Emanuel’s birthday was on December 20th. We’re a little late in getting pictures on the blog, but better late than never.
Loving brothers.
Emanuel checking out his new camo pants.
‘Ridem horsey’ – Wendi took the kids to ride on a carousel for Emanuel’s birthday.
Dear Mama and baby Nehemiah.
The carousel we rode on.
Sweet Mama and the birthday boy.
All the Sanders kids.
Happy birthday to you…..happy birthday to you………..
Noah’s delicious cauliflower. Yummy!!!!
Noah our famous farmer! LOL!
Nehemiah turned one on January 10th.
‘I love my blankie’
Nehemiah on his first birthday.
Smile for the camera!
Baby and big brother.
Happy birthday to you…happy birthday to you………
‘Hey what’s that?’ LOL
‘Yum this is good!’
Sweet Mama getting her picture taken.
You look lovely Mama dear!
Abbi practicing photos on Gracie.
Miss Gracie.
Heat milk to lukewarm and add sugar and salt while on the stove. Stir until dissolved. Pore into big bowl. Quickly add yeast and stir until dissolved. Stir in eggs and shortening (shortening will not really mix, just mash into pieces).Then add flour and mix. Knead for a 4-5 min. or until it is not very sticky anymore (it kind of feels alive because it springs back when you push it in). Grease the bowl (the same one you mixed in, its OK if it has some dough on the sides) with shortening. Place dough in bowl then flip over so there is some shortening on the top, this keeps it from drying out. Let rise for 1 ½ hours, punch down, then let rise 30 min. Punch down again. Then take half of the dough and roll out into a rectangle. Spread on butter then sprinkle on cinnamon sugar then add some raisins. Roll up long ways and pinch together. Grease pan and pick up both end and lay on pan in a ring shape and pinch together the ends. Now with a knife cut three fourths the way into the ring, do this all the way around the ring. Now take each of the slices and lay them over like dominos. Let rise until it is a pretty good size. Do the same thing with the other half of the dough. Then bake at 375 for 25 to 30 min. If it begins to get to dark, cover with foil for the rest of the time. The icing is just powdered sugar, milk, and vanilla (not a lot). Add the milk to the powdered sugar until it is the right consistency. Put about 1-1 ½ teaspoons of vanilla, not to much. You can heat it in the microwave for a few seconds so it will pore better. This recipe makes 2 rings. Hope you understand! Enjoy! Today whilst Mommy and Noah were processing chickens, the other ladies baked a few things with Grammy. What a fun time we had!
We love cooking with Grammy because we can learn so much from her. We love it!!
Grace made snicker-doodles, a Sanders favorite!
Grammy showing Rebekah how to make the Swedish Tea Ring.
Rebekah preparing it for the oven.
After its out of the oven and cooled a bit Grammy drizzles on the icing.
Grammy and Nehemiah having fun while the Swedish tea ring cooks.
The finished product. It didn’t last long!
Grandpa Gene in the kitchen.
For any of you who don’t know what a Swedish tea ring is, I thought I would try to describe it.
Well, it is kind of like a cinnamon roll in the shape of a big ring that is cut and laid over to make
it more beautiful. It was a tradition in Daddy’s family to have these and orange rolls for Christmas morning
breakfast. We carry on the tradition but instead of a Swedish tea ring and orange rolls we have cinnamon and
orange rolls. I also thought that you might want the recipe so that you could try it. Have fun!
Swedish Tea Ring
2 cups milk 2 packages instant yeast 6 to 7 cups sifted flour margarine or butter
½ cup sugar 2 eggs cinnamon sugar
2 tsp. salt ½ cup shortening raisins
- Rebekah
In an earlier post we told you about our attempt to raise Pastured Poultry. During the process of raising them we lost some to accidents. Over sixty of the original 100 chickens lived to maturity (eight weeks). With plastic jugs for killing cones, a turkey broiler for a scalder, a stainless steel table, and a homemade automatic Chicken plucker, we set up a ‘disassembly line’. It took two days to finish the chickens, and we think we will be able to do it faster next time.
Noah preparing to slit the throats of two chickens while his brothers look on.
Gibbie holding a bled bird.
Scalding requires constantly dipping the chickens in 145 degree water to loosen the feathers.
Noah hoses the chickens while they tumble in the chicken plucker. A friend from church who came to watch looks on.
Turn the plucker on, throw the chickens in, and thirty seconds later they should be finished.
Family members look on.
The pluckers finished product.
Mommy ‘eviscerating’ a chicken. That means she was removing all the parts you don’t want to eat. She did a great job and got pretty fast!
Daddy wore this outfit that Nehemiah is wearing in the pictures below. He had his picture taken in it, so all of his sons (and two of the grandsons) have had their picture taken in it. Abbi was taking some of Nehemiah.
Nehemiah in daddy’s outfit.
Who me? LOL!
Cute Baby!
Sam and Ian riding in the wagon.
Aunt Anita and Amy. Sweet ladies!
Can you guess my name? LOL!
Cute baby Adam!
Our dear aunt Robin!
Aunt Toody(Daddy’s only sister) and baby Nehemiah
Sweet Hannah. You look beautiful dear!
Uncle Marvin with Daddy and Nehemiah.
Brother Andrew carrying his cross.
Taking aim.
Andrew (receiving CPR from his wife Lora Lynn?) after completing the course. LOL!
Deciding teams for the course in the rain. Notice the appearance of Ben in the blue shirt.
No, this is not sweat. Uncle Jon had graciously surrendered the umbrellas to the ladies and gotten rained on as a result.
Our cousin Michael doing the balance test.
Daddy,Andrew, and Ethan carrying the cross.(Noah was sick and was not able to run the course so Ethan took his place)
Uncle Chris’s team doing the rock transfer.
Are you dirty? LOL! Ben had crawled under the wire in the mud!
Grandmother and Granddaddy with their children and grandchildren.
Mommy with parents and siblings.
(from left to right) Uncle Todd, Uncle David (Granddaddy’s brother), Granddaddy, and Uncle Brooke.
Adam tries out his first camo hat.
Opening gifts.
A family that purposes to serve the Lord with all our hearts with gratitude for what Christ has done for us. Gratefulness and faithfulness can lead to fruitfulness.
Looks like ya’ll had fun! Miss you!!!