The Russo's

 Josh's left hip started hurting in August. He wanted to make it through his work outage before having the surgery. We knew it was coming, but didn't think it would be so soon. He went to the doctor to confirm. He scheduled his surgery for September 19th . A few days before we found out our insurance lost their contract with Baton Rouge General. The surgery was at The Surgical Specialty Center on September 23 at 12:30 pm. We got there at 10:30 and I waited with him until it was time to go back. He could have visitors. His parents and Cadie saw him before the surgery. They took him back at 12:30 Surgery started at 1:10 pm and was done at 1:40 pm. Everything went well. The spinal epidural worked this time. He was in recovery for a couple of hours. I got the message at 3:10 that he was headed to his room. He was still out of it, sitting up with his eye closed. He was telling a story about salsa.  They brought him macaroni and cheese with a diet coke His whole leg was hurting. Whe...

Hudson using a drill to scramble eggs while making breakfast The seeds sprouted that the kids planted  Hudson is doing a great job keeping up the garden  Making salt pictures at the STEAM class  We had a girls night painting pottery at Brushfire in Denham Springs I did a small tray and used a leaf stencil  We went to a family day with Central Church at Camp Istrouma. We ate lunch then the kids did water activities                                                  Hudson did the blob first, but he hurt his neck when launched They had a fun afternoon  Our chickens turned out to be different breeds and we had two roosters Hudson and Kaden dug out our sweet potatoes We had some huge ones!  We cubed some and made some fries. We even made dog treats out of the leftovers.  The kids tried frying Oreos Afternoon walk 

Gianna's birthday was on a Thursday. She opened up a small gift that morning- a new phone case Hudson was tricking her into a big gift, which was his mini bike wrapped up  We planned on bringing the kids to Airborne Extreme and then eating at Albasha's. Josh got Covid so I stayed home with him. Jennifer and the rest of the family took the kids to still have fun. Josh didn't have a bad case (headache and congestion) just felt bad that it was on her birthday.  They even had a cake for her. So glad she still got to celebrate! Josh took her to Waffle House for breakfast the next Friday morning The good thing is that her party was the next weekend and the sickness was over. She wanted to get a water slide again. After they set it up, we had a water leak. They had put a stake through the water line! Josh got it fixed and it was fine.  She requested Josh to make spaghetti  She wanted the Gentilly cake from Rouses  It was a nice (and hot) day celebrating with our famili...