Bippus Bunch: Christmas 2009

Christmas 2009 was eventful..To say the least! On Christmas Eve, it started snowing pretty hard while we were having our Christmas at Michael's parents. We then traveled to his Aunt Robyn's to celebrate with his Mom's side of the family. Travel was starting to get treacherous on the way to her house, but we really didn't think much of it. After staying at her house for a couple of hours, we realized it was starting to get pretty bad outside so we decided to make our 3.5 mile journey home. IT WAS NOT EASY! We literally had to be pushed 1/2 mile up a hill to get out of the neighborhood. The blizzard (it was officially a blizzard) was so bad that it took us 45 minutes to get home. By the time we got home, there were 8 inches of snow covering the roads. The kids woke up Christmas morning and were delighted to see their Santa presents.

After opening presents, we headed to Broken Arrow for the Bippus Family Christmas. The roads were in such bad shape that it took us 2 hours to get there and there were cars running of the road left and right. I do not do well emotionally in bad driving conditions, so I was a nervous wreck the whole way and emotionally exhausted by the time we arrived. We opened presents and then say down for our always wonderful steak and shrimp dinner. As we were eating Grayson started acting pretty lethargic and started feeling warm. Within 1-2 hours, he was burning up and not even able to hold his head up. We tried to take his temperature but the thermomoter just kept saying "high" and we new it was at least 104.5. We knew no urgent care or doctor office would be open, so we decided to head back to Owasso to the ER, thinking we would get in to see a doctor fast there. It took us an hour to get back to Owasso and once we arrived, we waited and waited and waited some more. After 4 hours of waiting, poking and proding on my baby, the finally diagnosed him with Pnuemonia. We then waited another 2 hours for them to give him antibiotics through an IV. The poor baby was so sick! He ended up bouncing back a couple of days later, thank Goodness. Between the blizzard and ER visit, this was certainly a Christmas we won't forget!