Since I like to bake but I have no self control when it comes to eating my baked goods, I decided to bake for Dakota.  These are his favorite treats and he gets one every morning. They are super easy to make.

Peanut Butter Dog Treats

Ingredients

1/2 c oats

1 c flour

1/2 c peanut butter

1/2 c liquid  (I use beef broth or milk.  Water works too.)

1/8 c oil

1/2 egg

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

2. Mix all ingredients, roll dough onto floured surface, adding more flour until not sticky.  Cut out cookies with cookie cutter and place on baking sheet.

3. Bake for 20 minutes, flip cookies and bake for another 20 minutes.

4. Remove cookies to cooling rack and cool completely before storing.

Notes

-I chill the dough for a few minutes before I roll it out.  This makes it easier to cut and transfer to baking sheet.

-You can bake the cookies on an oven safe cooling rack placed on top of a baking sheet.  That way you don’t need to flip them halfway or transfer them after baking.

-This recipe makes about 24 cookies for me.  You can certainly double the recipe but they tend to mold quickly.

The beginning of the house process feels like it will never end.  We’ve only just signed the offer and there is still so much more to do: inspection, appraisal, improvements, etc.  I just want to move in already!

And now I’ve decided to start a garden.  Honestly, I have no idea how to do it.  But how can you ever learn if you don’t try?  Lucky for me, E did all of the hard part.  He shoveled all of that dirt just for me!

And Dakota helped too.

Then he got tired.

All I have to do now is buy the plants.  I’m going to try all sorts of fruits and veggies.  I’m trying to decide if it would be easier to just buy them from the grocery store because I don’t have very much patience.  60 days to maturity?  Uhh, maybe it will be faster.  I want my fresh salsa now!  See.  The beginning is tough.  We don’t have a farmers market here, so I think it will be worth it to know that my tomatoes are free of chemicals and pesticides.  I’ve heard it can be therapeutic…we’ll see.

Lately we’ve been spending a lot of time outside.  The weather is amazing!  And life is much slower here, which we are totally embracing.

At the Grove.

They love honey buns.  Who doesn’t?

Rebecca and Sarah.  I think.

Dakota likes their poo.

Tuck and Dakota.

I think Snoops won the staring contest.