Whole Wheat Bread

I started making homemade bread awhile back.  Its easy and it make the house smell AH-MAZING! I love this recipe.  The dough freezes really well, or if you'd like to bake the loaves and freeze those, that works too!

3 cups of warm water
2 packages of dry active yeast ( one package equals 2 1/4 tsps of yeast)
2/3 cup of honey
5 cups bread flour
3 tbslps melted butter
1 tblsp salt
3 1/2 cups of whole wheat flour (give or take)
2 tblsp melted butter (for after baking)

Mix the water and yeast thoroughly in a large mixing bowl.  Add honey, bread flour and stir to combine.  Mix 3 tblsps of melted butter and salt.  Stir 2 cups of whole wheat flour into the dough.  Flour a surface and knead the rest of the flour in.  Your dough should be slightly elastic and not sticky. 

Grease a large bowl.  Place the dough in the bowl and turn the dough upside down so that the top and bottom are greased.  Cover with a towel and let rise until double.  When dough has doubled, punch down and divide into two balls.  Grease two loaf pans (be sure to grease the rims of the pans so when the dough rises and bakes it doesn't stick to the top of the pan) and set your oven to warm.  Place loaves in the pans and then put them in the oven to rise again until the dough rises above the top of the pan.  After the dough has risen again, preheat your oven to 350 and bake bread for 30-45 minutes.  When the bread is finished take a stick of butter and rub it over the tops of the loaves, let it rest in the pans for 15 minutes, then pop the bread out to cool completely on wire racks. Slice bread with serated bread knife.