Christmas Day

Christmas was small this year, but we had a great time. Jason's mom and grandmother came from Amarillo and stayed several days. We have not seen them since we moved in May so it was so good to get to spend time with them. As you can see Mddison got a new doll and stroller from Santa. Socks, shoes and clothes as well. Jacque and Eric hit the jackpot with the yellow school bus. It has balls in it and Maddison loves to run and flip herself in. Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and looking forward to a new year.

Christmas Card 2008

To all my blogging friends. Merry Christmas from the Gipson Gang. May your Holiday be full of wonderful family time, and many memories. Thanks for reading and taking an intrest in our family.

Grady

This post is dedicated to the dog. He has been through a lot in the last couple of days , so I thought I would shoe him a little love. As you read in the last post he was attacked by a pitt bull on Friday. He is doing fine. In fact we have already been back out on the bike together.

Grady and Maddison giving each other kisses.

Grady is trying to tell Maddi what she is getting from Santa.

You can not really see in this picture, but here is where he got bit. To the right of his collor where the hair looks like a scratch. Really it is large teeth marks

Santa came early for the injured.

A Scary Bike Ride

Yesterday Jason got home early and we deiced to go on a family bike ride. Jason and I both have bikes and we recently got a bike trailer for Maddison, and Grady is so good to run beside us on the leach. One of us had the baby and one had the dog. We usually stay in our sub-division but decided to venture out as a family. We were minding our own business, rounding the corner ready to ead home when we were met by a PIT BULL . Jason was pulling Maddi and was about 30 yards behind us. To make a long story short, in no time that dog had Grady on his back going for his neck. Jason was so brave to grab the pit by the neck and squeeeeze as hard as he could. He got the dog off, we called the cops and things could have been much worse. Grady did get bitten but will be fine. Thankfully no one else was involved with the attack. It was so scarry! I hardly slept last night because it just kept running through my mind over and over again. Needlesstosay we will be staying in our own sub-divison for a while ( at least until we know something is done with those dogs) It is just not fair that we can not even ride out bikes because we have to worry about someone else's dog not on a leach or in a finced in area. Don't wrry animal control WILL be called monday morning first thing.

Scarf

Well today was very cold outside and being the great parents that we are our child does not have a heavy coat. I really do not want to spend the money on one this I know she will only use this year and it is not going to be cold for much longer. SO I have decided to double layer and get inside quickly. Today for school Maddi got the honor of wearing my scarf that Granny made several years ago. She was in style, let me tell you. I am actually thinking she needs one of her own. (hint, hint)

Thanksgiving

Well I have tried three different times to get these pictures on here, so finally here they are. We had a wonderful Thanksgiving. My family from Abilene came to Tyler on Wednesday and Thursday we all (except Jason, he was on call) traveled to Shreveport. My Aunt and Uncle have a bueatiful home and we had a wonderful day. My entire dad's side of the family was there and it was so much fun. We usually get together every year and do christmas and thanksgiving together, but the last several years have been more difficult to get everyone together. Sky made this amazing apple/cranberry pie that was to die for. Anita made all the girls in the family approns. I am sorry that I did not take any more pictures than I did. Here are a few.

ACU Homecoming

Maddison and I made the trip to Abilene for ACU Homecoming. I picked up Courtney in Dallas and Brittany met us on Friday. We had such a fun girls weekend and seeing friends from college. Here are jsut a few pictures of the fun event.

Maddi and Addi (Lisa Clark sorry I don't know your married name, little girl) at the fountain.

Maddison liked playing on ght golf cart rather than watching the parade.



Future Wildcat!




Former Kojies and furure Kojies. Allison, Harper, Chaney, Maddison

Sweet Amarillo firends, Kyla and Ava

This is Jamie and Zack. When Jason and I worked at Texas Roadhouse while in Abilene, they worked there as well. They have two sweet boys. We have not seen them since our hard working days.

College friends but most importatly BLOG friends, Lisa and Mindy.

Britt and Court

Family Pictures

Last weekend when we were in Abilene Lindsey Cotton took our yearly family pictures. She is AMAZING!! As you can see from just a few of the shots she did a great job. I am having trouble choosing one for the christmas card. I really want the dog in the pictures but some of the pictures without him are so good. Maddison was not in a smiley mood, but this is the expression that I get most of the time. Enjoy and Go Raiders!!!

What a Weekend, What a Game

Well I am sure if you know anything about college football, you know this was the game of the year. We had so much fun attending gameday and the game itself. This was the last year that we got to root for the horns. We have promised Taylor that we would be on his side when he is on the field. He did a great job holding for several extra points. Here are a few pictures from the weekend.

Mack Brown on the bus after the game.

CRAZY Tech Fans. and I mean CRAZY

"T' after the game

Look closely.

The Set.

Desmond Howard!

Our Signs

In front of the bus.

College Gameday

Here is for you sports fans out there. Many of you know what College Gameday is. 9am Saturday mornings!! I love this show. I love getting up to see who all is playing and of course picks and headgear. Well, this weekend it is in Lubbock and I will be attending it and the game. I am so excited that yes I have made some signs. Taylor is going to kill me because they are HUGE and almost garantee to be on TV. I will have pictures of my signs but all of you football fans out there set your recorders. Signs will read "Potts" and "#15". Let me know if you see us. We are planning to be in the back.

Sneak Peak

We went to the trunk or treat at our church tonight and here is Maddison as Raggedy Ann. She looks so cute in this outfit. The thing that really makes this so cute is the fact that she loves to wear a hat, so the wig stayes on. Enjoy!!!

Pumpkin Patch

Monday we went to Moor Farm where we went on a hayride to the pumpkin patch. Learned about pumpkin guts, and got to see lots of animals. It was a lot of fun and this is the pumpkin that Maddison chose. She carried it around the whole time by the stim and by the time we got home the stim was gone. In the second picture you will see both snot and drul. Just wanted to make sure that everyone did not think they were both snot. haha

The Weekend

As you can see we did very little this weekend. On Friday my friend Erin and I made the adventure to Canton. We knew we would not get to see everything, and we also knew it would be crowded. We got there early and left around 12:30. You have to remember we had the girls with is and it was starting to get hot. (Erin is 5.5 months prego) I found a few things, one including the cross we hung above the TV.

The main event of Saturdays around our house is always football. We got to see Taylor play on TV and they did a whole info section on him. He did great and Tech ran all over K State. Way to Go 'T'! Maddi got a close up and said "ba" (ball)

The cross from Canton.

Nap Mat and New Decor

Once again pictures out of order that I am not going to try to fix. My sister-in-law started saleing Uppercase Living. If you have never heard about it you should visit the website. (uppercaseliving.com) It is home decorating with words of any saying to put on your wall,mirrow, really anywhere you want. They have a cataloge or you can make your own. If you are interested let me know and I can hook you up. So here is what I did in our bathroom above the tub.

Maddison got her nap mat in the mail today. We go to school on Tuesday, Thursday and she is a pro at naping. I found this online where you can personalize it from the frabic to the color to the name. Thanks Granny and Paw for the new mat. We will let you know how it works on Thursday.