Thanksgiving 2019

This past Thanksgiving was another great year at Hartfield with the family.  We truely felt this year we had a lot to be thankful for in our family, so this was a special Thanksgiving.  Seeing the Mouse getting stronger every week and feeling and acting more and more like herself was awesome.  The last time the whole family was at Hartfield over the summer was the start of her discovering her appendix cancer, and after a rough several months, we were all back again with a much brighter outlook and a lot to be thankful for.  

Thanksgiving morning started off with the family Turkey Trot (or walk).  

While Pops wins the most patriotic Turkey Trotter, out family cross country runner (Emme) easily cruised home at the fastest speed.

  

Also a tradition is the shucking of a bushel of oysters.  Having oysters for Thanksgiving became a tradition from the first year we went to Hartfield for Thanksgiving (16 or 17 years ago), and oysters with the traditional Thanksgiving staples has become a mainstay for our Thanksgiving meal.

 

We had a chilly but sunny Thanksgiving, and our family snapped a quick picture after all the majority of the eating took place.

 

The Friday after Thanksgiving is a traditional golf day for the guys, and in the past all the girls have gone into Urbanna for a pizza lunch at our favorite spot and a little local brousing around the waterfront and River Birch Gifts.  However, this year, Shenley and Emme ventured to the Williamsburg outlets for some Black Friday shopping.  All the non-shopper girls came with Mouse and I to pizza and River Birch (as Mouse and I aren’t big shopper either).  

 

It’s a full house with seven adults, five girls, and three dogs, but before things get too nutty, everyone is packed up and headed back home for school and work the next week. I truely feel so blessed to have a wonderful and loving family, and this year we were especially thankful for the Mouse’s renewed health and all that she means to our family.