Thanksgiving 2015

Thanksgiving 
2015
An "average" American family celebrating all the things we are thankful for! 

We drove down to southern Indiana to have Thanksgiving with Giz and Grampy.  Soda is not allowed normally, but Giz treated Dd and Dh with it for the 'special' meal...  Can you see the small green vase beside the biscuit platter (with aluminum foil)?  We each had a little paper turkey with five pennies in it, and we went around in a circle, saying what we were thankful for.  We went around the table five times sharing five different reasons we are thankful.  Being thankful was the focus of our meal.

Dh always cooks our meal...thankfully!  

We started with Clam Chowder (that was amazing), and then had mussels, with the biscuits that Dd made from scratch, then we each had a lobster.  Giz made pumpkin pie for our dessert.

The middle, smallest building, is the old 'out-house'--before they had plumbing.

When my Dh was growing up, their annual Thanksgiving tradition was to go to their grandparents house and go shooting.  So, he has started doing this with Dd and me.  We had a few bottles filled with water, a can, and two pieces of firewood to aim at.

This is the 9 MM Semi-automatic.  Then after that we used the Revolver with 375 Magnums and 38 Special bullets.  I grew up going to a girl's camp; I was on the Riflery Team and target shooting was part of my class schedule.  Each month we would have a contest between teams from our camp and the boy's camp (William Lawrence and O-At-Ka).  My dad and uncle both went to the boy's camp growing up, so I was a second generation camper.  It is too expensive for my Dd to go, but I try to incorporate some of the fun things I learned there with her here.  

50 caliber Muzzle Loader
The muzzle loader was a LOT of fun to shoot!!  Dd stood up against the truck to shoot this gun.

We spent a good hour taking turns shooting the different guns.  We let Dd shoot the most, as she was having such a good time.  Safety is always our highest priority...then fun.

This is the 50 caliber muzzle loader bullet round.  It was interesting to see the three types of bullets.

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