Thanksgiving at the Oxbow

We celebrated a nice Thanksgiving at Cece and Gramp's house and also one at Lloyd's mother's house.  Two meals in one day!  Ellen was excited to have her great grandfather visiting and kept him very entertained.  At one point I heard her say, "Come on, Great Grandpa, we're going to go play with the giraffes out side".  What else is a great grandpa to do but to oblige...

 

Of course, Gramps is also there when Ellen gives instruction about how she would like to be entertained.  She tends to be the star of any family gathering.  Here she is hearing a story and drinking some tea with Gramps after helping him cook the Thanksgiving meal.  She is quite the chef and loves to be right in the middle of anything that happens in the kitchen.  She knows how to peel garlic and rosemary.  She is also very good and scrambling eggs.

 

 

After Thanksgiving we went on our last trip to the Oxbow Plantation.  Lloyd has been mourning the loss of this 1000 acre playland for quite some time.  I was a bit worried as I was convinced that this was a huge selling point in Lloyd proposing to me.  However, he has still stuck around, for now...  He got to take Ellen on one last mule ride. 

 

 

Ellen thought this was pretty fun but was full of warnings for Gramps that included, "Hold on" and "I don't think we belong here" when we went off-roading.

 

 

She also took Gramps on a hunt for a woodpecker.  I'm not sure where her fascination with woodpeckers came from but she will frequently put her hand to her ear and say, "do you hear that?  It's a woodpecker".  Next she wants to go hunt for it.  So off she and Gramps went in search of a woodpecker.  This time there really was one to be found. 

 

 

Ellen, Cece and Mommy had one more stop at the Picnic Spot.  It wasn't the same for Mommy since she can't drink wine right now but at least we got a very pretty sunset and found a dinosaur bone.

 

 

Ellen enjoyed one last cuddle at the Picnic Spot with Cece and we thought about our sweet Beau.  We scattered his ashes on the picnic spot three Decembers ago.

 

 

We have enjoyed the time with the Oxbow and hope that the new owners enjoy it too.  Now on to the next adventure.  I hope this one involves less cows and a cable television. 

 

 

Love, The Little Bee and her Momma