Ranch Style Thanksgiving

We spiced it up a little this year and spent Thanksgiving at my parents' ranch. 

It was us 5, my mom, dad, sister, Meme, Meme's sister Ruth and her husband, Dan.

Shortly after we arrived, Aunt Ruth began singing fun thanksgiving songs with Lila:)

While the ladies sang indoors, the guys manned the turkey fryer outdoors.

I am happy to report that we did not have one thing catch on fire during the frying of the turkey! 
In fact, it was one delicious bird.

Cowboy Jackson approved and helped himself to 2 servings of turkey and 3 servings of mashed taters.  He also insisted on sitting by his thankful turkey.  Love it.

Everyone stuffed themselves silly...

then we all went outside to enjoy the gorgeous afternoon. 
We were treated to a show featuring two trick riders.  Look at these crazy kids!

After the show, we loaded up everyone and headed down to the barn.

Suckers  + riding in the back of the mule = 2 happy kiddos!

This sweet girl was very happy to get to see the cows and the 5 baby calves... 

and even more excited to get to feed Emma!

She was thrilled to get to ride Mr. Dub...

as were Maddie...

and Jackson, who rode Mr. Dub by himself for a little bit.  I know this miniature pony may not look intimidating, but he can break and run with the best of 'em!

That afternoon we came back to the house and were treated to a rousing rendition of the Turkey Tango...

which was then followed up by Five Fat Turkeys.  They were quite entertaining!

As if that wasn't enough activity for one day, we ended it with a two on two game of football--me and my mom vs. Jackson and Jared.  Needless to say, the boys won, but we gave it a good try!

They just brought out all the stops, including really good kick-offs!

Happy Thanksgiving!  We hope your turkey day was as fun as ours:)