Thanksgiving Part 1: Horses

This is the first of my Thanksgiving posts. We had a jam-packed week of non-stop activities. The kids were in heaven: getting to run around all over the farm without a care in the world. Hudson was able to follow around "papa" for a week. He helped him do things like: feed the horses, drive the tractor, drive the blue AND red trucks (incidentally, I learned to drive in the blue truck), get "sucker rods" (whatever those are) for building a rack to roast the pig on (that will be it's own post), hammer countless nails into the renovated playhouse, and the list goes on... William and Keira loved having the freedom to run wild, play in the playhouse, gather up millions of tiny rocks, ride horses, drive the truck, ride in Uncle Trent's Land Cruiser, etc. We've discovered that William is a future pyromaniac: anytime Papa was burning brush or any sort of fire for that matter, William was there, front and center.

My dad managed to borrow a couple of horses for us to ride while we were in Oklahoma for Thanksgiving.  It was SO much fun for all of us, and especially for the kids as it was their first time to ride horses.