Hudson's Birthday Weekend

Hudson's 14th birthday was on a Friday. His archery state competition was the next day in Shreveport. We decided to go up on Friday and spend the night. Duck Commander is about an hour and half away in West Monroe. We have always wanted to go, so we made it a fun day for Hudson.

Josh got breakfast biscuits from Popeyes

Nana and Papa came at the same time with Grace and Kaden. Mario, Jennifer and Cadie came up in the afternoon.

We took the tour

The gift shop area

It gave the history of where the family started and had replica rooms

"Willie's Office"

Everyone got to make a duck call. There was a video to show us how to do it

"The duck call room"

"Miss Kay's kitchen"

Phil had a message sharing the gospel

It was cool to learn more about the Robertson family

We went to Raising Cane's for lunch

Hudson wanted to go by the Honey Hole fishing shop. JD is on The Duck Call Room podcast that we listen to and his family owns the store. We got to meet him and take a picture. He talked to us for a minutes.

We went to Uncle VJ's house for a little bit. Hudson opened his gifts.

We went to dinner at a Chinese place and did his cake

Little Josh and family came. Mom and Doug came up that evening also.

The archery competition started at 10:00 am.

They finished about an hour later and then we waited a while for results.

We are proud of him for getting out there and trying his best

He placed 17th in his category. The top 10 go to Nationals. He did well for his first time competing.

We ate lunch at Dairy Queen on the way home and he found this little pond in the back and had to fish

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Recital

Rehearsal was on Friday April 11th. Gianna and Grace went early to help with the littles. We had tickets to Showcase 2 on Saturday The girls in their dressing room. They were in all four showcases that weekend. Tap - "Shake" Jazz - "Take it All Back" Pointe- "O The Blood" Ballet Intense - "My America" Ballet - "Flowers" Hip Hop Gianna celebrated her 10th year with DDA and had a special tribute during the recital. This is proof that Hudson went So proud of Gianna for her hard work. She did a great job! The ballet and pointe dances were so powerful and beautiful this year! I always get teary when I watch and this year was no different. I volunteered on Sunday for the last showcase I was with a class next to Jules and got to watch some of her dances from back stage. Gianna and Jules were both in this showcase, so my parents came to watch on Sunday A long weekend for the big girls, but they love doing it

March 2025

4-H shooting regionals was held the week of March 17th. Hudson had archery on Tuesday. He placed 4th in his category and was going to state! Josh was out there all week since he is a coach Hudson had shot gun events on Friday and Saturday. Coach Mr. Donald and team They pray before they start Kaden made it to state in shotgun This was his first year shooting advanced shot gun and it was tougher, but we are proud of him for trying it. Hudson finished his driver's ed class. He got a 98 on the driving portion. We celebrated Josh's 45th birthday at his parent's house. His mom made lasagna. The beans were an inside joke I made him Granny Lois' lemon pound cake We went to lunch for Jamie and Leilynn's birthdays at Building 5 I gave Jamie a kitchen towel with Granny's pound cake recipe. She loves that cake and I have been wanting to make it for her. She loved it and cried.

February 2025

The girls had dress rehearsal for dance. I went on the Thursday class on the 6th. We got to see a preview of the dances. Hudson had his first driving session on February 10th. He has to do 8 hours of driving with 2 hours being at night. I waited in the parking lot until he left. We did pretty good waiting while he was gone, but we kept checking Life 360. He said it was fine, I thought he was a little nervous. Afterward, he said it was no big deal. I guess we shouldn't be surprised, since he has been driving off road vehicles since he was young. We spent Valentine's Day at home and made pizzas. My birthday was on a Friday and I had work. Josh surprised me with an orchid for my desk. I had lunch with some of my family at Albashas. Dillon was in town for something else and was able to come to lunch. We celebrated our 19th anniversary by going to The little Big Cup in Arnaudville. The food was really good. I had the crab cake and eggplant stack and Josh h...

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