The basketball team is still waiting for the football players' season to end, so they can join the team.  But the team won their tournament over the Thanksgiving break.

We hosted Nana, Papa, Jeffrey, and Rebekah for Thanksgiving dinner.

Annabelle with a few friends after a basketball game.

A few of our family photos for our Christmas card.

A a pic with Bear when we got home.  Bear will wear a cone until his wounds are completely healed.

It's been about a month since the attack, and Bear's wounds are healing nicely.  This wound was about 4" in diameter and now it has healed to about 1.5".  I am doing his wound cleaning and treatment at home now, so we don't have to take him to the hospital daily anymore.

Basketball Pictures and NCL Tea

 Caden's Media Day pictures for this season.

Annabelle's individual and team pictures.

Annabelle and Brian at a Mavs game.

Bear isn't allowed to jump or really go up and down stairs right now.  So we are having to keep him in a pin.

Annabelle and I had our NCL Tea last weekend.

Start of Basketball and Bear's Attack

Caden went straight from cross country right into basketball again this year.  The football players haven't yet joined the team, so Caden is the "big man". 

Bear and I were on a walk and a mean, huge dog slipped off his leash and attacked Bear.  He bit Bear in multiple places and shook him while he had him in his mouth.  I really thought that he was going to kill Bear.  The other owner and I could not get him to stop.  Thankfully, a neighbor's friend heard us screaming and ran over and started punching the other dog until he released Bear.  I took Bear to the urgent care animal hospital, and they stitched him up.  A picture of him sleeping that evening.

He was so sad looking.

He wouldn't eat for about 24 hrs, which is VERY out of character for him.  

Annabelle had her first basketball game.  They started the season off with a win!

4 days after the attack, I noticed that his wound did not look good and the stitched up spot had broken open.  So we had to take him back to the animal urgent care.  They had to do surgery on him to remove a bunch of infected and dying tissue near the teeth marks.  He has two 4" diameter holes in his skin now.  We have to take him in daily for wound cleaning and for them to reapply the bandages.  

Lots of rest and recovery ahead.

2025 State Champions

 The XC season ended with a state championship, which is the tenth straight title for the Covenant boys.  Caden was disappointed with his time because of his leg pain.  We will have to figure out what is going on with that.  A few pics from the sendoff from school.

And they're off...

Annabelle and her friends dressed in matching costumes for Halloween.

Bear wasn't interested in posing for a Halloween pic.