Thanksgiving in South Dakota

 

This year, we went to South Dakota for Thanksgiving.

Partially because it was Thanksgiving, and partially because my niece (who turned 8 in September)

was waiting to get baptized in hopes that we could all be there.

I'm happy to say that we all made it there for her.

Here's just a few (of the over 200 photos) we took during the week:

 

 

It was a LONG drive (26.5 hours to be exact). 

We stopped at a random playground somewhere in New Mexico for a quick break.

The boys had a blast!

 

Dinosaur Hill in Rapid City.  I had been looking forward to taking Brychan there ever since we decided to go to Rapid.  I knew he would love it.  He did!

It was pretty cold and windy the morning we went, but the boys still had fun.

 

Playing at Brock and Missy's house was also lots of fun!

They have lots of wide open space to run around in, and luckily, the weather was quite tolerable for most of our time there.

The boys had fun playing on the porch swing,

 

Playing with cousins

And feeding/chasing the chickens, cats and dog