After picking out a “sensible” tree, the kids all took a turn cutting it.

John Luke was first,

Then Katie,

Sam,

Then Daniel. The tree proved too much for David’s saw so we had to call in the big guns!

Luckily the tree farm has young boys with chain saws that ride around on 4 wheelers helping cut the tree you pick out. This young man was very nice!

He even asked if they wanted a family picture in front of the tree before he cut it!Great family memories!

God bless!

Today we went with the Bates crew to get a Christmas tree. Grace surprised me by wanting to get us one!

So much fun!

Juicy was extremely interested in what we were doing!

We got it set up and plan on decorating it tomorrow!

We really like it!

God bless!

3/4 cup water,  2 tbsp oil,   2 and 1/2 cups all purpose flour,   1 tsp salt,   1 tbsp sugar,  1 tsp yeast

Heat water about 20 seconds in microwave. Add yeast and sugar. Stir until yeast and sugar are dissolved. Let sit about 5 min. If using instant rise yeast skip letting it sit.  Add oil, flour and salt. Mix together well. Knead for about 5 to 8 minutes.  Put into small loaf pan. Let rise until double in size about 1 hr.

I am not sure on the bake time for this. Estimated 25 min at 350 degrees.

https://marysnest.com/faster-no-knead-bread-for-beginners/#recipe

Yesterday Grace and I surprised Daniel with this axe and gloves as a thank you for all his hard work this fall helping us get wood in.

I think we actually completely surprised him, which is very hard to do!

Happy birthday to this beautiful girl! We love you so much!

Thanks Jess for the pictures!

Hello everyone! I hope you have all had a good week so far. Things are good here. We have been enjoying some beautiful fall weather. We got the wood building filled on Monday.

It was a long day!

Grace and I had an excellent helper!

It’s not all work around here though. We also took a beautiful hike.

We are blessed to have so many nice trails close to where we live. This trail is less than 5 minutes from our house!

The colors were absolutely gorgeous!

I hope you all have a wonderful day! God bless!