The Adventures of Avery and Carter: Thanksgiving at the Farm

Saturday, December 5, 2015

Thanksgiving at the Farm

We are finally unpacked from being on the road for the past two weekends so we have lots of pictures to post from Thanksgiving weekend in Vass. It is a bit harder to get 5 minutes to blog because Carter went from barely crawling to "I can make it to the other side of the house and start a fire" in just a couple of weeks, so we can't take our eyes off of him.

First thing up on Thanksgiving morning is the "Blessing of the Hounds." They have a big fox hunt in Moore county where all the horse people get all dressed up with their hounds and go run around the woods. They get upset if you call them dogs, so don't. Supposedly they are hunting foxes, but Laura didn't take any pictures of someone in fancy horse gear galloping back holding a dead fox by a tail, so I think it is all just a reason to go horse riding together. Either way, Avery loves horses and dogs so she had a great time watching the show.

Avery amongst a throng of hounds and small children rocking her halloween costume shades.

Meanwhile at the homestead, Carter was working on his crawling skills doing laps around the kitchen island.

Of course Avery had to ride Bucky when they came back from the blessing of the hounds.

Luckily the weather was awesome all weekend so everyone got to spend lots of time outside.

Avery, Bucky, and Mimi working on their trotting skills.

Mommy's little turkey!

2 seconds later you can see how far he made it from the blanket.

We had Thanksgiving dinner at Aunt Stephanie's house which is just across a horse pasture from Mimi and Papa's. They have a giant porch and Avery was blowing bubbles to entertain her brother before dinner.