Alice's 20th Birthday

"Happy Birthday"

I (Alice) just turned 20 years old!

Pictured above is the carrot cake that my mother

made for my birthday dinner that followed my

absolute most favorite meal.

 These are the gifts from my wonderful husband, Jesse, 

and my little 2 month old son Gavin.  Gavin

signed his card to me with his feet (with help from his daddy).

Jesse gave me a whole box of CHOCOLATES!!!

 ...and the sweetest card ever!

 My goofy boys

 Next we went out to a restaurant for

brunch and Gavin gave us one of his first

really big smiles.

 Then the Carrells, Wrights, and the three of
us all went for a swim in a nearby creek.

Gavin with his Grandma.

 (sorry for all the tons of baby pictures, but

we think he's really cute:)! )

 Now I am officially 20 years old and so blessed to have

a wonderful family, precious little boy, and the greatest

husband in the world!!

It has been quite amazing to see what all God has

done this past year!  We are truly blessed! 

Blueberry Muffin Recipe

 With all of our many blueberries, 

I decided to make some muffins with a few
of them and they were delicious! 

So here's my recipe for them so ya'll
can try them too :).

Blueberry Muffin Recipe

1 3/4 cups self rising flour
1/4 cup sugar
1 well-beaten egg
3/4 cup milk
1/3 cup melted butter
1 cup fresh blueberries or frozen
ones that have been thawed out and
drained well

Mix dry ingredients into bowl.  Combine egg, milk, and butter and add all at once to dry ingredients.  Stir quickly just till dry ingredients are moistened. Next gently stir in blueberries.  Fill greased muffin pan 2/3 full.  Bake at 400 degrees for 20 to 25 minutes.

Enjoy!

Making Sawdust

We've been cutting lumber on our sawmill

recently for some customers and for ourselves.

Here some pictures of our sawmill.

A saw blade

We run a portable

Woodmizer sawmill.

Sometimes Alice runs the saw head

while Jesse off loads the boards

and runs the machine.

An order of wood waiting

to be delivered. 

We cut all kinds of wood into lumber,

pictured above is hickory and the one

darker board is red oak.

Here are some pine boards.

The lumber pictured above and

below are some beautiful cedar.  They

look so pretty and smell amazing!

(different colors of sawdust including

hickory, pine, walnut, cedar, and oak)

Another great side benefit is the

sawdust! Especially the cedar sawdust.

It has many uses such as keeping moths

out of closets, keeping shoes smelling

nice, as filling for vintage dolls,

scenery for model train tracks, and

many others.  Below is a link to our

Etsy store where we have some

of our cedar sawdust packaged for sale.

Wright Family Farm cedar sawdust Etsy listing at 

https://www.etsy.com/listing/193758820/1-lbs-bag-of-eastern-red-cedar-sawdust

Also visit our website at

www.wrightfamilysawmill.com

for more information on our

sawmilling services.

Cute Little Kittens

We went over to visit Jesse's family

and Chelsey' s cat had just had kittens

a few days before.  Mommy kitty,

Rose seems so pleased,

content, and happy with her

new role in life as mother.

They are so small!

Charlene holding up one of the

kittens.  Baby animals are so

precious and such a cute part

of God's creation.

Blackberry Lemonade Recipe

Blackberry Lemonade

Recipe

Ingredients:                      
4 cups water
3/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup honey
Not quite 1 cup fresh
squeezed lemon juice
1 cup blackberries

First in a saucepan bring 2 cups of
water to boil.  As soon as it boils add
sugar and honey.  Then remove from
heat and add lemon juice.
In a blender add the lemon juice mixture, blackberries, and
remaining 2 cups water.
Blend until even.  Pour through strainer
or cheesecloth and chill.
Serve cold with ice.
Enjoy!

You can adjust measurements to
your own desire of sour and sweet
tastes. These were a pretty good
guestimate of what I used.
(I apologize for the poor quality of
the picture).

It's was so fun to make a drink
using the blackberries that
we picked and the honey that
came from our beehives!

This is an awsome recipe for these
hot and sticky July days and a great
way to use those wild blackberries
this summer. I hope ya'll try it. :)

4 Great Blogs to Visit

I thought it might be helpful to any

of our friends if we listed some

other great blogs to check out so

here are a few of the ones

that we really like.

One is our sister Chelsey's

(as I've mentioned before), that

is full of great articles and is

soon to have many "do it yourself"

projects like hair tutorials and such.

www.lindacwright.blogspot.com

Also another great one is

of a sweet family homestead

www.home-made-homestead.blogspot.com

These are some friends of ours

that are doing much the same things

as us and her sewing work is

always a great inspiration for me (Alice).

www.storyofaseamstress.blogspot.com

And last but not least is the

blog of a good friend of mine that

is definitely worth checking out

www.integrityofthehome.blogspot.com

Anyway, we hope that this list is

of some help and hope that y'all get

a chance to look them all up. :)

They are quite worth supporting.



A Recent Harvest from our Garden

Our pretty little green tomatoes.

We had a terrible time with tomatoes this

year.  First we started them as seeds

and a mouse dug them all up.  So next

we planted some more and a surprising

very late frost killed them.  Well, that's what

we thought, then weeks later we saw the

little tomato plants barely peeking above the

ground with tiny leaves on them!

Now they are finally full size plants and

there are little green tomatoes on them.

We are so pleased!

 



We pulled the last of our potatoes

for the summer and have quite

enough to last us for a

very long time hopefully.

 



This is probably almost a third

of the potatoes that we harvested.

Berry Pickin'

We recently got to go berry picking!  These are some of

the blueberries that we got from our plants.  They are

soooooooo delicious!!

Alice picking the blueberries.

Then Jesse and Alice went to the

huge wild blackberry patches.  There

were so many!!  We picked for hours and

never even made a dent.

Jesse picking all those wonderful

wild blackberries.

 It was amazing how many

tasty ripe berries there were.

 Jesse was smart and wore gloves,

I (Alice) on the other hand was

covered in little cuts and nicks from the

briars, but all those delicious berries

were well worth it :).

 Washing the blackberries.

 Yummy!!!

 Just a few of the bags that went

into our freezer for later.

 That afternoon Gavin enjoyed

hanging out with his Uncle Isaac

and Aunt Rachel while we were

all visiting with each other.

Here he is with my (Alice's) parents.

He is very loved!