MERRY CHRISTMAS

wow, i can't believe that it is already christmas!!! joey and i have been so busy since the wedding that it really has creeped up on us! this month has been so hectic and i am glad that we are finally getting a few days to chill out and be with family! this christmas will definetley be different without my pappow. i have been aching the last 2 weeks thinking about this. joey has been super sweet helping me during this though.

its weird how much i usually get caught up in all the "wrong things" this time of year ( presents, shopping and such) and now i am so concerned just being with family and friends and enjoy each moment i have with them. i didn't realize how much i miss some of my friends until i saw them recently and sat back and was like" wow i know great people!"

so that is what i am doing this year...enjoying people that i love and spending my time celebrating the birth of our savior. i am so lucky to have a wonderful husband and friends to do this with! love you all!

Thomas J Madison

Unfortunetly this week i had to say goodbye to my best friend, my pappow. He was the greatest most kind man i ever knew. He made up so many of my good childhood memories. He was a wonderful man of God and he was kind to everyone he met. I am very sad to know that mine and his great conversations on his deck will no longer take place, or that i have no one to go look for deer with anymore. i loved this man so much and he will be deeply deeply missed. this isn't a very good picture, but it is all that is on my computer today. i will put a better one up later. this was his favorite hymn below...i think it shows where he was in his life!

Just as I am, without one plea,
but that thy blood was shed for me,
and that thou bidst me come to thee,
O Lamb of God, I come, I come.
Just as I am, and waiting not
to rid my soul of one dark blot,
to thee whose blood can cleanse each spot,
O Lamb of God, I come, I come.
Just as I am, though tossed about
with many a conflict, many a doubt,
fightings and fears within, without,
O Lamb of God, I come, I come.
Just as I am, poor, wretched, blind;
sight, riches, healing of the mind,
yea, all I need in thee to find,
O Lamb of God, I come, I come.
Just as I am, thou wilt receive,
wilt welcome, pardon, cleanse, relieve;
because thy promise I believe,
O Lamb of God, I come, I come.
Just as I am, thy love unknown
hath broken every barrier down;
now, to be thine, yea thine alone,
O Lamb of God, I come, I come.

I GOT SANTA CLAUSE TO SAY HE HATES OLE MISS AS MUCH AS I DO ( SORRY JOEY) :)

Santa came to visit the other day and i told him that for christmas i wanted a bowl victory for the bulldawgs and also requested that he sing "hail state with me. he did. i love santa clause!!!!!!!