly and i, and our family thank you so much! :) We deeply appreciate everything :) Happy Christmas smiles :)
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Merry Christmas Wishes, sent with lots and lots of love, from Michigan! :) awww! :) This is so very wonderfully heart warming, very spcial, and Christmas sweet! @:) my family, Holly and i love our wonderful swiss colony goodies and gifts basket that our dear, and lovely friends Laurie (Laurie32), Ed, and family sent us :) We look forward to enjoying the goodies :) We're loving the sweet joys of sharing in lots of spirited Christmas times with everyone :) Laurie, Ed, family, my family, Holly,and i, thank you so very much! :) We deeply appreciate everything :) Happy Christmas smiles :) 


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Some more pictures of our wonderful gifts, goodies, and treasures :) 


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Baking Christmas Cookies! :) Holly and i had a fun time baking gingerbread cookies, and sugar cookies with sprinkles :) We're so happy and excited to give some cookies platters/dishes to our family, for Christmas :) i took some pictures of the cookies we baked :) once the cookies cooled down ,we put the cookies into zip lock bags, and gonna put the cookies onto the platters/dishes on Christmas Eve :) Christmas time baking! :)
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my mom loves her Christmas lottery tickets wreathe :) Holly and i had a fun time surprising my mom earlier today :) We put her lottery tickets wreathe on our tree :) my mom's very happy and excited! :) the wreathe looks awesome! :) there's 7 different varieties of lottery tickets : )15, $1 tickets, and 1, $2 ticket :) my mom's going to scratch her lottery tickets on Christmas Eve,during our annual Christmas Eve party :) We hope she has a big win! :) We love this very special Christmas time tradition :)
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my mom put some festive decorations on the inside of our front door :) 


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Christmas Town greetings! :) i'm having so much fun and a very special time sharing my Christmas town, our decorations, pictures of our gifts, and treasures with everyone :) our holiday home is glowing bright! :) 


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cedarbrooke
cedarbrooke

Wow, everything is great but that Commanders" shirt is Awesome!!!! Yes storms are upon us. Long day for me, car serviced delivered 3 items, medical refills, wood in & I stopped at a Thrift Store who had 50% off. Got these two vintage Snowman/Santa tealight/candy holders. Purfect, thinking about Tiger, lol!!!

Stay safe. I should of got a battery for my generator, but I always can bring the up the one in garage to boost it.

Stay safe & warm!

Hugs! Brooke & Henri
CoolGal
CoolGal

Hi Chris Glad you Holly and your family are doing well enjoying a nice Thursday. Its great you and Holly enjoyed baking the cookies look so good. Very nice of Judy and Denny to send you some nice gifts and other friends sent you more Swiss colony goodies too. You will have plenty of snacks for your Christmas eve party. Good luck to your mom with her ticket wreath. Hope she has some big wins. Thanks for all my nice hugs today Have a good night Stay safe in the storm hugs-Stephanie
JeanCarlin
JeanCarlin

I’m glad to hear that your mom liked her lottery wreath so much and I hope she wins on a few of them.
You got some really nice gifts from your friends, love the calendar that Judy and Denny sent you
The cookies you already baked look really good and I hope you have lots of fun baking more cookies today. Hugs