The Russo's

Hudson did an extra credit project for school. He had to make an instrument that plays three different sounds. He and Josh came up with a guitar made of wood with rubber bands as strings.   He got all 40 bonus points!   Gianna's dance recital is getting closer and we got to watch one day when they tried on their costumes.   We got Leilynn to watch the kids while we went out for our Valentine's Day. (excuse Hudson for not cooperating) This is the first time she babysat them and they were very good.   We went for a nice dinner at Galatoire's and got coffee after   On Valentine's night we did a family Valentine's dinner at Nana's  Jennifer and I celebrated our 33rd birthday together with the family Josh boiled crawfish for us the weekend before and they were very good 

Hudson helping me pick up the tree. He said this could be a mini tree.  We spent New Year's Eve at Jennifer and Mario's house. It was raining so they couldn't do fireworks. We had Leilynn and Emerie with us while their parents were at a party.  They thought they were so fancy with their sparkling grape juice.  So thankful for my little family and looking forward to a new year!  January 6th and 7th had some freezing temperatures and a few snow flurries here. You had to look in the light to really see them.  We cuddled up inside watching tv and made some hot cocoa Gianna wanted to try out her Easy Bake Oven she got for Christmas. We did chocolate chip cookies that came with it. The cookies tasted horrible! They couldn't eat them, but we had fun making them. They gave them to Dusty to eat! Some frozen ice that was in the yard  There was a lot of rain and mud riding for Hudson  Even Gian...

Christmas Eve lunch was with all the Russo's Later we were at Maw Ella's house . She gave the boys camouflage overalls.  We opened presents at Nana & Papa's  The kids told us weeks before that they wanted to run through paper on Christmas morning. so we surprised them that morning. Christmas Day pictures  The kids sang Happy Birthday to Jesus and had cake  We went to Nana B's that night. We had a game for them to play that revealed a surprise. It's a little long.  "We are going to Disney"  We told all the kids that the whole family would be going to Disney in February. They didn't get it at first, so we had to help them get excited. Hudson was the most excited and then we learned later that he over heard Josh telling someone. He kept it a secret for a few weeks!