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.