Blogging with the Bynum's: Thanksgiving Week Stop 2 & 3

Thanksgiving travel continued Monday morning from Stillwater, OK, to Spearman, TX, which thankfully was only a little over 4 hours and the boys did great on this drive. We arrived in Spearman just after naptime and the boys were ready to visit and play at Grandpa and Grandma's house. We got to spend our evening visiting, playing and relaxing. Tuesday morning we got up and went over and spent some time visiting with Joe and Nita. We were thankful for some time to get to see them after Nita's big scare a few weeks ago. She is doing much better but still recovering from all the trauma caused to her body from being so sick.We had a short but good visit and loaded up to head to Muleshoe a quick 3 hour drive. The boys again slept most of the way!

Our 3rd stop was Muleshoe, Pawp's and GrandB's farm, and we had to first drive up to the barn to see the newest member on the farm, Coconut. Pawps bought the new pony several weeks ago and we have been talking about him since then looking forward to getting to meet him. When we first saw a picture of the pony Brayden said we should name him Coconut. Everyone agreed. So funny, have no clue where that name came from but we all think it's perfect and really neat that our pony we had many many years ago was named Cocoa, so it brings back lots of memories.

The boys meeting Coconut the Pony for the first time. They loved him!

Brayden very proud of the new pony.

My animal lover Bransen thought he was great too.

Brushing Coconut with Pawps.

Uncle Brady had been very excited to show off the new pony to the boys.

All tired after a long day of play on the farm - Brynlie, GrandB, Brayden, Marlie and Brooke.

Dustin reading Brynlie, Brooke and Brayden a new John Deere book Bray got for his birthday.

While we were in Muleshoe we decided to have a little Birthday Party for Brayden just a week early. He had a blast getting to have cake and presents with his cousins.

For his Birthday cake he said he wanted a pony but the local United grocery store did not have one. The next on his list was a Cardinals cake and Texas actually had one. Didn't make some fellow family members too happy but thought it was funny that this was Brayden's requests among all our Rangers fans.

Brayden excited to open his presents.

The Taco Cook Off! My brother-in-law Seth decided the Lujan's and The Bynum's needed to have a taco cookoff. He had gotten a fancy taco mallet for a wedding gift and thought it was a neat tool. Marlie had always told him about The Bynum Family Tacos. So the Taco Cook Off Began! Thankfully the judges voted a tie and no family member had to leave the family.

The guys practicing their shooting in the gorgeous weather.

Entertaining all the kiddos!

4 wheeler rides!

Poor Gracie, Bransen's new favorite friend, he wouldn't let her out of his sight. I caught him once standing in the chair with Gracie on the table, poor dog.