Thanksgiving

We're now back from Iowa where we spent our Thanksgiving.  It was nice to see family again and the boys especially enjoyed shooting clay pigeons with the other men. 

I took a lot of pictures, but I'll try to spare you from seeing more than is needed for a brief overview, though I am afraid that I may not succeed! :)

The snack table. 

Grandma's Apple Pie 

Uncle Spencer's black lab, Chance. 

Family photo with the grandparents 

Family photo with our 98 year old great grandma included 

Best buddies 

Grandma and Grandpa 

Samuel (also known as "Samo") "driving" the tractor.  He was quite amazed at how fast it could go! (No, I actually messed around with it on Photoshop - sorry it's kind of choppy. :)

Mealtime! 

Cousins River and Paige 

4 of the best brothers in the whole wide world.

Grandpa dares anyone to take our guns! 

River, wearing the all-important ear protection. 

The Armour men 

Elijah 

Jeremiah 

Christian 

Jonathan 

Jeremiah shooting and Elijah pulling while Grandpa looks on. 

Even Mama got a chance to shoot.  As for me, I had been shooting my Canon all day, so felt no desire to shoot an inferior piece of artillery. :) (No offence to any of you who are crazy about guns!)

Jeremiah found this broken clay pigeon in the box. 

If you look in the top left corner of this photo, you can see the clay pigeon that Elijah just shot to pieces in mid air. 

The sunset over the hill...

...and the sunset over the pond a little bit later. 

Uncle Spencer also built a huge bonfire.  It looks small in the photo, but it was gigantic! 

The dogs, packed and ready to head home. 

And finally, just for laughs, a photo of "Mr. Hot Shot".  He keeps us laughing!