The Russo's

             Hudson went to Lake Verret with Paw Paw Brent to fish and stayed one night at the camp                                                      Jules stayed with us a few days. I took the girls to the mall for lunch and the candy store and boboa tea.  We had a ladies tea at church and we dressed up in dresses and hats Mom decorated the tables and used real tea sets  This was our table This teacup is from my great grandmother's set  Gianna and Grace helped serve the hot water for the tea A couple of ladies shared and we ate good food It was a nice afternoon Hudson can fry fish own his own now and does very good I tried to take the kids to get ice cream at the LSU dairy store, but they were closed. So we got a frosty from Wendy's instead.  Cason on the drums during practice  The cousins w...

Our girl turned 13 and is now a teenager! We have two teenagers in the house. It is hard to believe that we are here already! Gianna wanted a sausage charcuterie grazing table for her birthday. Josh made a few kinds of sausage and we got all the other things to go with it. It was a family dinner on August 16th. Mom and Doug didn't come because they had covid.  Josh took her to Waffle House for her birthday breakfast on Saturday morning. Then they had a youth outing that night at Main Event. We went to Albasha after church on Sunday, her actual birthday. They brought her baklava.  We are proud of our G girl and the beautiful young lady she is becoming! 

  I directed Vacation Bible School for the second year. The theme was Breaker Rock Beach - Standing Firm in a World of Shifting Sands. It was a really good theme and so important for these times.  News for the Week I did a snack survival kit for the volunteers  Buffalo Wild Wings donated food again this year The snack schedule for the week Grace and Mom did the opening rally skits and they did great Jules came a few nights We got props and decor from some churches again this year, so that was a huge help. I had to get Josh and Hudson to do games this year Mom did a great job in charge of decorating again and taught crafts.  Here are the crafts for the week, plus kindness rocks on the last day. My family was a big help during the preparation time and setting up. At first, I thought I didn't have enough volunteers for all the areas and the registration was low. It was discouraging, but God worked it out and the week went pretty smooth. We had 31 kids come.  We did...