Our Trip to Oklahoma

Momma, Annie, and I went to Oklahoma for the week of Thanksgiving. We visited my grandparents and my aunt, uncle, and cousins. It was a special visit. God really blessed us with a nice week together.

Annie and I spent a lot of time playing with our cousins. We played a lot of hide and seek, capture the flag, and a game we invented on the spot called kneeball. Croquet, horseshoes, and several inside games were also popular.

My uncle owns a feed mill, so he knows most of the ranchers in his area. One ranch with which he is familiar has recently put 5,000 wild mustangs on its land. Uncle Rick took us out to see the horses on Sunday. That was an experience I will never forget. The mustangs were beautiful, but what surprised me was their curiosity. They came right up to the car and sniffed it, and they would almost let one touch them. We took a lot of pictures. One herd of nearly 100 animals was galloping across the prairie as we drove along the road to the driveway of the ranch. It was a living image of the Old West.

Uncle Rick also took us to see a herd of buffalo on the Tallgrass Prairie. Although the buffalo didn't quite have the romantic beauty of the mustangs, they were worth seeing. One cannot imagine the presence and power of a bull buffalo until one sees him up close. I was glad that I was in the car!

We are now home again, and we're settling back into our schedule. I know Daddy is thankful that we have returned, because he was taking care of the whole menagerie while we were gone. He even had to clean the stalls.


Here is today's memory verse.
As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness. Psalm 17:15 KJV