Wood cutting

A couple of years back, my in-laws installed a wood burner to heat their home and shop in the winter. There are great benefits to it, but the only down fall is that Bryan has to do a lot of wood cutting to keep it going.
Last year we asked what he wanted for Christmas and he said he would like it if all of us "kids" help him by having a day of wood cutting. This is how the tradition began.
One day over Thanksgiving break we cut wood as a present from us for his birthday.
Over Christmas break, we also have one day when we all get bundled up and head outside to cut wood. This is our Christmas present for Bryan. It works well for everyone, it is a fun time of family togetherness and plain physical work and Bryan is always so pleased to not have to worry about cutting wood..it's a win-win!

This is the wood pile at the beginning of our work day
This is one of the piles at the end of the day...

...and this is the second pile.

The wood burner is the red and black box.

Two of the little ones came out with us for...20 minutes or so. It was cold and not much fun for them do to, so they went back inside with grandma!

The Hoben girls (minus Carley)

One of the wood splitters we use

Second wood splitter

The headsets had radio and we were jamming to the music...and we were being silly :)

Lunch break!After lunch, we cut down a tree and here are Brett and Chris cutting branches off the tree.